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APRIL 2016 RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
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| Lee-Snavely Ring #199 Meeting |
SATURDAY, April 2nd at 5:00 PM
820 E. Williams St, Apex, NC
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| Magic Youth Raleigh Meetings |
Beginner Parlor/Stand-Up Group
SATURDAY, March 26th at 6:00 PM
Tarbell Magic Course, Lesson 4
Coin Tricks
SATURDAY, April 9th at 6:00 PM
Tarbell Magic Course, Lesson 5
More Coin Tricks
SATURDAY, April 23rd at 6:00 PM
Tarell Magic Cours, Lesson 6
The Thumb Tip
$10.00 per I.B.M. Member Student per Lesson
$15.00 per Guest Student per Lesson
THE MAGIC CORNER MAGIC SHOP
3684 Capital Blvd, Raleigh, NC 27604
(919) 875-1550
We Regret that we have discontinued the
Youth Intermediate and Advanced Card & Coin
Lessons due to a lack of volunteer instructors.
Welcome to our I.B.M. Young Magicians!
Aleksander Levy
Rohan Purandare
Calvin Ransbury
Aliza Schrage
Holden Stegall
Harrison Truscott
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Third Tuesday of Each Month
Meeting Location Changes
For Meeting Details and Reminders please join
the Mid-Month Email List by Sending an Email to
The Mid-Month Session is a magic jam & workshop
open to all adult club members and guests with a
serious interest in magic.
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Hughie Ohmsted/Bill Esau
Weekly Magic Luncheon
Most Fridays @ 1:00 PM
Sweet Tomatoes Restaurant, 2310 Walnut St., Cary
For Luncheon Details and Reminders please join
the Magic Lunch Email List by Sending an Email to Danny Reeves at
The Magic Lunch is open to all Ring #199 Youth & Adult Members,
Family members, and all guests & visitors to our area. Please let
Danny know in advance if you plan to attend so he can reserve seating.
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| 39th ANNUAL MAGIC AUCTION |
Clean out those closets! Empty those bins! Clean out your storage rooms! Ring #199's 39th Annual Magic Auction is coming up soon!
Saturday, April 2nd is the big day! Set up at New Horizons Fellowship begins at 5:00 PM! The auction kicks off at 6:00 PM!
Youth Members are encouraged to attend for the GREAT bargains on magic props, books, and more!
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imum bid is $5.00. Lower valued items must be bundled to meet the minimum bid. A $5.00 & under table will be available for the direct sale of items priced from $.25 up to $5.00.
If you are planning on selling an item valued at $50.00 or more, you may want to consider letting us know so we can send out a pre-auction list. This will give members an opportunity to plan ahead. This could increase your profit! Submit your list of high priced items to [email protected] before
midnight on March 30th.
Buyers are STRONGLY encouraged to closely examine all items on the tables before the bidding starts! All disagreements must be resolved exclusively between the Buyer and the Seller.
The Auctioneer is the full and final authority regarding competing and winning bids. His decision is final.
The Ring #199 Treasury retains a 15% commission on all auction and direct sales. No fee is collected for unsold items.
Magic Youth Raleigh will host a snack & beverage concession with proceeds benefiting the youth program.
The Ring will also host a Raffle with great prizes including $50.00 gift certificates and downloads. All proceeds benefit the Ring treasury.
Buying and selling is free for Ring and Youth members. Nonmembers pay $5.00 to enter.
Auction payment will be accepted by Cash or Personal Check. Cash is preferred.
No Credit or Debit Cards!
We are expecting a GREAT batch of magic props, books, DVDs, memorabilia, and more! Don't miss out!
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Plan now to celebrate our Sixth Annual
FAMILY FLING on
Saturday, May 7th!
Bring your family for a delicious Potluck Dinner followed by the always fun Peoples' Choice Competition. Once again, the Ring will host three categories: Youth (Open to ages 6 through 17), Close-Up, and Parlor. Bring your best family-friendly act!
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Ring 199's Friday magic luncheon meetings are facilitated by Danny Reeves. During the meetings, several discussions were centered on sleights (i.e. timing, the mechanics, and the need to do sleights in the first place). Danny Reeves performed the effect "Spectator Finds Your Card" (from Jerry Mentzer's book "Simple Yet Effective Tricks with Cards") so well, it was as if Reeves had written the book! Additionally, Reeves performed a bullet card trick and an indicator card effect. Kevin Reylek did a Ted Lesley effect where a card was randomly removed from the deck by a spectator. Reylek then fanned through the deck and was able to determine the missing card. Xan Innes performed a card effect in which a spectator's chosen card vanished from the deck and appeared in a wallet. Innes also did an excellent effect on how to fake honesty. The attendees however are still scratching their heads trying to figure out if Innes' spiel was sincere. Mike Gorman's performance of the now venerable routine "A Charming Chinese Challenge"(originated by Troy Hoosier) was done so flawlessly that Hoosier himself would have been proud of Gorman's homage to him. Gorman's performances of other routines (including a two-card prediction effect, an oil and water effect, a lucky card routine, the magic square, the calendar force, and a rubber band trick) earned Gorman a round of much deserved applause. Steven Perry performed Michael Skinner's bridge deal. Perry also did double card transpositions, and performed a routine wherein he vanished three coins. Rick DeNatale did a little comical routine wherein a miniature hand appeared from his cupped hands and stole a bottle cap.
In the regular March 2016 meeting Tony Baro's original routine (called "Quantum Entanglement") was hilarious. In this routine Baro mixed a flurry of mathematical patter with good sleights to produce a spectator's face up card in a deck of face down cards. Kerry LeBlanc (a.k.a. "Kingman") was instated as a new member of Ring 199. LeBlanc was very adept with his handling of cards and showed everybody that he was "worthy" of being a club member. LeBlanc's had two spectators choose two cards at random. With impeccable sleight of hand, LeBlanc managed to use 4 aces to find the spectators' cards. Matt Brockman proved once again that he is indeed a master of card manipulation. Brockman had a spectator shuffle a deck of cards while holding the cards under a table. One card was then removed by the spectator from the deck, flipped over, and put back in the deck. Although the spectator never showed the cards, Brockman was able to name the card after he had concentrated for a few seconds.
Fred Rosenbaum's original routine (entitled "Funeral Sampler") gets better and better. In this (paradoxically humorously morbid) routine, Rosenbaum was able to predict the total cost of a funeral although the prices of each funeral item had been randomly selected by several spectators from different funeral brochures.
Upcoming events: AUCTION - April 2, 2016. FAMILY FLING (contests, etc.) - May 7, 2016.
Ring 199 normally meets on the first Saturday of the month. The exceptions for the remainder of 2016 will be July 9th and September 10th.
Fred Quick, Secretary
MAGIC YOUTH RALEIGH
Five youth members met at The Magic Corner to begin working through each chapter of the Tarbell Magic Course. Lessons #1 and #2 were assigned as homework. We began with Lesson #3, Sleight of Hand with Coins. Each student received a Kennedy Half Dollar coin and several half-dollar size clay poker chips to practice palms, holds, steals, vanishes, and changes. Dan Harlan's excellent video Tarbell Lesson #3 (available from Penguin Magic) was used to supplement the lesson. Students were assigned the homework of practicing the slights taught. The March 26th lesson will cover Tarbell Lesson #4, Coin Tricks.
Roger Way, Youth Director
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Hi, Everyone,
We had a pretty large group this past Friday. In attendance were: Virginia O., Rick D., Mike & Pattie G., Xan I., Kevin R., Steven P., Danny Hinton (a cucumber, uh, I mean, a new comer. WELCOME, Danny! Glad to have you as part of our group.) and me. We engaged in some great magical discussions and saw some good magic. I did a couple of card effects: "Truth or Lie" and the "Pistol Card Trick." Mike demonstrated a "Poker Deal" effect and a card effect based upon simple math. Kevin did a "Lucky Card" routine based on an Al Koran effect. Xan did a GREAT memorized deck routine that led into Paul Curry's "Out of This World," sometimes called the best card trick in the world. Steven performed Michael Skinner's effect, "Red Fibers From a $20 Bill." He learned it from Skinner's audio tapes. There was a lot of magic discussions going on with Rick and Xan, with input by the rest of the lunchers. We all had a lot of fun. We will not meet this Friday, March 25th due to the Easter holiday. Have a wonderful Easter an we'll see you next week!
Danny Reeves
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| HELP! CARD MAGICIAN NEEDED |
The Magic Youth Group is still searching for one or two accomplished card magicians to oversee the intermediate to advanced card magic classes on a consistent monthly basis. These classes have been discontinued due to the lack of a dedicated mentor or mentor team.
This mentor may set his own schedule to meet with the card kids at either The Magic Corner Magic Shop or prior to the monthly Ring meetings at New Horizons Fellowship.
The General and Beginner Magic Classes are still taught by Skip Way on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month, 6:00-8:00 PM at The Magic Corner.
Please contact Skip Way at
[email protected] if you are interested in assuming responsibility for the card magic classes.
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Houdini's last radio interview, just before his untimely death on October 31, 2016. A radio announcer broadcasts a real-life interview, of Houdini, then flashes back on his amazing career.
HOUDINI TALKS HOUDINI is the title of a new exciting experimental micro, short-film showcasing Houdini's legendary amazing life. It was released online on March 24, 2016, Houdini's 142nd birthday. The film is produced, written and directed, by filmmaker and magician, Adam Steinfeld.
The film is edited in 3 segments. The first segment opens with Houdini's own words, highlighting his amazing true life adventures. These digital images were released through the New York Public Library.
When modern audiences visualize Houdini it is through fictionalized accounts with Hollywood actors. "This is the real Houdini", said director Steinfeld. "I've made every effort to keep Houdini real as accurately as possible. I have inserted a bit of dramatic licensing; adding sound and a music score for the internet generation, instead of the silent piano film music of that period".
Part two and Part three of HOUDINI, TALKS HOUDINI showcases real film of Houdini's spectacular stunts. These were shot on May 7, 1907 and in the spring and summer of 1914 at the Weighlock bridge on Court Street in downtown Rochester, New York. This found footage was made possible through the Library of Congress, and the Eastman Museum.
Filmmaker Adam Steinfeld edited the 100-year-old footage with a dramatic contemporary score and an omnipresent voice-over by Kelly Cordes. Houdini's voice is by Gergo' Benedek speaking in English with Hungarian voice characterization to replicate an old radio show.
Steinfeld is also co-author of the novel,
Houdini Lives! In this short-film he brings together two of his passions; magic performed live on stage and film-making. This film brings combined artistic, dramatic, and thrilling real life footage. These photos and segments have rarely been combine a compressed look back at the greatest magician, escape artist and dare devil that ever lived.
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| ONLINE RING 2100 MOVES TO FACEBOOK |
Ring 2100 is an actual chartered IBM magic ring, but with no physical address. It lives entirely in cyberspace.
Only current IBM members can join. Requests to be added to this group must include your IBM membership number.
This move should make it easier for members to keep up with conversations. Join today!
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| MAGIC METHOD OFFERS WILLMARTH BOOKS |
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Eddy Wade of Magic Methods announced
an exclusive distribution arrangement with the Philip Willmarth Estate for the remaining copies of the following books written and/or published by Willmarth
Magic
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Titles include:
- Trevor Lewis' Routines Matter
- Phil Willmarth's The Impostress Princess
- Phil Willmarth's Lecture Notes
- Phil WIllmarth's Some of My Favorite Things
- A Ring & Rope and Around The Table Lecture Notes
- Phil Willmarth's The Knot Collector
- Intimate Power by Eugene Burger
- Trevor Lewis's ESOLC (That's Close-Up)
- Magic From The Parade 1 Selected by Phil Willmarth
- Phil Willmarth's Classics Revisited
- The Jim Ryan Close Up Series
- Eugene Burger on Matt Schuliens' Fabulous Card Discoveries
Visit
www.magicmethodsonline.com for details and prices.
Get them quick as many are in limited supply and most are first editions.
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Sunday Closed
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RALEIGH MAGIC CLUB ONLINE SHOP
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Ring members can now order shirts, jackets, hats, briefcases and more with our beautifully embroidered or printed Raleigh Magic Club logo from the Ring's Queensboro Online Store!
Visit the online storefront at
raleighmagicclub.qbstores.com to view our online catalog of quality and affordable custom embroidered merchandise bearing the Raleigh Magic Club and Magic Youth Raleigh logos.
Wear your Ring Logo to show your Pride in the Raleigh Magic Club!
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OUR NEWSLETTER AND WEBSITE SPONSORS
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Our professional website and newsletters are vital to our image of a capital city magic club. We rely on the voluntary sponsorship of the members who support and promote this image. We couldn't publish the newsletter or website without your support! Thank you!
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Ask how you can help support our professional image for just $15.00 per year! [email protected]
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Comments, suggestions, and concerns are always welcome. If you have an article or feature submission, send it along, too! This is your newsletter!
Articles, notices, and information to be published in this newsletter must be received no later than the 24th of each month.
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FREE
MAGAZINES
for
MEMBERS!
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FROM JON at THE MAGIC CORNER
All current Ring 199 members may receive - on request - a random back issue of Magic or Genii Magazine with any purchase.
Registered Magic Youth Raleigh members may also receive - on request - one random back issue of The Linking Ring magazine with presentation of their membership ID card - No Purchase Necessary!
Offers are limited to one issue per day as noted. Magazines will be selected randomly by the Magic Corner.
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