WHAT'S HAPPENING!
You are invited to visit our club meetings and become a member. Our regular meetings start at 2:30 on the second Sunday almost every month. We have a new meeting place! Our meetings will now be held at
HOPE SPRINGS CHURCH, 1109 Versailles Road, Suite 150, Lexington, KY
HOPE SPRINGS CHURCH, 1109 Versailles Road, Suite 150, Lexington, KY
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Upcoming Magic Events & News Our club has a new meeting place. Our new location is: HOPE SPRINGS CHURCH, 1109 Versailles Road, Suite 150, LEXINGTON, KY. The church is located at on Versailles Road, just before you go over the bridge into the downtown area. If you are headed toward downtown, the church is on your left, just past American Medical Response and Central Kentucky Glass. ******** September 8th, 2019 at 2:30 Regular monthly meeting topic will be Comedy Magic and the performance part will be comedy magic. ******** September 21, 2019 Members of the Thoroughbred Magic Club will be performing a club show at the Hope Springs Church at 1109 Versailles Rd. in Lexington. The show will benefit the Nathaniel Mission which has been a constant presence of supportive services to those in need in urban Lexington. Performing in the show will be Paul Emmick, Rodger Lovins, Josh Fletcher, Mike Woodward, George Hunter and Don Kincaid. More names will magically appear soon! ******* October 13, 2019 at 2:30 Regular monthly meeting, topics TBA ******* NOVEMBER 1-2,2019 Ring 198 has booked Rick Merrill as our Headliner for the next Unconventional Convention at Cumberland Falls State Park. We are also pleased to announce that Steve Bargatze will be performing as well. Mark your calendar for Friday, November 1st and Saturday November 2nd.Visit our web page to read more about it here. ****** November 10th. Regular November meeting is CANCELLED ******* December, 8th Regular December meeting is CANCELLED. ******** DECEMBER DATE TBA. Mike Woodward will be hosting his regular Holiday Magicians Party . Date and time coming soon! JULY 8-11, 2020 IBM Convention, Pittsburg PA. For more information click HERE! |
Reports and
Past Events **** RING 198, LEXINGTON, KY Thoroughbred Magic Guild meets second Sunday afternoon of most months at Hope Springs Church, Suite 150 1109 Versailles Road, Suite 150 Secretary mikewmp@aol.com The world of Magic in North America changes so much that anyone’s “cognitive map” is bound to be out-of-date. So, in our June meeting, our club’s vice-president, Don Kinkaid, brought us up to date. With the advance of internet shopping sites, this century’s trend of fewer and fewer brick and mortar magic shops continues. And many of the magic shops that remain, like Tannen’s, Hocus Pocus, Abbotts, Daytona, Stevens, and Penguin have a robust internet presence. There are, somewhat recently, several new regional shop, in facilities that include a small theater Magic conventions now experience a volatile history. As many magicians shop more on line, they also learn more on line—through on-line downloads, lectures, etc. Some traditional annual conventions experience declining attendance, but some occasional conventions—like, Genii’s do well, and several new conventions—like Vanishing Inc’s winter convention in Columbus, report capacity attendance. Some specialist conventions, like the MINDvention in Las Vegas, became available in this century. The visibility of magic theaters, or weekly shows, in some of the nation’s large cities was noted, and even in somewhat smaller cities—like Nashville and Oklahoma City. Our IBM regional vice-president, Mike Woodward, led our July meeting with a focus on Walk Around Magic, in settings with potential distractions, where people talk, and come and go, where the magician may be surrounded. Woodward’s extensive experience informed some basic principles:
Performances in the July meeting focused on a Gambling theme. George Hunter performed his version of Larry Hass’ dollar-bill serial -umber “Nines” effect featured in the June issue of Penguin Magic’s monthly magazine. After Hunter “hit” on only one of three attempts, he decided that Hass’ version was better after all! Don Kinkaid demonstrated the classic “Fast and Loose” effect with a rope; his victim (who lost ten cents) was his guest, Danny Manning. John Shore performed “Steamboat Poker;” somehow, despite everything appearing “fair,” John’s opponent drew five random cards and John turned up a Royal Flush. Our August meeting will be devoted to the Psychology of Magic. George G. Hunter ***** RING 198, LEXINGTON, KY Thoroughbred Magic GuildMeets second Sunday afternoon of most months at Hope Springs Church, Suite 150 1109 Versailles Road, Suite 150 Secretary mikewmp@aol.com On a warm Spring day, a gathering well into double digits hosted a visit by Denver mentalist Mark Strivings, who presented his new “G-Flat 9” lecture. Mark is best known for Sight Unseen Case (SUV) and his unique thumb writer. Those were featured, and were available, but the three hours were mainly spent on the set of new effects that Mark is now marketing. This lecture focused upon effects using props that “pack flat” and do not depend on sleights. (“Not a sleight in sight!”) All but two of the effects were for close-up or small parlor audiences. The effects were family friendly, and several would engage kids who like to get involved. Several close-up props featured cartoon-art showing food items (like a hot dog or a pizza slice), or animals, or a baseball diamond. The methods for several of the close-up effects tended to be “procedural”—which, alas, some guys like and some do not. But each procedure, once learned, enable one to perform two or three of the effects. The effects’ titles were often original—such as “Dismembered Dice” and “Fortunate Devil’s Dream; and sometimes amusingly original—such as “Will the Hogwash Equate?” and “Will the Persiflage Coalesce?” The lecture also featured two promising effects that can play much bigger, includingfrom a stage. Mark taught a rather original approach to a ‘chair test” that can be performed with, or without, actual chairs. My favorite was “Spelling Sport.” Two teams of four people, on stage, are entrusted with large letters. The teams compete to spell each announced word more rapidly than the other team. One spectator plays “referee,” keeps score and, after five rounds, announces the scores and the winning team. The magician then shows that he predicted (or influenced) the outcome. The props and instructions for most of the effects were available for purchase. For $20.00, one could buy a complete set of Strivings’ notes, including the visuals for making some of the props at Kinko’s—on a flash drive! George Hunter **** 
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