Patrick Rhone.
This is actually a quote from a non-magic book, but I think it’s easy to see how it can apply to approaching the craft as a whole. So often there are news products coming out that boast unnecessary conditions and features, but when it comes to real, in-the-trenches working situations, it’s all about using the right ‘tool’ at just the right moment to create the perfect miracle. And, as the quote points out, sometimes it’s the most basic of things that gets the job done.
You can tell just from looking at his eyes that he loves what he does more than anything else, even to this very day. It’s no wonder he’s so incredible at what he does — thanks for the inspiration, Dave!
Jeremy & Co. do it again.
Michael Ammar meets Ammar Facts
Q: What’s creepier than Doug Henning?
A: Criss Angel as Doug Henning.
Rather than reply with an off-handed remark about my friend’s loyalties lying in the wrong places, I thought for a moment about what this implied and came to the conclusion that this blog is, to put it bluntly, not focused enough in its theme to really warrant any importance on its own. So with that in mind, I thought it over and have decided to assign the roles of my respective social networks as such:
“Back in March I shot my last special (Chewed up) in Boston. The weekend before, I spent in California, working the set out for the last time at the Hermosa Beach Comedy and Magic Club. It happens to be really the perfect place to run an hour before you shoot it on tape. I was there for two nights and I saw on the schedule that the very next night, and for the following entire week, George would be there doing the same thing for his special. He shot his special (It’s Bad for ya) on the very same night that I was shooting mine. March 1st, 2008. We were on stage, shooting our specials that we had worked on all year in the same way, all the way down to working on it in the same last stage, at the very same moment.
I don’t think that makes me special. But I knew it was going on and I thought about it the very second before I walked out on that stage to do that special. In my mind I thanked George for showing me the way and giving me the courage to say what I wanted on stage and to keep getting better and doing more. And I remember thinking that I was honored to shoot mine on his night. And that even though I never got to know him and I’ll never know if he ever maybe caught me on TV and if I ever made him smirk or laugh. But even from a distance it was, and is, an honor to know that I run in the same circle and do the same thing as that great man did. I am intensely sad that he is gone. I owe him a huge debt for the rest of my life. Thanks George. And goodbye.”
(Source: louisck.net)
“Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea forever.”
- Will Self
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you — Eric Mead.
Ain’t life grand?
After searching high and low for a quick-writing pen that wouldn’t smudge on my Moleskine notebook, I eventually stumbled on the Staedtler triplus fineliner Dry Safe and it’s been smooth sailing ever since. Just S$1.35, too. Love it.
Not one new release, not two, but SEVEN. One for every day of the week. As if Smoke & Mirrors and If an Octopus could Palm weren’t already awesome enough, there’s five other as-of-yet unannounced products that’ll be released from Friday until next Thursday. I don’t know what you’ll be doing then, but I know where I’ll be: refreshing this page after getting out of bed every morning.
The great Dave Williamson. Talk about organic.
