(Laughing)
- What were these by the way?
These are cool.
- These are the new ones, but
now you kinda showed them.
I guess we have to show them to everybody.
Do you want to show them?
- Why have they got super knots?
They should be like knots of steel.
(imitates bomb exploding)
(claps hands)
(downtempo pop music plays)
(claps)
Okay so we have made it to London.
I'm staying at my favorite
place, The Landmark Hotel,
every time I come to London I stay here.
But, we made it here so
let's go enjoy London.
Alright, so we made it to London.
We're going to go meet up
with a good friend of mine right now.
I think you all know him.
Final guesses.
(car door opens)
(radio plays)
- What's up dude?
- Yeah, good, man.
- How are you?
- Yeah, I'm cool, man.
- Good to see you.
That's who it was, if you
guys guessed correctly
hit that like button!
The Dynamo.
(downtempo pop music plays)
(claps)
- Yo, yo, yo guys what's going on?
Welcome back to another video.
I am joined by my buddy,
the one and only, Dynamo!
- What's up?
- This is where I put the cheers, woo!
- Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!
- I'm not gonna do that,
it's just gonna be awkward silence.
(laughs)
What's going on man?
- I'm cool man.
Good.
- We are here in your
amazing crib actually.
- (Dynamo) Well I'll be
honest, my wife picked
most of this stuff.
She's got good taste.
- This is...
- (Dynamo) I mean she dropped the ball
when she picked me but
(laughs)
everything else generally
she's got good taste so.
- I can't, I try to pick
good things, whatever
The only thing I can't pick up is girls.
I can't do that.
- Yeah
- Not because I have a girlfriend,
I just have a bad back,
I can't pick them up.
(chuckles)
- I was going to say, yeah,
they can be quite heavy.
(both laugh)
- Alright, so, we are here
with a quick fire round,
question and answer with Dynamo.
You're part of The Circle right?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- But more importantly you
start out in Bradford, right?
- I actually joined, originally,
the Bradford Magic Circle.
- So does that have anything to do with
the Magic Circle here in London?
- I don't think so, just
that they got similar names.
- Alright, gotcha, so you
start out in Bradford.
How old were you?
- When I joined the Circle I was maybe 15?
But I started obviously doing
magic when I was 11 years old.
Interesting random fact about
the birth of Magic Circle,
for any of you cardists out there.
So I joined the Circle, when I was 15
and I was kind of, you know,
I was there for a couple of years
and it was to the point where
one day I decided to do a lecture.
- Mhmm
- At the Bradford Magic Circle.
I was young and ambitious,
I think I was 17 when I did this lecture.
And, this lecture, on the day
of the lecture, beforehand,
there were some auditions for
new members of the Circle.
- Yeah.
And the same as the Magic
circle in London, you know,
you get new members auditioning
before the meet up, before the events
or the lectures that are going on.
And on this particular night,
my first ever lecture on magic,
and it was actually a
lecture mainly about like
card flourishing, but before
it was called cardistry
it was just flourishing
and I kind of, you know,
had lots of new flourishes
and flourishing based routines
that I was gonna lecture,
and at my first lecture,
one of the first people who auditioned
for the Bradford Magic Circle
who, then obviously became a member.
There, that night, he
stayed to watch my lecture.
And it was the first time he'd ever seen
flourishing or cardistry.
It was a guy, you might've heard of him.
Called Daniel Madison.
- (laughs)
- And I remember I taught Daniel Madison
his first ever flourish.
- So you created Daniel Madison?
- Yeah that's my claim to magic fame.
- (laughs) It goes down the line so
You created Daniel Madison,
Daniel Madison created a whole spawn
of a new generation of...
- Yeah, and Madisons incredible.
- But you go all crazy and do like the,
this thing, and then this...
I started doing this
after I saw you do it.
(laughter)
Pretty cool.
- I can probably remember
a couple of the things
that I did in my lecture.
It was a really cool forest production
which I will do at the end of this video.
- Yes, so stay tuned for that!
- In the specter is Hans four
card flourishing production.
- Awesome, I like that.
- It's pretty cool
I think the first flourishing card
that I showed Madison was this one.
Completely false.
- Very Madonna-ish right?
With this kind of stuff?
- Also, another London fact,
is I was the first person ever to bring
the Bob twins to the UK.
- So,
(slams hand on table)
Now you've created the Bob Twins too.
- I didn't create the Bob Twins
- (laughs) But
- I was in the room at the same time.
(laughs) No, I'm joking.
(both laugh)
- So, alright, moving
along you did the lecture
and that was well received,
you joined Bradford Magic Circle,
then when did you sort of know
that you wanted to go into TV
and things like that, did
that happen naturally?
- No, it was never like a thing
that I wanted to go into TV.
I spent years trying to
find the right platform
for close up magic essentially.
- Right
- I never really had the desire,
or the balls, really, to go on stage.
Yeah, because you know, it's taken me,
even now, I've done shows
over York to arenas.
You know, I've done big venues,
gone on stage all over the world,
but, you know, even creating
the Seeing is Believing show
that I took on top.
I've done that show about 250 times
and I'd say the first
40 times, I hated it.
- Really?
- I hated the experience
of being on stage,
I was scared and I just felt
disconnected from the audience
because there's a difference.
When you're doing magic
up close in person,
you can feel a connection,
you can look people's eyes directly.
- Yeah, and get that feedback,
that automatic feedback,
and you can go from
one thing to the other.
If you think they liked
it, you keep going with it,
if they don't, you move
onto something else.
But, especially in a
show, you have a script,
you have a set thing to do,
and also, like for large
theaters that you do,
you can't really see them, right?
- Yeah you can't.
Everyone who's ever not been on stage,
it looks like you walk out
and you can see hundreds of thousands
of people in front of you,
but in reality, if you're on the stage,
there's a spotlight on you,
and the spotlight means that you
actually can't see
anything in front of you.
You're kind of blinded by the light.
So often when you're on stage,
it took me a while to get
used to speaking to nobody.
- Yeah.
- Because you can't actually
see the faces of anybody,
you can see a blur, but
everyone's silhouetted.
So when I was first starting out,
I never desired to go on stage,
but I had a desire to share magic
with as many people as possible.
I figured that morning when
the guy doing close ups,
I was like, I can't go around
to meet every person in the
world and do a trick, you know?
So I was looking for the
right platform to do a show
that will hit as many people as possible,
but doesn't require me
to walk out on stage,
and it turned out...
When I first got into base,
I initially started to
create visual effects
that I thought would
look cool in music videos
because a lot of my friends growing up,
they wanted to be singers
or musicians, or rap person.
- Yeah, and you had that style
back when you were younger.
- For me, it wasn't the stuff,
for me, it was just, you
know, that's how we were.
You know, I always
thought, well, my friends,
they're making music videos,
they're making demo tapes,
so, you know, maybe I could create magic
that can be in music videos.
I've never seen a magician
in music videos before,
so I thought that's quite an empty view,
to kind of just explore things...
- Yeah, exactly, and that
vibe was so super new.
- And then later down the line, you know,
I realized that, I apologize
if these guys watch this video,
but some of my friends weren't actually
as good a musicians as
they thought they would be.
(laughs)
So the whole career path and music videos
that they were gonna make
never came to fruition,
and they got normal jobs.
So I had to find another route
to get my magic out there,
so this thing called YouTube came up,
it was like, 2004 when it first came out.
- Right.
- And I'd been capturing
loads of my content, you know,
me and my friends have been traveling
up and down the country,
just do magic to whoever we could meet.
I'm filming it all, and
we go to hip hop concerts
and we'd try and hustle our way back stage
to meet like, Snoop Dogg.
- Yeah.
- But, we actually filmed it all,
and we managed to get back, you know,
I've got footage with Snoop
from like, back in the day.
I remember performing magic for him,
and at the end I was
being a little cheeky,
I was like, yeah, I'm just
setting up a YouTube channel,
could you do a little drop for my channel?
(laughs)
And he goes, I got you cuz,
and he turns around to his laptop,
found a beat, put it on full volume
and did a full three minute freestyle rap
about the magic he'd just seen.
- Wait, so you're saying
you did to Snoop Dogg,
what I'm doing to you now.
Can you drop a beat
for my YouTube channel?
- Um, I'm not a beatboxer.
(laughs)
- Here we go, so if
you give a little snap,
you get two red aces like that,
and that's the two black ones.
- [Man] Bam!
- [Dynamo] And it's a card
rule that spread them,
'cause I'm gonna teach it now, so sit up.
Black ace on top face to face,
and then red ace face to face.
As I've said, other four
of a kinds are usable.
- [Man] Can you do it with the kings?
- You could definitely do it with kings.
- [Man] What about the twos?
- Yeah, but then it's like a
ballerina trick, the two two.
(laughs)
- [Dynamo] So you start
off by doing a, kind of,
it's almost like, a
topshop, Leonard Green,
you know, topshop,
but without really having to
fight with it across, you know.
You're not doing the whole
flicking it across like,
you know, like this and being stopped.
You just kind of almost come in over it
and almost peeling it off.
- [Man] Right.
- [Dynamo] Yeah, so you get the first two
and I give it a little spin.
- [Man] Yep.
- And then you're going to roll
over this packet underneath
this card, hence the title,
roll over and spread 'em.
Then you roll over, right?
So you bring these to the bottom, like so,
then you let the packets fall,
but holding back the top card,
and then flicking it over
so you roll over and you spread 'em.
So I'll do it one more time.
So you've got two of a kind
on top, first the best,
and then just underneath,
you've got the other two.
So this is kinda so.
- [Man] Yep.
- [Dynamo] Best of the deck first on,
so you start, like I said,
with a, like a topshop.
So that's the first two,
and then you're gonna flip this packet.
I'll do it from this angle
so you get a different angle.
You're basically gonna
flip this packet over,
it's almost like a half pass.
And then using the thumb to drag back
this now to the bottom of the pack.
So then, if you now drop the cards now,
you're left returning this one.
And then before you total this pack,
you use this pack to roll it over
so then you turn the deck face up.
- [Man] Nice.
- And then that's the
roll over and spread 'em.
(claps)
- Alright, so there you have it,
that was the video.
- That was the video.
- That was the video, that was a tutorial,
that was the interview.
(chuckles)
- What're these by the way?
These are cool.
- These are the new ones, but
now you kinda showed them.
I guess now we have to
show them to everybody.
Do you wanna show them?
- Why have they got super knots?
No, these should be like, knots of steel.
(imitates bomb exploding)
(claps)
- Heard it the first time, so
these are the regular ones.
That's a good name for it.
(laughter)
I can see your act is picking up, get it?
(both laughing)
Knots of steel, baby, love that.
I'm changing the name of them right now.
So these are the knots of steel,
they're available, I dunno when
this video's gonna come out,
but they're available soon.
So if you like this video,
you know what to do,
if you like Dynamo, that's it.
Alright, like, share, comment, bye!
(soft rock music)
