Ring NO. 46, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK –
Seymour Davis Ring
Meets 7:00 pm, 1st Monday of
the month at the New Beginning Fellowship Church, 15601 S.
Pennsylvania in OKC
LEE WOODSIDE, Secretary. Email:
WoodsideLee@hotmail.com.
www.okcmagic.club
Vice President Justin Teeman reported
that several members of Ring 46 convened at Buffalo Wild Wings in
Moore on the third Monday of September for an informal Roundtable.
They and some of the patrons and staff enjoyed some distanced
deceptions in the outdoor dining area.
Twenty magicians logged on for our
October Zoom meeting, hosted once again by Vice President Justin
Teeman. The theme of the meeting was to perform as a character other
than yourself. Lee Woodside, dressed in a vest and cowboy hat,
performed as “Captain Lee.” He began by giving a pitch for his
“Captain Lee’s Magical Medicine for Mysterious Maladies,” an
elixir that he claimed would cure a multitude of ailments. He
claimed to have gotten the formula from his good friend, Joseph
“Shyster Joe” Diggle. Lee then explained how he obtained the
magical waters used in the medicine from a small mountain spring on
land held sacred by the Shoshone. Using an earthenware jug, he showed
how more water was always available from the spring.
President Cassidy Smith mentioned
“Master Payne” as magician in the Seattle area who offers his
magical services in the form of many different characters. Cassidy
said that he also liked Michael Skinner. He proudly showed off his
signed copy of Michael’s CLASSIC SAMPLER.
Jerry Bowzer said that he enjoyed
Daryl as a teacher and performer. Wendy Wylde talked about Richard
Webster and the mindset to “believe all stories whether I am
hearing them or telling them.” She said that perhaps she and
Richard were “squinty eyed” psychics, a play on words of the
“shut eye” pyschics.
Jonathon Taylor said that he enjoyed
the performances of Kainoa Harbottle. Anthony
Bruno, a magician who recently moved to Oklahoma, said that he really
enjoys performing “Steam 2.0,” by Ali Nouira.
Justin Teeman told of an encounter
with the late René
Levand. When he asked Senor Levand for advice on a trick, he was told
to first perform it himself. As Justin retrieved a deck of cards,
René put down a close-up mat
with the comment, “A jeweler never displays his wares without
laying a pad down.” Justin said that he continued his studies in
Spanish just so that he could hopefully one day converse with René
Levand. He said that, in fact, he got the chance to translate for
him.
David
Parr said that he was impressed by the sincerity of Doug Henning. He
said that Doug’s demeanor made people want him to succeed. He said
that other role models for him were Tony Andruzzi and Eugene Burger.
Anthony
Bruno showed a treble fish hook. Four strings hung down, one of which
he said was actually tied to the hook. He placed the hook and one end
of the strings in his mouth. He then had audience members select one
of the strings. He would yank the selected string out of his mouth.
Using the fourth string, he gently lifted the hook out of his mouth.
He then showed us a “haunted deck” routine that he attributed to
Jeke Yo.
David
Teeman mentioned that he enjoyed the magic of Rudy Coby. David then
talked about performing his own version of the “obedient ball”
for Dan Sperry.
David
Parr invited Anthony Bruno to use his own deck to perform a trick.
David had Anthony select one card, memorize it, and lose it in the
deck. He then dealt the cards into five piles. Anthony then look at
each pile to see if his card was there. If not, the pile of cards was
discarded. When he came to the pile with his card in it, David had
him show the cards on screen one at a time. Sure enough, even though
David had not previously seen the face of the selected card, he was
able to divine the correct card.
Todd
Reis told a story that he said he heard from Max Maven about Karrell
Fox auditioning to perform at trade shows for Ford Motor Company.
Karrell performed a “find a card” trick for the Ford executive,
but selected the wrong card. He then had the executive open his
office window and there was a plane in the sky writing the name of
the chosen card. He got the job.
A
week after our October meeting, we were pleased to host a Zoom
lecture by David Jonathon. David performed and explained seven
effects and also gave us the benefit of his thoughts on creating new
effects.
David
led off with a very visual and eye-popping effect. A card was freely
selected, signed, and returned to the middle of the deck and the deck
was placed back into the card box. A rubber band was placed around
the outside of the card box. When David snapped the rubber band
against the box, the rubber band instantly vanished. When the box was
opened and the deck removed, the rubber band was around the selected
card. This effect would be a great opener or a lead-in to other card
or rubber band tricks. He markets this as “With the Band.”
David
brought out a “rainbow” deck, showing that not only were all the
cards different, but all the backs were different as well. He invited
Lee Woodside to roll two dice. David counted down from the top of the
deck to that number and lay the card on the table face down. Lee
again rolled the dice and David counted the cards from the bottom of
the deck and removed that card and placed it face up. The prediction
envelope that had been on the table at the start of the trick was now
opened and the one card inside was removed. Sure enough, it matched
front and back the cards selected by rolls of the dice. David calls
this trick “Fortuity.”
David
went on to perform an effect where he wrote the prediction of a card
to be selected on the card box, a sandwich effect using the two black
kings, a number prediction effect using UNO cards, a “free will”
prediction effect using picture cards, and a killer book test with an
impressive “kicker” ending. I highly recommend David Jonathon’s
lecture to any magic club whose members are looking to learn
innovative magic and, more importantly, to learn the process of
creating their own cutting-edge effects.
Lee
Woodside