Seth Raphael is a Portland magician who will be doing a full-blown version of his “technology or magic?” show at the Hollywood Theater this Saturday, July 11th at 7:15PM. This is a warm-up for a performance at the TED conference, so get him before the malarial venture capitalists get to him first. Tickets are $10.
MagicSeth’s groundbreaking magic features a psychic website, a card trick done over instant messenger, and a time machine. His performance pushes the boundaries of magic and technology, discarding the silk handkerchiefs of his predecessors and embracing the machines that fill our daily life.
My old classmate!
He is awesome. You will not be disappointed.
this guy better be good, because previous magicians at TED pretty much sucked
Hey. I first met Seth at MIT. The guy is completely amazing. He learns new programming languages the way an alcoholic learns to down a new drink, and he creates new magic tricks like an improv jazz musician playing a solo. See him on the big stage, but more importantly get some time with him to start to see how “anything is possible.”
of course he’ll be good, just look at that goatee and spiffy hat, you can’t sport those and be a bad magician, it’s just not possible.
never trust a clean-shaven magician.
Great magician!!!!
“Seth Raphael shows how easily the trained magician can enter the world of objective data and transform it to entertaining mischief. Seth fooled me, and I enjoyed every second.”
Well, this is surprising.
I went to college with Seth. Strangely enough he’s only one of two Hampshire College graduates to be named a TED fellow this year, the other being Alex Petroff of Working Villages International. Should be an interesting conference this year.