WoodyLand Trailer

Here is the trailer of my DVD set WoodyLand:

¿Es un pájaro? ¿es un avión?... ¿o es un mago friki?

Tras algunos días de descanso en Agosto para vacaciones, preparar nuevo show, pasar un par de días en casa del maestro Tamariz en Cádiz, y grabar unas videodescargas con Dani DaOrtiz en Estepona, ¡vuelvo al trabajo! Quiero decir, al trabajo de actuar propiamente dicho.

Este fin de semana hemos arrancado la nueva temporada en el Teatro Encantado (recordad que en www.teatroencantado.com podéis ver toda la programación) y, aparte de disfrutar muchísimo con el regreso del Doctor Aceves en los shows infantiles, he estrenado nuevo espectáculo... SuperWoody.

Se trata de un show menos teatral (dentro de lo que puede suponer la palabra "teatral" en mi estilo de trabajo) que "La Ilusión la pintan Calva" y en el que incluyo muchos de mis juegos de autor que no había incluido en ese espectáculo. También algunos clásicos imprescindibles, y algunas rutinas que acabo de estrenar porque las he creado ex-profeso para este show, y que me tienen muy contento.

Con buena parte del público sentado alrededor de la mesa, muy cerca, y sólo dos barajas (una para el público y otra para el mago), hago unos 90 minutos bajo una divertida premisa: ¿Quién dijo que no existen los superpoderes? ¿Qué son los magos sino seres capaces de realizar las más increíbles proezas? 

Los dos pases de estreno han sido un éxito absoluto y, aunque debo definir aún la parte de "valle", la estructura tiene muy buena pinta y tanto el público como el artista (¡eso creo!) salimos encantados. ¡Espero que vengáis a verme!

Y, como siempre, con el apoyo de la pantalla y la cámara, y de música orquestal. Os dejo con el tema principal, compuesto por un servidor de ustedes (que sirvan para algo tantos años de compositor), e interpretado por la Orquesta Sinfónica de Praga (¡en serio!).

¡¡Un supersaludo!! ¡Nos vemos!

The Card Puzzle

This is a video of an old-old-very-old performance of "The Card Puzzle", one of the tricks recently released by the Essential Magic Collection. It's in spanish, but I think everybody can understand the effect.

You can check the new version in almost every magic shop, for instance in: http://www.penguinmagic.com/p/S14594

WoodyLand Contents

Well, we're working hard to have a great DVD set (when I say "we're" probably I should say "Luis de Matos team are"  :) ). The release date is at the end of August, so, perhaps some modification can be done, but I can share with you the most probable table of contents.

A lot of people is asking me about how much stuff is also in "A book in english". You'll see that, probably, a 40%. I don't want to be repetitive, but I think a DVD is a good way to show you those tricks in which I think the way to perform can be important, and, of course, the moves in action.

I hope you'll like it!!

WOODYLAND - Table of contents
DVD 1: Live show.- About structure.

- A trick for you: Card at your thought number.
- Divination Ring
- Quick Divination
- Blessed Poker
- Mini Follow the leader
- Blindfold triumph
- Optical oil and water
- The Bumblebees
- Routined Spelling
- Wild Card interruptus
- Woodyland suite
- Weighing the cards

- Talk about structure
- Compositing tools
- On "Matching the cards"
- Explanation about the whole structure of the show
- Explanation of some tricks
- Mini Follow the leader
- Optical oil and water
- Wild card interruptus
- Woodyland suite

- Interview 1/4

DVD 2: Interactive and semiautomatic tricks.

- Your Other Half (original version)
- Your Other Half II (version with table)
- Ring Divination
- The man with three hands

- Never tell them... (My ACAAN)
- Australian Poker
- Blessed Poker (performance in DVD1)
- The impossible sum
- Wheighing the cards (performance in DVD1)

- Interview 2/4

DVD 3: Sleight of hand

- Dorset
- The bumblebees (performance in DVD1)
- Torn corner ambitious card
- Aces through the table : The convex control
- Progressive order routine
- Separagon
- Cheekie Oil and Water
- Swindle shuffle
- Woody's false riffle shuffle
- Gabi's deck switch (Gabi's handling and Woody's handling)

- Search for a triumph
- Talk about triumph
- On Dai Vernon's triumph
- Blindfold triumph (performance in DVD1)
- Triumph in cascade

- Interview 3/4

DVD 4: Si Stebbins. Stacked deck magic

- Theory on stacks
- Si Stebbins order: the propierties
- Si Señor
- The Mentalist
- Si Fry
- Forcing any number (extravaganza for faro-friends)
- Other curiosities
- A trip on domore discovery
- Si Stebbins Sonet
- Routined Spelling (performance in DVD1)
- Deletreos en rutina (spanish version)

- A trick for you: Explanation and talk

- Interview 4/4

Vacations!!

Well, finally, after two years without free space between projects and works, I'm enjoying 15 days I reserved in my schedule for vacations. We need it! Maricarmen and me, after running "Teatro Encantado", we spend 28h daily on work. No time for almost anything, so, now, we'll relax some days, some little trip, meet good friends we don't see for too much time, some good food, and lots of laughs. These are our main goal for two weeks.

I'll use part of this "free" time to write some post in this blog. I have a lot of good experiences since my stay in New York that I'll love to tell you: Philadelphia, FISM in Blackpool, EMC in Portugal...

Also I have some new products in the market: The Card Puzzle y The Bumblebees. And my "WoodyLand" set of DVDs will be released at the end of this month. And, the next 24 august I start a new show with Teatro Encantado but NOT in the Teatro Encantado! We're working in something very very special!! So, a lot of things to talk about!


Woody

Routined Spelling

Here is! The promised video in the 4F convention. Thank you very much to Meir Yedid for their kindly words.

FFFF y New York, New York

The last week I’ve spending a great time in the USA. Wednesday 25 I traveled to Batavia, in Buffalo, to be part for 4^th time in the FFFF convention. I can say it was my “Fourth Four Fs”!

I had the opportunity to share some magic with friends with I don’t met for some time: Eric Jones, Shawn Farquhar, Kim Huynjoon, Mike Chao, Marc de Souza, Geoff Williams, Paul Critelli, Bebel and, of course, Hector Mancha!… A lot of great magicians there.

4F has great galas and shows, and we’ve seen some incredible stuff this year. My favorites were the act that Boris Wild presented for first time and the incredible routines of Denis Behr (with a surprising poker deal that catch me out!).

I presented my “routined spelling”, and It was so funny: I usually spell a matching card as “IDENTICAL”, sometimes “MATCHING”, but when I asked to Steve Beam how he spelled this cards he simply said “MATE”… four letters!!  But I made the trick work anyway! Hector filmed the routine, so, if I can upload it, I’ll share with you soon.

But in my opinion, the best magic in 4F happens in the tables of the hall and the hospitality room, at night, after the official schedule. It was great session there!

The Sunday 29 Hector and me traveled together to New York, when I had a lecture in Tannen’s, but, as I had some free days we used to see some shows (the recent release “Leap of Faith” and the wonderful-outstanding “Newsies”… yes, I love musical theatre, and I love Alan Menken as composer!) and, also, to share magic with some friends.

My friends Michael Six and Xavior Spade (and his girlfriend) pick us to dinner in the classical “Grimaldi’s” (the say “best pizza in New York”) and later we meet with other two magicians Mark Calabrese and John B. Born, and we share magic almost all night. And it was great!! I knew how talented Six is, but all of them they’re very good magicians. I enjoyed a lot wathing magic on “high standars”.

But next day was even better. We met Eric deCamps to spend the day and he did almost a private one-man-show for us! And everything was wonderful. Every detail, every move, it was perfectly done. It was a pleasure and an honor!!

Yestarday I did my lecture in Tannen’s and it looks it was a big success! Almost 50 attendants, 3 hours lecturing, and very good reactions. Even I sold, with some copies of my book, some of the limited run of “Woody-Toon” deck! It was great and I enjoyed a lot.

Now, I’m in a train, leaving New York and destination Baltimore, when I will do another lecture tonight. I’ll tell you soon about it!!