A New Interview with Jim Steinmeyer

[SCobalt]

A couple of days ago I had the wonderful opportunity to chat with Jim Steinmeyer. What was supposed to be an hour and a half interview turned into an almost two and a half hour interview!

Wow!

Big thank you to Jim Steinmeyer for taking the time.

If you'd like to listen to the interview you can check it out here:
Jim Steinmeyer Interview

Shane

[Richard Kaufman]

What are some of the subjects he covers?

[SCobalt]

Great question Richard.

We talked about Morritt, Wakeling, Thurston, Devant, Jarrett, designing the big illusions like the Statue of Liberty Vanish, the future of magic, illusions for the new illusionist, the evolution of some of Jim's illusions, Jim's process, Jim's near death experience while working with Doug Henning, etc.

That's just off the top of my head but there is over 2 hours of interview!

The first half, which is an hour long, is posted on the above blog. The full interview is going to be emailed out to my mailing list at 4pm EST today and for anyone who doesn't see this link in time I will email out the interview again next week.

If anyone wants to hear the full version they can sign up for the mailing list here:

http://eepurl.com/igcS

Or on the left hand side of my blog page.



Shane

[magicam]

Hi Shane,

Please send me an e-mail. I no longer have your e-mail address.

Clay Shevlin

[SCobalt]

Clay I sent you an email but just in case that address is no longer in use.

You can reach me at Shane at shanecobalt dot com

[Magic Newswire]

Jim is always very generous with his time. Over the years I have done several interviews with Jim for my podcast and they total almost 5 hours. Well done!

[magicrobharv]

Great interview!!!. I liked the way you had prepared to ask Jim great questions. This is one of the most informative interviews I had heard him give. Thanks.

[Joe Mckay]

I look forward to checking out this interview...

Just want to add that one question I have always wanted to ask Jim about is how he came up with his NINE CARD PRINCIPLE? I would love to hear what sort of convoluted thinking went into making such an elegant discovery...

Joe

[Richard Kaufman]

Joe, Jim's first version of the nine-card principle involved a full deck and was published in Tony Andruzzi's Invocation magazine a long time ago! Start by reading that. :)

[Ted M]

"Remote Control" in The New Invocation, issue 43, Feb 1988, p. 516.

Volume 3 in the Kaufman hardbound volumes.