Off the web • Pics from the weekend

Came across these pics off the web. This is as recent as yesterday. I wish I had a buck for every photo that someone took of me. Let's just hope that they had the good taste to leave a tip when I passed the hat. One should hope. . . .but I know better.


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This silent penetration of the rings is probably the strongest visual and magical moment in my show. I wish the rest of my show was this strong. It took me years to deal with the lack of response at this moment and really embrace the notion that people are just dumbfounded at that moment. This weekend I tried something new. I counted to 5 in my head waiting for some response. After several seconds people would start to clap. Sometimes they didn't. I am starting to realize that even lack of response. . . is a response.


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Here I am telling the crowd to come in towards the curb. I have always secretly liked stopping traffic with my crowds. The real secret in crowd management is tightening up the crowd, making it difficult for people to leave.


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I see this in every audience, people taking pics of me with their phones. I always wonder why they would do that.


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I don't do this trick to often, the old vanishing hanky trick. I love the line, "I have a little hanky here that you can wave at will" , then in my gayest manner, wave the silk and say "Hi Will!"

Funny or not funny?