A few years ago we brought a camera crew on the road with us for a few weeks to shoot a few shows and document the tour.  Starting with production rehearsals in Chicago and ending with the last show of the year, the 28 minute film offers a few of the highlights from the tour, including scenes from the live show, street magic outside one of the venues, and a performance at a preschool one afternoon before a show.  The full version has been available on Amazon for a while but you can find an almost-full version on YouTube for free.

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

I FINALLY got the Facebook page up and running.  Right now it has some pictures from the road and the DVD trailer, and we have loads of content on the way.  In the next week we’ll be posting the DVD online for free and adding some pictures from this year’s fall college tour.  So… stay tuned.

You can find the Facebook page at: facebook.com/natestaniforth.

Just came across this interview that I did with the crew at ellusionist.com. I’m not sure how I missed this when it came out, but here it is a year later.  Check it out here.

Just finished a fun show at the Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital in Nashville.  Magicians Daniel Martin, CJ Johnson, Gus Davis, Brian Brushwood and I took a break from the national NACA convention in town and each did a short set in the hospital theater.  I think I can speak for all of us and say that we had an absolute blast.  Thanks for having us.

I did an interview with the Washburn University Review after the show and they were good enough to send me the link to the article.  Here’s an excerpt:

“I feel like a lot of magicians see it as their job to deceive the audience. Their whole thing is to put something over on them and convince them that the magician has magic powers. I think ultimately that makes for a show that is easily forgettable and not very entertaining, because the audience knows deep-down that the magician doesn’t have magic powers. So there is this sort of incongruity in the room during the magic show in that the magician is pretending to do supernatural things and the audience is sort of suspending their disbelief but deep-down they know that it’s all tricks and they have to convince themselves that in itself was entertaining. I think it’s a lot more interesting to treat the show as fiction. No one cares Holden Caulfield isn’t a real person, in the book Catcher in the Rye. That’s not the point. They don’t go bang on [J.D.] Salinger’s door saying ‘you’re a fraud, you’re a cheat, it’s not real.’ That’s not the point. He’s using this thing that he dreamed up this character or this scenario to communicate something that he wants to communicate. That’s what magicians are doing. Or at least that’s what I’m trying to do.”

To read the rest of the interview and see the video interview, check out their site here.