The magic of...podcast with Paul Roffman

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  • Episode 15. Dave Venghaus talks about being a 1st Assistant director and working with Oliver Stone, Stephen Spielberg and Jon Favreau to name a few.

    David H. Venghaus, Jr.

    Bio

    David Venghaus has worked in the film and television industry for over 30 years, beginning his career as a Set Production Assistant on NBC’s THE COSBY SHOW and then working his way up to Assistant Director and Associate Producer on such films as FORREST GUMP, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, DEAD MAN’S CHEST, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, AT WORLD’S END, A CHRISTMAS CAROL and most recently on HORSE SOLDIERS, THE DARK TOWER, THE JUNGLE BOOK, ZOOLANDER 2, MOTHER’S DAY, THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY, Disney’s THE LION KING and JUNGLE CRUISE and most recently on A QUIET PLACE II with director, John Krasinski.

    Venghaus has built his career as an Assistant Director working for some of the most established directors in the world including, Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis, Jon Favreau, Oliver Stone, Gore Verbinski and Garry Marshall. His work on the motion capture films, A CHRISTMAS CAROL and MARS NEEDS MOMS, JUNGLE CRUISE and the virtual productions of THE JUNGLE BOOK and THE LION KING have put him in a unique position in working in some of the newest technology used in filmmaking today. This work has offered David opportunities to not only build a strong reputation among “A” list filmmakers, but to take that knowledge into the Directing chair himself.

    Dave Venghaus has directed the short films, BETWEEN THE SAND AND THE SKY and REMEMBER and feature films, THEY CALL HIM SASQUATCH and most recently HORROR FILMED, THE POE EXPERIMENT.

    1 hr 55 min
  • Episode 14. Max Somerset talks magic, the universe and the meaning of life and plays a little piano.
    Maximilian Somerset The Magician, Musician and Unusualist.
    Award winning TV magician Maximilian Somerset is one of the few privileged to be an Honorary Inner Member of the Prestigious Magic Circle, London. He has performed for Celebrities; Royalty; Barristers and Road Sweepers alike. As the Duke of Beaufort’s Magician Cousin who was later adopted by a milkman, Maximilian can relate to most people.

    Max has had his own prime time TV show on BBC 1; performed three sell out stage shows at the Magic Circle and has twice played the Organ at the Royal Albert Hall. However, you may also have seen him performing at Dover Street Arts Club or The Magic Garden. For Max, the key is diversity and adaptability.

    He calls himself “The Unusualist” because his magic, far from being associated with all the usual clichés, is something more profound. It’s free from the shackles of conventional tricks and is about creating the impossible with anything to hand. Your wedding ring could end up spinning in mid air; your children’s pet Goldfish could swim out of your £50 note; or a word that you are thinking of can be found engraved on a coin…inside a walnut...inside an egg!

    Either way as both a performer and an inventor, his innovations have gained him respect among his peers as one of the most unique minds in the field of magic today.

    2 hr 11 min
  • Episode 12. Tim Bran, music producer has worked with the best in the business. And he's a magician.
    Tim Bran is a mixer, producer and writer based in London UK. As one-half of production duo MyRiot alongside Roy Kerr, Tim produced London Grammar’s 2013 debut album “If You Wait” which achieved both huge sales and widespread critical acclaim . The duo repeated that same success after co-producing numerous tracks on London Grammar‘s number one selling album “Truth Is A Beautiful Thing”. Never shy of the the charts MyRiot also produced 10 tracks for the Birdy album “Beautiful Lies”. The album shot to number three in the UK album charts and hit the itunes top 10 in no less than 25 countries. Tim has also co-produced Rae Morris‘ new album “Someone One There”, including the radio hits “Do It” and “Athletico” . Tim is renowned for his radio mixes of La Roux’s “In For The Kill” and “Bulletproof” which became massive US airplay hits and working on the Paul McCartney album The Fireman.
    He also co-produced the highly acclaimed albums by Aurora, ‘Infections of a different kind’ and ‘A different kind of human’ .
    Tim is currently producing Imelda May and Natalie Imbruglia, amongst many other artists and bands. He is also a member of the World- renowned Magic Circle.
    https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6WsTLCSa8aw8aW1LDnxX2a?si=8BAulXXTRJ-n06v4n4--GQ
    Podcast credit: Thanks to Ryan Lutz for editing, clips and curbing the panic.
    2 hr 38 min
  • Episode 11. Ali Cook discussed comedy, magic acting and film making.
    Ali is magician, comedian and actor who was nominated for a British Comedy Award for Dirty Tricks on Channel 4 and has appeared in 30 feature films, including the BAFTA nominated Kajaki.  Ali is currently starring in How to Fake a War with Katherine Parkinson. His short film The Cunning Man was long listed for a BAFTA and has so far won 21 awards.  Instagram handle: @ali_cook  Twitter handle: @ali_cook  Official YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/alicookofficial  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alicook01  Cards to Mouth magic trick: https://www.instagram.com/p/CCilyssD8AX/  How to Fake a War trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfI2m3HP7qg  The Cunning Man trailer: https://vimeo.com/341997439
    1 hr 54 min
  • Episode 10. Katherine Mills magician and mind reader.
    Described as ‘The modern face of 21st Century magic’ by stage magazine. Katherine has stared in three series' of a hit Bafta winning CBBC show, ‘Help My Supply Teacher is Magic’(BBC1) and she made television history as the first female magician to be given her own primetime TV series.   Her show, Katherine Mills: Mind Games aired on Watch and worldwide from 2014 to 2016. Since then Katherine has featured on ‘Now You See it’ (BBC1), ‘Next Great Magician’ on ITV, ‘Trickheads’ on Comedy Central and ‘Every Trick on BBC1 Scotland which is due to air November 2020.   Unanimously voted into the magic circle and later awarded Associate of the Inner Magic Circle, Katherine has quickly become a firm favourite on the magic scene providing bespoke entertainment to an extensive client list from royalty and world leaders to the largest of corporate firms. She has worked all over the world for the likes of Marc Jacobs, Prada, Goldman Sachs, Virgin, Bloomberg to name a few.  Thanks to Ryan Lutz for editing, clips and curbing the panic.
    1 hr 34 min
  • Episode 9. Magnus Fiennes, composer, musician & producer discusses music, art, creativity & culture.
    Follow on twitter. https://twitter.com/magnusfiennes?s=21  Magnus Fiennes is a Los Angeles based multi-disciplinary composer, music producer and creator of transmedia art and entertainment. Magnus is an inveterate composer, having written over 240 hours of music for film, television, theatre and games. ​ His TV work includes multiple seasons of hit shows such as Hustle, Murphy’s Law, The Last Enemy, Freefonix, and Death In Paradise (one of the BBC’s most successful dramas) as well as ambitious productions such as Hooten & The Lady, Curfew, and Five Days, for which his contribution was winner of Best Music at Reims International Music Awards.  Music for  Film includes Onegin (1999), Chromophobia (2005), Casper's Scare School (2006) Donkeys (2009) and musical contributions to movies such as Johnny English (2003), The Next Best Thing (2000) and Addicted To Love (1997). Magnus has also composed extensively for the Nintendo DS platform as well as Ambisonic/VR music productions for Lexus and The Hamburg VRAM festival. He has composed hundreds of commercials including campaigns for Ford, Lotus, Rover, Coca Cola, Kraft, Sega, Cleau De Peau, L’Oreal and Gordon’s Gin..  IMG_5602 USE THIS IMAGE.jpg Magnus cut his musical teeth as a producer, songwriter, and arranger with a range of artists that defined the British fin de siécle musical zeitgeist from Pulp, Massive Attack, Morcheeba, Sinead O'Conner, and Neneh Cherry to chart-topping pop successes with All Saints (global number one Never Ever) and The Spice Girls, as well as helping to re-interpret the oeuvres of music icons such as Marianne Faithfull, Tom Jones, Gary Moore, Shakira, and  Bryan Ferry. Fiennes also produced  Damien Hirst's singular musical adventure, the chart-topping post-modern 1998 World Cup football anthem Vindaloo.   More esoteric recording outings include a 2002 collaboration with Canadian violin virtuoso Lara St John and India’s leading percussionist Trilok Gurtu on an album of genre-defying Bach arrangements for Sony, composing and producing three albums for all-female string quartet Bond on Universal and in 2016, the composition of a body of work for William Close and the Earth Harp, the world’s largest stringed instrument.    As a creator of original content, Magnus conceived, produced and scored forty episodes of the groundbreaking music-driven BBC animation series Freefonix, nominated for best children’s animation at Annecy Film festival in 2008. In 2013 he teamed with immersive theatre company Punchdrunk to create music and sound design for its seminal National Theatre co-production The Drowned Man.   2011 marked the beginning of a collaboration with sister Martha Fiennes on SLOimage, an AI digital art platform which was launched with an inaugural work Nativity. In 2018 they completed the far more ambitious Yugen starring Salma Hayak which premiered at Venice Film Festival 2018 and has since been exhibited at Frieze, Christies NYC and LACMA, who acquired the work in 2019.   Magnus has lectured on film compostion and record production at London Film School, Kingston University and Morlely College London and presented a Tedx talk on inspiration. He is currently developing an inter-related slate of media projects that investigate the critical and precarious relationship between humanity and technology. These include conceptual art pop music act Deep Machines that will tour as a visually driven immersive, AR augmented experience, and a film drama about transgender electronic composer and synth pioneer Wendy Carlos. Thanks to Ryan Lutz for editing, clips and curbing the panic.
    2 hr 1 min
  • Episode 8. James Carrington. Music, addiction & creativity. The Magic of...podcast with Paul Roffman
    James’s bio.
    I am a bit of a jack of a few trades! At present, my Facebook status, I believe, reads Music teacher, Singer/Songwriter, Composer, Producer of Original Songs for kids, Music App developer and Lyft driver. I literally am bouncing between all of them and am close to launching my website which will have a page dedicated to each part of my working life.
    In my singer/songwriter career as James Carrington there are over 100 covers of my song “ache” on YouTube, 350,000 plays of it on Spotify and over 3 million views of songs I have written and performed on YouTube, Instagram, Vimeo and Facebook. I am just about to start recording my new album with producer and singer/songwriter Paul Freeman which we hope to complete by the end of September.
    The music game I raised money for on Kickstarter I am developing into an app with a company called Nerdpeople (nerdpeople.com) The app will help people learn to read music, I hope, will be a welcome addition to the app stores and help people begin to master a skill I believe to be really important and hugely beneficial in understanding music.
    The original songs for kids album I am writing and producing with LA-based Grammy-nominated producer, mixer, engineer and musician Jesse String is getting closer to completion.
    And I continue to teach people all over the world on zoom! Which I love.
    Here’s a link to my album that’s on Spotify.
    https://open.spotify.com/album/7d6DGmPs57DjZ9JP3HclrD?si=NQNOd8VDRuCh-NzrxtZq4g
    And to a YouTube video I’m proud of.
    https://youtu.be/zdd2-iamWwE Thanks to Ryan Lutz for editing, clips and curbing the panic.
    1 hr 46 min
  • Episode 6. Darren Darnborough weaudition.com & acting . Entrepreneurship and taking chances..
    Darren Darnborough is a British-born Actor working in Hollywood.  His TV & Film work includes hit US shows MacGyver, Magnum PI, 2 Broke Girls & True Blood, and he plays a lead role in upcoming film Abruptio alongside Oscar-winner Jordan Peele.
    Darren is also the Co-Founder and CEO of WeAudition.com - a revolutionary new video-chat community for auditions, rehearsals, self tapes & advice.
    www.weaudition.com
    http://www.imdb.me/darrendarnborough
    @weaudition on all social platforms. Thanks to Ryan Lutz for editing, clips and curbing the panic.
    1 hr 47 min

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