MENTALIDAD

Last March 21 and 25, I did a pure Mentalism show on 2 different occassions. I called the show MENTALIDAD just to add an interesting feel to it. It was a free show as it was a promotionary show on mentalism feats.

Before the show, people asked me if I'm gonna do magic tricks for the show since I am known to be a magician. I just tell them to wait till the show begins.

The first show was held at coffee club 101and Agilosis Bar. It was a bit of an informal show and audience interaction was very spontaneous. Unlike Close-up magic, the audience's reactions were a bit different. On Close-up magic I usually get jaw dropping people, a myriad of applause, some scared spectators running away, and a lot of well entertained audiences saying "panu nya ginawa yun?" but on Mentalism I get a reaction of bewilderment, an array of disbelief and an audience sitting at the edge of their seats. 

Mentalism is different from magic in a sense that it includes audience participation. Moreoever, it has a bit of seriousness to it especially where the mentalists needs to concentrate of what the volunteer is thinking. One of which is my "Russian Roulette" where there are four guns and one bullet. The volunteer freely puts the bullet on one of the guns without me knowing where it is. One by one just by sheer reading the volunteer's thought, I will guess the guns with no bullet by pointing the gun to my head and pulling the trigger afterwards. Scary huh?

I have different versions on this effect, refer to the photo gallery section for some of my photos from Mentalidad. 

If you are interested on Mentalism you could also visit the site of my friend/mentalism consultant Kel Fabie at www.magikel.multiply.com - he is one of the Philippine's most renowned mentalist.