Sean has worked on various magical disciplines, currently he is focusing on mentalism, and so this was the theme of his lecture.

The opening trick Pineapple Surprise was a variation of the Fred trick, used to predict the contents of an unlabeled can of food. Next Sean showed us his version of Andi Gladwin’s People Power trick. Survivor is a variation using eight people and Sean’s clever double-envelope, coupled with Andi’s ingenious idea for the Equivoque, to leave one person on stage that had previously been predicted by Sean.

Time for Business was a way for Sean to tell someone the exact time without him looking at a watch or clock, whenever a spectator called out he was able to write the correct time on his business card.

The Symbology Deck is Sean’s version of the ESP deck useful for close-up mentalism. He demonstrated a very easy two card divination and then went over the various properties of the deck. This is a fantastic extension of the normal ESP deck that any close-up card worker could use to add a mental flavour to their act.

Bookmaster is an any-book no prop booktest, you give someone the book ask for a page number, have them look at the first word on the page and you can then tell them that word, without any extraneous props, and it can be made for any book.

Finally Sean performed Anchors Ahoy his version of the Tossed out Deck that involved a great deck-switch, and several subtleties that allowed a definite finish and the cards to be examined and shuffled at the start.

I had Sean’s Mindstorms book already and can recommend it, it is a limited edition, and well worth the investment, it was great to see Sean lecture the material, as he obviously thinks deeply about his routines, and makes sure every detail is covered, and this came through in the lecture.