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Magic - Max Mednik
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Magician Member of The Magic Castle since 2013. Collaborator on Half Half Man. Fell in love with magic and been performing for friends and family since 1992. Bar Mitzvah theme: magic. Special interest in card sleights, coins, money, levitation, and impromptu illusions. Favorite childhood magicians: Lance Burton, David Copperfield, David Blaine. Also enjoy juggling (was in Stanford Juggling Club - "Down with Gravity"). Professional and Volunteer Appearances. Veterans Winter Picnic at VA, 2015.
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CHRIS RAMSAY - BLOG
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Fantasy, Fiction and Magical Realism. Fiction should not conflict with your objective sense of reality, it should embellish it. Magical realism: "an unexpected alteration of reality [. . .] an unaccustomed insight that is singularly favored by the unexpected richness of reality or an amplification of the scale and categories of reality" (Alejo Carpentier). The closest answer to that is magical realism. Therein lies the art. That is the hard part. How do we convey this during performing? I think, once aga...
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Professionalism Beats Principles: Don’t Be Stubborn, Be Loving - Max Mednik
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Professionalism Beats Principles: Don’t Be Stubborn, Be Loving. The fifth selection of Half Half Man. Rsquo;s Book Club. Was George Orwell’s. Keep the Aspidistra Flying. Dedication to art and quality. Luckily, there is a better example and process, described eloquently by Steven Pressfield in his book,. The War of Art. The fifth selection of Half Half Man. Rsquo;s Book Club. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work.
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Consumption in absentia | Larry Horayne
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He knows all your secrets. He invented them. By Wouldn't you like to know? I’m still here, I just feel like you fucks don’t deserve to hear what I have to say. Here’s what I’m interested in right now:. 8211; I’ve always held a special, sweaty place in my mind for Tomas and his shenanagins. Andi Gladwin teased us earlier this year with this video. Can’t wait to sit for hours on end on my sunken ass cheeks, devouring this book’s insanity. Such a cock tease. Let’s find out. Maybe then he can get on with oth...
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April | 2015 | Larry Horayne
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He knows all your secrets. He invented them. Month: April, 2015. April 7, 2015. I’m still here, I just feel like you fucks don’t deserve to hear what I have to say. Here’s what I’m interested in right now:. 8211; I’ve always held a special, sweaty place in my mind for Tomas and his shenanagins. Andi Gladwin teased us earlier this year with this video. Can’t wait to sit for hours on end on my sunken ass cheeks, devouring this book’s insanity. Such a cock tease. Let’s find out. Maybe then he can get on wit...
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The Rainbow and the Visual: Creating Inspiring Magic through Wonder - Max Mednik
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The Rainbow and the Visual: Creating Inspiring Magic through Wonder. The fourth selection of. Was Philip Fisher’s. Wonder, the Rainbow, and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences. There were three themes that really stood out to me as useful for magic. The first theme is encapsulated in the quote which appears several times in the book: “Philosophy begins in wonder.” In other words, wonder (magic? As inspiration for science. He also laments that wonder declines with age and repeated exposure to beautiful thi...
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