It's been an exciting few weeks. Kat and I won the OMC magic competition and another talent competition.
We also had another Hollywood performance.
To top it off I landed a magic consulting gig on NBC's new television show Trauma.
As a professional magician I've entertained at over 2500 events over the last 10 years and have learned quite a bit. Here are some event planning hint to help you plan a smooth party.
It's been an exciting few weeks. Kat and I won the OMC magic competition and another talent competition.
The past few weeks have been hectic! Between magic lectures, creating new material, I also had to research for the upcoming tradeshow for VMware and its virtualization products. For this tradeshow, I also had to customize and script the magic I did to match the company message. I became the company's tradeshow magician, spokesman and infotainer. The scripting and research took over 12 hours for this particular tradeshow. In fact the messaging was so precise, many of the attendees thought I worked for the company. There were empty trade-show booths around us, but with tricks up my sleeves we generated massive crowds and even some media attention. The tradeshow was so successful the company asked me to do another upcoming tradeshow in October. On top of that I had the Oakland Magic Circle magic competition to prepare for. Kat and I ended up winning the title of Bay Area's best magician.
I've always wanted to give my children the best in life. The things I never had as a child. The things I never was able to do. I think that's what every parent wants. This week I did exactly that. I took James motor-boating, sailing and kayaking.
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Compared to July 2008, I've actually made approximately 3 times this month than I did last year the same month! As an entertainer, I've perform over 2500 shows over the last 10 years and 31 shows this month. Not only have I been hired as a entertainer, I've been retained by several companies to help them market and position themselves better. Whether it's consulting your small business, executives or other entertainers. I guarantee I can help you, otherwise I won't accept you as a client.
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Being a part of the unique community and subculture of jugglers I got to experience something special today. I had the opportunity to attend the first annual Santa Cruz juggling festival. I taught an intermediate four and five ball site-swap workshop. Many familiar faces and friends were there. In attendance were, Chris Garcia, Matt & Lisa Hall, Noah. While I was there a Fox affiliate in Monterey County asked me for a short on camera interview. Afterwards we headed over to Renegade juggling store. It's actually more of a warehouse / manufacturing facility. At their facility the manufacture all sorts of things from clown noses, rings, clubs, and diabolos.
My job as a magician is to distort the way people perceive things and present it as art. Inversions do the same thing. An inversion is a word or a name written so it reads more than one way. I initially discovered inversions from reading the Vernon Touch during my trip to Malaysia. I was excited about it and wanted to show Kat the concept. Coincidentally, Kat discovered them for herself at the same time while I was away. To check out more facinating inversions check out Scott Kim's site.
Between birthday parties, Boy Scouts Magic Month and Chinese New Year's celebrations, it's been a busy season. Due to the slowing economy the majority of bookings were referrals and repeat bookings. It was quite challenging trying to out do ourselves from previous years. I had to come up with new tricks to impress the same crowd. It was especially hard because the audience size was 500-1000 people in 3 of these celebrations. We had to do things that played bigger! Perhaps next year we'll have to do a few full sized illusions. Wish I had pictures of the crowds at these events. We did 2 shows at Washington High School with the bleachers completely packed out with people spilling out onto the gymnasium floor. For added flair, we added fire juggling and costume changes to really make it a visual show. I've got several more scouting events and Chinese New Years events still coming up and hope to post photos of those events.