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| Jon Racherbaumer was genuinely astounded when he found his selected card inside his jacket pocket! Davide also taught a very nice reverse Matrix routine and several other well received items. |
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| Roger taught a Slow Motion Center deal item using the unit upjog and a bluff pass. Cool item. Obie is hitchhiking to Buffalo. |
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| Professor Rem performed and explained a Jazz Aces effect using Go Fish cards. Paul taught a three selection mental effect which was featured in his Linking Ring One Man Parade. |
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| Craig shared some ideas on using McBride's Kundalini Rising with a thinner packet. He also had some suggestions on tying the knot in a thread loop. |
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| David Costi (above) performed a routine using "Boomerangs." Michel Clavello told a story about how he got into magic. A green silk and other disappeared and reappeared in a truly impossible way. |
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| Danny performed a cool ring and string effect and a color changing ball routine. Gaston showed his great technical skill with a coin production/vanish sequence and a very cool McDonald's aces type routine. |
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| Bill snapped a knot into a rope, showed some dice moves and performed some nice coin work. |
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| Christian is the master of the "anti-faro", one of the most talked about moves from last year's FFFF. This year Christian performed an "all backs" type routine |
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| Mike M.C.'d the afternoon show. After several Hilberger jokes, Bob Davis (who is also a great jazz piano player) performed an excellent tribute to Vernon's Slow Motion Aces. |
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| Past IBM President Mike Gorman performed his "Millionaire Rope Routine" ending with Wil Rogers' rope snap. Following Mike was Curt Higgins with his Simon the Snake routine. |
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| Peter's theme was "time." A thought of time located a card and matched the time on a watch. Tim performed a very cool blackjack sandwich effect. |
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| Scam artist Bob Farmer continued the Canadian "time" theme, Bob used time to get a card which had a prediction on the back. Paul used pages from Soap Opera digest in a mental effect. He watches entirely too much T.V. |
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| Aaron performed a routine using a cylinder, a coin and two dice. I believe this is a John Murray idea. I missed the routine because I was mesmerized by Aaron's hat. Tom used five assistants in a "How to Host a Murder" effect. The person who chose the ace of spades was the murderer. When a small noose was placed on each person's hand, it only tightened on the murderer. Excellent routine. |
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| Rey Ben (from Argentina) performed his contest "Baby Act." This very strange act had a disappearing chair, a floating baby, a laser pointer and Ray's Cap in Bottle. (Rey is the inventor of the cap in bottle sold by Daryl.) |
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| New Yorker Bob Elliott performed some cool card items. A selection ends up with a stamp on it and a coin ends up under a spectator's watch. Cool stuff Bob! |
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| Rey having the "designated spectator", Maria select a card. On right, Obie brings the meeting to order. |
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| Guest of honor Bill Malone hosted a tribute to Mike Skinner. Many of Mike's friends gave eulogies and performed some of his pet effects. Bill performed a Touch Turn sequence, a spectator cuts the aces and an ace location. He also gave a lot of excellent advice about strolling. Bill also performed Skinner's Gypsy Curse with a brand new Malone ending which causes the performer to get stuck in an infinite loop. |
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| Jon wows a spectator with a Skinneresque routine. He used an Eddie Fechter idea with a double facer creating a very open transposition. |
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| Roger was one of Mike Skinner's best friends. He shared some stories and performed killer magic. Roger performed a straw and ring bit and a stop/think effect with three spectators. |
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| Howie a.k.a. Bilbo Baggins recounted more Skinner stories including the famous cold soup story. Pablo (Argentina) performed an unpublished Skinner effect. |
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| Buffalo wunderkind Dan Block dazzles Roger with his fancy card work. Dan performed a cool ace cutting sequence. Then the aces vanished only to be found by counting and spelling. Excellent stuff! |
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| This is the first time I've seen Jim Swain work and I wasn't disappointed. Invisible seconds and bottoms flowed like water. He performed Quarterback sneak and found the aces at numbers called out by spectators. |
© 2000 Mike Powers Magic