Cyril Takayama joined the conference via Skype from Los Angeles, and talked about his magic and his TV series that air in Japan.

Max Maven talked with Cyril about a number of things and also showed a section from his latest show that was shot in Hawaii.

It was a good insight into the world of Cyril and his magic that is so popular in the Asia-Pacific region.

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Following his performance in the last session, Daniel Madison talked about the gimmick that created the last effect.

Daniel explained that any card , and in this case allow a named card to appear into a borrowed deck, with as much ”hands off’ as possible.

We wont spoil it.. this is the ultimate gimmick for any effects where any freely named card can be moved to another location, or discovered in a wallet.. you get the idea..

Daniel walked us through making the gimmick, working it, and what you can achieve with it.

and the best bit… if you’re an EMC registrant you will get the book that explains this gimmick and effect.

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Max Maven - Doing a card trick…elevating a trick to a piece of magic. Deck is cut, half placed on table. Spec shuffles remaining cards, cuts, does what he wants until he has a card on the face of his packet is the one he is going to remember. The cards are placed onto the remaining half on the table. Max names the card. A trick, not a miracle, no panache. card is placed onto spec’s hand. To elevate it into magic, the card changes into a blank card, and the selected card has vanished from the deck. And all is given to spec to keep as a reminder of panache.

Daniel Madison - David Blaine names the 4 of spades. Steve Cohen comes up with his deck and takes them out and shuffles them. Is told to spread them face down. One blue back card in the red deck. It is – of course – the four of spades. He will explain it at the start of session 6.

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David Williamson - A card trick. Spec gives him three cards. He gives her one back, he still has three. Several times. Much shouting. He goes on to talk about his heroes in magic. Goshman. He loved close up magicians with a stage size persona. Slydini. Quacky The Clown. No, really. It’s impossible to précis this. Impossible. Let’s just say he was happy to find out he wasn’t touched inappropriately in Quacky’s trailers.
Graham Jolley - Explaining Koran’s newspaper effect “countdown” which he performed yesterday. Go look it up in a book. One lovely bit though was Koran getting Ed Sullivan to write a number between 1-16. He needs to see this to do the trick. Sullivan turns his back on Al to hide as he writes. In order to get the number, he simply took the envelope from Sullivan saying “I will initial it too, so you can’t cheat!”

Gaetan Bloom on the history of the intercessor. The evolution of the idea, the gimmick, the years it took to develop. A fascinating insight into the creative and lucky processes used.

Norberto Jansenson shows us his favourite effect. Jumbo deck, shuffled. He does ‘weighing’ of the cards. Twice. Spec that thinks of a card, he cuts to it. He then deals out the whole shuffled jumbo deck, calling each card before it is turned over.

Guy Hollingworth - Performance and explanation. Aces put into deck in different parts, deck places in jacket pocket. He says he will find them. Not by putting his hand in and taking them out. But by opening his jacket to show the lining, and pulling the cards magically one at a time through the lining. Then pulling the whole deck through. Delicious. He explains the principle and shows several tricks you can do with it. Including a card to wallet. And a Travellers effect. Nice.

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Daniel Madison floored the audience with a single effect.

A totally freely chosen card (by David Blaine) was found in a borrowed deck, the only blue backed card in a red backed deck, a totally clean, hands off effect..

How ? You’ll need to watch Session six!

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David Williamson, Dani Daortiz, Graham Jolley and Steve Cohen sat on a panel discussion on the topic of Improvisation, moderated by Marco Tempest.

The panel talked through some of their thoughts and experience of improvisation, if its a good, or a bad thing, and how they have (or havent) used it.

Some great advice on when its good, and when it hinders, and how to use the experience of something going wrong to build improvisation, or even create the impression of improvisation, when its actually carefully scripted..

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