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| The Amazing Osmosis |
Inside Magic: Hi Alex and welcome to Inside Magic’s Celebrity Interview. How did you get interested in magic?
Hi, thanks. Going back to my earliest childhood I was always fascinated with magic. In second grade I signed out my first magic book from the school library and read it from cover-to-cover.
Inside Magic: What kind of tricks did you learn from that first book?
I learned how to build my first “pull” utilizing rubber bands, and how to perform the “paddle move.” My fascination grew with each page and I eventually read all of the material that was available to me via my school library, which, by the way, was a whopping three books! (You have to remember, this was before anyone new what the word, “Internet,” meant!)
Inside Magic: What did you do after you finished the three books on magic?
Right, my sources quickly dried up and it wasn’t until much later, when I joined the Armed Forces, that I picked up where I left off, so many years ago. I entered the 82ND Airborne Division in ’92, and by ’93 I became an Airborne Ranger in the US Special Operations Forces.
It was there that I met a very special person who rekindled my love for magic. Specialist Pine was my roommate at the Ranger Battalion and he was also an incredible magician. His father was a professional, practicing magician in Vegas and Pine learned a lot from him (wouldn’t it be nice to have a father who was a Vegas Magician)!
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| Aaaahhhhh . . . Magic Coins . . .. |
Pine taught me some incredible card magic. With his guidance I was quickly able to perform an effective shuttle pass, learn the arts of sleeving and lapping, prevent coins from “talking”, and he even introduced me to the secret world of coin magic with the use of “specialty” coins. Ahhhhhhhh….gimmicked coins……..that’s where I begin to salivate!
Inside Magic: What did you do after leaving the service?
I went to college in Philadelphia, I continued my search for quality magic. The military paid for my tuition, but to make extra money I began performing magic at theme parks. Upon graduation I began making TV commercials. I jumped around the City and worked as an AVID Editor. Within a few years I became the senior editor for a large production company that only makes celebrity endorsement commercials.
It was here that I cut commercials for Chuck Norris, Scott Hamilton, Susan Sommers, Lennox Lewis and some others. However, during this entire time, I felt that I was not doing what I was placed on this earth to do–ENTERTAIN! That is, unless you find cheesy infomercials that use…
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