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September 2014 Minutes – Seahawks cause members to disappear

The Seattle Seahawks prevented most of our members from appearing at our September meeting since it was the opening game of the 2014 season and they chose football over magic. They should have come to the meeting as most of the cars had disappeared from the roads and there was no traffic. Four of our … Continue reading “September 2014 Minutes – Seahawks cause members to disappear”

The Seattle Seahawks prevented most of our members from appearing at our September meeting since it was the opening game of the 2014 season and they chose football over magic. They should have come to the meeting as most of the cars had disappeared from the roads and there was no traffic. Four of our wizards resisted the Seahawks allure and gathered for an intense review of some excellent new and old magic.

JR Russell started us off by cutting the top off of a Ziploc bag and making it move magically. No strings attached! He then shared the “how” with the group and gave us some baggies to practice with. The trick is called Baggie Puppet by Julian Mather. It not only looks cool, it’s fun to do. JR then put a ribbon visually through a ring showing us what real magic looks like. This was Ring & Ribbon by Shigeru Sugawara. Finally he blew our already blown minds with Unleashed Dog Tag by Gregory Wilson.

Jim Earnshaw is focused on perfecting his routines and he showed us a coins across effect and some additional coin moves that were perfect for our small audience. We also discussed a very cool effect he is working on with Mark Paulson for our upcoming club dinner.

Larry Dimmitt presented a creative routine using cards and characters from the board game Clue. We randomly chose a room, character and weapon only to discover that Larry had already solved the crime showing us that his prediction matched our choices. He also showed us a slick book test and even let us inspect the book. It’s fun to be fooled but it’s also fun to find the secret.

Chuck Kleiner showed his ability to scale an entire deck of cards with only one hand. He also predicted the exact card that was chosen. He is working on combining this skill demonstration and magic into a new routine.

Throughout the meeting JR kept following the score of the game on his phone but Chuck insisted that he not tell the group since he was recording the game to watch after the meeting. Everyone predicted that the Seahawks would be victorious but what would you expect from the Seattle magicians’ club? We were all correct.

July 2014 Minutes

Our July meeting was “Mental Magic or Magic That Makes You Crazy.” Michael Jacobs started off the magic with an effect he’s been improving each month. It’s his own creation where a bust inhabited by the spirit of Houdini visibly escapes from ropes, handcuffs and other shackles. Crazy. Roger Sylwester blew our minds with a … Continue reading “July 2014 Minutes”

Our July meeting was “Mental Magic or Magic That Makes You Crazy.” Michael Jacobs started off the magic with an effect he’s been improving each month. It’s his own creation where a bust inhabited by the spirit of Houdini visibly escapes from ropes, handcuffs and other shackles. Crazy. Roger Sylwester blew our minds with a pack of cards he bought at a magic convention that said the thought of card would be forty down from the top. A spectator thought of any card and when he counted down forty it was there. Jim Earnshaw, our resident coin expert, showed us a very magical wooden Okito Box and wand routine with coins appearing and disappearing in mid air. Jim is crazy good. More mentalism was shared by Larry Dimmit as he showed how two minds could have one thought, He showed a picture with multiple celebrities and both the spectator and Larry’s selections were the same. Mark Paulson made us laugh with a little mentalism humor where he and the spectator thought of the very same thing. He also shocked us by selecting three random books from the library where we meet and predicted a randomly selected word on a freely selected page of one of the books. Mark’s mentalism could make you crazy if you try to figure it out. John Cameron dug around in his magic drawer to find a long lost packet trick where some cards had purple circles and some had purple backs. When a card was chosen it was the only one with a red circle and when a number was chosen it was the only one with a red back. I’m sure it motivated some of us to search through our old magic to find a long lost treasure. Since we met on Mercer Island this month, Chuck Kleiner shared a mentalism effect he created for the local Mercer Island Farmers Market. Chuck predicted which letter in the Market’s name would be freely selected by a spectator. Moving from mentalism back to crazy, Tom Payne inhaled a rubber band. He then showed us a card effect with rubber bands where the chosen card escaped from the bonds of two rubber bands.