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Dean Atkinson, Ventriloquist and Magician: February 2007
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Dean Atkinson, Ventriloquist and Magician. Variety Is The Spice Of Life.and what I do for a job. WWW.DEANATKINSON.COM. Friday, February 23, 2007. You loose a selected card in the deck and say "If I press the top card on to the table and wait five seconds. 1 2 3 4 5 YOur card completely vanishes (you don't show this yet so it's funny) and then I continue to cound to ten 6 7 8 9 10 the card re appears after having changed into your signed card". 1 A control. Thios has to be one that uses no cutting or ...
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Dean Atkinson, Ventriloquist and Magician: March 2006
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Dean Atkinson, Ventriloquist and Magician. Variety Is The Spice Of Life.and what I do for a job. WWW.DEANATKINSON.COM. Friday, March 31, 2006. More About The People Who Know Everything. A special Edithvale thank you goes out to Dylan (disco) Jones tonight. The lad came up trumps fixing up one or two elements of this blog today. With a deck of cards. Both chaps won 'The Magic Mondays Young Magician Awards' in 2005. Posted by Dean Atkinson at 11:34 PM. OK, Every element of this show is perfect. I just enco...
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Dean Atkinson, Ventriloquist and Magician: March 2007
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Dean Atkinson, Ventriloquist and Magician. Variety Is The Spice Of Life.and what I do for a job. WWW.DEANATKINSON.COM. Friday, March 23, 2007. You know you have come of age with magic and that you now look upon ways to improve it from a purely entertainments viewpoint, when, upon being asked how many card tricks you know you say;. Posted by Dean Atkinson at 11:21 AM. Variations On A Theme. 2 A card is signed and the rest of the deck can be put away as it will not be used again. 7 Pretend to place the fol...
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Dean Atkinson, Ventriloquist and Magician: April 2006
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Dean Atkinson, Ventriloquist and Magician. Variety Is The Spice Of Life.and what I do for a job. WWW.DEANATKINSON.COM. Thursday, April 27, 2006. I will return AFTER the weekend with a full report of my experiences and how they may mirror the Blaine attemp in a small way. Posted by Dean Atkinson at 12:23 PM. Wednesday, April 26, 2006. Not Really He's Working Up At Crown. Posted by Dean Atkinson at 3:43 PM. I have not forgotten about the second and third phase of my ball routine either. For those of yo...
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Dean Atkinson, Ventriloquist and Magician: September 2006
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Dean Atkinson, Ventriloquist and Magician. Variety Is The Spice Of Life.and what I do for a job. WWW.DEANATKINSON.COM. Wednesday, September 27, 2006. My Good friend Chris Shing has always been known to use this phrase in relation to coin magic. To see Chris perform some of his 'World Class' coin magic is to witness this term played out to it's full beauty and potential. What is the crux of that expression though? Does it mean you have to perform everything slowly in order for it to register? This ventril...
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Dean Atkinson, Ventriloquist and Magician: November 2006
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Dean Atkinson, Ventriloquist and Magician. Variety Is The Spice Of Life.and what I do for a job. WWW.DEANATKINSON.COM. Wednesday, November 01, 2006. VentriloquismTip Of The Day. You HAVE to keep telling yourself it's only about the laughs. You just have to KEEP telling yourself that and all the rest will fall into place. One of the first pieces of advice that Darren Carr gave me when I started to pester him about all this stuff was. "If you're not funny, you might as well forget it". On a similar note mo...
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Dean Atkinson, Ventriloquist and Magician: October 2006
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Dean Atkinson, Ventriloquist and Magician. Variety Is The Spice Of Life.and what I do for a job. WWW.DEANATKINSON.COM. Sunday, October 29, 2006. In his excellent book 'Kids Show Ventriloquism' Mark Wade discusses the 'Dead Time' aspect to crossing the stage and putting on a puppet. He further suggests different ways to cover this, the most important of all being applause. He's right. This time needs to be covered but I will also elaborate upon it here. The puppet needs to make a real spalsh! Even at a BB...
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Dean Atkinson, Ventriloquist and Magician: August 2006
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Dean Atkinson, Ventriloquist and Magician. Variety Is The Spice Of Life.and what I do for a job. WWW.DEANATKINSON.COM. Friday, August 04, 2006. If The Choices Were Limited. Say you were stuck at the office and you knew you were going to be late picking the kids up from school. Say you had no choice but to call one of the following people/entities to do a bit of babysitting for you. Who would you choose and why? This post is insane. Posted by Dean Atkinson at 12:37 PM. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.