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Picture: SCOTT FRANCIS Scott & Dede's Lecture on January 9th was really entertaining (as you can tell from the photo. Read about it in our Ring notes and also on our News1 page. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RING 199 DUES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ring Dues come due at the September Ring Meeting each year! Pay your annual dues anytime by sending your $15 to Ring 199 Treasurer Pam Beaman, 5210 Carr Rd, Wilson, NC 27893. Pam Beaman: Email ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RING 199 MEMBERS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brian Roman Alexander - Wayne Anderson - Miranda Barbare - Bernice Barber - Steve Beam - Pam Beaman - Tom Beaman - Stan Blanch - Keith Blankenship - Greg Brandle - Cliff Bumgardner - Don Carrick - Revonne Carter - Michael Casey - Daisy Dolicker - George Dolicker - Jon Ferrante - Kelley Ferrante - Mike Gorman - Pat Gorman - Gerry Hayes - Jacob Immerman - Sean Immerman - Bob Kepley - Dan Laffey - Josh Lozoff - Enrico Leoni - Mark Louden - Larry Maitin -David Monson - Lee Newton - Virginia Olmsted - Danny Reeves - Fred Rosenbaum - Henry Schaffer - Joe Schmelzer - Scott Shelton - Bill Spooner - Anthony Thomas - Roger Way - Ray Wickham - Phil Willmarth - Robbie Willmarth - Terry Whittenton . SEE RING MEMBER PHOTOS AT: PHOTOS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IBM RING 199 CONSTITUTION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ring 199's Constitution may be read by cliciing the link: CONSTITUTION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RECOMMENDED MAGIC BOOKS FOR YOUR LIBRARY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here is a list of classic magic books that should be in the library of all magicians. They are great for beginners to professional skill levels. Check the list out at: BOOKS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IBM RING 199 NOV, DEC, JAN MEETING NOTES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RING 199 MEETS 1st Sat.& 3rd Thur., 7:00pm, New Horizons Fellowship Church , Apex, Raleigh, NC Roger Way, President, (919) 272-6465 / email: rway@nc.rr.com Tom Beaman, Secretary, (252) 243-9848 / email: tbeamanjr@aol.com Ring Website: http://www.magician.org/member/raleigh . The last three months of the year are generally the busiest times on the calendar for most, and especially so for entertainers. The major holidays in those months—Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmahanaquanzakuh, and New Year’s Eve—generate a lot of family and corporate season celebrations that translates to many opportunities for magicians to be booked. But in additional to the seasonal increase of potential gigs, it seems that these three months have also been some of the busiest for Ring 199! . Ring 199’s season of sorcery began on October 15 with a lecture by Alan Sands, son of the late legendary George Sands. A professional performer himself, Alan entertained and mystified the Ring members who attended this event with rope and card effects created and performed by his father. He also demonstrated his adaptations to some of his father’s routines, as well as a few effects he had created, during his decade of street performances in San Francisco. The members in attendance thanked Alan providing for this journey down magical memory lane with the magic of his father, George Sands. The evening of Saturday, October 17 was the annual Ring 199 Habitat for Humanity Magic Show. Held in its usual venue of the New Horizon Fellowship Church, this free public show by Ring 199 members has helped raise money for local Habitat houses for the past 10 years. Past International President Mike Gorman, Ring 199 Vice President (and President of Ring 375) Joe Schmelzer, and Larry Maitin performed close-up in the lobby while people were waiting to be seated. Brian Alexander also performed pre-show walk-a-round for people once they were in the theatre. Hosted and MCed by Ray Wickham, the stage show featured magic by North Carolina TVP and Ring 199 Secretary Tom Beaman, his wife and Ring 199 Treasurer Pam Beaman, Ring 199 President Roger Way, and professional prestidigitator Gary Shelton, each of which performed a 15 minute set of magic. During the show, the top hat was passed and the audience generously donated just over $1000 for Habitat. Six members attended the November 7 session of Ring 199’s Magic Youth International chapter. Roger Way led the youth through demonstrations and practice with various types of silk effects and gimmicks including dye tubes, handkerchief balls, thumb tips, blendos and more. Each youth member received a junior thumbtip and silk set of their own courtesy of Jon Ferrante and The Magic Corner Magic Shop. . The members present during the regular November meeting of the Triangle Tricksters were treated to a mini lecture by Dan Laffey on magic and television. Having spent many years working on Canadian television and presently teaching media production at a local school, Dan discussed all aspects of creating, planning, staging, and performing magic on television. He highlighted many of the ideas and notes from this mini lecture with outstanding interview and performance clips from television, ranging from classics such as Don Alan’s Magic Ranch to more modern magic by Doug Henning, Harry Blackstone, Jr., and David Copperfield. He also gave us all much food for thought, including tips on producing a promotional tape. Thanks to Dan for his extensive preparation and sharing such outstanding information! . The performance portion of the regular November meeting began with George Dolicker winning the card raffle (again!) for a $25 gift certificate to the Magic Corner, again generously provided by Jon Ferrante and The Magic Corner Magic Shop. But before anyone could call “shenanigans!” on the drawing, Joe Schmelzer had begun performing his first effect to the monthly theme of “Money Magic.” Cattily remarking that it was wherever he wanted it to be, a playing card selected by Danny Reeves had disappeared from the deck and reappeared on Joe’s credit card. Scott Shelton borrowed a $100 bill, and with Danny Archer’s “One to a Hundred” handling, changed it to $100 when Revonne Carter blew on it. It returned to a $1 bill when Steve Beam breathed on it. Tony Thomas dazzled us with several sleight of hand, non-gaffed coin effects by Tim Feher, “3’s a Charm” and “Coin Traveller.” The meeting then made its usual return to card magic. Danny deftly found card selected by Revonne and Brian Alexander. Brian returned the favor by finding a card selected by Danny, then with help from Steve, found a card selected by Bob Rule. The always entertaining pasteboard prestidigitator Steve Beam closed out the evening with a number of his signature effects, including a giant card fan, demonstrating how playing cards are made, and compressing cards from 4 aces into 2 twos and finally, 1 four. Danny, Dan, and George ably assisted Steve as card selectors in these effects. . The next week, on Sunday, November 15, Ring 199 members were treated to a visit by Devin Knight on his first US lecture tour. IBM members traveled from as far as Charlotte, Fayetteville, Wilmington, and Havelock to be treated to the incredibly clever effects taught by Devin. All the magic was within the skill range of almost all performers, but was very entertaining and devilishly clever! After three hours of incredible magic, we were all exhausted but immediately looking forward to Devin’s next lecture tour. Definitely catch his lecture if you have the opportunity! . Almost a dozen members attended the December 5 session of Ring 199’s Magic Youth International chapter. Brian Alexander taught those assembled the value of a double lift. He discussed pinky breaks, flesh breaks, and variations on discreetly counting two cards from the top of the deck. Brian then demonstrated three powerful effects using the double lift, including an ambitious card routine, card to spectators mouth (based on Wayne Houchin's “French Kiss” effect), and the vanish of a spectator's card and having it reappear in between two aces. As mentalist Fred Rosenbaum would say, “Though they learned card effects, they’ll probably be back next month anyway.” . In a short December gathering, Joe Schmelzer won the card raffle and a $25 gift certificate to The Magic Corner Magic Shop, generously provided by Jon “Santa” Ferrante. Revonne Carter gave her second performance for membership, and did a dazzling version of the Professor’s Nightmare routine. Several of our members commented that they wish their routines were done so well! Revonne was voted as a full member of Ring 199, for which we congratulate her! With a theme of “Holiday magic,” Joe gave us an extremely memorable effect that he designed and made. Harkening back to “The Christmas Story Movie,” he didn’t produce a Red Ryder BB gun, but had us all howling as he stuck his tongue to a short piece of a flagpole. With help from Jacob Immerman, Larry Maitin performed the “Shape of Things to Come,” an usual card effect by Jay Sankey. And yes, Larry did find Jacob’s selected card! Finally, Tony Thomas then produced a snowball from the North Pole. Though it appeared suspiciously like styrofoam, before it melted it magically danced, appeared, and reappeared behind a cloth to the music of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s “Carol of the Bells.” There were no regular meetings of Ring 199 or Magic Youth International for January, but January 9, 2010 was a day of magic activities in which all members were encouraged to participate and attend. . The day began with a scheduled lecture on “Macgyver Magic” by the team of Scott and DeDe Francis. The idea behind Macgyver Magic is to extend your creativity to “out of the box” ideas. In doing so, there are many useful non-magic items that can be found in big box retail and hardware stores to easily and inexpensively replicate or creative functional magic props. In the course of the two hour lecture, Scott and DeDe showed us how to make a functional card fountain, and an amazingly strong, never-fail reel for approximately $20. They also demonstrated how to construct inexpensive backdrops with replacement tent poles, turn flyswatters and spatulas into card sword type effects, and much, much more! The creativity charming banter demonstated between Scott and DeDe provided a tremendous amount of good laughs and good effects for the almost 30 members in attendance. . Later that evening, thanks to the tremendous planning and efforts of Roger Way and Joe Schmelzer, the members of Ring 199 took part in its annual Ring Banquet. Held at Errico’s Restaurant in Cary, the Triangle Tricksters and their families dressed up, enjoyed an excellent Italian meal, and hilarious entertainment. Former Ring 199 member Gary Shelton acted as the Master of Ceremonies for the evening, and did a superb job to set the 60 plus members and their families in the mood to laugh. The featured performer of the evening was Scott Francis, whose unique band of comedy and magic had us in stitches for 50 minutes. Those in attendance also got to experience how a true professional handles problems when their sound equipment goes awry. The evening of fun and fellowship was enjoyed by all. . Our regularly scheduled meetings resume on February 6. “ Movie Magic” is the scheduled theme. Break out your creativity and prepare to dazzle your peers, and maybe the Oscar will be yours! Tom Beaman ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTES FROM OUR DEC 17th MAGIC SESSION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We had 7 magicians gathered at NHF to share their magic. Wayne Anderson, Fred Rosenbaum, Phil Willmarth, Mike Gorman,Steve Beam, Bob Roule, Kyle Thorson, Danny Reeves and Rick Holcombe attended tonight. . We welcomed Rick Holcomb back to the session tonight. It was good to see him again. He just got married in November. He did some card effects for us that were in Steve Beam's "Semi Automatic Card Effects" books. . Steve Beam did some of his classic effects. "Gallery" where the deck becomes an art gallery was super. We all got roaring with laughter at his effect using "fingers"... I think it was called "Digit Magic". . Mike Gorman did "Cardiograph" but it didn't work out the way it should. It provided the gang with humor though! . Kyle Thorson did a few card effects that worked out really well. . Lots of discussion tonight on some very funny goings on in magic and the world. We also discussed a potential lecture by Nathan Kranzo, but it might be at the same time that Winter Carnival. . Phil Willmarth discussed "Magic Without Borders" who is willing to do their video and slide presentation. The guys at the table weren't too receptive and wanted magic. . We headed out about 10pm! . DON'T FORGET THAT OUR DEC SESSION WILL BE ON THURSDAY JAN 21ST AT 7PM! |
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