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Society Lectures
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By Andrew Webb
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Thursday, 19 June 2008 23:00 |
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The club room was packed on a very warm Thursday night, and a large number of guests and respected members including Bob and Val Swadling attended to see the multi award winning Etienne Pradier lecture. Etienne started with a blank notes to real notes effect, ala Fred Kapps, the money? Iraqi, one of the notes was placed onto the table and the remaining notes transformed into British £20 notes. The tabled note was picked up and a member of the audience asked for a currency, euros, how much? 20, and as the Iraqi currency was folded and unfolded it turned into euros, a final kicker being that the audience member chose either a single 20 or two tens, the chosen two 10's effortlessly appeared in place of the original Iraqi tender. Etienne explained the effect in detail, and showed how almost any currency called for could be revealed. An excellent first effect. |
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Mark Elsdon Lecture -Tricks You Might Actually Do |
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Society Lectures
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By Andrew Webb
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Friday, 18 April 2008 09:15 |
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 The club room was very full last night with members, and a large number of prospective members who had traveled to see Mark Elsdon lecture. They were in for a treat as Mark delivered a fantastic lecture of visually stunning magic ranging from close-up to mentalism, mixed with Marks own unique sense of humor. Ambitious Cards, the stunning Rubik Cube effect, predictions, triumph, changing cards and a fantastically open and honest demonstration of each effect gave us an evening that was brilliant.
Mark started the lecture by performing 'Balance', where a seemingly normal deck of cards (not in the box) where shown to balance on firstly his finger tips, and then a single finger. The effect was quite eerie as he freely showed the audience up close the deck balanced at one end on his fingers. He then completely foxed the onlookers by letting people look under the deck, and removing the bottom card and encircling the deck to show that there were no wires, magnets attachments holding the deck up. |
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Society Lectures
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By Andrew Webb
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Friday, 21 March 2008 01:00 |
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 Dr Todd Landman is actually a doctor, reading politics at the university of Essex, as well as being what he terms a metaphysical magician, and after an excessively long trip to the Home Counties Magical Society (almost four hours!) he kindly shared with us just exactly what a metaphysical magician was.
The first half of the lecture was really mainly a show at first glance, a thought of number was found to be the sum of a magic square, a thought of date looked up in a diary was found to be the same card as the one sealed in an envelope, a freely chosen instrument from an orchestra was almost correctly predicted, and unseen, freely selected crystals placed into a bag by spectators were all returned to them. Probably the strongest of these was the final free selection of mini colours crystal balls, placed into a bag by each of the spectators (including myself) were then placed into a larger bag. Dr Todd correctly returned each to it's owner without having seen, or been involved with their selection. It was based on Maurice Fogel's "Second Spot", and set the scene for some explanations. |
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