The Magicanada Project

Michael Kras · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:58 pm Post subject: Eric Mead Lecture Review

Yesterday, I was lucky enough to attend AND get a front row seat at Eric Mead's Toronto lecture. First of all, I was completely starstruck. Not just by Mead, but also by:

Roberto Giobbi
Bob Sheets
Johnny Thompson
Jamy Ian Swiss
Aaron Fisher
Lee Asher
John Carney
Ricky Smith Jr.
Max Maven
Michael Weber
Jason England
Stephen Minch

and so many more. I was literally in a room full of some of today's greatest magicians and mentalists. Anyways, on with the lecture.

The lecture was the best I have seen yet. Eric Mead taught us some ingenious original effects and sleights that, I believe, are currently unpublished. This includes a dead easy and very visual mid-air card production, and a certain "move" done in the context of a card spring. He also taught an ingenious and impromptu Coin Through Drinking Glass that ended totally and completely clean, as well as an extremely convincing false shuffle. Jamy Ian Swiss taught us a very nice effect involving a random card repeatedly finding two selections. Jason England taught us an incredible and ingenious four-ace location. And Michael Weber fooled me BADLY with an incredible effect using a memorized deck. There was so much priceless information, and it was totally humbling to be sitting in a room full of my idols. Overall, I'm so happy I went.

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