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Pop Haydn’s Magic Castle Awards
These are the performing awards I have won from the Academy of Magical Arts (Magic Castle). The wands are all made from rosewood, ebony and silver by famous magic craftsman John Gaughan. The cases are made of cocobolo wood, except for the 1979 case which is made of walnut. They are engraved on the bottom with Johnny Gaughan’s signature. The crystal globe is from the year that Johnny didn’t make the wands, 2004. That was for “Close-Up Magician of the Year.”
Bob Sheets, Pop Haydn and Doc Eason, 2004.
All the awards I have won at the Castle up until now have been for the “Whit Haydn” character. This year’s award is the first for the “Pop Haydn” character, which I adopted in 2005.
The awards are these:
1979, Stage Magician of the Year
1995, Parlour Magician of the Year
2002, Parlour Magician of the Year
2003, Close Up Magician of the Year
2004, Close Up Magician of the Year
2005, W. C. Fields Bar Magician of the Year
2014, Stage Magician of the Year
2015 Academy of Magical Arts Awards Show Winners!
2015 ACADEMY OF MAGICAL ARTS AWARDS
The member-voted award winners are:
Lecturer: Steve Valentine
Close-Up: Richard Turner
Parlour: Rob Zabrecky
Stage: Pop Haydn
A Junior Award of Merit was awarded to Sean Self.
The Junior Achievement Award went to Mark A. Gibson.
The Trustees awarded Awards of Merit to Randy Pitchford and Alan Watson
The Trustees bestowed the following Fellowships:
Creative: Mark Setteducati
Performing: John Carney
Literary and Media: Dan and David Buck
Lifetime Achievement: Walter “Zaney” Blaney
Special: Avner Eisenberg
Masters: Silvan
And the 2014 Magician of the Year is Michael Carbonaro.
Dave Mirto’s Vintage Cases
This is my new vintage case made for me by Dave Mirto. I am very excited to have it. It was custom made for my Magnetized Water routine. “The pieces are all cut at 90 degree angles and framed together, then I put on the outside panels. The reason for the 90 degree cuts is that each piece is upholstered separately prior to construction. The exterior is upholstered with 3 pieces per side of case and held entirely with upholstery tacks and upholstery nails. I did research on the process and this is the earliest process that I was able to identify.” ~ Dave Mirto You can contact Dave here: https://www.facebook.com/dave.mirto
Pop Haydn at the Cowboy Festival ~ The Color-Changing Handkerchief
Pop Haydn performs the Color-Changing Handkerchief at the Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival April, 2015.
Pop Haydn at the Cowboy Festival ~ The Mongolian Pop Knot
Pop Haydn performs his routine, The Mongolian Pop Knot at the Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival at the William S. Hart State Park, April 2015.
Pop Haydn at the Cowboy Festival ~ Chinese Rings
Pop Haydn performs his own routine for the Chinese Linking Rings at the Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival at William S. Hart State Park, April 2015.
Pop Haydn at the Cowboy Festival ~ The Newspaper
Pop Haydn performs the classic Torn and Restored Newspaper at the Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival, April 2015.
Pop Haydn at the Cowboy Festival
Photos by Billy Baque at blog.baquephoto.com
April 2015, Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival, William S. Hart Park
“Scoundrels Touch” S4S Shell Game video available as download!
Chef Anton, Whit “Pop” Haydn, and Bob Sheets outline their advanced system for the shell game and teach routines complete with patter and alternate endings for walk around, as well as demo the methods used by hustlers to work the scam for money. The psychology and philosophy of the game are explained and demonstrated. The advanced system for working the shells that was briefly outlined on Volume I, is here explained in full and seen in operation in live performance videos.
On Disc I, Bob’s complete original instructions for handling his Sheets Acquitment and his system for working the shells (Absolutely Nuts) is here amplified and expanded, with new and more detailed explanations and a live performance of the routine for a regular audience in theMagic Castle’s Close-Up Gallery. Bob has added a number of new ideas and deceptive ruses, but more importantly, you see the whole thing up and running. Whit adds some maneuvers and moves, along with some new devices that make they system unassailable.
On Disc II, Chef Anton performs and explains his own routine. Whit discusses psychological outs while contrasting two very different live performances in the Magic Castle’s Close-Up Gallery of is shell routine. Incredible video of a street hustler working his craft at a music festival is shown and explained, with Scoundrel Member Giuseppe Aliotta discussing the props and betting cycles used by the contemporary street hustler. Pop shows how the Maneuvers can be very useful for working with a hand held board. New shells and props for the game are demonstrated.Pop and Chef discuss the idea of “Thinking like a Scoundrel” and how it is applied to magic performances. The Escobar Move is demonstrated along with some variations by Chanin. Several versions of the Kick Steal are demonstrated.
Included in this download are a number of pdf and other files that can be used as a further resource and several training aids that make learning the moves easier. These are enclosed in a .zip file. All the moves and maneuvers from Introduction to the Shell Game are briefly taught here.
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