Showing posts with label # live blogging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label # live blogging. Show all posts

02 April 2016

From Niagara Falls, it’s Greg Frewin!
“Zone performers” James Harrison, Ben Train, Chris Mayhew, Big Louie Lebetjis, and Joe Deng will be entertaining tables during breaks!
  • Jeff's looking more at home in his “trusty sweater vest.”
  • Welcome to Dan Morrissey (of Morrissey Magic) to the stage!  We’ve missed you Phoebe and Dan!
  • Welcome to Phil and Evelyn Matlin (of Perfect Magic, Montreal) to the stage!
  • Mentioning Joan Caesar, past president of the IBM and founder of the Canadian Association of Magicians! 
  • Added bonus:  Welcome to Len Cooper’s family! Bernice, Len’s wife, as well as his children, Jack and Sandy Cooper!

Talk about one big magic family!

Today's the day!  Let's do this!                           

#BrowsersBash2016

31 March 2016

#BrowsersBash2016 social media

As many of you know, Saturday is the "Browser's Bash," an all day convention hosted by the Browser's Den of Magic.

Like last year, I plan to be doing some combination of live-Tweeting and live-blogging of the event.  Apologies in advance for clogging your feeds.  To follow my Twitter account, you can use the web or use the Twitter widget on the right side of this page, under the "Selected Anniversaries" feature.

If you're at the event and Tweeting, I encourage you to add the hashtag "#BrowsersBash2016" to your Tweets.  I'll be adding a feature near the top of this page, which collects and posts all Tweets tagged in this fashion.

If it pleases the technology overlords, I'll also upload some footage to the new Canada's Magic YouTube channel.

I look forward to seeing many of you on Saturday!
 

12 April 2015

Live-blogging #BrowsersBash2015

If all goes according to plan, all live-blogging posts from #BrowsersBash2015 will appear under this post.  The most recent update will be immediately after this post.  Check back often for updates!
Updated April 27th to add:
  • This post is part of a series of live-blogged entries.  For your convenience, the entries have been consolidated into a single post at "Browser's Magic Bash 2015 recap."


Individual jam-sessions happening directly after the show!
Good night!
Updated April 27th to add:
  • This post is part of a series of live-blogged entries.  For your convenience, the entries have been consolidated into a single post at "Browser's Magic Bash 2015 recap."


The Browser's Magic Bash tradition has officially begun and is off to a great start!
What's in store for next year?
Updated April 27th to add:
  • This post is part of a series of live-blogged entries.  For your convenience, the entries have been consolidated into a single post at "Browser's Magic Bash 2015 recap."

Amazing stage show with David Acer, Haim Goldenberg, Greg Frewin, Nathan Kranzo, John Park and Richard Sanders!
Updated April 27th to add:
  • This post is part of a series of live-blogged entries.  For your convenience, the entries have been consolidated into a single post at "Browser's Magic Bash 2015 recap."

Kranzo' s up!
Updated April 27th to add:
  • This post is part of a series of live-blogged entries.  For your convenience, the entries have been consolidated into a single post at "Browser's Magic Bash 2015 recap."

Jeff just won the first ever Head Basher award for his contributions to the magic community!
Updated April 27th to add:
  • This post is part of a series of live-blogged entries.  For your convenience, the entries have been consolidated into a single post at "Browser's Magic Bash 2015 recap."


From Jeff:

Two people worked tirelessly to make the #BrowsersBash2015 come together into this wonderful event.

Both are wickedly smart. Both are very creative. Both are very hard workers. And both are very good people.

Lee Asher and John Talbot ...without them there would be no Browser's Magic Bash.

Thank you Lee and John!

They were both presented with sweater vests!
Updated April 27th to add:
  • This post is part of a series of live-blogged entries.  For your convenience, the entries have been consolidated into a single post at "Browser's Magic Bash 2015 recap."


Jeff's thanking:
- all the staff here at the MonteCassino for treating us like family. Cheers to the office, engineering, hotel, and kitchen staff. 
- people who helped transform the Bash into something special: Annie Pinsky, Mike Segal, James Allen, Ben Train, Chris Mayhew, Marvin & Shawna York, Nicole Lee, John Michalson, Stephanie Kline, Roxanne Talbot, and Christina Asher.
Updated April 27th to add:
  • This post is part of a series of live-blogged entries.  For your convenience, the entries have been consolidated into a single post at "Browser's Magic Bash 2015 recap."

Richard Sanders lecture starting!
"Canadian bills are stupid."
Updated April 27th to add:
  • This post is part of a series of live-blogged entries.  For your convenience, the entries have been consolidated into a single post at "Browser's Magic Bash 2015 recap."


Wow!   Alexander Pappas came here all the way from Switzerland and Jo Deng came from Changsha, China.
Updated April 27th to add:
  • This post is part of a series of live-blogged entries.  For your convenience, the entries have been consolidated into a single post at "Browser's Magic Bash 2015 recap."

Kudos to Steven Kline Productions for all the behind the scenes work and to Luiz Castro for helping!
Updated April 27th to add:
  • This post is part of a series of live-blogged entries.  For your convenience, the entries have been consolidated into a single post at "Browser's Magic Bash 2015 recap."

David Acer lecturing!
Updated April 27th to add:
  • This post is part of a series of live-blogged entries.  For your convenience, the entries have been consolidated into a single post at "Browser's Magic Bash 2015 recap."

Browser's Magic Bash Food Drive had two tables full of cans & dried goods contributed.
A week tomorrow, it's going to the Toronto Food Bank on behalf of the local magic community.
Updated April 27th to add:
  • This post is part of a series of live-blogged entries.  For your convenience, the entries have been consolidated into a single post at "Browser's Magic Bash 2015 recap."

Lanyards generously donated by Chad Juros of the Spread The Magic Foundation. Chad is a leukemia survivor with an inspirational story. Spread the Magic spreads hope and inspiration to children battling cancer through the power of magic.
Updated April 27th to add:
  • This post is part of a series of live-blogged entries.  For your convenience, the entries have been consolidated into a single post at "Browser's Magic Bash 2015 recap."

From Jeff:

Mahdi Gilbert spent a few months at Conjuring Arts Research Center in New York helping to transcribe historical magic texts into a digital format.

Called the Conjuring Arts Research Center, and told them you were speaking at the Bash. They are very proud of you, just like we are, and they wanted to celebrate with us, too. 

On behalf of the Conjuring Arts Research Center, in honor of Mahdi Gilbert, and in celebration of the Browser's Magic Bash, everyone here has been gifted a digital copy of the project he deemed your favourite - the entire Tarbell Course set!

Thank you Conjuring Arts Research Center, and thank you Mahdi!