313: Day 2 - MAGIC Live! 2016

Day Two Schedule for August 15, 2016:

24 hours - The Back Room
9:00 a.m. - Registration
9:00 a.m. - Photo Booth
10:00 a.m. - Monday General Session for Maroon lanyards (showroom until 12:15 p.m.
   Keynote - Lance Burton
   Classic Correspondence - Mike Caveney
   The Delicate Beauty of Honesty in Magic - Luis Piedrahita
   Bending the Real - David Penn
   Magician Without Borders - Michael Muldoon
   The Future of Magic - Kevin Phillips
   Parallax - Max Maven
   Friends Remembered
10:00 a.m. - Monday Focus Sessions for black lanyards until 11:00 a.m.
The Power of Invisble Thread - Yigal Mesika
Flashback - Steve Reynolds
The Art of quick Change - Retonio, Natalie & Eli
11:00 a.m. - The MAGIC Shop until 6:30 p.m.
11:15 - Monday Focus Sessions for black lanyards until 12:15 p.m.
   The Power of Invisible Thread - Yigal Mesika
   Flashback - Steve Reynolds
   The Art of quick Change - Retonio, Natalie & Eli
12:15 p.m. - lunch break
12:30 - Close-up Experience until 1:45
2:15 - Monday General Session for Black lanyards (showroom until 4:30 p.m.
   Keynote - Lance Burton
   Classic Correspondence - Mike Caveney
   The Delicate Beauty of Honesty in Magic - Luis Piedrahita
   Bending the Real - David Penn
   Magician Without Borders - Michael Muldoon
   The Future of Magic - Kevin Phillips
   Parallax - Max Maven
   Friends Remembered
3:30 p.m. - Monday Focus Sessions for Maroon lanyards until 12:15 p.m.
   The Power of Invisible Thread - Yigal Mesika
   Flashback - Steve Reynolds
   The Art of quick Change - Retonio, Natalie & Eli
5:00 p.m. Dinner break
6:00 p.m. - Close-Up Experience
7:00 p.m. - Live Onstage until 8:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m. - Close-Up Experience until 8:45 p.m.
7:30 p.m. MAGIC Cabaret: The Secret Class until 8:30 p.m.
9:00 - Close-Up Experience until 10:15 p.m.
10:00 p.m. - Live Onstage until 11:30 p.m.
10:30 p.m. - Close-Up Experience

Time stamps for this podcast:

00:02:08 - Lance Burton kicks off the first General Session with a talk on...the sponge ball vanish. It quickly develops into an object lesson of how we can teach and inspire others to be the next generation of magicians.

00:13:45 - Ken Scott is the coordinator of the Focus Sessions and he talks about his experience of working behind the scenes at MAGIC Live! He is also the organizer of the upcoming Atlanta Harvest of Magic on September 29 - October 1, 2016

00:24:50 - Mac King has been on the cover of MAGIC Magazine many times.

00:29:14 - Jonathan Kamm talks about this being his first MAGIC Live! and his experience plus he talks about his trick "Toi Box"

00:34:17 - Jamie D. Grant talks about his "Anything is Possible Bottle" (deck of cards in a bottle) that are hidden around the hotel. Clues are given daily on Instagram and Twitter using #Jamie_D_Grant

00:38:52 - Steve Brooks, Webmaster for The Magic Cafe, talks about his forum plus his experience this year at MAGIC Live!

00:44:51 - Kozmo, producer of Reel Magic, talks about his mentor, Cellini.

00:50:41 - Daniel Will, a Friend of The Magic Word, talks about what he has enjoyed at this year's convention.

00:53:47 - Stan Allen makes a major announcement about the future of MAGIC Magazine.

00:58:35 - Noel Brittan talks about not having to do anything this year since he was a presenter in the past.

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International Podcast Day 2015

September 30th is International Podcast Day (IPD) and The Magic Word is helping by posting this special podcast featuring some of the Friends of The Magic Word. The purpose of IPD is to create more awareness of podcasts and encourage more people to listen to podcasts. There are over 100,000 English speaking podcasts available today covering about any interest you can imagine...and some you cannot imagine.

There are less than a dozen magic-related podcasts and we all have our own personalities, niche and audience. The Magic Word Podcast focuses on casualness and curiosity. There is no particular agenda in our conversations. They are more like the conversations you would have with your friends, but they are always informative and cover some aspect of magic, performing and creativity. They also let you go "deeper" into subjects and let you get to know the guest on a more personal level allowing you to often find out things that you never knew about them. Sometimes the conversations go "off the rail" in a direction never envisioned. And that's when they become really interesting.

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Grab your mic and camera and ask someone, really anyone, about their favorite podcast and share the response on social media using #podcastday
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223: My Week at the Magic Castle 2015 - Part Four

This week we again enter the Magic Castle and whisper "Open Sesame" into the ear of the owl on the bookcase, the sliding panel opens to where we greet and we talk with friends both old and new.

This week we sit down at the bar with one of the Magic Word listeners (and a "Friend of The Magic Word) and his wife to talk about magic in his life; a quick chat with Chris Philpott (creator of "The 100th Monkey"; a few reminisces with Milt Larsen, widely known as the "builder" of The Magic Castle; a stroll to breakfast with Paul Vigil; then another magician/mentalist named Paul from Salt Lake City, Paul Draper, talks about mentalism and showmanship; and, Christian Cagigal talks about his one man show and a new film project that is getting some traction around the U.S. You can view a "teaser trailer" of the film below.

NOW AND AT THE HOUR (Teaser Trailer) from Ersatz Film on Vimeo.

00:02:28 - Daniel WIll and his wife, Judy, are my first guests as we join them in the main bar, with "Irma the Invisible Piano Player" is playing in the background. He talks about his involvement in magic with the Boy Scouts organization.

00:07:09 - Chris Philpott, creator of the 100th Monkey effect, happened to walk by just as I completed my chat with Daniel and Judy Will. We talked about his product and its popularity. I was able to catch him with Steve Valentine for a quick "elevator conversation" before they had to rush to be seated for the show in the Palace.

00:09:04 - Milt Larsen talks about his radio broadcast on CRN "Hear Them Again" plus the building of the clubhouse for the Academy of Magical Arts plus the recent changes in the name and usage of "The Magic Castle"

00:30:29 - Paul Vigil, talks about his most recent effect he is working on for his show, the "Q&A Act" and his thoughts on disclaimers.

00:39:38 - Paul Draper, talks about how to practice new routines and break them into your act.

01:04:30 - Christian Cagigal talks about his new documentary entitled "Now And At The Hour" chronicling his one-man magic show and how it was developed based on his life with his father who was a Viet Nam veteran with PTSD.

Click on the picture above to visit the Penguin Magic website for more information on this fantastic trick.

Steve Spill's new book was launched at The Academy of Magical Arts on May 12, 2015. Order your copy from Amazon (and support The Magic Word) by clicking on this graphic.