Gunnarson Dodges Death Again
The Prince Albert Daily Herald reports that we can stop worrying.
Dean Gunnarson survived to escape another day from one of the more dangerous escape stunts a trained expert can perform.
First, he was handcuffed and wrapped in chains, with a padlock around his neck.
Then, he was dumped in a 208-litre tank of water, with a lid placed on top and chained down, with a padlock on the outside.
He was able to escape in just under two minutes after cracking a combination padlock with water soaked fingertips.
Phew!
Read the full article here The Prince Albert Daily Herald – Handcuffs and padlocks no match for Ex performer.
We have not yet seen the video but will be checking in at Dean’s incredible web site, Always Escaping for its release.
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CAM Award Winners Announced
The Canadian Association of Magicians convention has wrapped up in beautiful Montreal.
The meeting, also known as CAMaraderie, received great coverage in the Canadian press. Typical of the positive perspective is an article in The Globe and Mail.
We read on the constantly updated MagicConvention feed from Twitter that CAM announced this year’s award winners.
By the way, if you don’t subscribe to the MagicConvention tweets, you need to. At first, we thought it would bring just scheduling details for this summer’s conventions but we were wrong.
Andrew Webb serves as Editor and works with incredibly talented and prolific writers to bring a stream of breaking news throughout the day. If you are not ready for Twitter, at least visit the Magic Convention Guide web site to see what you are missing.
The big news was the selection of the very talented David Acer as Magician of the Year. Joan Caesar received a very well-deserved Lifetime Achievement award.
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Brice Thrills with Escape 40 Feet Up!
Fifteen year-old Nick Brice had an exceptional view of the overflow crowd gathered beneath him on the hot asphalt parking lot of the Swift Current Mall.
The excited, curious, and skeptical over-flow audience had an equally fine vantage point to watch the young man struggle with the canvas straight jacket as he swayed and writhed in the 10 mile-per-hour winds dangling some 40 feet above last Saturday.
No straight jacket escape is automatic or easy.
But Nick Brice was not looking for “easy” when he agreed to perform the dangerous stunt.
If he wanted to be safe, or to perform an “easy” escape, he would have stayed planted on terra firma (likely indoors), donned a heavily gimmicked, unexamined straight jacket, and conducted his escape behind an opaque curtain.
Perhaps it is a tribute to his youthful energy and enthusiasm that he was able to fend off fatigue and vertigo to slowly and painfully work his way free of the weighty garment before he would have certainly collapsed from heat exhaustion and his inverted position.
Like many of us, Mr. Brice was inspired by Houdini – someone who never took the “easy” route.
“Probably the most famous magician, Harry Houdini, is the one that really inspires me. He was the first one to do this one at the turn of the 20 century. He was my inspiration to do the straight jacket escape,” Master Brice told reporters.
His usual performance venues are more stable, less dangerous.
“I have done a couple at the library. Actually I normally do it at schools. I am always entertaining the other kids at high school.”
How does he intend to top his latest public exhibition next year?
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