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Hi all,

Ok, this is a quick post and I need some quick answers as the client wants to hear back from me within an hour or so - any help much appreciated!

I am doing a 30 min parlour act tomorrow night in front of some VIPs and they want a short biography to intoduce me. Does anyone have any idea what would sound cool? Usually I am pretty good at stuff like this but everything I put down on paper at the moment sounds rubbish and a bit cheesy!

In terms of my background I've been into magic for 18 years, performing pro for the last 10, have raised thousands for charity, have performed all over the UK and in Europe and America, been on TV once and I only perform routines and effects created by myself.

Oh, and this is one of my favourite quotes:
“In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds."

Thanks all!!!

Ok, short on time, so quick suggestions, which may not be right!

I take it somebody else is introducing you.:



"Intoducing somebody who has been a professional magician for 10 years, performing his own unique brand of magic.

In that time, he has performed in Europe and America, where he has appeared on TV.

(NOTE, If you appeared on TV in Europe, change it to America and Europe, where he has......)

It is my great pleasure to introduce....MagicBill"




Short and sweet, but gets information out.

Hope that helps give you ideas.

MMM

For inspiration: (and this is very summarised, so apologies)

Bob Cassidy has a wonderful logic puzzle with this fisherman's girl, and two coloured stones in a bag, one black and one white.

There's an evil landowner who wants to "marry" the girl, who the fisherman needs to deal with. He proposes a challenge - she draws one stone out of this bag, if it's white she escapes, if it's black she goes with him.

But she knows he's going to cheat - she knows there will be two black stones in the bag.

She needs to draw a white stone from a bag containing two black stones.

So how does she get out of it?

She meets him on the beach, reaches into the bag and draws out one of the stones in her fist. She slips, fumbles, and drops the stone among all the other stones on the beach...

She says how they'll never know which stone she picked, but they can tell by which stone is left... the bag is opened and a black stone remains - ergo she must have chosen the white stone...

"Impossibility is only a perception"

That is such an amazing little story - I love it! I think I could just come out and recite that and get a standing ovation!

Thanks for this feedback guys!

Dominic Rougier wrote:For inspiration: (and this is very summarised, so apologies)

Bob Cassidy has a wonderful logic puzzle with this fisherman's girl, and two coloured stones in a bag, one black and one white.

There's an evil landowner who wants to "marry" the girl, who the fisherman needs to deal with. He proposes a challenge - she draws one stone out of this bag, if it's white she escapes, if it's black she goes with him.

But she knows he's going to cheat - she knows there will be two black stones in the bag.

She needs to draw a white stone from a bag containing two black stones.

So how does she get out of it?

She meets him on the beach, reaches into the bag and draws out one of the stones in her fist. She slips, fumbles, and drops the stone among all the other stones on the beach...

She says how they'll never know which stone she picked, but they can tell by which stone is left... the bag is opened and a black stone remains - ergo she must have chosen the white stone...

"Impossibility is only a perception"

The same idea can be done with the three card Monte effect. You point at one of the cards and say. It is under that one” Then you quickly turn over the OTHER two and say, “I am right, but you don’t have to turn over this card because we ALL know the pea is under it. Thanks for the money,” Grab and RUN!

The con guy isn’t going to turn over the last card because the pea is NOT there and it will expose him as a con. LOL


Ray