Friday, January 9, 2009
I already moved my blogging at www.natemarx.wordpress.com
Monday, September 1, 2008
I just moved to www.natemarx.wordpress.com
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Reaching Distance
Well I'm back to Koronadal City, but only for weekends. I'm having my Master's Degree there, but its not an excuse for me not to do some magic. Bringing the art of magic and mentalism there is a blast. I first did some magic on my "new" school to my "new" schoolmates. It was fun and the emotional connection with the spectators was good. I find it hard to perform pyschological illusions though due to a huge difference in dialect there but good enough that I was able to practice some NLP (neuro linguistic programming) to some folks at the coffee shop. The wonder of it is its very impromptu and the effect is hair raising, just imagine someone influencing your thoughts and making you do things that seem to be impossible. Pyschological Illusion is perhaps my best weapon in squaring off with some magicians out there. I did some escapology there too with ropes and people found it to be very intriguing. No gimmick ropes, no fake knots.
I will certainly bring more magic there. See you soon mga migo kag miga!! hehe...
Monday, June 2, 2008
Something BIG...
Point of information
The reason for it is coz when I do shows, I want to give it a 100% performance. I usually decline emergency offer where the I have to do a show after 2 hours since not only will I wont be able to give a 100% performance it will also damage my repertoir as a performer in case things wont go they way it should since the lack of time to prepare.
Moreoever, I only do shows if it is offered to me at least four days before. Why?
1.) I need an ample time to prepare
2.) I might have prior commitments
3.) I need to know what kind of place and the kind of people I will be performing for.
Simply put, I want my shows to be great and worth it.
Note: I can only do shows up to 10 p.m. only for the next two months since I do paperworks during the evening.
Me, performing psychokinesis...
Friday, May 30, 2008
People I look up to...
As a magician and mentalist, there are persons that I look up to and gain motivation from. Being what I am now is basically a dream come true. A dream that I had way back when I was a boy. At this point in time I am still in gasped seeing other magicians and mentalist perform and very much enjoy their performance.
Let's start off with Magic. Since I am into close up magic, I rarely look up to stage magicians.
1.) DAVID BLAINE
David Blaine (born David Blaine White on April 4, 1973 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.) is an American world record holding magician and endurance artist. He made his name as a performer of street and close-up magic. (www.wikipedia.com)
Most of my close up card routines are from this guy. But take note, I only observed what he does and mimicked the effect. One thing that I really like about Blaine is even if he performs simple card routines still the effect that he does to his audience is surprising, He gave another word for "Close up magic" which is Street Magic which is very well known to people. One more thing about Blaine is that he is an "ENDURANCE ARTIST", putting the human mind and body to its limits which is risky at same time just plain crazy but you gotta hand it to him. He's one of the most renowned magician in contemporary.
2.) CRISS ANGEL
Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos (born December 19, 1967), better known by his stage name Criss Angel is an American magician, musician, escapologist, stunt performer, and actor. He is best known for starring in his own television show, Criss Angel Mindfreak. (www.wikipedia.com)
If you enjoyed my shows, you can find a bit of similarity in the way I present with this guy. Even the way I dress up sometimes for my shows. Though a lot of magicians and skeptics hate this guy 'coz of certain conspiracies which is related to camera tricks or stooges which I have no right to say that its true.
Criss is the biggest influence in my craft. Yeah he is. I was watching him on T.V. and I was mystified by what he does. I told myself I wanna be like this guy, and afterwhich I taught myself how to do close up magic. He is regarded as more of an illusionist and performs all sorts of bizzare magic which really freaks people. If David is an endurance artist, this guy is an escape artist. Moreover, he is my motivation to practice escapology as well which only few magicians attempt.
3.) CYRIL TAKAYAMA
Takayama was born and raised in Hollywood, California. His father is of Japanese descent from Okinawa prefecture, while his mother is Moroccan-French[citation needed], both of whom were beauticians. He was a member of the short-lived television series T.H.E.M. In 2007 he won first place in The Magic Woods Awards, Best Magician Category.
Career
Takayama became interested in magic when he was 7 years old, when he went to a magic show in Las Vegas where he saw a guest magician levitate a woman and cut himself in half. The first time Cyril ever performed magic in front of people was during his school's talent show. At the age of 12, he entered the junior program at the Magic Castle in Hollywood.Some of Cyril's signature tricks include the hamburger in the menu trick, having his head fall off his shoulders, and the card in the window trick. His most dramatic trick was above a Las Vegas hotel, where he bungee jumps into the hotel pool with a sword and spears the chosen card of his co host from a deck floating in the water. (www.wikipedia.com)
I really hate this guy...Why? because I envy the feats that he does. Unlike David Blaine, somehow I cannot mimick what Cyril does. On a certain level when it comes to close up magic, I could say Cyril is better than David Blaine. Look him up on youtube so you'd know.
MENTALISM
Now, mentalism is different...This is the art which I am into right now 'coz it creates an atmosphere where the audience are involved in whats about to happen. Basically the effect relies on the audience.
1.) KEITH BARRY
Keith Patrick Barry is an Irish illusionist, mentalist, and close-up magician.
Born in County Waterford, Ireland in 1976, Barry's interest in magic began at the age of fourteen when he purchased a book entitled Magic for the complete Klutz.
Since 2003, Barry has performed on his own television show in Europe entitled Close Encounters with Keith Barry. The show has been played in 28 countries worldwide. (www.wikipedia.com)
This is the first Mentalist I've ever watch on T.V. We both love the effect of RUSSIAN ROULETTE, coz it creates suspense, risk and mentalism principles. He was the person who gave me the interest on learning MENTALISM.
2.) DERREN BROWN
Derren Victor Brown (born 27 February 1971) is an English magician, psychological illusionist, mentalist, painter and self-professed sceptic regarding paranormal phenomena. He was born in Croydon, South London, and studied Law and German at the University of Bristol.[1] While there, he attended a show by the hypnotist Martin Taylor, which inspired him to turn to illusion and hypnosis as a career.[2] Whilst an undergraduate, he started working as a conjuror, practising the traditional skills of close-up magic. In 1996, he started performing stage hypnosis shows at the University of Bristol under his then stage name of Derren V. Brown. (www.wikipedia.com)
Talking about people I look up to... Derren is probably the cream of the pie. This guy is fu*ckin great!!! He is the best contemporary performer I have every watch by far. Just watch him on youtube so you'd know what I'm talking about.
I can only do few of the feats from him and rarely perform them on shows since what Derren does requires a lot of time to practice and learn and I do mean LEARN! I wanna be like this guy...
***These people are my inspiration when it comes to the art of magic and mentalism. I don't look up that much to filipino magicians and mentalist basically 'coz of the not so impressive presentation but there's one mentalist in particular who I look up to --- Kel Fabie (my mentor on mentalism). He's one of the Philippines' greatest mentalist. I'm looking forward to do a collaborative show with him in Gensan this year. Check out www.magikel.multiply.com to know about him.
