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MagicRyan New user NH 39 Posts |
Here is a challenge...
I have recenly teamed with a local planetarium. I am contracted to perform a Magic of Mars program for Teens... Any suggestions?? Here's what I have come up with.... 1. Using Desert Sands... I can talk about the make up of the different soils... as I mix them into the water and extract them dry and separate. RED SAND -- MARS SAND GREEN SAND -- EARTH SAND YELLOW SAND -- VENUS SAND 2. Using Stratosphere to talk about the orbit of Mars how at times it is closer to the earth ... 3. Mental Epic to create a imaginary trip to Mars... specators choose a name for their ship... (Saturn 3) a job on the ship (first mate) and then use the force card as the warp speed they are travling at. |
Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
If you have a red closeup pad and red sponge balls, you could pretend the mat is a soil sample and the balls are made of dust picked up off the surface.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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MagicRyan New user NH 39 Posts |
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If you have a red closeup pad and red sponge balls, you could pretend the mat is a soil sample and the balls are made of dust picked up off the surface. Nice and simple idea... good call! |
drwilson Inner circle Bar Harbor, ME 2191 Posts |
As we now know from Spirit and Opportunity, there was water on Mars at one time. Where did it go?
So anything that vanishes water mysteriously is a Mars trick. Yours, Paul |
MagicRyan New user NH 39 Posts |
Paul, great suggestion... Maybe something with SLUSH powerder that was created by NASA...
Thanks for the suggestion! |
Caleb Strange Special user Manchester UK 676 Posts |
MagicRyan,
Here are a couple of old space routines of mine - not specifically about Mars, but see what you think. The first is called 'Per ardua ad astra', and might fit the 'probe' theme quite well. (I've told the story without magic to good effect, too.) You might notice (from the date of its posting) that the story was written in response to the Columbia accident: http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewt......forum=14 The second story is a fun bit of Bizarre, called 'Under the Blue Light of the Second Sun': http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewt......forum=14 Hope these help . Caleb Strange. P.S. It strikes me, on reading back 'Per ardua ad astra', that if you told this story with the Planetarium houselights imperceptibly dimming, so that the final section of the routine was performed under an inky sky and a teeming canopy of stars, well it would be a nicely dramatic and thoughtful way to end the story, and maybe your show...
-- QCiC --
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jbohn Regular user Minneapoils, MN 102 Posts |
This thing has all sorts of opportunity written all over it!
What is the gravitational difference between Earth and Mars? Perhaps some sort of levitation effect (floating card, etc.). Jeremiah |
George Ledo Magic Café Columnist SF Bay Area 3042 Posts |
Here's a very rough idea...
Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Phobos was the Greek god of panic (nope, I'm not kidding!) and Deimos was the god of fear. So maybe something with two objects that change places (could be a sucker trick) along with a story of how the moons were discovered?
That's our departed buddy Burt, aka The Great Burtini, doing his famous Cups and Mice routine
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