Engagement Painting Session 3

Written by: Jonathan

The third (and final) livestream session before the painting is finished.

Engagement Painting Session 2

Written by: Jonathan

The painting continues! Stream number 2 while painting my engagement announcement portraits.

digital, digital art, iPad, Portrait

Engagement Painting Session 1

Written by: Jonathan

Watch my engagement painting start from the very beginning. Streamed on December 6th 2020.

Art, digital, digital art, iPad, Painting

The Masked Magician & Hitler's Mentalist

Written by: Jonathan

This weirdo is the main character in the Masked Magician; a relatively short lived TV program that made a sensation by revealing the secrets behind the most popular magic tricks through history. Grand illusions, sleight of hand, card tricks; nothing was sacred. At the heart of it all was that smarmy mysterious character pictured above […]

Advisor, Assassination, Headline Prediction, magic, Masked Magician, mentalism, mentor, Prediction, Secrets, Teacher

Psychic Lockpicking

Written by: Jonathan

This is from a show I performed at the Chicago Magic Lounge for a corporate entertainment engagement. A member of the audience had a lock with a code that only one person had access to: him. He told no one what it was. Not even his friends. And he asked if I could figure it […]

challenge, magic, mentalism, video

Flow State

Written by: Jonathan

Starting a new every-once-in-awhile series called "Mind Reader Minute" where I share a couple ideas about a particular topic. Might need to call it "Mind Reader Moment" as it's hard for me to say anything in under a minute...

creativity, flow, psychology, video

Steel Servers For Stone Age Users

Written by: Jonathan

Lauriston Sharp was a professor of Anthropology and Asian studies at Cornell University, and he wrote one of the most fascinating papers I've ever read. It was published in 1952 in "Human Organization" and it's about 11 pages long. (The whole thing is available via PDF by clicking here.) The story unfolds quite dramatically, but the basic idea […]

axe head, server, Steel, Urbit

Building My New PC

Written by: Jonathan

All my in-person shows evaporated which meant I needed to start an online streaming show. The problem, then, is that my 4 year old laptop wasn't capable of handling what I was asking it to do. Solution? Get a new PC! The problem with that, however, is that I've never built a PC before. Didn't […]

build, Computer, PC, streaming

Thank You James Randi

Written by: Jonathan

My mentor and dear friend James Randi passed away last week. I haven't known what to say, so I've said very little so far, but I wanted to simply express my deepest thanks to him for being such a big part of my life. Most of the world knows him as a fierce warrior against […]

Foundation, James Randi, JREF, magic, magician, mentalism, mentor, Randi, relationships

Testimonials

Written by: Jonathan

What do entrepreneurs & Fortune 500 corporate executives say about my work? Let *them* tell you.

BP, client, consulting, review

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