Day Three’s final session of The Essential Magic Conference was hosted by Luis De Matos. The EMC had generously opened this final session to all as a free broadcast.
Ton Onosaka opened the session with a lovely card effect using a spectator selected card was pushed back into the deck.
As the card was pushed down into the deck, it was shown that the entire deck had its backs move down, the backs now half blank, and half printed, except of course, the chosen card. The deck was then returned and shown in its normal, fully printed state. A lovely effect. Read the rest of this entry »
Yes.. that’s right.. the final session of the Essential Magic Conference will be FREE for ALL to watch..
All you have to do is head to over to the free session at 9:30pm UK time
Watch what you’ve been missing all this weekend.
The list on the left will show you what you’re in for..
But please consider support the EMC team by registering as well. as this will not only help support the costs of this epic event, but give you the ability to watch all the sessions on demand for one year, and you’ll get a full DVD set, including bonuses after the conference closes.
We are proud to be a media partner of the Essential Magic Conference. The Essential Magic Conference is the world’s first web conference for magicians. No Hotels to worry about, no flights to miss.. just 33 speakers over 3 days of conference streamed live worldwide.
Miguel Angel Gea was first on in the second of todays sessions.
Oddly for a session called ‘card magic’ Miguel started with a coin routine, but, it was a nice coin effect! Performing a coins to box routine, before explaining the methods and moves. He then followed by with a coins to glass routine, in both of these Miguel explained some lovely moves with the coins, and some great subtleties.
Barry and Stuart took to the floor, with an intimate party for three where they did the ’spoon on nose’ party trick, explaining it to the audience and spectator as needing ’something sticky’ a 6 inch nail!
Interestingly we were told during this session that the final of todays session will be open to ALL, but will feature no explanations, We’ll bring you more on that after the next session.
Finn Jon was first up on this session talking through his style of impromptu magic, he was explaining about being able to do magic anywhere with anything, firstly he demostrated a spinning hover card with a borrowed credit card before ’smoking the credit card’.
Finn Jon then when into idea talking mode, rolling out idea after idea on magic, it was great to watch, multiply balls, cut and restored string, before moving onto some wonderful principals on producing tennis balls..
He was rolling out ideas so quick it was hard to keep up and soak them in, but in a good way, all the contents of a 2 hour lecture in 20 mins! Read the rest of this entry »
Paul Gordon’s CardCapersDay of Card Magic will be taking place in 2011 at three locations round the UK, Glasgow, Manchester and Worthing. Tickets are £30 for each of the days, and they take place on January 16th 2011 - Glasgow, January 23rd 2011 - Manchester, and April 17th 2011 - Worthing.
Marco Tempest was the first speaker of this session, and was talking about online magic.
He talked about his initial YouTube Videos, and how the videos he filmed with his mobile phone started to go viral, and how they spiralled to hugh viewing figures. Marco explained how these ‘free’ videos provided him with the ability to connect to a huge audience, and opened the door to sponsorships and product placement videos.
Marco really is an authority of the use of magic videos on sites such as YouTube, and it was great to hear him impart some really excellent advice on its use. He finished the set with his wonderful augmented reality based effect (the below was the preview he put on youtube of version 1)
Max Maven took to the stage next to give a wonderful talk on who he considered was the first close up magician. It’s always a pleasure listening to how Max works out all the reasoning of something to reach a single answer. He looked at the facts in his opinion of what was ‘close up magic’, and what constituted a ‘close up performance’, the contract with an spectator, the working space of the performance. It was an interesting journey along Max’s thinking, and, who was the first closeup magician? well, maybe you should sign up to the convention and find out..
Yes.. that’s right.. the final session of the Essential Magic Conference will be FREE for ALL to watch..
