Thomas
Awesome! Grateful I purchased! Thank you Andi Gladwin. I LOVED "THE BOY WHO CRIED MAGIC! It helped fill a void and an understanding of things that I have not thought about in over 50 years. I recently lost my wife of 30 years and serendipitously went to the place that I had my first LOVE -MAGIC! When I was a " BOY " magician and my mom leaving me all day - by myself at Al Flosso's place on 34th Street, up the creakety old steps on Saturday's until his passing--and Tannen's on Sunday's on 1540 B'way. It was a different era. When I received "THE BOY WHO CRIED MAGIC", your neatly packaged book, in it's beautiful book sleeve , a quality that I have come to "never expect less" than from any VANISHING ,INC. Then with the added bonus lectures eBook lectures personalize your strengths- which lie in your calm organized demeanor. Along with being a thoughtful, brilliant magician and strategist and advocate in support of magicians and students of magic , of all ages. Knowing the subtext of any anticipated ‘speed bumps” that learning an effect is only just the tip of the 'tale'. Knowing, “if you don’t kick, you can’t score”. After working in the film industry for 40 years and academia for 17 years I have become a little skeptical of the intention-behind-the-intention of so many of us. Not with you what I gleamed from my first pass of THE BOY WHO CRIED MAGIC ( book and eLectures). You have been the “real deal”, up-front and constantly addressing the 'meaning, behind the meaning'. From the moment I cracked opened the book and your “dogged-ear” persistence , care of students and your enthusiasm for what "makes things work out”, all wrapped into your personal blend of knowledge, intensity, and skillsets, is what makes what I call you a Producer with a capital "P", in my previous career. But in this case, in , an “A” for a stellar scholar or "A"cademic of magic--and well, back to “P”, but squared “P2” Producer & Professor. Good producing and performance is all about cracking through the social veneer, actually seeing what's there in front of you, knowing how to expedite the procedures/processes/barriers (and there's tons of them- “jump the shark”) to actually get the process in motion, then keep all 'the show on the road'. Inform all the processes/procedures to actually realize the program/change/departmental challenges. It takes Intensity, Knowledge, Persistence, and most of all a huge affinity for the people . You and THE BOY WHO CRIED MAGIC have all these attributes and qualities- rolled in a "class product". I cannot recommend THE BOY WHO CRIED MAGIC, more HIGHLY. Or any product VANISHING , INC rolls out. I have never been disappointed
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