Last night, Kelly and I set out to see a showing of Knights of Badassdom as part of a series of fundraisers for Long Island’s I-CON convention. The film was first introduced at Comic-Con in 2011 but was shelved until late last year when it was released in Israel (Ironically, at another convention named Icon). The movie was recently released in the United States and is currently being shown in theaters nationwide through Tugg
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Masters of Illusion Live
Last night, I attended the Masters of Illusion Live show at the New York Community Bank Theater in Westbury, NY. I got to witness the magic of Drexus, Farrell Dillon, and Rick Thomas. Overall the show was excellent, though it wasn’t without its glitches.
Rick Thomas started off the show with a variant of The Aztec Lady, an effect originated by magician Robert Harbin sometime around the 1930’s. His beautiful assistant dances around and then steps into a box which is tilted horizontal and split into multiple pieces. Her had is still seen waving a scarf in one of the end boxes. The boxes are pushed back together and the assistant steps out of the whole unit completely restored.
Happy Anniversary
One year ago today, I asked a wonderful woman that I had known for years but only started hanging out with for a month and a half to be my girlfriend. As I’m typing this, I am also preparing a special dinner for the two of us. Kelly, I love you so much. Happy Anniversary!
Zen of Rocky Horror
The cast and crew of The Zen Room and myself.
To end my Birthday celebration last night, a handful of us made it down to Babylon’s Bow-Tie cinemas to catch The Zen Room‘s shadow cast performance of Rocky Horror Picture Show.
This is the same Troupe (and many of the same individuals) who performed in the REPO: The Genetic Opera shadow cast I reviewed back in 2009 (Read that review here). The Zen Room puts on an amazing show with great costumes, props and it even seemed like their lighting had improved since I first saw them years ago.
If you’re a virgin (you haven’t seen RHPS in shadow cast), then you really need to get down to Bow Tie Cinemas in Babylon Village on the first Saturday of the month and check out The Zen Room’s production.
Looking Back Seven Years
Going through my blog (and updating Categories/Tags on older articles) I found an article I posted in February of 2007 noting the technologies I used at the time. (The original blog post can be read here)
I decied to see how much thinga have changed in just 7 years: