The club was pleased to welcome Ron Olmsted, a visiting magician from Miami. Ron was in Seattle visiting his daughter Angela and they both attended the meeting. Ron and Angela presented a wonderful mind reading routine with Angela blindfolded and revealing various chosen cards from the audience. When asked about the method Angela revealed that they had come up with it when she was seven years old.
J.R. Russell seemed to be the magician of the evening! He presented a wonderful array of packet tricks that were very entertaining. J.R. had a very amusing presentation featuring a “new year resolution” to lose weight by lifting cards.
Joe Toles presented a routine where he was able to stop his pulse, while another visitor to the meeting, Joe’s friend Cameron, performed a baffling two card revelation where he correctly identified two cards a spectator placed in his pockets.
Mark Paulson performed a couple of nice mentalism effects including a revelation of book pages selected by spectators with a twist as well as a great revelation routine built around an invisible deck.
Bill Murray did a nice presentation of Richard Sander’s “Supercards” routine. Bill had only been working on it for a while, but already had a good handling.
George Zuk performed a couple of variations of ring on straws that were different in approach and took the time to teach the members one of the versions. It was a good impromptu trick to learn.
Jim Earnshaw continued to develop his coin work and presented various coin routines including a one hand copper / silver transposition based on the recent Earl “Presto” Johnson article in Genii.
John Cameron performed a funny “fake” invisible deck routine leading the magicians to believe that he was going to use an invisible deck when he really crumpled the “deck” up and threw it away. The thought of card was actually in his pocket the entire time.