{"id":368,"date":"2019-09-24T12:02:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T17:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastmagic.biz\/?p=368"},"modified":"2020-10-29T19:35:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T19:35:06","slug":"apology-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastmagic.biz\/marvelousmatt\/2019\/09\/24\/apology-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Apology First"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I know I\u2019m writing this almost a year late but I figured I\u2019d give you, the reader, a selection of posts to chose from. I\u2019m going to do a couple of posts, breaking up the last year into quarters, so it\u2019s not one huge post. In the future I\u2019m going to strive to post something at least once a month. With that said, lets get into it\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the 2018 KCRF wrap-up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The biggest thing I was looking forward to adding to the 2018 show was the new illusion. Because it arrived two days before the festival I had no rehearsal with it so I did what I do best, I made it up as I went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is the Audience Acupuncture, or as I like to call it during the show, The Spike Table, modeled by my daughter in our basement. I wasn\u2019t able to get any photos of the illusion in action at the Kansas City Renaissance Festival. Overall, I think it worked out pretty well. There were some technical issues during performance that caused me to abandon the effect mid-routine, but when it did work I think it was pretty well received. There are a few tweaks I need to make to the routine to make it stronger but I\u2019m happy the way it worked out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Watching the rain fall from the safety of the Wizard’s Tower<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Generally, KCRF 2018 was okay and it wasn\u2019t just me. I spoke to many vendors and performers, and everybody had a down year. The biggest thing I remember about last year was how much it rained; either late in the week so the site was still wet or during the festival day itself. It was the lowest attended festival in over 30 years by a third or more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One exciting thing that happened in August 2018 was that I was approached about performing at another faire. This was an event I had been working toward getting into for several years and they wanted a video which I did not have. I worked up a little promo video<\/a> using existing clips and photos. I thought it was okay for being something I put together myself, but they wanted a complete performance video. My wife hired a friend that does video editing and he brought out five cameras during the festival and put together a full video. It was rough to watch myself and it suffered from lack of an audience but I sent it off anyway. I did not get the gig; they said I was too similar to other acts they already had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So there you have it. The WAAAAAY overdue 2018 wrap-up post. Like I said above I\u2019m going to go back and fill in some gaps from the last year. I\u2019ll probably start in July last year just to make sure everything is covered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know I\u2019m writing this almost a year late but I figured I\u2019d give you, the reader, a selection of posts to chose from. I\u2019m going to do a couple of posts, breaking up the last year into quarters, so it\u2019s not one huge post. In the future I\u2019m going to strive to post something … Continue reading Apology First<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-magic","category-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastmagic.biz\/marvelousmatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastmagic.biz\/marvelousmatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastmagic.biz\/marvelousmatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastmagic.biz\/marvelousmatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastmagic.biz\/marvelousmatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastmagic.biz\/marvelousmatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/pastmagic.biz\/marvelousmatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastmagic.biz\/marvelousmatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastmagic.biz\/marvelousmatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastmagic.biz\/marvelousmatt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}