The October meeting was full of magic with a lot of members present and performing.
Michael Jacobs presented some nice card magic where a spectator’s card as well as one he chose were the only two cards shown to be reversed in the deck after a spread.
Ben Eskenazi continued the card magic with a great performance of Search and Destroy by Aaron Fisher. Ben is the youngest member of the group, and continues to get better each meeting and it is always fun to see him perform.
Roger Sylwester tried to show us a trick involving certain cards, but his deck kept changing to blank cards, or cards with all backs. It was a very funny routine where cards just kept turning blank and he had the whole club laughing.
Danny Dragon presented a couple of spooky tricks for the October meeting including a haunted key and haunted deck routine set to a nice story.
Roger Needham continued the haunted deck theme with a very funny Wizard of Oz story that ended with the witch’s hand cutting the deck. It was a great visual to add to this routine.
Dan Kennedy continued the Halloween theme with a very cool trick from Peter Marucci called Victim of the Vampire, where a spectator chooses a victim which is then revealed to have been bitten. It is a quick trick, but very powerful.
Mark Paulson performed a scary knife stab routine where he had a spectator pick what cup he crushed under his hand. Lucky for Mark the spectator picked the right empty cup, because all the other ones had cupcakes under them.
Chuck Kleiner showed the group a bit of magic he did for a sales presentation that involved a quite clever visual illusion. Chuck always comes up with great presentations for his magic.
John Cameron performed a unique card to impossible location involving a bagel and some very interestingly shaped cards. Even adding the “lox” (locks) to the bagel couldn’t keep the card out.
Larry Dimmitt continued to show his mind reading abilities when he was able to divine the words that two spectators had picked randomly from a book.
Reymarx Gereda showed a very cool iPhone application that made it possible to use the phone as a X-Ray machine to look down through the deck to reveal a selected card. The app lovers in the room were immediately downloading it.
Ken Marsh entertained the group with a nice shrinking cards routine. Jim Earnshaw performed a quick in the hands coin matrix and there were talks given by Ralph Huntzinger and Tom Payne.