Charleston Magician Cheats This Wednesday

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NEWS: Charleston magician, David Lee Parker, will be cheating guests at the Gaillard Municipal Auditorium February 1, 2012. This private event is for the great people of Carolina One Real Estate. The weapons he will be using to get the money from the “rubes” will be a deck of playing cards, years of sleight-of-hand practice, reading people (called “tells” in the poker world), physiology, psychological gambits, memory and misdirection.

THE CHEATER – Is a sleight of hand magic act corporate magician, David Lee Parker, who has been working on for over five years and is based from real world knowledge gained from his Uncle who is a 3rd generation professional gambler and cheat (or as he would like to say ‘I play the game to win”) . Around the age of fifteen, a young David Parker had a meeting with his Uncle who was a true phantom of the card table. He made his sole living by traveling across the United Stated playing poker at high stake games. He showed the secrets from the underground world of gambling and today at 87 he still talks about the old days of poker and the methods he used to remove the ‘fish’ from their money 

THE CHEAT – AN GAMBLERS ACT:

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Shows the common poker player how not to be cheated at the card table showing the most common methods used by the professional mechanic. The audience learns what to watch for and how to counter the methods in a fun and entertaining way. However in the tradition of the cheat he stings the audience using skills that have been learned over 40 years. Special deals, cuts, shuffles, deck switching, card mucking, and memory work alerts then that even after being in the know they can still be conned and enjoy it at the same time.    

About

ABOUT DAVID PARKER:

He was the president of The Greater Charleston Magic Club for over ten years, and was honored with the award of ‘Magician of the Year for South Carolina on January 14, 2006 at the International Gala Show hosted by the South Carolina Association of Magicians in Columbia, SC. The South Carolina Association of Magicians awards this honor to those they believe best advance the art of magic in a positive direction.
David has been taught by some of the best close-up magicians in the world.

  

Picture Framing Supplies And The Preservation Of Your Artwork

Category Arts & Entertainment

There are many different ways that fine art photography can be damaged, even when it is located inside a picture frame.  Sunlight and electric light can cause discoloration to the surface of the photo.  Air pollution and dust can also mar the image through oxidation.  When you combine all of these harmful elements together, which can easily occur, you can see that taking the precaution of using conservation-quality materials can go a long way toward making sure you can enjoy your photographs for many years to come.  Frame Destination is a top online source for preservation-quality picture framing supplies.

Each framing component that we offer at Frame Destination is clearly labeled as to its ability to help preserve your fine artwork.  Many products are listed as ‘acid free,’ and this is helpful in regards to preserving the artwork because acids can build up and will fade or yellow a photograph, so using acid-free products is safer for the long life of your artwork.

Many of the mat and mount boards that we make available at Frame Destination are of conservation quality.  Alpha Mat is a mat board that has color on the visible top portion and a white core, while Alpha Rag is matboard that has the surface color as the core color as well, and both offer museum-quality protection for your fine art photographs. Foamboard and foamcore are types of acid-free mount board, and they come in a range of thicknesses. 

The glazing that you select to insert into the front of your frame plays a large role in the preservation of the artwork inside.  There are two basic types of glazing:  glass and acrylic.  Glass works well for smaller prints, while acrylic is the better choice for larger ones.  Acrylic comes with an optional ultraviolet light filter and a non-glare feature, both of which are optically pure, lightweight, resistant to breakage and can help to prevent yellowing and fading of the photographs in the frames. 

All of our conservation-quality picture framing supplies can be seen at our website at www.framedestination.com.

Why artists need to use charcoal for drawing for art work

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Charcoal for drawing is probably the best mediums to develop and polish your inventive abilities. This article recommends some helpful pointers to assist ensure it is even further enjoyable.

Charcoal artwork is easy to acknowledge. Outstanding by using this medium usually produces exceptional parts with strong blacks inside the shadows and brighter shade providing for delicate spins of sunshine. It does not take collection of darker to light that would make this medium interesting.

To the previous 500 a few years, as the Renaissance, significant artwork scholar’s first training have been look-measurement solid paintings done in grilling with charcoal. The masters remarked that this process of charcoal for drawing would instruct pupils the fundamentals which could support them afterwards in their expert careers.

If you are going to endeavor utilizing charcoal for drawing for the first time, you might be slightly worried of ways to make use of it. It truly is easy to understand to really feel slightly overcome after you are facing nothing but grilling with charcoal to place paintings along with.

That is where a few useful concepts will are available in genuinely great for you.

Top grade grilling with charcoal is the desired grilling with charcoal of Expert Designers, Art work Academies and Ateliers. Employing good quality artwork materials allows for me to pay attention to my resourceful expression as opposed to the equipment themselvesIn ..

Charcoal for sketching comes in three degrees of solidity that is measured substantially like pencils – H for Hard, HB is Medium and N is delicate.

Charcoal for sketching is really as substantially about applying the medium as it’s truly about eliminating it. Hence, you can also will require a chamois (buy a fresh one rather than while using 1 you dried out the car with) to remove large spots of grilling with charcoal plus a kneaded eraser for retouching the facts. That is acknowledged as the subtractive strategy, so called because you might be practically subtracting the grilling with charcoal out of your cardstock to assist produce the completed picture

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