Wellington. 20-23 Oct. 2017.
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Three headliners announced so far...
Shin Lim
Reigning FISM World Champion in Close up Card Magic
Rob Zabrecky Two-time Stage Magician of the Year – Magic Castle
Hector Mancha Reigning FISM Grand Prix World Champion of Magic
More headliners announced soon. Find us on Facebook www.facebook.com/nzmagicconvention
WHAT’S
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review of a variety magic show in vancouver, Canada produced by murray hatfield & Teresa
98 44 | 10 | PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT - FALL | 14 | NEWS | 20 | JIGGER WITH A TWIST | 26 | EASY MAGIC TRICKS | 28 | DECK REVIEW
| 44 | FEATURE STORY - STAN ALLEN
| 30 | BAMBOOZLERS
| 60 | THE IMMERSIVE MAGIC OF HAUNTED HOUSES
| 31 | SCARY MOVIE
| 82 | IT'S A WHOLE NEW WORLD - MARKETING
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| 86 | DEVELOPING MATERIAL - JOHN CARNEY | 92 | THE MAGIC PLAY 98| DREAM SHOW SERIES - BILL ABBOTT | 104 | PRODUCING YOUR OWN SHOW | 112 | FOOLING JOHNNY CARSON | 124 | THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD
| 32 | ROOM CHANGE | 36 | POKER SHAKE | 38 | AUDIENCE CREATIVE PREDICTION
| 136 | REVIEWS
EDITOR'S October/November 2016
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SAYING THANK YOU TO STAN ALLEN AND MAGIC MAGAZINE. PUBLISHER Paul Romhany & Joomag EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paul Romhany: editor@vanishmagazine.com ASSOCIATE EDITOR Ben Robinson ASSOCIATE EDITOR Nick Lewin STAFF WRITERS Diamond Jim Tyler, Thom Peterson, Butzi, Louie Foxx, Erik Dobell, Harrison Carroll, Charles Bach, Nick Lewin, David Penn, Doug Bennett, Bill Abbott, Ben Whiting EDITORIAL SUPPORT EXECUTIVE Richard Webster and Mick Peck ADVERTISING COORDINATOR Paul Romhany & Sydnie Anderson CREATIVE DESIGNER & LAYOUT Paul Romhany MARKETING EXECUTIVES Steve Hocevar CIRCULATION & SUBSCRIPTION Harry Morgan ADDRESS 1183 Blind Bogey Drive Qualicum Beach, BC. V9K1E6 CANADA COVER PHOTO: Katie Sokulski COPYRIGHT All rights reserved. None of this magazine can be reprinted electronically OR in hard form without the permission of the editor.
This edition of VANISH comes from Sweden where I've been performing all month. Thanks to the wonderful age of technology I am still able to produce the magazine on schedule. It is an honour to pay tribute to Stan Allen and share his publishing journey that started over 30 years ago with INSIDE MAGIC followed by MAGIC Magazine. I remember getting my very first copy of MAGIC and pretty much every copy after that. Stan definitely set a new industry standard and continued to raise the bar very high. On behalf of magicians around the world I'd like to thank you. Nick Lewin has done a wonderful job putting this feature story together and I'd like to thank him for putting so much time in to this one in particular. Stan announced that the very LAST issue of MAGIC Magazine will be November 2016. For many, the monthly anticipation of waiting to see who would grace the cover, see the latest tricks and adverts, read the reviews and learn from others in the business will be missed. Fate has maybe allowed VANISH to help fill that void. Starting with the December 2016 issue VANISH will become a monthly publication. This means I will take on a lot more work, but with the incredible team around me I know we can produce a publication we can all be proud of. Each current issue will remain FREE during that current month, and there is also the offer of On-Demand printing should you want a hard copy. Each issue will be smaller than the bimonthly issues, which means the cost for printing will be cheaper. Lots of exciting things happening so stay tuned and share this journey with us.
Paul Romhany
AllanSlaight Awards $50,000 WAS JUST AWARDED FOR PURSUING THE IMPOSSIBLE
CONGRATULATIONS Ton Onosaka • Lifetime Achievement | Darcy Oake • Sharing Wonder Richard Kaufman • Sharing Secrets | Jorge Blass • International Rising Star Luc Langevin • Canadian Rising Star
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PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT
FALL ONE OF THE HOTTEST PRODUCTS ON THE MARKET RIGHT NOW IS AN AMAZING PK EFFECT CALLED FALL BY PHILIP RYAN, BANACHEK AND VORTEX MAGIC. THE UPDATE ON BANACHEK'S PK PEN HAS TAKEN ON A WHOLE NEW LIFE WITH RYAN'S CREATION AND WE ARE EXCITED TO SHARE SOME OF PHILIP'S COMMENTS ON THIS GREAT PIECE. VANISH MAGAZINE WAS ABLE TO SIT DOWN WITH PHILIP AND FIND OUT A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT HIM AND WHAT WENT IN TO CREATING FALL.
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Philip Ryan's interest was started by his mother when he was 10 years old. He remembers she would do Tarot Card readings with him which eventually, over time led Philip to start doing readings for his friends. It wasn't until grade four or five when he was accidentally lead into the art of magic. It all started during a game of cards with his classmates on lunch break. At the end of the card game a friend had put all the cards face down on the desk, and said to him, "take out the seven of spades" . Though he didn't know where it was, he put his hand over every single playing card hoping, in his mind if he truly believed he could find it, he would. After a couple of minutes he felt his hand tingle over one card and without hesitation flipped the card over, and low and behold the card he flipped over was the seven of spades.