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This weekend my friend and I went to the town's scarecrow festival and video taped footage of street magic for YouTube. I was doing this to get exposure as well as using the footage for promo videos that I'm making. Also in the process I wanted to see how I manage crowds and perform tricks. All I had on me were a deck of cards, rubberbands and paperclips, a fraud dollar bill, an omni deck, and my phone. I also wore Dresscode. I also brought along a couple of business cards for anybody actually interested in wanting me for a show. It was an interesting day considering it was 40 degrees and my hands were cold the whole time.
Overall the day was pretty good. I started off the day with showing my friends an ambitious card routine to get me in the flow of doing magic. In the process actually, workers from the PNC Bank booth watched me performed and asked for my business card. It also got a lot people crowding around wondering why a kid with a deck of cards was being recorded by a $5000 camera. The way I went up to people was I said that I was a magician and that I was creating a street magic video for YouTube and I just wanted to show them some tricks. As the day went on I was in a really great mood, getting way to over confident, when something bad happened. I was performing for these group of teens and I showed them a simple color change. They were going off the walls in amazement. That's when I thought it would be a good time to go and do dresscode. After I turned around to show my shirt changed into the soda they thought of, I got silence. They were more confused then amazed at what actually happened. It was only when I showed that there was no other shirt under the new shirt that they reacted. Then I proceeded to show them Transport by Calen Morelli where the rubberband on their phone vanishes and appears on my phone. When I was wrapping around the band, my fingers were so cold that the phone slipped, bounced on my shoe and the battery flew out of the phone. I was very embarrassed by this so I just picked up the phone, put it back together, check to make sure it was working and apologized. After I apologized I told them thank you for letting me perform for them and left.
Other than that little mishap where those group of teens, all the other performances went pretty well and I even got some tips. I performed 2-3 tricks to each group and throughout the performance my friend was video taping it. I usually did a either a ACR or card transposition, then stairway, followed by either a card or money trick. Usually the performances where I ended with stairway, the audience member let me keep the bill which was nice. Overall I think this was great learning experience for me and it was great way to perform to new people. It had been a long time since I was performing to people other than mom so it was nice to see new faces.
This weekend my friend and I went to the town's scarecrow festival and video taped footage of street magic for YouTube. I was doing this to get exposure as well as using the footage for promo videos that I'm making. Also in the process I wanted to see how I manage crowds and perform tricks. All I had on me were a deck of cards, rubberbands and paperclips, a fraud dollar bill, an omni deck, and my phone. I also wore Dresscode. I also brought along a couple of business cards for anybody actually interested in wanting me for a show. It was an interesting day considering it was 40 degrees and my hands were cold the whole time.
Overall the day was pretty good. I started off the day with showing my friends an ambitious card routine to get me in the flow of doing magic. In the process actually, workers from the PNC Bank booth watched me performed and asked for my business card. It also got a lot people crowding around wondering why a kid with a deck of cards was being recorded by a $5000 camera. The way I went up to people was I said that I was a magician and that I was creating a street magic video for YouTube and I just wanted to show them some tricks. As the day went on I was in a really great mood, getting way to over confident, when something bad happened. I was performing for these group of teens and I showed them a simple color change. They were going off the walls in amazement. That's when I thought it would be a good time to go and do dresscode. After I turned around to show my shirt changed into the soda they thought of, I got silence. They were more confused then amazed at what actually happened. It was only when I showed that there was no other shirt under the new shirt that they reacted. Then I proceeded to show them Transport by Calen Morelli where the rubberband on their phone vanishes and appears on my phone. When I was wrapping around the band, my fingers were so cold that the phone slipped, bounced on my shoe and the battery flew out of the phone. I was very embarrassed by this so I just picked up the phone, put it back together, check to make sure it was working and apologized. After I apologized I told them thank you for letting me perform for them and left.
Other than that little mishap where those group of teens, all the other performances went pretty well and I even got some tips. I performed 2-3 tricks to each group and throughout the performance my friend was video taping it. I usually did a either a ACR or card transposition, then stairway, followed by either a card or money trick. Usually the performances where I ended with stairway, the audience member let me keep the bill which was nice. Overall I think this was great learning experience for me and it was great way to perform to new people. It had been a long time since I was performing to people other than mom so it was nice to see new faces.
