Don’t forget to watch the Late Late Show tonight and the rest of the week for…. MAGIC WEEK!

I love graphic design, and I love magic, so naturally I’d love old magic posters. A gentlemen that I know in the local business community had an interest in magic and especially Houdini, and he gave me some of his collection. There was a copy of a Houdini painting, along with a whole bunch of copies of old magic posters. The pages came from a book originally, but all of the below pages were just torn out of it. I have no idea what the original book was unfortunately. Does anyone know?

Some of them are really fantastic though. I’m going to see about framing a few of them and hanging them up in my office. If you go to my facebook album, you can see all of the posters.

Naturally I recognize some of the names, but there’s a bunch that I’ve never heard of before.

I’m trying to learn AfterEffects so that I can put together my own promotional video. At some point I’d also like to put together my own DVD with clips from the show, interactive magic tricks, and teach-a-trick segments.

This is my first video test of learning Adobe AfterEffects. Hopefully I’ll have an opening title like this for my promo video that matches my new business cards that I’m getting.

I’m sure I’ll post more clips as I put them together.

Everybody always complains about the horrors and tortures of flying, and although I’m not a regular air-passenger I’ve had my fair share of flying nightmares. But even still, there’s nothing more magical than being up in the air just as the sun is going down and looking out the window at all the stars on the top half of the sky, and the bright lights of the cities below.

When I flew to Vegas this past summer our transfer flight from Seattle was at night, so our flight to Vegas was in darkness. But it was an amazing sight to fly into Las Vegas, the brightest city in the world, and see all the lights below.

I’ve always hoped that as I continue to perform magic I’ll have more opportunities to travel. The world around us is spectacular.