Day 2 - 9. 6. 2015
Napsal: 24 črc 2020, 21:29
I got to school a little early to think about the routine for Friday. I didn't really come up with much, I just confirmed that the tic tacs are possibly collapsible into the size of a matchbox. I haven’t come up with anything else.
Tom’s lecture started at 9. it was on magical effect. He would give us an imaginary coin. “Make it vanish” he said giving it to me first. I had it on my palm for a moment and then I said "it’s gone" and he asked what happened? "It faded away, did a plop sound and was gone." He would give another imaginary coin to someone else to make it vanish. “See?, both effects were different.” He would give a coin to everyone to make it vanish then asking them what happened. "Some more, some less, but all the effects were different. I disagree with Fitzkee’s list of magical effects. There are many more.”
Then he introduced a game. Everyone comes up on stage and picks a paper with a subtext. Then performs an ambitious card routine with that subtext in mind. I went first with subtext: I can communicate only with questions. Then everyone followed. I’m going to ask Tom for the list of subtexts so we can use them in KIM or in Škola Magie.
Then we were put in groups. This time me, Lauri and Stefan and sent to studio 1 to create a routine in which we’d use one or two subtexts. After a while we created a pretty funny last wish performance for our dear friends who would choose three cards from us and we’d find them as the happiest moment of our life. First part being a wedding subtext, second part funeral, or vice versa maybe. Then all the others peformed and we were off to lunch.
After we brainstormed our topic of the week routines in new groups. One thing I got out of it was Stefan’s observation that we trust eye sight more than any other sense, because hearing can easily deceive us and often does.
Then we went for a sound lecture by Sebastian Prinz - the head of the music part of the school who gave us a crash course on what is music. He showed us a video clip of John Cage playing 4’:33” with which he proved several points. Then we watched clips of Yu Ho-Jin and Marco Carvo whose music would he consider quite boring for the act, because it doesn’t add anything to the act, it just matches it too well with nothing on top. Then we ended the discussion with the notion that the best way is to hire a good composer who ideally writes music for a live performer willing to travel around with the magician.
Then we still had more than a half an hour for me to get ready for my little TED talk. I added some little details and decided to start by sitting in a chair in front of everybody doing my relaxation. The talk itself then was OK. I had to stop two or three times to look into my phone to make sure I didn’t forget anything, looking for more things to say. I got a nice applause after I finished and quite a few relevant questions and people seemed to be genuinely interested.
Charlie then would talk about 3D printing which was very fascinating. He prints all sorts of props, servantas or devices using a very simple web based CAD program called tinkercad in which he can design anything. The material is cheap and very strong. One kilo costs about 50 euros and the printer that he landed to the course about 1000 euros.
When he was done I went to the basement and got an excellent shower. Water super hot, pressure - massage quality, pure bliss.
Then I met with Hans, René, Jerome, Jonas at the Baracks and we went to Prime Burger to get dinner. I will have to start counting a little to make sure I will have enough of my own money so I won’t have to use much of the money dad gave me.
Lionel joined us later and him and Jerome particularly were interested in more details about relaxation. So I talked about it and then I did some classic Lennart Green lapping and then some of what Yann taught me and they really liked it.
I went home right after and wrote a first plausible concept of the script I could use for my routine on Friday.
Now it’s time to meditate, tomorrow is all day workshop with Tim Star.
Tom’s lecture started at 9. it was on magical effect. He would give us an imaginary coin. “Make it vanish” he said giving it to me first. I had it on my palm for a moment and then I said "it’s gone" and he asked what happened? "It faded away, did a plop sound and was gone." He would give another imaginary coin to someone else to make it vanish. “See?, both effects were different.” He would give a coin to everyone to make it vanish then asking them what happened. "Some more, some less, but all the effects were different. I disagree with Fitzkee’s list of magical effects. There are many more.”
Then he introduced a game. Everyone comes up on stage and picks a paper with a subtext. Then performs an ambitious card routine with that subtext in mind. I went first with subtext: I can communicate only with questions. Then everyone followed. I’m going to ask Tom for the list of subtexts so we can use them in KIM or in Škola Magie.
Then we were put in groups. This time me, Lauri and Stefan and sent to studio 1 to create a routine in which we’d use one or two subtexts. After a while we created a pretty funny last wish performance for our dear friends who would choose three cards from us and we’d find them as the happiest moment of our life. First part being a wedding subtext, second part funeral, or vice versa maybe. Then all the others peformed and we were off to lunch.
After we brainstormed our topic of the week routines in new groups. One thing I got out of it was Stefan’s observation that we trust eye sight more than any other sense, because hearing can easily deceive us and often does.
Then we went for a sound lecture by Sebastian Prinz - the head of the music part of the school who gave us a crash course on what is music. He showed us a video clip of John Cage playing 4’:33” with which he proved several points. Then we watched clips of Yu Ho-Jin and Marco Carvo whose music would he consider quite boring for the act, because it doesn’t add anything to the act, it just matches it too well with nothing on top. Then we ended the discussion with the notion that the best way is to hire a good composer who ideally writes music for a live performer willing to travel around with the magician.
Then we still had more than a half an hour for me to get ready for my little TED talk. I added some little details and decided to start by sitting in a chair in front of everybody doing my relaxation. The talk itself then was OK. I had to stop two or three times to look into my phone to make sure I didn’t forget anything, looking for more things to say. I got a nice applause after I finished and quite a few relevant questions and people seemed to be genuinely interested.
Charlie then would talk about 3D printing which was very fascinating. He prints all sorts of props, servantas or devices using a very simple web based CAD program called tinkercad in which he can design anything. The material is cheap and very strong. One kilo costs about 50 euros and the printer that he landed to the course about 1000 euros.
When he was done I went to the basement and got an excellent shower. Water super hot, pressure - massage quality, pure bliss.
Then I met with Hans, René, Jerome, Jonas at the Baracks and we went to Prime Burger to get dinner. I will have to start counting a little to make sure I will have enough of my own money so I won’t have to use much of the money dad gave me.
Lionel joined us later and him and Jerome particularly were interested in more details about relaxation. So I talked about it and then I did some classic Lennart Green lapping and then some of what Yann taught me and they really liked it.
I went home right after and wrote a first plausible concept of the script I could use for my routine on Friday.
Now it’s time to meditate, tomorrow is all day workshop with Tim Star.