Alex Latorre – Penguin Live

Alex Latorre is a part of a wild new breed of magicians coming out of Spain, fusing magic with technology, design, engineering, and art to create radical new routines and experiences that are delighting audiences all over the world. As a creator, he has delighted audiences with Rattle Dice, Stab In The Dark, and many other innovative and interesting products. Now he gives you a peek inside his mind and gives you the skills to start creating your own digital magic. In this lecture, Alex gives you unlimited access to four web apps that you can start performing right away. Because these are web-based, there are no restrictions on the phone you can use.

Here’s just a taste of what this powerful software can do:

Digits Of Pi
Create the illusion that any spectator’s chosen number exists within the digits of Pi. More than that, you can not only show them their meaningful digits, you give the appearance that you have memorized massive sections of Pi that you can repeat at a moment’s notice. This demonstration requires no memory work, and the clever method that makes you look like a memory genius is as simple as it is deceptive.

MatchFlix
This web-based application gives you the ability to read the mind of a spectator and reveal the exact movie that they are thinking of. It also features an incredible prediction that you can have on full display before the trick even starts. This practical application is a powerful piece of mentalism that you can use in both formal and informal settings and is a real fooler.

Randomizer
Perform an incredibly clean Any Card at Any Number with this app that secretly gives you all the control. The best part is that this version of ACAAN doesn’t require any sleight of hand. Your audience member is the one who has control of the deck from the very beginning, and they even count out the cards.

Lotto Whisper
This application gives you the uncanny ability to predict a lottery number. This one blends free choices from the spectator with an actual lottery ticket to create a stunning revelation. No fancy pocket printers required!

Not only will you learn how to use these web applications, but Alex will also teach you how to build your own with no coding experience required. He shares his thousands of hours of actual research in using Artificial Intelligence to leverage freely available technology to make your wildest ideas into reality. You will watch as Alex builds a magic web application in real time by simply describing the effect he wants, and then letting technology do the heavy lifting. This deep explanation on how to create your own applications is effectively a crash course from an expert on the subject, explained in a way that can make it so anyone can become a magical engineer overnight.

The education isn’t finished there. Alex also takes you through a physical product design crash course, along with a tutorial in 3D design so that you can start designing your own cutting-edge props with the power of 3D printing. He does this with two magic tricks you’ll start performing right away.

Domino Monte 2.0
A clever little Monte routine where no matter how closely your audience pays attention, they can’t discover the winning domino tile. It magically jumps to all of the different positions thanks to the clever gimmick Domino Alex has designed. But he doesn’t just teach it to you, he also gives you the design files so you can use a 3D printer to produce your own gimmicks.

Super CCC
Troy Hooser’s classic Charming Chinese Challenge sees three coins with holes in them threaded onto a ribbon. They then melt off the ribbon one at a time in a beautiful sequence. Alex has designed three special coins that make the ribbon passing through the coins even more visual than ever, and each of the coins is a different color, adding to the impossibility. You also get the design files for these coins, so you can 3D print them right at home or at your local library.

Alex also takes you through new uses of existing props you already have, and takes design and engineering thinking and uses it to create new props. You’ll learn about the Rattle Coin gimmick that started his fascination with audio illusions, and a trick that uses QR codes to reveal the exact painting someone is thinking of. This lecture is a real course in modern technology, and you don’t need to be computer savvy to get a lot of interesting information out of it. If you’ve ever thought up an application or a device, but lamented that you couldn’t make it because you didn’t have the skills, those days are over while school is in session with Alex. Learn all that and more right here at Penguin Live.