FISM 2018 - Day Four
Posted: July 12th, 2018, 9:58 am
FISM 2018 - Day Four
FISM 2018 is definitely the FISM of closeup. We start the report with the day’s closeup review and what a day it’s been with ovation after ovation!
*Pere Rafart - Card - Spain
Amazing visual magic with pips swirling on the cards, pips falling off, ‘vacuumed’ off the table and returned to the cards. Beautiful. Standing ovation from a very appreciative audience. Definite prize material.
*Omar Ferret - Micro - USA
Production of saucer and cup with vanishing sugar cubes, appearing cigars and ending with appearing milk and sugar set.
*Ryan Hayashi - Micro - England
Hayashi recounts how he stopped magic to open his dojo and is asked by one of his students to show him his matrix routine. An impressive display with visual vanishes and appearances leading to a standing ovation. There was an under current of laughter throughout which I clearly missed.
*Bastie - Cards - France
A tale of his deceased grandfather and the vanishing and reappearance of the grandfathers autographed card (?) Note to the wise - singing is not a good idea at FISM. Unfortunately difficult to see the cards on the table so magic - if any - was lost.
*Lawrens Godon - Micro - France
Do performers not know that wearing sunglasses blocks your connection with an audience? A confusing act with coins, purses and an hourglass. Clarity of plot please.
*Vincent - Micro - Australia
Eye candy for magicians with some of the most amazing visual “solving” of a cube I’ve seen - with one particular appearance of the cube in the hands that looks like a Hollywood special effect. Unfortunately there is a law of diminishing returns and only so many ways you can solve a cube ( no matter how visually impossible ) before it gets repetitive. But magicians don’t care and the finale sees the dismantled cube pieces reassemble before our eyes. Standing ovation.
*Javi Bentez - Cards - Spain
A “requiem to Ascanio” with visual card printing ... and a plot thereafter which I failed to follow.
*DK - Micro - Korea
An amazingly creative act manipulating shadows with objects appearing and vanishing behind a small screen illuminated by a simple torch. Some ingenuous ideas with the entire act punctuated by audible gasps of astonishment from the audience. I have a front row seat with a fairly exposed view and still being this close could not see how some of the effects were accomplished. Prize material especially for creativity.
*Miguel Ajo - Cards - Spain
An obligatory Rubik’s cube ( poor timing in light of Vincent’s act ) along with vanishing queens, cards matching poker chips and ending with a rainbow back deck reveal and appearing rainbow tie. “Dream in color” we are told.
*Alfonso Rituerto - Micro - Germany
Coin from sugar, cup from sugar and coins across in sugar with signed coin arriving in the coffee maker.
*Lodewijk de Widt - Cards - Netherlands
A blank deck printed - card by card and then unengaging card magic in between followed by a mismatched torn and restored card. You got to work to keep my attention. This is FISM.
*Luis Olmedo - Micro - Spain
Magicians love a good coin matrix. Standing ovation.
*Jorge Linett - Micro - Argentina
Painful pirate themed act complete with eye patch, hook and a find the coin monte. Picking up a ships wheel from behind the table is sadly not magic.
*Nojima - Cards - Japan
Madcap character printing deck of cards with the four aces switching places with the 4 kings in visual eye candy fashion.
*Eric Chien - Micro - Taiwan
We have a Grand Prix contender. Table is separated in two by a ribbon down the center. Red cards on the left blue on the right. The cards literally change color midair as they cross the color line. The effect is so visual. The sequence is repeated with the cards this time morphing into coins as they pass the line. Eye candy of note!
*Bill Cheung - Cards - China
Another unbelievable act. A named card visually appears in N isolated glass on the table. Any card called for rises from the deck untouched by the magician. A phenomenal deck vanish ending with four signed cards appearing in a sealed deck topped off with the deck morphing into blanks before our eyes. If your magic doesn’t look like a special effect - you have very little prospect at this years FISM!
What a day for closeup magic!
Stage contest to follow.
FISM 2018 is definitely the FISM of closeup. We start the report with the day’s closeup review and what a day it’s been with ovation after ovation!
*Pere Rafart - Card - Spain
Amazing visual magic with pips swirling on the cards, pips falling off, ‘vacuumed’ off the table and returned to the cards. Beautiful. Standing ovation from a very appreciative audience. Definite prize material.
*Omar Ferret - Micro - USA
Production of saucer and cup with vanishing sugar cubes, appearing cigars and ending with appearing milk and sugar set.
*Ryan Hayashi - Micro - England
Hayashi recounts how he stopped magic to open his dojo and is asked by one of his students to show him his matrix routine. An impressive display with visual vanishes and appearances leading to a standing ovation. There was an under current of laughter throughout which I clearly missed.
*Bastie - Cards - France
A tale of his deceased grandfather and the vanishing and reappearance of the grandfathers autographed card (?) Note to the wise - singing is not a good idea at FISM. Unfortunately difficult to see the cards on the table so magic - if any - was lost.
*Lawrens Godon - Micro - France
Do performers not know that wearing sunglasses blocks your connection with an audience? A confusing act with coins, purses and an hourglass. Clarity of plot please.
*Vincent - Micro - Australia
Eye candy for magicians with some of the most amazing visual “solving” of a cube I’ve seen - with one particular appearance of the cube in the hands that looks like a Hollywood special effect. Unfortunately there is a law of diminishing returns and only so many ways you can solve a cube ( no matter how visually impossible ) before it gets repetitive. But magicians don’t care and the finale sees the dismantled cube pieces reassemble before our eyes. Standing ovation.
*Javi Bentez - Cards - Spain
A “requiem to Ascanio” with visual card printing ... and a plot thereafter which I failed to follow.
*DK - Micro - Korea
An amazingly creative act manipulating shadows with objects appearing and vanishing behind a small screen illuminated by a simple torch. Some ingenuous ideas with the entire act punctuated by audible gasps of astonishment from the audience. I have a front row seat with a fairly exposed view and still being this close could not see how some of the effects were accomplished. Prize material especially for creativity.
*Miguel Ajo - Cards - Spain
An obligatory Rubik’s cube ( poor timing in light of Vincent’s act ) along with vanishing queens, cards matching poker chips and ending with a rainbow back deck reveal and appearing rainbow tie. “Dream in color” we are told.
*Alfonso Rituerto - Micro - Germany
Coin from sugar, cup from sugar and coins across in sugar with signed coin arriving in the coffee maker.
*Lodewijk de Widt - Cards - Netherlands
A blank deck printed - card by card and then unengaging card magic in between followed by a mismatched torn and restored card. You got to work to keep my attention. This is FISM.
*Luis Olmedo - Micro - Spain
Magicians love a good coin matrix. Standing ovation.
*Jorge Linett - Micro - Argentina
Painful pirate themed act complete with eye patch, hook and a find the coin monte. Picking up a ships wheel from behind the table is sadly not magic.
*Nojima - Cards - Japan
Madcap character printing deck of cards with the four aces switching places with the 4 kings in visual eye candy fashion.
*Eric Chien - Micro - Taiwan
We have a Grand Prix contender. Table is separated in two by a ribbon down the center. Red cards on the left blue on the right. The cards literally change color midair as they cross the color line. The effect is so visual. The sequence is repeated with the cards this time morphing into coins as they pass the line. Eye candy of note!
*Bill Cheung - Cards - China
Another unbelievable act. A named card visually appears in N isolated glass on the table. Any card called for rises from the deck untouched by the magician. A phenomenal deck vanish ending with four signed cards appearing in a sealed deck topped off with the deck morphing into blanks before our eyes. If your magic doesn’t look like a special effect - you have very little prospect at this years FISM!
What a day for closeup magic!
Stage contest to follow.