VANISH MAGIC BACK ISSUES Shin Lim | Page 6

FROM THE EDITOR Paul Romhany editor@vanishmagazine.com www.vanishmagazine.com FSIM has come and gone and a lot of controversy yet again about the organisation and the use of television to pay for sponsorship. It was very interesting to watch it all unfold via Facebook and prompted the start of an article by Nick Lewin on the use of social media and magic. Nick has done an amazing job interviewing a wide range of top performers who vary in age and opinion on using social media and how it affects our business. Personally I feel the Internet and social media are so young that there are no rules or boundaries put in place yet. How can I teach my son the etiquette on using social media when there is none. It has certainly changed the world and there are positive and negative aspects of it, which you can read about and come to your own conclusions. Thank you to everybody who took part in the survey and the results were very interesting indeed. It is a great honor to get an exclusive interview with Shin Lim who is the current world champion card magician. After watching Shin perform live in Brazil last year and then again on Fool Us with Penn & 6 Teller I feel card magic has finally become something more than a trick you see your Uncle do after dinner. The positive comments and millions of views on Shin’s YouTube channel is proof that he has taken card magic and turned it in to an art. His act reminds me of Cardini’s in the sense he has created something using a deck of cards that is more than just doing card tricks or card manipulation. It is a piece of theatre, a story and as Penn said, a movie using a deck of cards. I sit with excitement as I eagerly await Shin’s new projects and performances as he changes the way the public view card magic and magic in general. It has always been a dream of mine to have my own little magic theatre. With so much going on in my life it’s hard to even think about that dream at times, however, I am pleased others are starting to realise their dreams and follow through. Over the past year I’ve been collecting stories and talking to people who have done just that. They have started a theatre and are putting bums on seats nightly. This issue I chat to FISM champion Matthew Wright. I have long been a big fan VANISH - International Magic Magazine www.VanishMagazine.com of Matthew and