Carl Michael:
Over the last couple of years, I have been coaching a friend of mine -
Carl Michael. A young upcoming magician, his cold approach is the
absolute strongest I've ever seen, this guy can approach anyone with no
fear what-so-ever.
Of course, it's one thing to give advice to a friend from time to time
... but we are still both magicians, which at some level means were are
in competition. And I will confess, I have not always been as helpful to
him as I could be. And on top of that, some of the local magi think he's
a hot shot and I've wanted to keep some distance from him to avoid the
"guilt by association"; meaning if they don't like him, they won't like
me if I'm his friend helping him.
But you know what ... at this point I don't care what anyone thinks of
me! This guy Carl is good people ... he has chops, he has the looks, and
most importantly laymen love the guy. After a lot of long hard thinking,
I've come to the realization that I can teach him magic ... what I can't
do is teach a magician how to be "cool". And this kid is most
diffidently without any doubts one of the coolest kat's I've ever hung
with.
So I had him over my house last week for a long talk ... he is the first
magician to ever be invited to my house, and he is the only magician to
ever see my secret studio workshop. He had once wanted to borrow my
Super-X levitation, but I told him no - I felt that if he performed the
illusion it would dilute it's value when I performed it ... well I told
him not only was I going to let him borrow it, I was going to film it
for him, and edit it for him, and even let him use my version of the
routine done on the beach with a surfboard and beach chairs. Hopefully
we'll film that sometime in March before the spring breakers get to town.
In the mean time ... here is a short vid we made in my studio of a four
Ace routine he's working on. A work in progress, I want to help him
develop this into a full routine and not just a simple trick. I'm very
excited about his future ... at my age, I'm never going to achieve the
success of David Blaine or Chris Angel ... but there is no reason I
can't help this kid get there. He's already been on Snoop Dog's reality
show, filmed his first national television commercial, he has opened
shows for Uncle Kracker and more recently has been entertaining Vince
Neil and Tommy Lee of Motley Crue.
And now I'm proud to be introducing him to my fans...
-JoeJoe
Posted by JoeJoe on Monday, January 23, 2012
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