On Friday February 3, 2011 My magic friends Shinnosuke, Masashi and Kinnikun performed at Hakubi Fruits Cafe and Bar in Takamatsu, Kagawa prefecture. It was a great show with awesome magic friends. The audience was also awesome and they really enjoyed the show and were fun to perform to. The venue itself was excellent. We did a stage show, a close-up show then table hopping after. I hope to get the chance to perform there again very soon! Thanks everyone!
Aaron
Winter 2011
2011 was an interesting year. A lot happened on the world front. Here in Japan of course we had the big earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. For me the year had its ups and down but was mostly good. I made a lot of new friends this year, and had the opportunity to perform for a lot of great people. I also became more organized this year. This for me was the great for my self motivation. I also was able to learn a lot of new things and tried to improve myself. I hope that 2012 will be a more peaceful year and I would like to wish all of you all the best in 2012.
Aaron
My Aquarium
It all started with one male Betta Fish I saw for sale at a home centre this summer. It was all alone in a small bowl and I thought about using it my show. Years ago I had used a Betta for a trick in my show and I had thought about doing it again. This little guy looked lonely and was only 400 Yen. So I bought him and went to another store and bought a bigger tank for him. Then it began. After that I decided to buy a few more fish! I bought some Rummy Nose Tetras and some Penguin Tetras. After that I bought some Ghost Shrimp. Then I realized that perhaps the tank was to small. So I bought a bigger tank. This is the one posted in the blog. In the smaller tank I now keep the Male Betta and separated from him a female Betta. The big tank has, those same Tetras plus some small Green Neon Tertas, and a flying fox and is filled with water plants and a CO2 system. Buying just one Betta fish turned into an expensive yet fun hobby! I have yet to use the Betta in my show.
Aaron
It’s been a long time since I have been able to go sightseeing. Last week December 11, 2011 I went to Kurashiki which is located in Okayama Prefecture. I went to visit the old town in the Bikan district. What a wonderful place! The place is filled with 19th century buildings. There are a lot of great shops and good food! Japan has such great food! What I enjoyed was the relaxing and peaceful atmosphere of this place. I could really imagine 19th century Japan. I was there for only a few hours but I could have spent a lot more time there looking through the various shops and enjoying the good food. It was such a refreshing day trip for me. I can’t wait until I can go visit another great place soon!
Aaron
It has been a while since I have last blogged! The reason is I have been preparing for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test N1. N1 is the most difficult but it has been my to pass this since I started studying Japanese. I took the test yesterday Dec 4, 2011. I may or may not have passed this time but I did improve my Japanese skill a bit during my recent study. However now that the test is done I will take a short brake from studying and get back to my normal blogging!
Aaron
Aaron
At Bar Intiki Magician
This month I will be performing at Bar Intiki Magician in Takamastu, Kagawa Prefecture. I will be peromfing close-up magic at various times during the evening with a few other magician. The dates and times I will be there are:
August 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16th from 8:00PM until 12:00AM
Aaron
Luis de Matos, Rudy Coby, William Kalush, and David Copperfield only at EMC!
The second Essential Magic Conference was held July 7, 8, and 9 2011. And wow it was another great year. Here is my review from last years event. Again this year the event was 3 days packed with great speakers. There were some returnees from last year like Eric Mead and Max Maven who are always great to watch and hear, but also some new presenters like Rudy Coby, David Kaye (Silly Billy), Fuji Akira, David Berglas and a whole lot more. The event and the content was excellent and was equal to if not better than last year. Both events had very high quality performances and talks that all magicians should see. One of the best parts of this years event was the tour David Copperfield gave of his magic museum.
On the technical side there were a few updates to the viewing system like the ability to now watch the event from an iOS device like an iPad. They also seemed to move the live chat which I believe was under the video feed last year to the side bar which I think was better. There were some technical glitches this year especially during session 7 which was the first session on the third day. From the EMC staff explanation it was a problem with their provider’s stream leaving Portugal. This caused session 7 to be unwatchable. However by session 8 the problem seemed to have been solved and during that time they created an backup stream to help those that where still having issues through another provider. I know some people where upset by this but the EMC staff was working hard to resolve this issue and they did. Sometimes problems happen unexpectedly and there is nothing you can do about it. However I applaud the EMC staff who got things back on track.
One sad point was that the live chat seemed to be a place this year from a lot of complainers which caused me not to want to use the chat. Most of the event seemed fine for me except the one session where they had big issed but other times it was working great. People who had difficulties at really brought the feeling down with what I think where complaints there we too strong. Such as this is a rip off etc. EMC is far from that. Anyways such is the net.
Overall I loved this years event and I applaud Luis de Matos, Marco Tempest, and David Britland from another great event and I look forward to next year event.
Aaron
