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| Friday morning Pat Page continued a Jim Krenz tradition by hosting the workshop. This year's theme was ropes (NPN - no professor's nightnare!). Pat showed some cool items and then passed the torch. |
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| Hank knows a lot of rope tricks and taught a cool one. |
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| Josh wowed everyone with his clever thinking. A short rope is apparently stretched into a much longer piece. The pictures above may reveal the method. |
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| Hiro gave a great lecture containing many unusual items. In the picture above, he is vanishing an image from a bill. |
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| Hiro has some fun with Eric DeCamps who was genuinely surprised to find that the water had vanished from his cup. I hope Hiro isn't planning on trying to take that small package through customs. |
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| Dan Garrett did a great job as mc of the afternoon show. Everything went smoothly. |
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| Shigeo performed a beautiful one coin routine. |
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| Lee performed a gambling demonstration in which the spectator cuts the aces. Lance, a Texan, performed a cool two coin routine with no coins! (Matt Grover performed after Lee Freed but my batteries ran out and I didn't get any shots. He performed a nice collectors routine.) |
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| Ken performed some unusual items. One used a ribbon, the other was a jigsaw card. Above he's performing a coins across for Marc DeSouza. |
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| Joel is one creative guy! Above he's performing a very cool Monte routine for Maria. The routine can be found in Steve Beam's new book, Semi-Automatic III. |
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| Greco performed an unusual bowl routine using tomatoes! Piet Forton repeatedly performed his famous "pop out" move. He also did a Vernon ace cutting sequence. |
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| Michel performed his Robert Houdin retrospective. Peter Rodgers (Sidney Australia) read the minds of several spectators. |
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| "Please pull my finger." Bill Walsh, another Ausie was really hilarious: "I'm a pathological liar! No I'm not." He also performed a very nice cards across routine. |
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| David (right) is also from Australia. He performed some very visual magic with a reverse matrix and coins through table. David ended with color changing cards - lots of changes. |
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| Josh did some great stuff! Pips were knocked off of a card to match the proper number and any card named rose from the deck! Paul performed his multiple selection routine with 16 selections! Yipes. |
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| Steve (right) used a matching procedure to predict two cards. I think it's an item from the new book. Very cool. |
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| Rune's coin work is incredible. His hands seem so empty but they couldn't be. He performed coins and thumbtips across. Gary used a tape to get help narrow down to two cards. Also performed was a signed torn and restored routine. |
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| Barry (another Aussie) performed Harris' Screwed Deck and a razor blade in box routine. He also showed that he could memorize half of a shuffled deck by calling out all the missing cards. |
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| Thomas Fraps showed how a trick could be accomplished by fast fingers, sleeves or an optical illusion. Hiro Sakai did a $5 bill penetration and a cards to pocket routine. |
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| Street performer and general wildman Bob Sheets performed his famous 5 red card trick. It's like a 6 card repeat. He also performed a great extended rope routine. Outstanding! |
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| Marc is shown above performing the cards in the glass. He also performed a very unusual Die Box routine with multiplying dice. Manuel Muerte continued his tradition of performing weird magic culminating with a card to shoe. |
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| The "wild" man performed an extended card revelation to music ending by dropping all cards slowly except the selection which remained in his hand. Very romantic. |
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© 2000 Mike Powers Magic