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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213: Chicago Magic Bars & Lounges

Chicago has a rich history of magic bars within the city limits as well as in the outlying areas. The "hay day" of magic bars in Chicago ended around 1998 with the closing of the last magic bar. But Joey Cranford and John Sturk are pumping new life into an old concept with the new nightclub/theater called "Chicago Magic Lounge". This will be a recreation of the early 20th century, prohibition era lounge one night each week on the upper part of Chicago.

Bill Weimer is a local magician who was an integral part of the Chicago magic bar scene from the 1970's through the 1990's. He worked seven of the nine or so Chicago-land magic bars. He has a lot of stories about these clubs in their glory days and in fact, wrote a book about his experiences called "Now You See Them, Now You Don't".

00:03:18 - Joey Cranford and John Sturk talk about the newest venture that will open on March 5, 2015, The Chicago Magic Lounge. They talk about their vision of the Lounge and what they hope will happen. They will also encourage local magicians to come and hang our and create a "magic lab" where performers can try out new stuff.

00:40:56 - Bill Weimer talks about the history of Chicago-land bars from his perspective of one who has been there and done that having worked at seven of the nine or so magic bars within the city's boundaries over a 20 year period. Bill wrote the book on bar magic entitled "Now You See Them, Now You Don't". In this podcast, Bill shares some of the stories from his book and his perspective as a working performer.

Order your copy of Bill's book at his website http://www.magicbarbook.com/

212: Talking Trash with Steve Trash

MAGIC Magazine cover boy, Steve Trash, has been my guest in a previous podcast here on The Magic Word. In this podcast, Steve is recorded as he pontificates and waxes eloquent about street magic, character development, and more. He has a lot to say and he says a lot during our chat. This is not "trash talking" in the sports analogy vernacular, but this is Steve Trash doing all the talking and I did most of the listening. Hence, Talking (Steve) Trash..

He was performing in Houston along with Robert Livingston and he stopped by my home to chat and have a martini or two. After asking a couple of questions, I just sat back and listened and learned. It was like a magic mini-lecture...well, maybe not so "mini" as he talked for nearly an hour and a half. Or at least that's all I recorded. There was more before I turned on the recording device. I think this may become one of my more favorite podcasts. Let me know what you think.

Please take a seat, relax, and feel as if you are with us, enjoying a martini and the smooth jazz in the background as we talk about the early history of street magic in New York City (well, in the 1970's), the importance of pauses, performing "jazz" magic, reading the crowd, dealing with hecklers, knowing who you are on stage (your performing persona), and much more.

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