Now that the new library has opened in Burien, the members voted to return to the Burien Library starting in September.
Larry Dimmitt started off the evening with a mentalism effect called Fat Man. He had Dan Kennedy riffle shuffle a deck of cards and then Dan dealt thirteen cards on the table. Larry then asked Dan to hold the thirteen cards in a spread, and Larry was able to name each card, one by one, using nothing but the power of his mind.
Ed Loveland performed Bruce Bernstein’s PSI-Deck. Ed fanned a deck, placed a rubber band around the middle, and then asked two spectators to take a peek at one card in the deck. Ed was able to divine which cards both men had seen. He then dealt the cards one by one on the table and asked a third member to say stop. The selected card matched a prediction which was in a sealed envelope held by the third spectator.
Zinger was up next. While telling the story about the origin of the silver thaler, or dollar, in Joachimsthal Bohemia, he showed us four silver dollars and proceeded to push them through the back of his hand, one at a time.
Jim Earnshaw displayed some fine coin magic using two fifty-cent pieces. He vanished the coins on invisible Sky Hooks and brought them back, using an effect he learned from John Carney. He ended with Carney’s Slo-Mo Coins in which he slowly made coins disappear and reappear.
Mark Paulson showed us a three-coin vanish he had learned from a Joshua Jay lecture. He displayed three fifty-cent coins in his right hand and one by one he took them with his left hand and made them magically disappear.
Our last performer was Dan Kennedy, who presented a short mentalism effect utilizing three cards with a blue, a red, and a yellow circle on them. He asked Mark to think of one of the colors. After naming the color, Dan revealed to us that he had correctly predicted which color Mark would pick.