Tag: promystic flux

Battery Change Day

In the school assembly show that I’m doing, I have a few things that need batteries. The two Promystic Fux units, the media star remote, and the flic button. That’s in addition to two 5V battery packs, a wireless handheld mic with receiver, and the Bose S1Pro, but those get recharged daily. My show takes a lot of energy!

At the end of every week, I have a scheduled task to change the replaceable batteries of the Fluxes, media star remote, and flic button. It’s overkill; they should last the full month long run. However, changing the weekly only costs about $5 and gives me some peace of mind that they’ll always work.

The nice thing is that they are all redundant systems. The two Flux units back up each other and if the media star’s battery fails, I have the flic button and vice versa.

-Louie

Roving Mentalist Gig

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned I had an upcoming gig where I was booked as a roving mentalist. The gig went well, the thing I struggled with was how to introduce myself, as they specifically wanted “Mentalists” as their roving acts. I figured it out pretty quickly, but it took a few tries to come up with an opening line that made sense.

Roving Mentalism

Here’s what the audience saw for props.

Roving Mentalism

Obviously they didn’t see them laid out like this, they were in my pockets.

Here’s what the full set of props looked like:

Roving Mentalism

The new thing that I added for this gig was ProMystic’s Flux. I really like it, however in trying to come up with an “out” for it when it fails, there’s not a lot to do to get yourself out of it. The easy solution is to simply have two of them, if one fails, I simply get the other one.

I have some ideas for how I’d like to use this onstage…

-Louie