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IBM British Ring Convention 2009 – Southport – Thom Peterson Lecture

September 26th, 2009 by Richard Morrell

Thoms lecture was extremely funny with some great commercial magic that was easy to do, a winning combination. He started off with a routine called Surprise. A ladies ring was vanished in a flash of fire, and in its place was a Kinder Egg, Thom broke open the egg and took out the surprise and it contained the vanished ring.

Next a combination of two routines Spooning and Revenge of the Spoon. A very magical looking examinable spoon bend, was followed by a cod explanation via a drawing of the spoon, which was initialed by the spectator. This was heated up and eventually was shown to have bent as well.

A Fish Tale used the Fortune Telling Fish along with a stack of business cards, each containing a reading, the one the spectator decided upon, depending on how the fish reacted, could be tailored to the event, in this case it said you will buy all of Thoms products. Obviously you could then give the fish away as a souvenir, a great idea that could be used for many things.

Finally Thom showed us Marked for Improvement, his take on the Paul Harris Colour Stunner colour changing deck routine. A short Triumph sequence and a kicker where all the cards turned out to have writing on the back indicating what the card was.

A great end to an excellent and entertaining lecture.