25 Saturday Jan 2020
Posted in Comedy, Magic, Performance
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Australian, beer, Dom Chambers, liquid, magic, magician, Penn & Teller, performance
I’m always a sucker for magic that involves liquids, and this routine by Australian magician Dom Chambers should quench your thirst.
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04 Saturday Jan 2020
Posted in Magic, Performance
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An extremely clever, visual, and unusual magic act by magician Sangsoon Kim.
I think Penn’s appraisal, while appreciative, was overly dismissive with regard to methods; shoes are unusually bulky objects, not subject to the same techniques as dresses or shirts as in other quick change acts. Also, the magic method for multiplying the shoes is a very clever adaptation of something usually done with much more amenable objects.
I was so glad to be introduced to this magician with this performance, and I am hoping to see much more of his inventive magic.
More at SangSoon KIM
10 Thursday Oct 2019
Posted in Life, Magic, Performance, Theatre
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49 Boxes, Bill Cheung, convention, David Kovac, Duvivier, Eric jones, Gaeten Bloom, Genii, Hannibal, Hector Mancha, Jay Johnson, Jim Steinmeyer, John Archer, Jonathan Neal, Lucy Darling, magic, magicians, Michael Chaitlin, Michael Vincent, Nick Diffate, Paul Vigil, Penn & Teller, performance, Piff, Raymond Crowe, Read Chang, Richard Kaufman, Romany, Terry Ward, Tom Gagnon
I was happy last week to spend four days in Orlando, Florida, attending the 2019 Genii Convention. For a comprehensive, contemporaneous, blow-by-blow audio account, click on the triangles below.
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Day One: Intro, Tom Gagnon, Paul Vigil, Sara Crasson, Jonathan Neal
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Day Two: Michael Chaitlin, Hector Mancha, Jim Steinmeyer, Paul Vigil, Nick Diffate, Lucy Darling, Hector Mancha, Raymond Crowe, Eric Jones
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Day Three: Gaeten Bloom, Bill Cheung, Michael Vincent, Hector Mancha, Alexandra Duvivier, Terry Ward, Hannibal, Penn & Teller, Pat Hazell, Jonathan Neal, Gaeten Bloom, Read Chang, Piff the Magic Dragon
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Day Four: 49 Boxes, Eric Jones, Gaeten Bloom, Dominique and Alexandra Duvivier, Nick Diffate, Lucy Darling, Romany, David Kovac, Jay Johnson, John Archer, Summing up
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12 Sunday Nov 2017
Posted in Comedy, Magic, Performance
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Last year, Penn & Teller performed this little stunt from their classic repertoire on their television series, Fool Us; it’s still a knuckle-biting performance.
But for the purists who remember the original version, here’s a clip from twenty-five years ago, back when Teller took a few more hair-raising chances . . .
Thanks to YouTuber secretSociety40
