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16 hours ago by leodini

When something is floating, the first thing that comes to the mind of the lay people is “string”. In my experience, a performance of the Zombie Ball would sometimes invite children and adults to comment, “It’s on a string!” Every time I hear this comment, I let go of all my inhibitions, comfortable ...

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6 days ago by leodini

This is to continue my thesis on the subject… Movement - This is the way a performer conducts himself in front of his audience. As a general rule, a magician must aspire to natural movements. Magic is not really about speed, where the hands try to outstrip the eye. Rather it is about naturalness. Na ...

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7 days ago by leodini

George Mamonluk first broke the sad news to President Cris Castro last Friday. In turn, I received the news from Cris at around 11 PM of that day, while I was watching the progress of the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament. IMC Treasurer Eddie Ching died in the early morning of June 26, 2009. The following ...

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11 days ago by leodini

After I wrote On Building Routines, Ernest of The Story Circle dropped me a line on the comment section: Let me quote him: Good day, Sir Leo! Thanks for this article of yours. Surely it will help every magicians who have read this like me. Just like to request if you can write or make an article on ...

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19 days ago by leodini

I always believe that performing magic is difficult. Many magicians in the Philippine, especially novice performers, would disagree with me. As a result, hordes of amateurs and tyros and dilettantes and neophytes and greenhorns and everything in their radius of influence perform magic for lay people ...

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21 days ago by leodini

One of the frequently asked questions by beginning magicians is how to routine one’s magic act. Let me answer it with an extended metaphor. Julie Andrews (playing the character Maria in the movie The Sound of Music) said that if you learn the seven notes “that happen to be”, you can use them to writ ...

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24 days ago by leodini

I may not be a cool person, but let me suggest a few cool ways to handle the magician’s archenemy—the heckler. When you are heckled during a performance, don’t engage the heckler in a debate. We are entertainers, not members of a debating team. Don’t compete or debate with a smart aleck in the audie ...

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25 days ago by leodini

Between celebrant and celebrator, which is the correct term to use? This question crops up now and then at birthday parties. I suspect even you are not sure of the answer. Well, today, I’ll get you out of your state of confusion. I will give you the definitive answer to this enigma. That way, you wi ...

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34 days ago by leodini

Magicians in the Philippines know that the Anti-Christ wears the “666″ mark on his head. Well, he is not the only one who has a mark. Philippine magicians, too, have marks, by which they are recognized. Whereas the Anti-Christ has “666″, magicians have only eight. I listed them all below. If you wan ...

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35 days ago by leodini

In Philippine politics, where accusations, innuendos, hearsay and gossip mongering are staple fare, the usual dare for someone to validate his or her claims is to name names. So if someone is raped, the aggrieved rapee would declare, “I was raped.” And the guilty rapist would dare her, “Name names.” ...

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