SEATTLE, WA – May 6th
The May meeting included a visit from Texas magician, Bertil Fredstrom. Bertil was in Seattle on business and we were delighted that he could join us for the evening. He performed a lovely mind reading trick involving celebrity post cards, where a prediction card and chosen card both changed to match each other as the climax.
John Cameron performed a trick from Roberto Giobbi’s Card College Lightest called Further than Ever, where the revelation of cards continue to build on each previous revelation. John added the final climax where the remainder of the deck were all blank.
Hugh Castell continued his performances based on a mind control and ESP theme. Hugh did a very nice performance of Paul Curry’s 13 Cards where Hugh not only revealed the selected card, but showed that he had also been able to select all other cards of the same suite from the deck as well.
Ken Marsh did a nice four ace production as well as a prediction effect where showing one card from one side of two decks you are able to predict the next card from the second deck.
Dan Kennedy performed a couple of close up tricks for our guest Bertil, including John Cornelius’ “My First Card Trick” where a spectator chooses a card from a picture of cards, and after a few simple questions the card is reveled face down in another picture.
Larry Dimmit performed a very nice prediction effect where a sealed envelope contained a number. Flash card numbers were handed out two three spectators who were able to shuffle them and each one turned over a number, making three sets of three. The total of these numbers matched the number in the envelope.
Mark Paulson was working on a nice comedy routine of magic involving “balloon animals” and a psychic bird gone wrong. Mark also finished up with a crystal tube magic trick where three silks magically tie together after being placed through the tube.
Ed Loveland performed Key-munication by Rick Maue. The trick involved matching pairs of ESP cards and a revelation of person who has passed away. Ed always does a great job of story-telling with his tricks that really bring them to life.
Joe Toles showed some of the street magic he has been performing regularly on the Seattle waterfront, including an ambitious card routine and a nice matrix effect where coins move through a table cloth.