Jonathan immediately jumped onto his thing - very energetic, passionate, slightly stressed, fast pace talking. Showed us what he’s been working on in the past days. Miser’s dream, ACAAN, chop cups & balls, coins to glass, card sword, a staff for the hindu basket, a wand with a magnetic end for the chop cup routine, and then he opened Q&A.
Some questions he answered very generally or indirectly, some he answered satisfyingly I’d say. I asked what is his one fear when he works on a new routine and takes it in front of an audience for the first time. He answered that it is overdoing it. That he’ll push it to much - that he’ll overact it. - I can see why.
Jerome asked what makes an effect magical. The answer was - You. - I agree. It’s a little general and incomplete answer, but yeah…
After the lecture I worked on my tic tac box a little more, I added some magnets and made it easier to change from tic tacs to matches.
Dagmar C. called me that she would appreciate some video of me doing magic. I don’t have any. Then I got an idea to shoot a little thing at the Magic Bar that evening. I asked Edith and she let me do a little guest performance in the middle of her close-up show.
Then mini ted talks followed - Stefan talked about making boxes. First he showed us a very neat perfect fit box and how he made it and then some boxes he made for his movie collection. Pretty cool stuff.
Then René talked about a program he is doing in Denmark for children with reading problems. They show them a trick and then they sit in a classroom and then there are instructions for the trick written somewhere far and they go read some of it and back to their place to write what they remember. Sometimes it’s just a word or even just a letter. They do that for 15 minutes and then again after a break. I don’t know if I remember the procedure correctly but it’s called walking dictation I think.
Then Hakan talked about corporate gigs and how to make sure that everything runs smoothly. Not to accept everything and to try to find an option that will make the performance the best possible. You want to make the best performance possible and the one that booked you wants the same.
Johan then asked me to play Kevin Spencer’s speech from Magic Live! “Healing of Magic”. I almost cryed again and Johan did cry again. It’s just such a wonderful story.
Then after some finishing touches on the magnets I went with Stefan to a pen store where he took me. We ran. I wouldn’t be able to make it. We got there one minute before they closed. And they had my precious favorite sharpie pen. Package of two 49 SEK.
And then we went to the Magic Bar. Tom Stone, Martin, John-Henry, were sitting at one table and I showed Tom my edge trick and it fooled him.
Stefan invited me for dinner and during that we discussed the design of my edge marked deck. He loves the principle and seems quite excited about designing it. We went through different designs and possibilities. It seems like vintage border could be the best one.
Then I realised that when I told Shane about my intentions - the deck and the need for a designer, he recommended me Stefan who designed their Modern magic poster. Destiny.
Then Edith’s show started. Not really my cup of tea. The magic wasn’t very strong and the presentation not at all captivating. But she let me do my two tricks. Get Sharky and Industrial Revelation. Stefan filmed it on my phone and I was happy.
I also didn’t have to spend a crown. I got an orange juice on the house from Anna and then she gave me her ice cream which was yummy.
It was very lucky, that Olav, the Genii photographer was there and took some really nice pictures of me. I showed him my edge trick and also to John-Henry and nailed it
- what? I started doing smiley faces in my journal? Unacceptable! 
Ok, that was the last one.Mikael was sitting at the next table performing ACAAN for Martin. And then he did it again. He let Jerome shuffle the cards, asked John-Henry for a card, asked me for a number, counted from the top and it was there. Martin was blown away. And started demanding revelation of the secret - Because he needs that for his show. He was drunk, rude and verbally aggressive. Mikael didn’t tell him.
And then we went home - around 22:30. At home I trimmed the video to just the first effect - Get Sharky - and sent it Dagmar’s way. I hope it will suffice.
And I got a possible idea for my tic tac routine finish. It is not as logical as the previous idea, but potentially very baffling.