Naquada

It’s physically impossible to attend ALL of the Blackpool convention, firstly because a number of lectures and performances overlap. The second reason is that you’re just too tired and knackered to do everything.

So here’s the best of the rest of show that I missed, or slept through:

Richard Sanders did a number of his visual rope effects along with a very clean and cleaver self working card revelation.

Kostya Kimlat performed a number of card effects and ran through his roadrunner cull.

Andi Gladwin apparently did a miniature deck routine that fooled Matt Parro

J.J Savert did some nice money routines, including silver from bill, pen through bill, bill to Babybel, and finally a bill switch that consisted of 1 £20 note, to £10 notes. Invisible aces to royal flush, signed card to aces and Cannibal cards.

J.C. Wagner did a card printing routine, apparently again according to Matt Parro’s blog it was “very dreary and although I probably would have enjoyed his routines, I could not pay attention for longer that the first 3 minutes.”

Lior Manor’s lecture started with his demonstrations with his computer software, including Knights Tour and Celebrity Prediction. Moving onto his very good ‘Touches’ routine.

The children’s Entertainer World Championship was apparently “average at best”, the favorite, John Kimmons went on to win the title.

Michael Close did two tricks in his lecture, Red Blue Mamma Fooler and his Torn and Restored Card, The second half was jokes and stories and from his new joke book, which according to Rich Morrell was “exactly the laugh I needed after seeing magic all weekend”

Rich also has a great write up of the Close-Up Session:

“Shoot Ogawa was spectacular as ever with coins, thimbles, flip-stick and Ninja Rings. Helder Guimaraes the current FISM card champion showed us a similar routine to that which he did at FISM a Travellers routine with four signed cards that travelled to his pockets, the deck turned blank, and the signed cards too, and then one was found in an envelope on the table, and the entire deck became printed again. Michael Close showed his impossible Salt Shaker, Card, Forehead routine. Finally Richard Sanders showed Interlace, Extreme Burn, Dough, Alpha Deck and Fibre Optics. His Extreme Burn really does look like trick photography“

Sorry to everyone I missed at the convention.. Dr Todd, Edd Withers, Erlandish to name a few… and it was great to finally meet up with Richard Morrell, really nice bloke and hopefully will be doing a guest spot on the upcoming Fismblog!!!

The Dealers, who I didn’t miss, were numerous in number.. two halls FULL of things to buy, here you can see just one of the halls, full to capacity, with dealers on the lower and upper levels, hall two was about the same size, again packed full of stuff to buy. Dealers from round the world were here, and if you ever wanted to loose large amounts of cash on props, DVD’s or other must haves, then this was the place to do it!!

I didn’t see everything being demo’ed or sold. but highlights for me were Big Blind Media, their tour bus trip up to the convention, and our mind reading abilities on Dave Forrest telling him about the trip up and the previous days events… thanks Liam!!.. Alakazam’s Real Ghost, Mark Mason’s Come Fly with me (from the Friday morning trip to JBMagic), seeing Bob Swadling again and having a long chat with him about years gone by.. Catching up with Magic Box, and Kernow Magic (and being quite touched that Angie and Kenny remembered me!!)

For anyone with photos from the convention, please get them onto the Blackpool Magic Convention 2008 group on Flickr, we’re sadly lacking in members and photos on there currently!!! (it’s free!!!)

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