
Newly elected president Bob Weiss conducted our meeting at a brand new location for us at Thymele Arts which brings us back into Hollywood. Bob has been a long time member of Ring 21 as well as one of our past presidents. He announced that the board has decided to bring back awards to our ceremonies at our October banquet and the formation of several committees. Also announced was that membership cards should be available at our next meeting.
Then it was on to our lecturer Robert Baxt, F.I.S.M. comedy award winner and Magic Castle performer. His lecture was on practical magic doing his torn and restored newspaper method which has a super fast reset, Professor‘s Nightmare with patter about life and family as he explained he likes to relate effects to reasons using organic material, not props that look like magic tricks. He also did an effect with comic books using the P.A.T.E.O. force, a social media effect as well as many many various variations of it from Disney characters, superheroes, pets and even sushi. Another effect he did was the Voodoo Hand using time mis-direction, an original routine called Vanishing Red Bull, which is similar to the Vanishing Bandanna effect, Money Across which is similar to Cards Across using wallets and an I.O.U. done very simply yet maybe better than using cards. He also did a book test, an egg bag routine but instead it was with a Crown Royal bag and an aspirin bottle for the “egg”. Everything he explained in great detail as well as had the items for sale.
It seems the new place was well received and attended which is good because next month we return for our Annual Catered Holiday party. Afterwards several members continued at a near by restaurant.
