Pike Place Market Busker Festival Video Clip

Performing: 3 Fly, Mental Photography Deck & the Linking Rings

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Hi Tom
Great clip, very entertaining.
I have a suggestion, when you where a hat, tip it right back on your head to show your face and eyes, stage or street. If you don’t a dark shadow will be cast across your eyes which can be as bad as wearing sun glasses in a show.
Tack it or leave it.
Mario

Mario, Good Suggestion, thanks.

TF

Tom,

You are the man.

That is a great clip brother, the years come shining through in the polish.

Thanks for sharing it.

Best,

Dan-

Very clear, very well done.

Tom-
That looks great. I am putting together a video now from a combination of photos and videos from the past 4-5 years. Your videos inspired me to get motivated and put it together. Great stuff Tom!
Jim

Hey, Tom, is that your ring routine? Nice.

Jim

Tom-

Thanks for sharing-That was great to watch-very entertaining & a great pitch at the end

Look like you were having fun !!!

Good ol ring routine ay!!!!!-Can perform it anywhere

Hope you earned well that day!!-You might need a bigger Hat!!

All the best

-Brent

Thanks for all the compliments gang! Nice to hear. Yes that's the Jack Miller Linking Ring Routine w/ Poetic Patter that I released on DVD as an Instructional. I still have some left for $25 + $4.50 S&H. The day was good banged out a couple hundred bucks in an hour and a half.

TF

Great work Tom. Great work!

Enchanting!

/Ark

I bought Tom's DVD. It's really nice and a wonderful routine. I don't actually perform his routine because, well, I'm not Tom. I intend to give it more thought one day though. I'm sort of cruising, thinking about different poems that I might bend to my will as Tom did The Raven.

What a great choice in a poem though.

I've never been much for the linking rings... but that was a really fun routine! (Makes sense since I HAVE always been a fan of "The Raven")

Cheers,
-Matt (TK)

For the record I took Jack MIller's Routine AND HIS Poetry and made it my own. Nobody's stepping on my feet by doing it as well. I think it's one hell of a routine. I just wish I could do it justice.

Tom -

Sweet! I'd definitely stop, watch and tip even if I weren't a magician!

Tom,

As I watched the ring routine I kept saying to myself, "There needs to be something different in his voice." Perhaps a change in quality or tone, not sure. Seemed that the mood and style of the poetry called for some kind of a vocal change to match the (very) well done routine. I know that being on the street you have to be heard, so your choices are limited as far as that goes.

There was nothing 'wrong' - I never sensed something I would call a problem, far from it - as I said in an earlier post, it was clean and clear magic. I especially liked the slight change to suit the environment: "While you sit, relaxed and tipping."

My above comment was just something that came into my head as I was watching the rings. Also liked the way you got people on your side as you prepared for the hat.

My 2 cents.

You should see the way that he does it on his DVD. He does a voice-over with a booming God-like voice. It's really well done.

I do my rings silently to music. If I were to give advice it would be to use a boom box and do the routine as he does it on his DVD.

I have the DVD, and love the routine. Great stuff!

The joys of performing Live outdoors!!

I have not done this for a year or so now due to many theatre shows etc

Tom-Having seen your clip-Makes me want to create an act to perform outdoors at festivals /markets etc again-The rush you get from having the audience so close & having a good time is an experience in itself!!

Were you only performing 3-4 effects at a time for 10 mins then waiting for a new crowd etc-seemed to work well what we saw!

Great balancing on the stool by the way!!- well done!!