"If you missed this lecture, you wasted some of your ring dues! Ian performed a whirl-wind of effects using ropes, balloons, sponge balls, silks, thumb tips, flash cotton, and a variety of other props. At Applebees, afterward he showed some of his coin matrix effects that he didn't have time to include in the lecture. All of his effects were practical and most of them were doable with objects many ring members already have laying around in a drawer or box somewhere."
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Art form
Magic is an art form that has been parodied by amateurs. Like people who dress as mimes and think they are Marseil Marseau.
I rather think of magic as repertory theater. Magicians doing their rendition of classics (and non classics). Like any theater, you have professional theater and community theater. Anyone can get a script, but most only emulate a performance they have seen. Or, merely read the part. Others can get it right.
I think its is time for magicians to consider our art in this fashion.
I rather think of magic as repertory theater. Magicians doing their rendition of classics (and non classics). Like any theater, you have professional theater and community theater. Anyone can get a script, but most only emulate a performance they have seen. Or, merely read the part. Others can get it right.
I think its is time for magicians to consider our art in this fashion.
As a magical performer and inventor, I consider my part as the playwright who comes up with the lines and moves and directs the performer.
---Ian
---Ian
Friday, June 25, 2010
old article
ON THE LAKE FRONTJune 24, 1994|By Bill Bond of The Sentinel Staff
Word has it that the owner of a movie house and magic store in downtown Leesburg plans to open a restaurant for lunch and evening meals in the old Elks Club building on east Main Street.
Ian Sutz, owner of Tropic Twin Cinema and Costume Store, has purchased the building, which already has a kitchen, restaurant and lounge on the first floor, and a spacious banquet hall on the second floor.
He plans to have the eatery up and serving in late August or early September, he said Thursday.
The Leesburg Elks Club went belly up some time ago, and Sutz purchased the building last month.
He said that since the Chopping Block Restaurant closed there is a need for a restaurant in downtown Leesburg.
''I have a customer base crying for a place to go after a movie and it's within easy walking distance of my theater,'' Sutz said. The building is a couple of short blocks from the movie house and has a seating capacity of 156.
He plans sandwich and salad lunches and southern-style cuisine for evening dinners. The food will be similar to what was served at the now-defunct Chopping Block, which is across from the theater and a costume/magic store.
The name of the restaurant comes from his wife's first name: ''Lynn's Leesburg Inn.''
He's still a little unsure, though, about the ''Inn'' part in the name because he doesn't plan to rent rooms.
Word has it that the owner of a movie house and magic store in downtown Leesburg plans to open a restaurant for lunch and evening meals in the old Elks Club building on east Main Street.
Ian Sutz, owner of Tropic Twin Cinema and Costume Store, has purchased the building, which already has a kitchen, restaurant and lounge on the first floor, and a spacious banquet hall on the second floor.
He plans to have the eatery up and serving in late August or early September, he said Thursday.
The Leesburg Elks Club went belly up some time ago, and Sutz purchased the building last month.
He said that since the Chopping Block Restaurant closed there is a need for a restaurant in downtown Leesburg.
''I have a customer base crying for a place to go after a movie and it's within easy walking distance of my theater,'' Sutz said. The building is a couple of short blocks from the movie house and has a seating capacity of 156.
He plans sandwich and salad lunches and southern-style cuisine for evening dinners. The food will be similar to what was served at the now-defunct Chopping Block, which is across from the theater and a costume/magic store.
The name of the restaurant comes from his wife's first name: ''Lynn's Leesburg Inn.''
He's still a little unsure, though, about the ''Inn'' part in the name because he doesn't plan to rent rooms.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
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