Day 15 - 22. 6. 2020

[Ondřej Pšenička]

I woke up early to come to school and take the long overdue shower.

Then had a warm up with Johan who has a birthday today. Will Houstoun joined us today.

Tom had a lecture on one ahead and one behind principle.
First he performed silk in an egg (Things That Go Cluck in the Night) with Lionel which had both principles involved. Then he explained how the theory works in that particular example and then gave us some more.

After that we got an assignment of doing two similar effects - one using step ahead and the other one step behind.
I was in a group with Jerome and Markus. All went quite smooth this time. We got an idea pretty fast… or more like I and Jerome had an idea, and also came up with a sentimental presentation for it which was a part of the assignment. We had an hour and we were practically ready in 30 minutes.
It was just me performing this time and I used Will as a volunteer. It worked pretty well. I stumbled with a one handed Charlier Pass, but the rest was ok. Well, the top change was very sloppy as well.
Then the others performed and surprisingly everyone did a card trick and a quite similar premise. We were done after a little feedback.

And then we had time for our individual projects until 4.20pm when the mini talks were held again. First went Will Houstoun who talked about project Breathe Magic and showed us some clips from YouTube. So nice. One day I would like to do something similar.
The next one was Mikael who talked about psychology in magic quoting Ascanio a lot and some more.
Then it was Martin and Leif who were talking about their theater shows and showed us some clips.

Then again we went on with our individual projects. I was trying for a while to make the principle that I had in mind work, but soon I abandoned it and tried to find another solution. After some trials I finally came up with a possibility how can tictacs be transformed into a matchbox - if the box is slightly open. So I started constructing this high-tech box of machtacs and finished at 10pm. And I still have some work to do.

We got an assignment to read the Three Pillars essay from BoW Vol1 so that I’m going to do now. Then practice mnemonica on the stack app and go to sleep.