381: Day Three - 2017 T.A.O.M.

SUNDAY

8:00 a.m. Invisible Lodge

8:30 a.m. Gospel Program

9:30 a.m. TAOM Meeting

1000 a.m. Dealers open

10:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Houston Registration open for T.A.O.M. 2018

10:30 a.m. Lecture Gregory Wilson

1:00 p.m. Frankly Speaking (TED-like Talks): Doug Anderson, Trent James, Fred Becker, Christian Painter

3:00 p.m. Pro Close Up: Gregory Wilson ,Doug Anderson, The Other Brothers, Brent Braun, Christian Painter

4:00 p.m. Tech stage show

5:00 p.m. manager's cocktail reception

7:00 p.m. dealers close

7:00 p.m. gala show: Bizzaro, Trent James, The Other Brothers, David Charvet, Doug Anderson, Shimshi

Time Stamps for this Podcast:

00:01:07 - One of the T.A.O.M. registrants, Tom Heino, talks about his highlights from the T.A.O.M.

00:13:48 - Gregory Wilson talks about his lecture, performance and his experience of attending the T.A.O.M. for his first time. Plus he gives us a short update since our last rather controversial podcast.

00:31:29 - Prior to the professional close-up show began, the audience gave us some honest feedback from their highlights of the convention.

00:37:21 - After the Sunday Evening Gala Magic Show, I chatted with Naathan Phan about his many dialects, keeping secrets, what's important in magic, and more.

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380: Day Two - 2017 T.A.O.M.

SATURDAY

9:00 a.m.- 8:00 p.m. Registration open

9:00 a.m. Collectors meeting

10:00 a.m. dealers open

10:00 a.m. tech for stage contest

10:30 a.m. Lecture Brent Braun

12:00 noon Willard Lunch David Charvet

1:30 p.m. Lecture Nathan Phan

3:00 p.m. Close up Contest

4:00 p.m. Lecture Bizzaro

5:00 p.m. Managers cocktail reception

7:00 p.m. Dealers Close

8:00 p.m. evening program Stage Contest, Nathan Phan MC, Variations on a Theme

10:15 p.m.- Midnight War of the Wizards

Time Stamps for this Podcast:

00:02:46 - Doug Anderson will be our Monday morning lecturer on Sept. 4. Here he talks about lecturing, Illusion Designer, Paul Osborne, and more.

00:11:20 - Katalina Christian, the other half of Christian and Katalina, spoke a bit about their theatre in Indianapolis and their lecture on "Magic in the Real World" and how to move into the full time world of performing. Their eBook is available here: by Clicking Here.

00:20:22 - Frank Seltzer, President of the 2017 T.A.O.M. convention talks about this convention and its preparations.

00:27:02 - David Charvet delivers a speech about the Willard (the Wizard) family which was presented before the luncheon for members of the "Order of Willard" (T.A.O.M. members with 25 or more consecutive years of membership).

00:57:58 - Fumio "Eric" Inagaki tells us the origin of his invention that is universally used by magicians...the UPC Bar Code Gag.

379: Day One - 2017 T.A.O.M.

FRIDAY

10:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Registration open

12:00 noon Lecture Kylie Knight noon dealers open

2:30 p.m. Lecture The Other Brothers

4:00 p.m. Lecture David Charvet

5:00 p.m. TAOM Board meeting

5:00 p.m. managers cocktail reception

8:00 p.m. dealers close

8:00-9:45 p.m. Evening program Christian and Katalina and Gregory Wilson

10:00 p.m. Lecture Christian & Katalina

Time stamps for this podcast:

00:09:20 - Diamond Jim Tyler is a dealer at this year's convention and he gives us a preview of some of his hottest items plus a little announcement about an upcoming "Bamboozlers" project.

00:15:37 - Kylie Knight gave an afternoon lecture about the importance of make-up for magicians, not only for stage, but also for close-up and daily use. Here she recaps some of her tips from the lecture.

00:21:18 - David Charvet was another afternoon lecturer who spoke about dusting off some of the old classical magic tricks from your closet and putting them back in your act. In our chat, he recaps a bit of his lecture plus talks about his experience of performing the Blackstone Buzzsaw illusion (as Harry Blackstone, Jr.) for MAGIC Live! a few years ago.

00:27:58 - Dal Sanders talks about the new video he just made (posted in the blog of this podcast) that requests donations for the Magic Endowment Fund specifically to assist the victims of Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas.

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