Have you ever stopped and asked yourself why you’re a magician? What is it about magic that makes you want to and gives you the confidence to perform? Why not be a juggler or a straight forward stand up comedian? (Okay I understand why you don’t want to be a juggler.) The reason you do it now might not be the same as the reason you started in the first place and might suprise you. I started because I needed a job when I was an out of work actor and even then it was selling magic not performing it. Back then I was driven by a need to make a living and although this outside force still exists it isn’t my driving force anymore. Read more »
Complete Failure and Incomplete Success
I have a lot on my mind at the moment. I’ve got a lot of things that need to be done and I’m not doing them. I should have written a post 2 weeks ago but other things got in the way and I began to feel myself slipping backwards. So I’m going to try and remedy this by posting about procrastination and the art of the incomplete project. Read more »
Cabaret or not?
Most close-up magicians will say that they do a cabaret, however most of them don’t. What they do is Close-up magic and they stand further away. It’s a bad habit formed from magicians usually being given the job of compere and then later on trying to tie that same material into an act. A good cabaret needs structure and it can’t be a hotch-potch of tricks thrown together. It needs a beginning a middle and an end. Structure is what makes the difference between a poor cabaret with strong magic and a great cabaret with standard effects. The structure is more important than the magic. Read more »
Planning Ahead & Thinking Aloud
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I’m not one for New Years resolutions but I do believe in planning ahead. It also seems that change is taking place in the magic business whether I plan for it or not. So I really have been thinking long and hard about what the next 12 months will mean to me. Starting with the big one – my job. Read more »
Sister Snog
Sister Snog is a club for smart, savvy business women. This year they held their “Diamonds & Pearls”, Christmas lunch at Vanilla and asked me to go along to perform close-up magic. What a great way to start December 2009. Here are a few photos of the event taken by the hugely talented Lucy Williams . What more can I say. Thank you ladies for a fantastic gig!
The Amazing Annie & Hela from Sister Snog
