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Bryan Gilles Inner circle Northern California 1732 Posts |
Hey guys & gals,
I'm currently writing a new show for my kid shows such as birthday parties, reward assemblies, classrooms, etc. Anyway, I'd like to do a blendo routine with my change bag but am at a loss. I've read a lot on here about the various routines and was doing the TIDE silk for a while but would like something a little longer (maybe 3-5 mins in length) with audience participation. I'd really like to do a strong comedy performance with it as well! Can anyone recommend a good book, video, or routine that may fit what I am looking for? -Bryan Gilles |
Spellbinder Inner circle The Holy City of East Orange, NJ 6438 Posts |
Instead of doing a Blendo WITH a Change Bag, consider using (or making) a Blendo Bag. For routine ideas, look at:
Barry Mitchell's "Bling My Bunny" http://www.barrymitchell.com/products/in......07091402 The main concept is that you can blend other objects (besides silks) into the final art Silk of your choice.
Professor Spellbinder
Professor Emeritus at the Turkey Buzzard Academy of Magik, Witchcraft and Wizardry http://www.magicnook.com Publisher of The Wizards' Journals |
Bob Sanders Grammar Supervisor Magic Valley Ranch, Clanton, Alabama 20504 Posts |
The best "mass produced" blendos I have ever owned were from Ted Suds. (Unfortunately, he did not use silk.) The load is well-centered and the weight well distributed to work.
Bob Sanders Magic By Sander |
Harry Murphy Inner circle Maryland 5444 Posts |
Throw the Change Bag away!
If you are trying to lengthening your Blendo routine, you might simply use the silks that will be blended together in a trick or two first. The comedy comes from you. Here are a couple of ideas: Perhaps you could magically produce a silk handkerchief, try to knot it and fail, then have the knot magically appear and have to manually unknot it yourself. Then from that silk handkerchief (maybe from its center) you produce several more silk handkerchiefs (maybe 8 or ten of different colors) laying them on your table as they are produced. Perhaps you take two of the silk handkerchiefs and perform a short version of the Unknotting silks (Slidini silks or Edwards self-unknotting hanks, or General Grants self-unknotting hanks) which gives you the audience participation. Finally pick up one or two more silks and finish with the Blendo. This will run between five and eight minutes. Or you can magically produce a silk handkerchief, immediately perform a color change, do a cod exposure (pull a duplicate of the first hank from your pocket) and do yet another color change ending with two of the same color silk handkerchiefs in your hand again producing the two different colored hanks from the pocket. Perhaps using a kid from the audience do the 20th Century Silks routine apparently using three of the silks you just produced in the color change sequence. End using the three silks from the 20th Century Silks to a Blendo. It runs about 5 minutes (a bit more if you stretch out the 20th C. part). I could go on an on giving you maybe a dozen different routines using a few silks, some audience participation, and ending with a Blendo but this should get you thinking and brainstorming. By the way, I have a Magic Hands “Target” pattern Blendo that I have never used. In fact, I have a Rice “American Flag” Blendo that I used in school shows for years, which I packed away. Frankly, I never liked the double cloth, rigid opening, and pain in the butt to fold versions. There were just so many single silk versions in the literature (Rice). I use the kids sock, easy to fold, and easier to perform version that is taught by Duane Laflin on one of his DVD (Silken Sequences and Steals). You can use any single 36 inch or larger as the final Blendo. I have every one of Rice’s Art silks and depending on the venue will use one of them as my final Blendo production. Turning a short length of stretch tube inside out is all I have to do to make it work!
The artist formally known as Mumblepeas!
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eb02 Special user 680 Posts |
I agree with Harry, use a Blendo with out change bag.
It's look much more nicer and profesional. Eran
Eran Blizovsky
www.magic4business.net |
Bob Sanders Grammar Supervisor Magic Valley Ranch, Clanton, Alabama 20504 Posts |
Eran,
"Professional Comedian” (or “Professional Magician”) is about as redundant as "Criminal Lawyer". Dignity and the maintenance of it would be an obvious sign of failure. Actually, I'm just giving you a hard time. I enjoy laughing when "magicians" use the term "more professional" to really mean "using another mechanical method requiring a different step". (Then we pray that somebody somewhere can’t do the step and therefore, recognizes us as “professional”. Would you be happier with a dentist that could skillfully and “professionally” remove your wisdom teeth with chemistry and a screwdriver in the dark? Are those your initials?) What we won't do for entertainment! Enjoy! Bob Sanders Magic By Sander PS --- Harry, I like the approach. |
eb02 Special user 680 Posts |
Dear Bob
I will try to explain myself. In a magician perspective, if you see two magicians doing this effect and one will use a change bag and the other will use slight of hands you will say the second is more professional. In the audience perspective, whoever did the effect and convince the audience that he blend the silks will be better. But I think the audiences are not stupid, why do you need to use a bag…if you are a magician blend the silk without it. I will go with the Blendo without any additional accessories. Eran PS – I have a Blendo set for sale on the "let do business" section…
Eran Blizovsky
www.magic4business.net |
magicians Inner circle Teacher and Legend 2898 Posts |
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But I think the audiences are not stupid, why do you need to use a bag…if you are a magician blend the silk without it. That's like saying if you are a magician, change the lady into a tiger without the box. Props in the right hands are miracles, and I get an awful lot out of my change bag. But, you have to use it right. I change rope, silks, cards and more, and there is nothing about it that says the spectator is stupid. The prop is a prop, so I say "here's a very suspicious looking bag". It gets a laugh, but I have the spectator place a rope in the bag and I tell them not to let go. I do the switch, and the rope now has two knots and is in three pieces. The spectator is asked "did you ever let go of the ropes at any time?" and the spectator always answers "no". Here is a clip of my change bag routine. http://www.magicvideodepot.com/main/memb......routine/ I do 10 minutes in my lecture on the use of the change bag. If you do my method using silks, you will have an amazing blendo effect.
Illusionist, Illusionist consulting, product development, stage consultant, seasoned performer for over 35 years. Specializing in original effects. Highly opinionated, usually correct, and not afraid of jealous critics. I've been a puppet, a pirate, a pawn and a King. Free lance gynecologist.
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chmara Inner circle Tucson, AZ 1911 Posts |
Bob -- DIGNITY -- in a magician??? LOL.
Back to the subject at hand -- I have found that the P&A internal bag blendos, while difficult to set up unless you are used to being neat and being time consuming for me to fold -- have a real magic quality to them I find lacking in many other routines. They change in mid-flap with a mere blink of the eye and flip of the wrist. The use of additional props such as a change bag often leads to poor thinking about a routine as a whole because it is the easiest method of changing. Having said that though --- I have not found a better way to blend a mismade flag than by using a change bag. The dropped silk actually helps include the bag in the routine......and since I use multiple mismades in the P&A BIG (48 or 60" style) the change bag is voluminous. Then, having said that -- I have considered - before my illness -- working a way to tie both the change bang routine and the internal bag method together. But - I never got the parts together when Peter stopped making the big sets. Waiting for him to make a custom often turns into a funeral watch (your own) because he stays very busy. Billy McComb once said to me that a rework of his personal umbrella trick was sent to Peter several years before we spoke -- and he expected delivery to at his funeral. Since I did not get to Billy's funeral -- I do not know if the delivery was made.
Gregg (C. H. Mara) Chmara
Commercial Operations, LLC Tucson, AZ C. H. Mara Illusion & Psychic Entertainments |
ChrisG Elite user Batavia, Ohio 448 Posts |
I use the Splendo from Duane Laflin. He credits Warren Stephens for its creation. I use the routine that comes with it by Duane. It always gets a great response.
I explain that this is one of the first tricks I ever learned. Then tie three silks together and place them in a tube about 12" long leaving one of the silks sticking out. Each time you place it behind your back the silk jumps from one end to the other. This is done until the audience can't stand it any longer. (Lots of laughter, working the audience being obvious in what you are doing, long looks and hands on the hips, all the normal stuff) Then remove the blended silk with more byplay making the silk on the bottom jump to the top again until they think you lost it. With no more thoughts of the black tube you make the reveal. I use this every show. I love it because I get immediate feed back and lots of participation.
"Consensus is the negation of Leadership"
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magicians Inner circle Teacher and Legend 2898 Posts |
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On 2008-03-14 15:45, chmara wrote: I have seen a routine using a tube within a rigid card stock tube. Magic hands used to sell a nice prop like that. I forget the name of it, but basically you show a rolled up tube, open it, close it again and stuff the red, white in it and drop the blue. Pull the flag out the other end and show the mismade, etc etc. You show the rolled tube empty each time. ....I found it called the Massal Production--scroll down this page http://www.shaunyee.com/english%20silk_m......m#massal production
Illusionist, Illusionist consulting, product development, stage consultant, seasoned performer for over 35 years. Specializing in original effects. Highly opinionated, usually correct, and not afraid of jealous critics. I've been a puppet, a pirate, a pawn and a King. Free lance gynecologist.
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Harry Murphy Inner circle Maryland 5444 Posts |
Man that takes me back! I still have the old Magic Hands version in a box somewhere! I also have a version (exact same thing) that used to be sold by Pavel (and maybe he still sells it). Now I'll have to start digging through boxes again! I liked this method and don't remember what I stopped using it!
The artist formally known as Mumblepeas!
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James Adamson Special user Deatsville - Holtville - Slapout, AL 945 Posts |
Jeff McBride appears to be using the same thing in his Stage Magic videos. He shows the method on the video.
Be remembered for performing what looks like MAGIC, not skill.
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chmara Inner circle Tucson, AZ 1911 Posts |
I also have (2 copies) of Zebra Tubes - and know the version by Jeff works well IF you can find suitable paper. But I have not found it to be great for switches......
Gregg (C. H. Mara) Chmara
Commercial Operations, LLC Tucson, AZ C. H. Mara Illusion & Psychic Entertainments |
hugmagic Inner circle 7655 Posts |
The old Al Baker dye tubes still work great and are available still from Rices Silks.
Richard
Richard E. Hughes, Hughes Magic Inc., 352 N. Prospect St., Ravenna, OH 44266 (330)296-4023
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