MEETING MINUTES
August 19, 2000
OFFICERS
Eric Wanner, President
Ron E. Seward Jr., Vice-President
Harry Schumann, Treasurer
Ed Rock, Secretary
Anthony White, Sergeant-at-Arms
Day of Magic
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On Saturday, August 19 we held our very first “Day of Magic” at Kim Walkowski’s cabin in Lamb’s Canyon. The day started bright and early with our close-up contest at 8:00. Congratulations to Jim Davis for winning first prize in the contest. |
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Following the close-up contest, we were pleased to have a lecture by
Dan Paulus. Dan’s lecture was excellent.
The best part of listening to Dan lecture is being able to enjoy
his great
sense of humor that has certainly contributed to his success as a
professional magician. Saturdays are generally a busy day for
professionals like Dan, and as such the club would like to officially
thank Dan for taking the afternoon off to support the club.
Following Dan’s lecture, we enjoyed a great lunch. Thanks to Harry
Schumann for preparing the food for the event.
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After lunch, we had several mini-lectures by three of our local members. Eric Wanner discussed invisible thread. Watching Eric perform his version of Lite-Flite certainly qualifies him as an expert with invisible thread. |
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Following Eric, Kim Walkowski shared three of his effects with the club: a jumbo card routine, the “nightmare deck,” and a wallet prediction trick. Dan Paulus concluded our mini-lecture with a discussion on false cuts and shuffles. |
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Our final lecturer was David Regal. It is truly amazing to see how many strong and original effects David has created. David’s magic is extremely diverse. He performed magic with cards, magic with coins, magic with rings, and even some very impressive mentalism effects. |
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It would be impossible in the limited space of this newsletter to adequately explain everything that David did for the group. Many of the effects that David performed for the group are found in his book “Up Close & Personal.” Some of the |
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tricks that David performed and lectured on included: the DeJa Vu, Clearly Impossible, Pasteboard Massacre, There & Back, Heading North, All Strung Out, All’s Fair, Self Evident, Leap of Faith, the World’s Fastest Card Trick, and The Flying Hole. |
Finally, a special thanks to Kim Walkowski for allowing the club to use his cabin for the event.
Many of us have traveled to big, expensive magic conventions
around the country. It was a
rare privilege to be able to gather for an entire day of magic at
such a reasonable price and
within minutes of our homes here in Utah. Those of you who were
unable to attend truly missed
a great, magical opportunity.
Close-Up Contest
Congratulations to Jim Davis for winning first prize in our close-up contest on our August 19 Day of Magic. We had a number of people express interest in the competition, but when Saturday morning arrived, only five people were brave enough to take on the challenge: Mel Ota, Jim Davis, Eric Wanner, Paul Vigil, & Brad Gordon.
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In keeping with his cowboy style, Jim Davis performed a wonderfully original version of the cups & balls, which uses leather cups and bullets. That’s right, bullets! I think the judges may have been a bit concerned about what might happen to them if Jim didn’t get first place. |
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Mel Ota won second place with a money magic routine. Paul Vigil
took third place,
performing Aldo Columbini’s “Seventh Floor,” a very
technically challenging effect.
Both Eric Wanner and Brad Gordon performed some excellent card
magic. The
scores were close, but only three winners could be selected.
A special thanks to Harry Schumann, Dan Paulus, and David Regal
for being the
contest judges. And a very special thanks to all of the
contestants for being brave
enough to perform for such an intimidating panel of judges.
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