“Street” Magic
SEATTLE, WA – June 3rd
The topic for the evening was “Street Magic”. There were quite a few good performances this evening as well as a guest performer. We also welcomed a new magician, Roger Sylwester to the meeting.
Larry Dimmitt performed an extremely visual key bending routine called psi-key where a key is visibly bent. He even gave the key to a spectator and the key continued to bend in his hand.
Mark Paulson performed an impressive prediction routine where he wrote down some information on a piece of paper and placed it on the table. He had a spectator shuffle a deck of cards multiple times and had the spectator deal off three packs in which the top card of the packs matched his prediction number.
Ed Loveland performed a neat Max Maven trick that involved the spectators free choice of pairing envelopes in which it turned out that the ESP cards inside each envelope pair matched as well.
Dan Kennedy performed a very clean, quick sponge ball routine. His production of the first ball is especially good and always amazes me. Dan also performed a nice ring on rope routine with multiple phases.
John Cameron did an excellent job preforming “Vegas Mentality” by Kevin Burke, where two chosen cards, a “casino card” and “lucky card” reveal a sealed prediction card in an unusual method.
Chuck Kleiner continued to amaze with a transportation effect where a blue card chosen from one deck, disappeared from a pack only to re-appear in a closed red deck another spectator was holding. The blue card was also the specific number from the top that the spectator had earlier mentioned. It was a wonderful display.
Joe Toles showed the group some very interesting cards from China that had symbols on both ends, and were about a quarter the width of normal cards. I’m sure Joe will come up with some good tricks using this odd deck.
Jim Earnshaw continued with his love of coin magic and performed a three-fly routine from Ponta the Smith’s “Sick” video.
The group was also able to enjoy the award winning performance of Brian Cook. Brian was a guest of the group and he performed some very magical effects to the delight of everyone.