Assembly News
Meeting Minutes: July 2009
GENE "PICKS-POCKETS" TURNER MINI-LECTURES!
We had a great turnout for our July meeting by switching to an alternate location at President Shaun Rivera's clubhouse while the Community center was working on installing air conditioning.
Opening up the magic, Kevin "Kevo" Emerson performed an other-worldly card routine utilizing an alien made out of balloons with ray gun that revealed a previously selected card that was simply "stunning"!
Mike Melito performed a Barry Mitchell frog routine that incorporated a fly picture silk that vanished from a larger lily pad picture silk and wound up in a previously shown empty backpack that rested on the frog!
Dale "Huffdaddy" Huffman showed an empty water bottle that he placed into a an aluminum recycling container. He then showed a red silk that vanished from his hands and when he opened the recycling container the bottle revealed the red silk mysteriously inside!
President Shaun Rivera had a card selected and signed before he tore it into four pieces and then restored it back one piece at a time…definitely a piece meal process!
Next, our very own "Dr. Phil"- Phil King came out dispensing advice and suggestions before performing his unique card revelation. He had a card selected, signed, and lost in the deck. He then hole punched and tagged another card and when the spectator pulled on the tag it transformed into his selected card!
For the highlight of the evening, Gene "Picks-Pockets" Turner performed several feats of card effects wherein two helpers who had previously selected cards from other performances land at random called out numbers in a deck of cards! In other words he asked helper 1 to select a number from 20-35 and he said 25. He had helper 2 select a number from 1-10 and he said 7. By sheer miracles, the cards were counted to be at those locations! He also performed his version of the 21 Card trick.
He then gave us a Mini-Lecture on Impromptu Magic by utilizing the principles of magic, always having an out when tricks go south, and doing magic with borrowed items. For instance he found some napkins that he wadded up into balls and used those in place of sponge balls. He then concluded with the 3 Card Monte, even offering suggestions to use water bottle caps to substitute for cards. He then performed his famous spongeball/watch steal routine! A joy to watch and lessons to learn like misdirection and audience management when one watches him work a volunteer who is left clueless to the devastation that will ensue!
Magically Transcribed by Kevin Emerson
