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Anatole Inner circle 1912 Posts |
I just uploaded a video of my "Enchanted Walkingstick" dancing cane routine to facebook on the
IBM Ring 103 Norfolk facebook page. If you have a facebook account, I invite you to take a look. It is a nearly seven minute clip of the cane and a few other effects, so it may take a while for the video to buffer completely. The short act is a magical interpretation of me lip-synching to Joel Grey singing the song "Willkommen" from "Cabaret" That act was something I originally put together for an evening banquet of high school foreign language students (French, Spanish, German and Latin students). The effects in the video include the "Enchanted Walkingstick Routine" that was published in the June 2012 issue of _Linking Ring_, a Cabaret-esque variation of my "Mental Flip Flop" effect from the same issue, my "Third Millennium Silks" routine from the June 1990 issue of _GENII_, and my take on the "Floating Cane and Top Hat" on page 72 of _Marconick's Original Magic_ as the finale. For the record, the dancing cane routine on the videoclip is not based at all on anything from Lewis Ganson's books on the dancing cane. It is the routine that John Bowlin commented on back in 2006 on The Magic Café http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewt......start=60 that he saw at my lecture at Denny and Lee Magic in Maryland where he commented: "I was just at a lecture recently at Denny and Lee's and the performer had one of the best dancing cane routines I have ever seen. He kept it short..never let the cane fly too long and had it choreographed so that no one..and I mean no one could tell the hands had anything to do with it. Denny told me this guy had an amazing cane routine and he did.." My routine cannot be done at all with the traditional dancing cane as used by Ganson, Copperfield, David Mann and others. A Fantasio vanishing cane can however be modified to perform the routine and is what I use in the videoclip on facebook. The first time Denny Haney saw the routine he said his eyes popped out of his head. Unfortunately the video that I posted on facebook is too long to be included here as an attachment, which is why I posted it on facebook instead. I once presented the routine in an afternoon lecture at a one-day magic convention in front of a light blue backdrop under full light--including available window sunlight--and the t----d could not be seen even under those conditions. At the end of the video on the facebook page that I mentioned above is a short clip of some card manipulations including a finale ending of the self-opening card castle designed by, I think, Toshio Akunama for Tricks Ltd. I modified the look of the Akunama trick by gluing a copy of _The Washington Post_ to the front of it. In my routine I produce fans of cards and toss them into the newspaper, which is sitting on a simple stand, and then the newspaper is opened to show the card castle. You'll also see my routine of an interlocked ball production with four solid, different colored balls that was also published in the June issue of _Linking Ring_. It is a variation of a multiplying golf ball routine that I had published in the April 1990 issue of _GENII_. ----- Amado "Sonny" Narvaez P.S. The music box at the beginning of the clip with the bear magician and the rabbit-in-top hat is something I found years ago at a Best Products store. I have no idea if it is still available anywhere, but it's a great item for your magic room. I modified the video sequence of the music box so that it plays a music box version of "That's Entertainment." P.P.S. If you are familiar with the song "That's Entertainment" by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz, I wrote this supplementary lyric with a magic theme: A trick--where the hand is more quick Than the eyes--is a pleasant surprise And you say As you go on your way... "That's Entertainment!"
----- Sonny Narvaez
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Brad Jeffers Veteran user 377 Posts |
Nice work Sonny! I especially liked the interlocked ball production. You don't need a Facebook account to view these films. Just click HERE
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Anatole Inner circle 1912 Posts |
That is great, Brad!
Is there a facebook page somewhere with how-to/step-by-step instructions to do that? I have no idea how you generated the URL. ----- Sonny
----- Sonny Narvaez
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