Essential Magic Conference 2010 video [9 Sessions free download]

Essential Magic Conference 2010 video [9 Sessions free download]

The Essential Magic Conference, the first digital magic conference, was held from July 15 to the 17 2010. When I first saw this advertised I knew I had to be apart of this event and I signed up right away. I was not wrong this was a wonderful event. Over those 3 days I had almost no sleep. The live event was held from 12am Japan time until about 7:30am because of the time zone. The event was organized by Luis de Matos, Marco Tempest and David Britland. They did a brilliant job bringing a big and new project like this to life. It had 33 speakers and they all where at the Studio in Portugal, and the participants watched live from the Internet. Participants also get 1 year access to the website which will have all the sessions as on demand viewing after the event and as well receive the event on DVD. The cost for this event was about 75$US which was well worth it. Below the break I will talk about what I enjoyed about the conference.

Each day was broken down into 3 sessions each with a variety of presentations on magic theory, performances, teaching, and history. Each session was either 1 or 2 hours with an hour break after the first session of the day and a 90 minute break between the 2nd and 3rd sessions. This was dangerous for me and I fell asleep 2 of the days at this time and missed the 3rd sessions as this was 4:00am Japan time, but thanks to the on-demand I can go back and watch the sessions I missed.

See all 33 magicians in this DVD

Anton Lopez (Spain)

Apollo Robbins (United States)

Barry and Stuart (United Kingdom)

Carlos Vaquera (Belgium)

Cyril Takayama (Japan)

Dani DaOrtiz (Spain)

David Britland (United Kingdom)

De'Vo Vom Schattenreich (Germany)

Eric Eswin (Netherlands)

Eric Mead (United States)

Finn Jon (Norway)

Gaetan Bloom (France)

and more...

>>>Essential Magic Conference 2010 video [9 Sessions free download]

The sessions were well organized and I must say the presentations were great. The presenters seemed to have spent a lot of time preparing for their time. It was also easy to see what they they were showing and understand what they were saying. Because all the participants where watching on the net and at the live venue where just the crew and the 33 magicians a lack a large audience sometimes seemed to through off timing of some performers because of a lack of applause and laughing feedback. This was very evident during the last day when Gazzo performed. This perhaps was one of the biggest differences from a real conference or convention. There of course was feedback in the chat room. Maybe next year they could have a big screen that the performers can see easily and see the feedback from the chat room.

The information and knowledge shared in this conference was excellent and I myself learned a lot. There were a lot of new and different ideas shared and I really enjoyed this. A cool thing that even though this was held on the net there definitely was a sense of community between the magicians watching. This was shared through the chat room and twitter for me. I also was able to make some new friends and make some new connections from attending this conference. People stayed in the chat room during the breaks and continued chatting. Everyone who is a member of EMC has a profile page and it would have been nice to click their avatar in the chat room and go to their profile page or have some kind of private message system.

Technically for me there we no problems. On the first day there was a problem for me and buffering of the video every few seconds but I think that this was due to a problem with my set up which I corrected on the second day and had no further problems. I found the layout good and easy to understand and I could easily switch back and forth to full screen. There were some of the normal issues you get even at live events such as bad mics and wrong videos being played at certain points but over all for the first time my opinion is that it went off pretty much without a hitch and I am sure they learned a lot and expect a even better experience next year.

There was one problem that I did have and it was not form anyone from the event or the crew but from some of the participants in the chat room. Because this was an international event, many of the presenters are not native English speakers, yet they performed, or presented in English. All of them were understandable and did a good job, but some people, a low percent, made negative comments about people's accents that were not appropriate. Magic is and international art form and we need to be tolerant and listen carefully and pay attention and if you do you will understand. As I now perform mostly in Japanese these days I know how stressful it is to perform in another language and I have blogged about my experiences with this before. So those of you have never really had a international experience like this please be patient and listen carefully when a nonnative English speaker presents because you will understand if you put in the effort.

In this blog I think I covered all the points that I wanted and I really enjoyed this event and I look forward to it next year. It will be held again July 7th to 9th 2011. Make sure you attend next year you will not be disappointed.

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