Magic at AEON Shopping Mall

Yesterday I went to AEON Shopping Mall in Bukit Tinggi, Klang to perform some walk-around close-up magic. Quite a mouthful to say huh? Well in short it is called “Street Magic”. However the term street magic is not right among professional magicians in the art of magic. Street magic was “created” by David Blaine and followed-up by Criss Angel. But the right term for this kind of magic is called Close-Up Magic. There are a lot of kinds of magic, to name a few: Close-Up, Stage and Parlor. So the right term to use in place of street magic is Close-Up Magic.

Back to my story haha. Yesterday I was at AEON Mall with Simon Kong and Criss Lee to do some close-up magic for the people there. Simon and Criss were taking pictures for me. I wanted to include them in but they felt they were not ready to perform in front of people yet and need more practice, so I told them that they are to be ready for the next outing haha.

We wore formal outfits because magicians must have a level of elegance. We must not dress in T-shirt and pants to perform this kind of magic. But if you are at the beach then we would dress beach-style.

I performed to a few crowds of people. It always started with one or two people then more and more will join in because of curiosity. Then after a while you will get a solid crowd of about 15-20 people and some who prefer to stand 10 meters away to watch the show haha. Of course I encountered a few hecklers. Hecklers are basically people who tries to heck your performance and trying to get smart. Thankfully they didn’t cause much of a problem to me, only some minor stuff.

It was a fun experience and very nice. Different people react differently. Some just stands there and acts as though they know how the magic is done. The best crowd is a person who gives you the applause when you did well. Others just stare and act cool as though they know better. Yet there were people who were so amazed they were the only ones who clapped among the big crowd. There was this Indian guy who gave me the warmest applause and it lifted my spirit to do more. There was an uncle who was a good audience, his reaction to my illusions were awesome, the picture on top is him =) Look at his laugh when he saw how I linked the solid rings right in front of his eyes and in his hands. I love that reaction.

Next week I might be going to KL to perform with Anslem Roy and my club members. We will be paid for that. But not sure yet because it is still in consideration. The magician club that I am in is The Magic Annexe. The Magic Annexe was founded by Anslem Roy Eric, an international illusionist who won the International Merlin Award. The Magic Annexe is under the International Magician Society (IMS) and Anslem Roy is the IMS Malaysia President.

Tata =)

Read my post on What is Gospel Magic.

The swelling crowd of people that surrounded me yesterday. We performed in front of the cinema.

The guy behind is Criss. The one with the camera and leaning against the railing. This shot was taken by Simon Kong.

Me performing to three Malay guys who were waiting for their movie to start.

I love the laughs =)

This is Marcus, he is into magic as well and is slowly learning.

Trying out some mentalism magic with my friend =)

Linking Rings??? haha

Pull and try to separate them..

Linking Rings again.

This unlce was one of my favorite audience yesterday.

Ahh I love his reaction. Magic that happens right in front of their eyes and in their hands is beautiful.

The rings are solid, really.



This Malay couple was good audience for one of my "illusions for couples" =)

Saw Simon Kong? =) The guy behind toying with my camera haha.

Ah ha! Did you see that guy in black shirt with his arms crossed? Well he basically stood there for a long time watching me perform to other people and he had his arms crossed all the while. When I approached him to ask him pick a card with his hands. He did so and then crossed his arms again. Psychologically, this guy is trying to say, "Let's see what you can do. I won't be amazed at whatever happened because I am smarter than you and I know how it is done." =) One of his friends tried to heck me but thankfully Simon and Criss helped me, I wasn't aware that time. Also his looks tells me that he is not at all interested in what I was doing haha. No fun la this kind of people =)