Join Brad in the studio for a sit-down interview with Michael Weber. We are going LIVE on Brad’s Youtube channel.

MICHAEL WEBER is an IP lawyer, magician and creator of illusions. He and his business partner, the late Ricky Jay, founded the company Deceptive Practices, which has provided effects for such movies as Forrest Gump and Congo.

He and Brad discuss growing up in California and pursuing their dreams.

About Michael Weber:

Weber came to magic early. As a teen in Southern California, he joined the Long Beach Mystics, a club created by young magicians. “Most of the magic clubs were run by adults, so there were lots of politics and people with money or power or control, or who wanted power or control,” he says. “But the great thing about the Long Beach Mystics was it was by young people who were serious about magic by and for us. We would meet every other Thursday at a high school auditorium, and the rule was, you had to perform at every meeting. There were people who performed the same thing over and over again and people who weren’t as smart, like me, who tried something different every time.”

 

By the time he was 14, Weber had auditioned and been accepted by the Junior Society of the Magic Castle, the famed and exclusive Los Angeles magicians’ clubhouse. There, he honed his craft and was taken under the mentorship of the great sleight-of-hand artist, Charlie Miller. Miller introduced Weber to another of his proteges, Ricky Jay. Together, the two formed a business, Deceptive Practice, and Weber by his twenties was making Gary Sinise’s legs disappear in Forrest Gump and creating a ladder of light for the original Broadway production of Angels in America.” That mentorship relationship, shared by Weber and Jay with Miller, is one of the many traditions that the world of magic still maintains.

 

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