Just saw this new follow-spot chair from TAF – Truss Aluminum Factory. REALLY COOL!!! I want it!
(They did all the trussing for our show btw… Excellent stuff!)
Don’t know how I missed this… As far as I know it hasn’t been officially released yet. An all-star cast with Woody Harrelson, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo and Isla Fisher.
If you look carefully, you can see that they used some of Jon Racherbaumer’s library as background props.
Looks good!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE5XcjTpsdo
A very Happy New Year to everyone for 2013. It has been our honor to entertain you this past year. Our best to you and your family and may all your dreams come true.
The Christmas season is amongst us already. Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all of our friends, family, clients, vendors and colleagues all over the world. Please enjoy our 2012 Christmas card below.
An inspiring story of Olawetu Dyantyi from Cape Town, South Africa. Nice contrast to some of petty bickering we see many times in our spoiled magic community.
See the full story here.
I finally have found some time to post these pics of my previous trip to Owen Magic Supreme in Azusa, California. Alan Zagorsky and Gertrude Smith are always great hosts. And Alan is one of the most under-rated magic illusion designers in the business with a vast research library. (As well as his vast decades of experience!)
I still feel Owen Magic is still the most solid builder in the business, and their illusions will perform & last solid over time.
And don’t judge their illusions just by what is in their generic catalog. Their creative designs are awesome too, but Alan keeps them off the website and out of the paper catalog for a reason! (I should say their smaller & medium-size magic apparatus is awesome too – of which I own several pieces…)
A lot of my friends and staff think I have an obsession with “trying” to be organized, but never really am totally.
(It is no big secret too that I am a big believer in David Allen’s GTD philosophy, which keeps me on track…)
The pics that follow are a “case” in point… (Pun intended!)
This case is the replacement for an ATA case that went missing at a theatre where we where performing. I was so happy when these new one arrived from the case company! It is where all the various items are kept for my dove act (silk scarves, gimmicks, etc.), along with my other overall show emergency/preparation items (rubber bands, paperclips, glues, small tools and so on…). All organized by drawer and section.
A little obsessive YES, but it keeps me with a system backstage and I’m also easier to deal with for my staff. Just thought I would share…
Just a quick courtesy note to all our readers out there – we have finally added back in a decent commenting system to the blog! YIPPEE!!!
Ever since I tried some creative programming a couple of years ago with this WordPress theme and lost our blog’s ability to view comments, we have had to do without! (You could leave one, just no one could see it!)
So we found a third-party solution to solve the problem. We joined the bandwagon and are using the external plugin associated with the excellent Disqus Comment System.
So have fun and comment away! 🙂
I know a lot of you have been following this story and we are probably reporting it later than most news & blog outlets.
But because of my previous post about it and my personal lifelong connection to him and his company, I thought it worthy to mention it. (and for my readers and followers, as well)
There was a lot of anticipation and gossip in the magic community on what his sentence would be. In the end, he was given two years of imprisonment, two years additional probation and must make full restitution of the $560,000 he stole from the credit card of the victim Richard Garriott over a period of years.
His attorneys tried to argue for a much lighter sentence, in which effort they were unsuccessful.
Hank Lee (Harry Levy) is only 61 years old and still young enough to move on with his life when all this is over. Hopefully he realizes the mistake he made and the humility he has caused himself and his family. Hank Lee’s magic Factory remains open and I know he still has at least some loyal customers.
I will always try and remember the good side of Hank, and still have found memories as I go through some of his old paper catalogs in my collection. Good wishes and God bless his family too, as they try and deal with all this and put together the pieces of their lives.
This story regarding the sentencing of Harry Levy originally broke in the Medford Patch on September 6, 2012.