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This is a quick heads up that I’m out of town October 4th, 2025 through October 12th 2025.
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On this episode of the Moisture Festival Podcast we welcome in Cyara Hotopp. We discuss a wide variety of topics including her law degree, where she practiced law and how she gave up being a lawyer to pursue the circus arts.
We talk about her background as a figure skater and all the lessons she learned from that and their application to ariel. A great conversation with a fantastic performer.
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I just wanted to give a quick “thanks” to all the magicians who came out to visit with me this summer!
Here’s the pictures of some of the magicians that visited!
There were a ton more, but I can’t find the pictures.
If I’m ever performing in your area and you come out, be sure to say HI!
-Louie
One thing I try to do is send a handwritten thank you postcard for every gig I do. Well, almost every gig. If it’s a horrible experience and I don’t think it’ll change and don’t want to do it again, they don’t get one.
There’s not much to these, just a simple thank you. That’s all. I used to send a more elaborate thing with a survey, but no longer do that. Just the postcard.
This is just another way to keep your name in front of the booker after the gig.
-Louie
It’s taken bit to get to posting about this, but about a month ago I went out to see Wes Barker‘s show when he was in Seattle. Before the show I met up with Eric and Alyss Stevens for a quick drink.
Then on the walk to the venue, we ran into another magician Brian. When we got to the venue, we ran into Wes taking tickets.
There was a miscommunication about booking a ticket taker with the venue, so Wes did it. He was great taking tickets. He handled it really well and was essentially an opening act to his show. The show was Wes and two comedians.
Wes is a great example of what a modern magic show is. Not a ton of props and a lot of personality. There was one idea in his show that I thought was amazing and wish I had thought of it. The whole show is really great with a lot of surprises. If he’s in your area, it’s totally worth checking out his show!
After the show Eric, Alyss, Brian and I had a little magic jam.
I do love seeing shows that inspire me to be better!
-Louie
On this episode of the Moisture Festival Podcast we welcome in puppet maker Annette Mateo. We discuss her interest in puppets as a kid and how she rekindled her interest in it after attending her first Fremont Solstice Parade.
We chat about the puppet scene in Seattle and the various ups and downs over the years for her as a puppet builder. We also discuss her thoughts on emceeing the Moisture Festival Open Stage event just a few days before the interview. A great conversation with a creative mind and awesome person.
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This is a quick heads up that I’m out of town now (8/13)through August 25th 2025.
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Some friends and I were texting horrible variation of existing magic tricks. One of my ideas was the “dimmest” D’lite! Then my buddy Chris used AI to make them into packaged magic tricks.
It came out well! He uses AI for his work, and gave me some tips on how to use AI more effectively to create things. I think that effectively communicating with AI is going to be a skill that will be helpful. It’s a modern version of knowing how to use photoshop (which I don’t know how to use).
-Louie
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This is a quick heads up that I’m out of town today (5/12/25) through May 20th, 2025.
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A few weeks ago I was performing at an event and they were doing headshots. I was goofing around and for one of the pictures I tried to take a picture of me looking disappointed. Here’s the result:
Of all of the pictures this is my favorite, but one that I won’t really use for promo. That said, I know that since this is now out there, someone who has booked me will find this picture and choose to use it and not the pictures that I would have emailed them.
When that finally happens, I will have a laugh to myself!
-Louie
