Just Another Magic Monday: Florian Zimmer
I may focus on my French heritage too much, and this JAMM post continues this tradition by showing a video from France 2. However, this post is now sharing the love of my wife and her German heritage. Florian Zimmer is an amazing magical artist from Germany. He definately has his own style. ...
This video shows an extremely creative routine based around graffiti.
I also wanted to share this short clip of him doing a little street magic. I doubly like it because it uses the same music as the parkour video, vaults 102.
Just Another Magic Monday: RJ Cantu
I don't know what I did right but lately random magicians have been adding me as friends on facebook. From these new friends I hear about different magical happenings in the world. Recently, one of these magicians performed at the world famous Magic Castle. Luckily for us he posted a large portion of his performance on YouTube. Enjoy, this could have easily been posted as a Friday Humor post. ...
Update:He posted the last part of his performance at the Magic Castle today. I believe this is more than Just another magic Monday.
Just Another Magic Monday: cups and balls
It's been a while since I've posted anything so I figured my Birthday is on a Monday why not start back with a JAMM post. I have a friend in the office whose dad is a Magician and he has said several times that the cups and balls is his favorite routine. Last week I had the pleasure of seeing a great cups and balls routine by Michael Ammar at a seminar hosted by my magic club. So, without further ado, here are three different version of the cups and balls starring Jason Latimer, Michael Ammar and Penn & Teller. ...
Friday Humor with NPH
Neil Patrick Harris is an actor I've grown up with. I watched him on Doogie Howser, MD and recently featured him in another Friday Humor post as Dr. Horrible. The thing I like about NPH is that he made his way past Doogie Howser, MD and is doing other things with his acting. And yet, he keeps going back to that Doogie Howser well for a little bit of humor. ...
Just Another Magic Monday: Close-up Magic
It's been a while since I've shared anything, let alone magic, so here is my first JAMM post of 2009. The following is a BBC special on close up magic. Lots of great magicians are interviewed and many great pieces of magic are performed. Well worth the time to watch it. ...
Just Another Magic Monday: Takamitsu Uchida
In order to not bore you with more card manipulation magic I found yet another card manipulation routine that will knock your socks off. I can't get enough of this stuff. This guy makes does an amazing routine that includes a ton ( possibly literally ) of Extra - Jumbo cards. Truly amazing. ...
Friday Humor with Flight of the Conchords
They are back! Flight of the Conchords Season 2 isn't on HBO yet but the first episode of the second season is available in its entirety at Funny or Die. I've been waiting for this oh so long. From what I have seen, they didn't miss a beat ( pun intended ). ...
Friday humor with Air Drumming
Facebook has some interesting ads in the sidebar occasionally. Yesterday one said something like, "Fan of Neil Peart?" so I clicked through. What followed was this video which I found hilarious. Given the number of Guitarmageddons, Drum Offs and Spin Offs I was a part of at GC I find an air drumming competition to be just what the doctor ordered. ...
I'm not pussy footing...I'm double bass drumming!
Just another Magic Monday: Jeff McBride
Many weeks ago, I had the bright idea of checking youTube for some magic performances. One of the first I found worth mentioning was Lance Burton from The Best of Magic. A few weeks after that I had the bright idea of seeing what else was under the Best of Magic. First off, I stayed up for a long time watching these when I probably should have been sleeping. They were just so amazing and diverse. There was your standard stage magic by The Pendragons, humorous magic with Kohl & Co., a peaceful and impressive table routine by Hiroshi Sawa, and a great psuedo mime routine by Tina Lenert. There was also many more with some of the greats in magic, after all the show was The Best of Magic! One piece floored me though. The piece of Jeff McBride doing one of his mask routines. Amazing work with great mime and I was hooked, so I thought I'd share some with you. ...
I know that when I was younger, the above routine would have been too artsy for me. So I've added a second video from The World's greatest magic that also has some awesome card manipulations.
Knight Rider - my guilty pleasure
As a kid I loved watching Knight Rider. So when the new version came on the air this season I made a point to watch it. My initial reaction? It was trash. KITT ( Knight Industries Three Thousand ) transforms, the lead characters are getting undressed before the first commercial break, KITT is so tricked out in battle mode he looks like some VW engineer is going to unmpimp the auto. Things changed though when I started describing it to someone and I made the comment that it is Knight Rider and I shouldn't have expected it to be Firefly. Then it hit me, the old KITT ( Knight Industries Two Thousand ) did transform in battle mode, although it was just adding a spoiler. As for the highly sexually charged show? I seem to remember the Hoff getting it on with a new lady just about every episode. ...
With these thoughts in mind I decided to keep watching. Thanks to my favorite video site, Hulu, this is a breeze and they do earn some money for me watching. Knight Rider is an enjoyable show. It is still more about how cool KITT is there is a ton of sexual tension between many characters, but I'm okay with that. In fact, KITT is cool and that is reason enough to watch it. His upgrades are nice ( plausability be damned ) and his voice is done by Iceman himself, the Real Genius, Val Kilmer. That's pretty cool and I think he voices it well.
Last weeks episode brought up the fact that KARR is has a new version well. KITT nerds are happy about that.
My biggest concern when I was first watching the show was the theme song. Given my history, that is no suprise. That was one area they nailed and I love watching the theme song sequence. So the following video is the theme sequence cued up from this weeks show.