KNIGHT TALK
A DELAWARE KNIGHTS OF
MAGIC PUBLICATION
September 2008
Hello
Fellow Magicians
September
starts a New Year for the Club and the 65th Anniversary. That’s right the
Delaware Knights of Magic started in
1944. I want to thank you for electing
me as president for the next 2 years.
I am looking forward to a great magical year.
The executive board has plans through 2008 which include our own member Alex
Lourido Lecturing in September. Alex has great experience in
both manufacturing and marketing . He wll be showing some of many
magic products. A few that come to mind are BUTTER COIN, OSMOSIS,
RETRO MAGIC, RAINBOW COINS, GLASS MIRAGE, CARD ATTACK BY A. L., MODEL BOTTLE!
Watch
the News Letter and web page www.dkom.org for more details on the October Micheal Kaminskas Lecture and the
November Auction.
Plans
are underway for the annual Christmas Party.
June 20,2009 has been reserved at Delaware
National Country Club for the Banquet. Entertainment is being planned now and
will be the “world class” we have grown to expect.
The
contest at each meeting will alternate between Closeup and Stage. Magician of
the Year recognition will be awarded for both. September is a Closeup contest.
Lots
of exciting things happening. See you at the September meeting
Magically
Yours
Paul
Simacek
September
meeting
The Delaware Knights of Magic has been lucky over the years to attract members who are fulltime professionals. Alex Lourido is a fulltime inventor and promoter of magic. He has shown us a few of his items and this meeting will show us even more. His items include instructional DVDs, magic with coins, bottles, cards, watches and even an X-ray. There are demonstration videos of most of Alex’s products available on the web. Seeing the inventor show it in person and being able to question him makes the choice of the correct product that much better and easier. Below is the cover of his DVD, “Retro Magic”. Alex in his younger and wilder years, scary isn’t it?
Calendar
Sept 3 12:30 PM Magicians luncheon at the Hunters Den
Sept 8 7:30 PM IBM Ring #6 Springfield – Joshua Jay
Sept 11 7:00 PM Regular DKOM meeting
Sept 17 12:30 PM
Magicians luncheon at the Hunters Den
Sept 18 7:30 PM Executive board meeting at the Golden Dove
Sept 20 7:00 PM SAM #4 Philadelphia – Mini Convention
Help your new incoming corresponding
secretary! If you learn of events of
interest for the next club year, email them to Larry Denburg at larrydenburg@snip.net.
June Meeting
No one saved notes on what went on during the June meeting so this report will be very sketchy. Various members showed tricks that can be done impromptu. It ranged from Sam Bailey who never actually has to do impromptu because his pockets are always loaded to the gills to people doing magic with napkins, coins, their bodies and various other odds and ends. It became clear that with a little thought and practice a magician can always be ready to perform.
I do have the results of the contest and
these were important.
CONTEST WINNERS
Ralph Armstrong 1st Randy Shine 2nd Al Hitt 3rd
Magician of the year Randy Shine
2nd Ralph Armstrong 3rd Al Hitt
This was one of the closest contests in the club’s history. Only two points separated first and second place and the third place winner pulled it out by a single point. The quality of the magic by these three was always good and often excellent. We saw amazing magic from others but not as consistently. Our contest rules are set up to reward consistent good performance. Due to a number of problems, we did not have a Banquet this year. A member has generously offered to pay for Randy Shine and a guest to attend next year’s banquet. The club will pay for this coming year’s winner and a guest to attend. As always this generosity is conditioned on the winning magician performing at the banquet.
Magic review by Mitch
Kaplan
iVanish
This DVD consists of five parts. I’ll list and explain each part and then give an overall evaluation.
iVanish – this is an unusual idea for a coin vanish. Take a coin and hold it in your eye like a monocle. Rub the coin into the eye and it vanishes. It is a real coin and this vanish is well within the range of almost all members of DKOM.
iBlind – an alternative method that is not as clean but could be useful in some very special circumstances.
iDitch – a more classic sleight of hand method that is not nearly as good as either of the two above.
iAcross – after rubbing the coin into the eye, you appear to push it across to the other eye and pull it out of that eye.
iCream – a bit that is not original to this DVD and is admitted as such. It is a bit of geek magic that can be combined with the other techniques. After vanishing a coin in the eye, take a fork and appear to poke the eye having white goo come out of the eye. This gives enough cover to set up the iAcross reappearance of the coin from that eye.
This is geek magic but it is very effective. I have performed the iVanish – iAcross sequence and always get a strong reaction. You have to think carefully if this suits you. But if it does, it is fairly easy and effective. One other thing I like about this is that the iAcross uses the Fitch palm. I feel the Fitch palm does not look natural. In this use, it is natural, easy and the perfect solution. You have plenty of time to get into the Fitch palm. As I continued to perform this routine, I became adept at the Fitch palm. Therefore, if you want to learn it, here is a good place to start.