I.B.M. Ring 9

Ring Reports

05/21/01

No. 9, Atlanta, Georgia – Georgia Magic Club

3rd Monday, 7:30 PM, Dunwoody Library, 5339 Chamblee-Dunwoody Road

JOE M. TURNER, President (jmturner@mindspring.com)
RICK SILVERSTEIN, Vice President (rick@mindspring.com)
SCOTT HORN, Secretary (g.scott.9881@worldnet.att.net)

Ring 9 Web Site: http://www.gamagicclub.com

Our May meeting began with a “by members’ request” mini-lecture on basic card technique. Joe M. Turner helped about two dozen early arrivers step through the rudiments of card handling and magical terminology, including: acquiring and holding breaks, controlling a card using the double undercut, false shuffling using a Hindu shuffle, performing Elmsley and Jordan counts, and using the Flushtration display. By the end, everyone was sufficiently equipped with the basics to tackle a large percentage of the card magic in print. Another mini-lecture on basic coin technique was requested.

Following a brief business meeting, the evening’s door prize was awarded. A copy of Colorado-based magician Ken Simmons’ book Banded Deck Effects, donated by the author, was won by Devlon Buckner.

The theme for the May meeting was openers, and was intended to be applicable to any type of performance. King Chapman did his high-energy kids’ show opener, with the production of three boxes of flowers and a large silk streamer from an empty bag, followed by the production of a live rabbit which was then split into two live rabbits. Georgia TVP Dan Garrett performed a different effect than he originally intended, but blew us away by magically moving the hole in a wooden stick through which a chain and key were looped. He followed this with an inexplicable rising card routine. Scott Horn showed us a quick four-ace production that he uses for restaurant work, while Tommy Johns did a highly interactive routine around the Clippo effect. David Oglesby took the theme literally, producing a bottle opener and then an actual Coca-Cola bottle, and Evan Reynolds showed how a spectator not only chose a card matching his prediction, but also chose the only printed card in a deck of blank cards. David Smith mysteriously produced, vanished and reproduced three silver coins, then melded them into a jumbo coin. But the winner of the “best theme magic” vote was Bill Packard, whose fantastic patter and presentation took a simple sign with an arrow printed on both sides and turned it into a funny and memorable opening routine. As always, it's the magician that makes the magic -- not the prop.

In the General Magic segment, Joe M. Turner performed a color-changing silk routine that he often uses as an opener, then moved into a presentation of Eric Henning’s fine trick, “Titanic Monte.” King Chapman returned to the stage with a lively hat tear routine that culminates with the young volunteer receiving a wizard’s cap.

Rick Silver reminds us that the SEAM 2002 convention, which will be hosted by Ring 9, now has a web site -- http://www.seam2002.org -- so keep an eye on that for more information about that convention. As always, visiting magicians have a standing invitation to contact us when you visit Atlanta. Phone us at 404 978 1260 extension 9588 and let us know when you’ll be in town. We’ll do our best to show you some Southern magical hospitality.

Until next month,

Joe M. Turner

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