Here's a video of our friend Marco Tempest and his "Augmented Reality" presentation at the Davos World Economic Forum.
Thanks to Magic Newswire listener Gresham for sending it my way and kudos to or friends at iTricks for catching it first!
India's first entertainment destination, Kingdom of Dreams, has announced the launch of a one of a kind magic show featuring Franz Harary.
Franz discusses the launch in an article appearing in Best of Media Info saying:
"Like my illusions Kingdom Of Dreams has committed more technology than any other venue of its kind on the planet and yet all of this science is just for one reason so that all of us can recapture that sense of childlike wonder we had when we were young”
So... we've obviously talked about the recent episode of the Behar show in which Penn, David Copperfield & Holly Madison were guests while she was filming in Vegas. You've seen the video of Penn's appearance with Holly, but now you get to hear his thoughts on it after the fact. (Warning... Not Safe For Work!)
Stagnation is death. [Neitzsche] This seems particularly true for an artist, especially if your intention is to have a long career. And yet in Magic we have act after act whose material remains static through the years, and a lot of these acts make a good living and travel all over the world; clearly the need to evolve is actually a personal choice.
Magic isn't alone in this. Agatha Christie produced formulaic story after story that differed from her other work only in the details, and yet the public never seems to tire of her novels and countless others follow in her footsteps. There are actors who build an entire career portraying the same archetype, and musicians and painters whose entire portfolio could best be described as variations on a theme. These examples demonstrate that constantly evolving your performance is not mandatory for a successful career. So why change?
On this special Magic Newscast we get a preview of the upcoming Gambling Memorabilia Auction with Gabe Fajuri from Potter & Potter Auctions. In order to help we two magician put things in the proper light, I am also joined by gambling expert Jason England. Mr. England has written, consulted on, or edited over a dozen of the best-selling gambling and/or sleight-of-hand books published in the last decade and has acted as the gambling consultant and performer in numerous television and movie projects. In case you haven't seen it already, you can have a peek at the PDF version of the catalog for the January 29th Auction HERE.
LISTEN MY CHAT WITH GABE AND JASON :
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BY: Phil Dalton
Here's a full report on the Pendragons auction which occured on Wednesday, January 19. Most people would say I'm crazy for flying from Cincinnati, Ohio to California for a chance at an auction, and it truly was a roll of the dice. Not only could some famous name show up and bid higher than I could, but there was still the question of whether the unit would be auctioned at all. Charlotte had until the moment the door went up to pay off her back rent, and there would have been no sale.
So, I found a really cheap way to fly to Los Angeles, then I rented a car and drove 185 miles north to Arroyo Grande. I arrived at the storage facility 30 minutes early, and was happy to see that there were very few other people present. We all started talking and I asked them if there was any specific unit they had come to bid on (roughly 15 units were auctioned, including the two from Charlotte). I tried as best I could to inform the "dangerous" looking bidders that I had information that the cases were empty (in an effort to keep their bids low). I'm not sure everyone believed me. They said that I'd be crazy to bid on empty "steamer trunks", but I explained that I was a magician and these cases, while not valuable to everyone, were of use to me. As the 12 noon auction time approached, the crowd began to swell. News cameras arrived and interviewed random strangers, asking them if they knew about the Pendragon units (and trying very hard to get these people to say what they wanted- feeding them information like a reverse cold reader)! The final news reports indicated that there were some 150 people in attendance, but I am certain that there were at least 300, and I have pictures to prove that. I only met one other magician, and he was a local guy who had come to see the sights.
As the auction began...
The UK television audience recently got to know magician John Archer when he became the first performer to win on the show "Penn & Teller Fool Us." John is a comedian, magician, actor, singer, musician, writer, member of 'The Inner Magic Circle with Gold Star' and is the current ‘Magic Circle Stage Magician of the Year.’ John joins me on the Spirit of Magic podcast and talks about his evolution from policeman to magician, how he fooled Penn & Teller and much more!
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