080: Part 3 - The End of the World/Year Podcast

  Part Three of this “Ginormous” podcast features more great conversations with three more influential magicians. You can hear our chats beginning at the following times:

00:00:00 – Gabe Fajuri, President of Potter & Potter Auctions talks about what people are buying and selling for or from their magic collections and what brings the top dollars. He also gives us a sneak preview of a couple upcoming auctions for 2013 including the Cardini auction which promises to be historic. http://www.potterauctions.com/

00:14:07 Stan Allen, Editor and Publisher (and Custodian) of MAGIC Magazine, Stan Allen talks about digitizing his magazine and the multi-media content that is offered each month online and via digital devices. He also gives his look into the future of the magic magazine industry possibly joining forces??? http://www.magicmagazine.com/

00:32:54 – Kozmo chats about his ongoing, six-year-old digital magazine, Reel Magic. We talk about stealing intellectual material and how easy (and wrong) it is to rip off others’ material that they work hard to produce and then post it on the internet or distribute it among friends. Kozmo has an interesting way of how he hopes to combat this crime. He will soon offer some online content and streaming that will only be available to subscribers. http://reelmagicmagazine.com/

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T.A.O.M. Photos from Day 3

Day two was pretty much a lot of lectures so I didn't get many photos, but Day three provided some great shots. I caught Dani DaOrtiz and Christian Engbloom holding court at their booth with a horde of magicians packed around just to watch Dani work.

The professsional close-up show was a real treat and as good or better of a line-up of performers that I have ever seen at a convention: Eric Jones, Chad Long, Mark Mason, Christian Engbloom, Paul Wilson and Chris Korn.

Mark Mason and Chad Long received standing ovations. This picutre below was Chad's.

The T.A.O.M. convention was not the only convention going on in the Hilton Americas Hotel over the Labor Day weekend. The Miss Texas pageant was also happening on one of the other floors. PJ Campagna hosted one of the rooms for the Professional Close-Up Shows. She and Joy Miller gave us a funny moment during a break in the close-up action.

The late night lectures after the evening stage show started off with Michael Weber who gave us several clever ideas for both close-up and stage plus some cool mentalism tricks, too.

The "Fat Brothers", Christian Engbloom and Dani DaOrtiz gave us a late night (really, it was early morning) tag team lecture on card conjuring.