Midwest Magic Jubilee Day 3 Photos 2012

The final day of the 56th MMJ brought even more last day registrants to the convention. Perhaps they saw and heard what they were missing by getting these daily updates! The morning opened with an excellent lecture by Chris Capehart. He spoke about working the streets and tips on the linking rings.

Scott Alexander lectured on stand-up magic with several great ideas for openers, plus some excellent close-up tricks, too.

Last but not least of the lecturers was the king of the levitation, Losander. He gave us some ideas for using invisible thread and bubbles and more.

The close-up show featured seven performers with dramatically different styles and all quite excellent.

The evening gala was a packed house with at least two-thirds of the audience being laymen. Michael Finney was the MC and the acts included Ferrell Dillon, Scott Alexander and Losander.

After the show, the registrants retired to the Dealers' Room for a Farewell Party.

064: Midwest Magic Jubilee Day 1 - Now You See It with Scott Wells

On the opening night of this year's Midwest Magic Jubilee (MMJ), I audio  recorded "Now You See It with Scott Wells", a late night talk show that  features some of the talent from the magic conventions. This was my  fourth year with this talk show at the MMJ, always with a completely  different line-up. This year it featured Shep Hyken, Dan Garrett, Chris  Capehart and Michael Finney.

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052: F.F.F.F. 2012 - Day Four

April 28, 2012 - This final day is jam packed with two hours of material; some fun, some funny, some serious and some with some great advice and lessons, but all worth hearing. We started off with a chat in the Dealer's Room with Will Houstoun and John van der Put ("Piff the Magic Dragon") from the U.k. From there we moved over a few booths to Patrick Przysiecki's booth where we talked with him and one of the other registrants,  Gene Gordon. In the Dealer's Room was MVP (Most Valuable Person of the  convention) Denis Behr, from Germany. You must visit his website at  http://archive.denisbehr.de to discover his totally awesome archive and  database of searchable books online. We had a delightful discussion  with Mark Mason (from JB Magic) and Charlie Randall (formerly of H&R  Magic Books). As mentioned earlier, this convention marked the debut of  the new F.F.F.F. book that Charlie published.

After the show we  went to the Room (formerly the Precursor Suite) to get some random  reactions from a sampling of registrants (including Shawn Farquhar) of their highlights from the  convention. We also got a few excerpts from Soma's lecture on using music in your show. He gave some advice on websites for royalty-free music and sound effects. We also chatted with Ed Eckl, one of the orginal creators  and publishers of The Precursor magazine. I then had a chance to have a  quiet chat with the two guys who closed the final night gala, Steve  Bargatze and Rick Merrill who talked about their careers and creativity.

We then went back to "The Room" to chat with Shawn Farquhar, Geoff Williams and Peter McLanachan, from Scotland, for some more comments and fun. Boris Wild closed out the night with excerpts from his lecture that  included invaluable advice that every magician should hear regardless of  skill level. Thanks goes to Geoff Williams helped with the questions for this  interview. If you can only listen to part of this podcast, this last 20 minutes is gold.

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