Duane Laflin

The Tyler Magic Club (in Tyler, Texas) enjoyed a fantastic all day workshop on Saturday, November 15th featuring Duane Laflin. The workshop was held at Trinity Baptist Church and was well attended by clowns and magicians from the greater Tyler area, Dallas and Shreveport. Duane is a super guy and a committed family entertainer.

Sponge balls

......been a bit busy lately. Not practicing on much, really. Have been fiddling around a bit with some sponge balls namely watching "World's Greatest Magic: Sponge ball magic" [2 DVD set)......pretty good stuff and working on some Chris Randall sponge ball stuff.

Tyler Magic Club (October meeting)

The Tyler Magic Club had a great meeting last night. Good participation. My presentation of Animentalism was received somewhat flatly (not saying I didn't deserve such a response!). We threw around some of my alternate handling ideas.....I'm going to move forward on this one. Conceptually, it needs to be darkened up just a bit!

MJM Magic

Ordered two decks of cards and a copy of Erdnase's "Expert At the Card Table" yesterday from MJM Magic.

Runic letters

I'm communicating with someone at themagiccafe.com regarding my idea using Runic letters.......more to come. This person has reportedly done some interesting things with them.

Only an idea

I've got an idea (and it's only an idea) about creating an effect using Runic letters........hmmmmmm. Watch here for more info to come.

Animentalism

Found a neat little trick in a 1999 issue of The Linking Ring entitled, Animentalism........not to be confused with Danny Archer's "Animental" (completely different effect). I'd been looking for a reason to buy a pack of blank-faced cards.......just the reason I needed! Easy to create and easy to perform. The effect was created by a gentleman from Singapore named Tan Choon Tee. .....could easily get away with just using index cards (if needed).

Flash string

......got some flash string in yesterday.....cool stuff!

Animental

You absolutely MUST see a very easy-to-perform trick put out by Danny Archer entitled "Animental".......very easy to perform.
Go to www.dannyarcher.com

Cheers!