Sunday 22 July 2007

Melbourne Convention 2007

Shawn Farquhar - brilliant, nice guy, top performer
Lennart Green - very good, funny guy, I'm not a card guy..
Eugene Burger - interesting, not friendly, aloof, but made good sense
Public Show - fantastic, some weak moments from the vics, but everything else was awesome
Jeff McBride - OK, I just can't take someone with a batman utility belt seriously but I agreed with everything he said
Gaetan Bloom - amazing, a really nice guy, very helpful, the best lecture of the weekend
Shoot Ogawa - very entertaining, wouldn't use any of his stuff but I did pick up a move with the linking rings, nice guy though
Dean Atkinson - who you are is so loud I can't hear what you are saying

7 lectures, 51 performers, 107 acts, 200 extra card tricks, 11 mystery dealers which we found eventually, overall a fantastic weekend of magic

The main venue was excellent although big city conferences are always spread out so moving people about is always a challenge and this affected the timetable significantly, pity I missed out on things because of this.