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.
No orders will ship during that period or work on products will happen while I’m away. In stock items will ship on Tuesday 8/26/25.
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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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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
Years ago I came up with a way to do the silk thru ring trick with a coat hanger where the silk goes from the triangle to the hook of the hanger. My method uses a reel and is a very visual moment. I’m trying to recreate that but using using a rope instead of the silk and reel.
Here’s what I came up with.
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Using a rope in place of the silk solves a problem but it also makes the trick less visual. I think that trick is fine when you take the trade off, it makes the trick much more practical in an outdoor environment like a fair. I’m not sure that this is a method that I’ll use, but hopefully it’s a step that will get me closer to something better!
-Louie
If you follow me over on TikTok.com/@Louiefoxx you may have noticed that I have posted a lot of videos of magic using the Movie Money fake bills. These are an upgrade from the old stage bills that didn’t remotely look like money, or were in strange sizes. The Movie Money looks very realistic and just have small slugs that say “copy” or something like “for motion picture purposes”, other than that they look like real money. They don’t feel like real money as they’re printed on paper.
I’ve come up with many tricks using these bills and what makes them better than using real money is their texture it better suited to card techniques than the real money. There is a lot of variation on the paper between different manufacturers, so some will be thinner and unusable and others will be just right in thickness and texture.
Another bonus is that all the bills within a value have the same serial number. That eliminated the problem of posting a trick to social media and some dopey kid watches the video a dozen times looking for discrepancy and notices that a serial number on a bill changes or is repeated. When all the $10’s are the same that’s not an issue.
I’m working on a book with magic with these bills and it will come with all the necessary bills to do each trick. You won’t have to hunt around for the correct quality of bill or have to make the gimmicks yourself.
I’m hoping to have this ready in the next month or two, so keep an eye out for it!
-Louie
I’m really glad that in 2020 I learned to do stage make up.
Coming out of comedy rooms, it’s something that people don’t really do. What I do is very basic, it’s just to take shine off of my face, so nothing crazy. It does make a huge difference when performing in the lights at a theater.
If you don’t know how to do it, learn to do it! I asked a friend of mine who is a stage actor and he referred me to someone who gave me a lesson.
-Louie
