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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.

June 2014 Minutes

Our June meeting was “Packet Trick Night.” Some of the wizards showed us interesting packet tricks and some wowed us with other magical effects. Magic that happens in the hands of everyone in the audience was performed by two of our members. John Cameron had us all select random times on a clock and after … Continue reading “June 2014 Minutes”

Our June meeting was “Packet Trick Night.” Some of the wizards showed us interesting packet tricks and some wowed us with other magical effects.

Magic that happens in the hands of everyone in the audience was performed by two of our members. John Cameron had us all select random times on a clock and after following his instructions we all ended up on one o’clock. He then taught us Jim Steinmeyer’s One O’clock Mystery. J.R. Russell performed Robert Giobbi’s Einstein trick where we all magically discovered the exact card we had been thinking of.

Michael Jacobs shared Aldo Columbini‘s Jumbo Coincidence with a jumbo deck that had been sliced in half. Miraculously he not only had the selected card matched in both halves but then had all of the cards match after numerous shuffles. Ben Eskenazi demonstrated a Michael Ammar effect where the selected card had a different colored back than the rest of the packet. Roger Sylwester showed us some serious sleight of hand with a slick three card monte routine.

Hugh Castell had a prediction sealed in an envelope in a wallet that matched a card that a spectator had him stop on.  Mark Paulson continued to amaze us with his evolving mentalism repertoire by performing Richard Osterland’s Hands Off.  We welcomed a new magus, Gary Parrish, who shared some of his background and his desire to find effects that could be performed without the use of the magician’s hands. We’ll all be thinking about that challenge.

Bill Murray amazed and amused us with a Juan Tamariz effect where we used negative vibrations to find a card leading to a positive conclusion. Chuck Kleiner shared his version of an old Emerson & West packet routine called Color Monte.

We closed out the meeting with a matrix routine from Mike Battistoni using only two cards and four silver dollars. We felt that if he could do it with two cards what about just one card. Instead, he performed the routine with no cards blowing our minds. The cries of “Do it again, do it again,” made our club sound like a bunch of kids at a magic show. Mike shared that he had help from Dean Dill in developing the effect.

Maybe it’s me, but the magic at the Emerald City Wizards’ meeting seems to be getting better and better every month. Can’t wait for next month’s meeting.