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I enjoy making videos. Something most of us have understood by now. But when I started editing the Blackpool video, something felt.. not right. After a couple of days, my Macintosh HDD decides to mess up and suddenly get a complete disaster failure. So I lost everything. Which is also incidentally the r

eason I still shoot HDV on Mini-DV tapes. Even if you do experience a disaster situation, you’ve still got your footage. Since then I’ve experienced another disk crash, but that was some super-silly error I made on my laptop, and has very little to do with the Blackpool video.

Over the last month it feels like I’ve spent all my spare time to edit this video. A little AppleScript I wrote tells me that I’ve spent about eight hours and forty-two minutes on the video. This indicates how incredibly little spare time I’ve had

Being set back by the hard drive crash was a good thing. What didn’t feel right at first, feels right now, that I’ve re-done it.

This will be the last video I make for a good while. I can say for sure that I’ll be putting out something, between August and September sometime, but wouldn’t bother going more into details about that right now.

Well, what a great chance to share this work of mine.
Most of the people in the video I’ve met on multiple occasions before. As always, some of the best moments of my teen life have been spent with you guys. Hope you can say the same.

Allan Hagen

Blackpool 2008 Video

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***COURTESY OF ALLAN HAGEN***

I promised everyone that I would post the final Blackpool video here, and so here it is. It was a shock this morning; I hadn’t expected to find it finished already — but Allan has spent much of his free time playing with the video. I feel that was very kind of him, considering the little spare time he has. Happy Birthday, mate.

So without further ado, I present to you the final instalment of the trio; “BLACKPOOL 2008″. Despite the apparent mental-retardness, I hope you do have fun watching — it was certainly a great Convention. Thank you to all that attended and made it what it was! I’d also like to thank Dan and Dave Buck for allowing me to post this Clip Shift performance; very kind of them.

Enjoy,
Jordan Lapping

Naquada has posted up tons of information about the magic lectures over at Blackpool and the experience itself.

Here is a small list of the lectures:

Shoot Ogawa
Helder Guimaraes
Geoffrey Durham
David Solomon
Martin Sanderson
Lennar Green
David Stone
Shawn Farqurhar
Chris Priest
Patrick Przysiekchi
David Sousa

He also made a great post called “Blackpool Magic Convention 2008 in 6,284 Words or 29,650 Characters” so if you couldnt go there i suggest you to read it.
“In all an excellent, and tiring convention. Like my memories from years ago, it’s big, busy and you won’t see everything. It was nice to see old friends, and make some new ones, The dates for The Blackpool Magic Convention 2009 are: Friday, Saturday and Sunday 20th, 21st and 22nd February 2009. The registration desk opens on 1st July 2008. Further details directly from The Blackpool Magic Club“.

This is the first public video of the Blackpool Convention from our friends Chris Hestnes and Jordan Lapping. They put toghether a cool standing up jam session with some nice synced flourishes. Camerawork by Mr. Allan Hagen of course. A must-favorite video for sure. The last link says it all… www.chrisandjordan.com coming soon!

 My friend Andrew, aka Naquada, is going to do a report live from the Blackpool Convention with his iPhone.

“The Blackpool Magic Convention is the worlds largest magic convention, held in February every year at the magnificent Opera House and Winter Gardens in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. The Convention features over 100 Magic Dealers from all over the world, the British Magical Championships for Close-Up Magic, the United Kingdom Children’s Entertainer of the Year Competition, Lectures, the British Magical Stage Championships and an International Gala Show. ”

He has also created a Flickr group for anyone attending to upload photos to.

I know some of you guys are going there, Allan Hagen, Jonas Haglund, Chris Hestnes, Erik, Jordan Lapping, David Blanch and some more. I would love to go but i still have exams to do and i’ve planned other trips with my family and friends.

I hope we can see ourselves next year there … Have fun and bring us a great video!!!