This Month's Meeting
This month we will feature a general performance meeting. This is a chance to run through something you are working on (and maybe get feedback), show off something you're really proud of, or just have some fun. In any event, everyone is encouraged to perform. Some of the people who have been participating in the “Stars of Magic” Workshops will also perform effects from those sessions.
 
Last Month's Meeting
Glen DeBella started our April performances by showing one Ace of Diamonds and three blank cards, in a Monte type of effect. He put one blank on the table. The Ace of Diamonds was put in the middle othe f remaining packet, then it traveled from the packet to the table. He repeated this a few times, and finally all three cards in his hand turned to Aces of Diamonds. Then he showed a length of white rope and a length of red rope. He tied a knot in the white rope, and the knot jumped to the red rope. He slid the knot off the rope, threw it back on, and could still slide it along the rope. Ricky Smith started out with some pick-pocketing humor. Then he had a card selected, and found it by spelling the vowel thought of by a spectator.. Another card was selected and was found by the Six of Hearts. Theron Schaub took the four Aces from a deck, then had three spectators each take a card. The spectators' cards were scattered in the deck, and the Aces were put partway into the deck. One of the spectators held the ends of the 4four Aces, and the spectators' cards were found sandwiched between the Aces. Then Theron put the four Aces face-up on top of the deck. The Aces turned face down, one at a time, then turned back face up, one a time. Joe Caffall had a spectator arrange strips of digits to form four six-digit numbers. He was able to instantly add the numbers and get the right total in his head before the spectator could do it with a calculator.
 
Doug Eakin took some “fuzzy stuff” from Lauren Emo, a small child spectator, and turned it into a silver dollar. Then he turned the dollar into large penny. Calvin Tong caused three silver dollars to vanish one at a time, then return. Patrick Reed used a spinning disk with a spiral design to create the optical illusion of his head getting larger, then smaller. He held one hand up, made a silver coin appear, then another, and a third. Then they vanished, one at a time. Stan Sieler showed a deck of alphabet cards, and turned some face up and some face down. Then he had spectator decide whether small packets would be turned over or not. He dealt the cards into two piles, had Lauren Emo turn one pile over. When all the face-down cards were eliminated, the remaining cards spelled “Lauren.” Vijay Vijaykumar demonstrated his “latest useless skill” with a deck of cards. He shuffled the deck and had a spectator pick a number. The chosen number was 13. Vijay flicked exactly 13 cards off the top of the tabled deck. He dcid it again with different spectator and a larger number (29). Next, a spectator picked a card from the deck. Vijay flicked cards off top of deck to reveal the chosen card.
 
Will Chandler displayed his wand and borrowed a ring. He threaded the ring onto the rope. He caused the ring to penetrate off the rope. He threaded it on again, and magically removed it again. He tossed the ring onto the middle of the rope while holding both ends. With the ring on the rope, held in his hand, he had a member of the audience tie a knot over hand. The ring flew from the rope to the wand in his other hand. To conclude, he had the ring penetrate the middle of his wand, twice. Scott Emo swallowed a breath mint, choked on it, then used dental floss to slice through his neck and pull out the mint threaded on the floss.