http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk5xfK0ovrk

What I love about this is the almost 100% believability of this magicians 'character'. It's just simply superb acting, costuming and well, what more can I say? ;-) ;-) ;-) If this guy starts visiting Radio Shack I think Pop's in a LOT of trouble....... (more little smiley fact things and gales of jocular and good hearted laughter)

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The guy was a revelation. A strong character, funny, polished, and a very, very solid piece of magic. He's also gone viral in terms of having this video passed around by people outside the community. There was a rumour on twitter that he got his own show as a result of this performance.

It kills me that there are some magicians out there who still consider Penn and Teller's "Fool Us" to be bad for magic.

More of him http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuhgTgqIuos&feature=related

Somebody sent me the clip I shared above. I watched it without having any idea what was coming. First, thing I thought after it was done and he had "failed" was: This guy is going to make a LOT of money doing magic and it's going to happen like overnight. Happy to hear he succeeded. I was rolling.

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He is very clever, and an excellent, original, and genuine "character." I love it.

Milk shot out of my nose!

(I'm not entirely sure how this happened. I wasn't drinking milk at the time that I watched the video...)

After I saw the clip above I turned around to find an entire story in Magic Magazine on the guy! Great story.

Thanks. It is interesting.

As the story above alludes to: Here is an excellent example of a guy who started out as a close-up magician...got his degree, was working and then stopped the magic to go and get a degree/training in ACTING....which was made available to him according to the story because he already had his other degree. So he spends a full year doing nothing by training in acting! Takes that skill set and combines it with magic and Poof we have Piff. I was dying to write that ...

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I love the Piff character. I see problems for him in taking what is basically a one-note character into a longer show.

I think the dragon suit might get a little confining in a full-hour show. I suspect he will have to make Piff just one character among others he plays if he wants to expand.

Did he talk about that in the article? Has he done longer shows? I'd be very interested in hearing how it plays in a longer performance.