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!!

Erdnase

A trick published in "A Book in English", performed 6 years ago. Erdnase!

WOODYLAND

Last months were a little crazies, with tons of work. I've been performing, lecturing and teaching constantly, but there are two main points in which I worked 200%

Some of the best spanish close up magicians and me, we're on a project named "Teatro Encantado" (Haunted Theatre). A little room specially designed for close-up shows. Take a look at the web page http://www.teatroencantado.com/ and you'll find some familiar faces.

The other project has been my 4 dvd set named "WoodyLand" that I shoot with Luis de Matos and the people of Studio 33 in Portugal. What a wonderful team!! It has been a hard job but I enjoyed it a lot and, I hope, you'll find fine the result in some months (I'll keep you in touch with the release date!).

Finally, let me share one more picture. You'll see that strange things happens in Studio 33...

Un abrazo amigos!

Seminario en Madrid

Hola chicos,

Este próximo miércoles, día 7 de Marzo, impartiré un seminario muy especial de 5h en el Teatro Encantado, con un montón de material no explicado hasta la fecha. El concepto principal es que no se van a explicar juegos independientes, sino que lo que se explica es un show completo. El seminario tiene 3 partes:

- El show: Un espectáculo bien estructurado conformado por los juegos que se explicarán después.
- Los juegos: Se explica con detalle cada uno de los juegos. En su mayoría son juegos semi-automáticos, aunque hay algunos juegos técnicos. Las técnicas "no estándar" también se explican.
- Estructura: Una parte teórica sobre cómo componer y estructurar una sesión y un show que en este caso se vuelve eminentemente práctica. Se explica cómo se ha estructurado el espectáculo inicial, los recursos que se han utilizado, etc, de forma que quien asista pueda aprender cómo construir y componer sus propias actuaciones.

Será de 18:30 a 23:30 (con un ligero descanso), repito, el miércoles 7. Precio: 30€.
Reservas en la web del Teatro Encantado: http://www.teatroencantado.com/
o enviando un e-mail a la dirección: conferencias@teatroencantado.com

Un saludo!!


Woody

Coming back...

After MONTHS too busy to write, I'm back... but now, I'm too busy to write, so, I'll post something tomorrow :P

Rubiales and the ambitious coin.

Here is a video download of a trick by my friend, the great spanish magician Rubiales. It has english subtitles so it's a good oportunity to discover this wonderful magician to the non-spanish people. Enjoy it!