702: FISM Quebec 2022 - Day Six Report

Saturday July 30th 2022

8:15-11:00 - Stage Contest

8:00 - 9:00: Ekaterina Dobrokhotov

9:00 - 10:00: Michael Ammar

10:00 - 11:00: Eric Jones

11:30 - 12:30: Max Maven presents Erika Larsen: The Story of the Magic Castle

12:00 - 13:00: Miguel Munoz

13:00 - 15:00: Raphaël Navarro and Valentine Losseau

14:00 - 15:00: Julie Eng

16:00 - 18:00: The Winners Gala

18:30 - 19:30: Alexandra Duvivier

19:30 - 20:30: Special Lecture - Luis Piedrahita

21:00 - 23:00: Awards Gala

Winners

Stage Illusion

1. Yunke - Spain -
2. Doble Mandoble - Belgium

Card magic

1. Markobi - France -

2. Pere Rafart - Spain

3. Erik Tait - U.S.

Micro magic

1 Luis Olmedo- Spain - tie with Simon Coronel- U.A. Micro magic

2 Jacob Schenstrom - Sweden

3. Mr. Triton - France

Parlour magic

1. Shoot Ogawa - U.S. -

2.Javi Rufo - Spain and Vincent - Australia

3. Jonio - Japan

Mental magic

1. Anca & Lucca - Austria -

2. Rob & Emiel - Netherlands

3. Magic Larry - Argentina and Andrea Rizzolini - Italy

Manipulation

1. Junwoo Park - Japan - tie with And Artem Shchukin - Russia

2. Eden - Korea

3. Francesco Della Bona- Italy

Comedy magic

1. Mortenn Christiansen - Denmark -

2. Ramo & Alegria - Spain

3. Marie Helene - France

General magic

1. Laurent Piron - Belgium

2. Ding Yang - China

3. Zhu MingHu - China

Close up most original act-

Gleb - Lithuania -

Close up Invention award -

Martin Eisele - Germany and Daniel Mormona - Argentina -

Stage magic - most original act -

Ding Yang - China

Stage magic - invention -

Ramo & Alegria - Spain and HJ - Taiwan and Zhu Mingzhu - China -

Special Awards Presented by Max Maven

Creativity & artistic vision - Special Awards - Topas -

History, Research & Scholarship Richard Kaufman -

Theory & Philosophy Dani DaOrtiz -

Close-up Grand Prix - Simon Coronel - U.S.

Stage magic Grand Prix - Laurent Piron - Belgium

Time stamps for this episode:

00:00:16 - In the Grand Hall, Scott Wells thanks everyone for listening to the daily reports.

00:03:30 - Lady Sarah and Keith Fields are on the final day of the six days of non-stop magic and little sleep. They chat about some of the highlights of acts they love.

00:16:01 - Eric Dittelman, runner-up on America’s Got Talent, talks about his first FISM and how blown away he has been. He talks about the mentalism acts from his perspective as a mentalist. He also talks about his podcast with Mat Franco called “Mind Over Magic” which they started during the pandemic lock down.

00:19:09 - Past winner at FISM, Topas talks about competing and his thoughts about some behind-the-scenes that goes into making this event a success. He talks about the evolution of manipulation from Cardini to Fred Kaps to Peter Marvey to Mako Tendo.

00:29:16 - Past International President of the I.B.M. Joe Turner talks about some of the FISM activities, this being his first time attending a FISM.

00:32:50 - The stage contests are completely over as Marc DeSouze and Scott talk about the last set of contestants.

00:50:30 - As we walk back from dinner, Dick Olson talks about what he learned from the Chip Romero lecture on Doug Henning. Then Chip “chips in” with his comments on how he felt about his presentation plus some additional comments about Doug that he didn’t have time to share during his lecture.

00:59:35 - Another past winner of FISM, Danny Kole (and a Friend of the Magic Word), tells why he attends every FISM he can make time for in his schedule and how they inspire him. He also talks about some of his highlights from this year’s FISM.

01:05:19 - Marc DeSouza and Scott announce the names of the winners of this year’s FISM along with those who received some special awards.

01:17:50 - As an epilogue, we take a breather with Jonathan Levit who talks about this being his first FISM and how he tries to name just a few of the highlights of the event.

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675: Magic Collectors Expo 2022 - Day Three Report

Friday, April 15, 2022

9:00 – 11:00am Dealer Room

11:00am – 12:30pm Session #3: Mark and Sue Holstein “Dorny” followed by Lance Rich “A Very Special P&L Rose Bush” then Nick Lewin on “Ken Brooke”

12:30 – 2:30 Dealer Room / Lunch Break

2:30 – 4:00pm Session #4: David Charvet “The Great Jester” followed by Gabe Fajuri on “Max Malini”
7:00 – 8:30pm Evening Show: “Magic of Austin Show” with Pat Hazell as MC, Mark & Sue Holstein, Brad Henderson and Nick Lewin

Saturday, April 16, 2022

10:00am – 1:00pm Last chance in the dealer room plus “Magic Collector’s Corner Live”
1:00pm Departure!

Time stamps for this episode:

00:00:16 - Gary Plants walks with us down 6th Street after enjoying a breakfast at VooDoo Doughnuts as we chat about this convention

00:11:00 - Lupe Neilsen is not a dealer at this collection but is enjoying this convention as she talks about what she is doing in keeping up with building up her inventory

00:19:08 - Editor of M.U.M., Alan Howard, is enjoying this convention as he talks about the magazine and how they compete in today’s digital world

00:26:07 -Trixie Bond’s presentation was the most talked-about session and she shares a few extra stories during our chat

00:36:22 - Mark Holstein talks about the presentation on Werner “Dorny” Dornfield that he delivered with his wife, Sue. They brought and set up a lot from their collection.

00:47:08 - Bill Smith talks about the success of this convention and when and where you can go to sign up for next year.

648: TRICS 2021 - Days One and Two Report

Thursday November 4, 2021

Selected Members of Sleight Club 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Kyle Littleton 9:00pm – 10:00pm

Friday November 5, 2021

Newcomer Lecture 11:00 – 12:00
Michael Ammar 1:00 – 2;00
Lunch 2:00 – 3:30
Ryan Plunkett 3:30 – 4:30
Insights 5:30 – 7:00
Dinner 7:00 – 8:30
Garrett Thomas 8:30 – 9:30
Pizza Party 9:30

Time stamps for this episode:

00:00:17 - On the road again with Scott as he heads to Charlotte, NC

00:03:32 - Charlie Randall meets up with Scott at the airport as they discuss the upcoming convention and their definition of “Sessioning”

00:12:36 - long time attendee, Glen Yost, talks about why he has been attending for so long

00:17:53 - John Miller from Atlanta, GA talks about the Obie’s 4F, Atlanta Braves, and TRICS

00:21:24 - Organizer and host, Scott Robinson, gives us some info about TRICS “by the numbers”

00:28:28 - Minotaur Co-Editor, Marvin Leventhal, offers to send the “missing issue” to any subscriber who never got Issue 4 of Volume 8. He also talks about Monday night’s lectures at TRICS.

00:33:45 - Dexter Cleveland, a.k.a. Algonquin McDuff discusses his contributions to the magic community and his best friend, John Moehring.

00:37:35 - Stephan Barksdale is a newcomer to magic conventions and gives his reasons for attending this as his first TRICS as his first convention ever

00:43:47 - Michael Kaminskas is at this convention but heads to Mexico City for another convention then on to the Magic Castle plus making cups and fake fruit as his side (?) business.

00:48:17 - Another first time attendee to TRICS and to any magic convention, Duane Short chat with us about why and how he found this to be his first.

00:52:55- Jonathan Levit and Scott do a wrap up of what the activities of the day have been.

702: FISM Quebec 2022 - Day Six Report

Winners

Stage Illusion

Card magic

Micro magic

Parlour magic

Mental magic

Manipulation

Comedy magic

General magic

Close up most original act-

Close up Invention award -

Stage magic - most original act -

Stage magic - invention -

Special Awards Presented by Max Maven

Close-up Grand Prix - Simon Coronel - U.S.

Stage magic Grand Prix - Laurent Piron - Belgium

Time stamps for this episode:

675: Magic Collectors Expo 2022 - Day Three Report

648: TRICS 2021 - Days One and Two Report

Thursday November 4, 2021

Friday November 5, 2021

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