Sneak peek of the upcoming Magic Carnival Show! 8 more days to SHOWTIME!!

It has been a crazy week for me, lots of happenings left me very little time to update my blog!

With just 8 more days to *SCAPE Magic Carnival, rehearsals have been intense...

Here is a sneak peek at the rehearsals of this month's *SCAPE Magic Carnival!

If you haven't get your tickets yet, hurry! Buy it online at www.MagicCarnival.com.sg or those with my number, you can reserve your tickets directly from me!

See you at the show!!

With love,

 - Kiki Tay

A "Dramatic" way to make a balloon animal!

I've recently uploaded some preview videos from *SCAPE Magic Carnival.

This is a video of me demonstrating one of the many methods of performing...

"It is not about what you do... It's HOW you do it..." - Kiki Tay

Enjoy!

You can make a simple trick look "cool"! You don't need big illusions!

Later!

With love,

- Kiki Tay

Making my LED costume ver 4.0

This is a project that I've been procrastinating about for the longest time, finally got the time to do it!
This is the 4th version of my LED costume - Could be the most elaborate costume project yet! With every version, I learn a little more!

With this attempt, I learnt that planning ahead is the key!  It saved so much time compared to the previous versions where I relied on trial and error, making many mistakes along the way :-(

Planning on paper!

Just the planning process on paper took me hours of drawing and redrawing. In this version, I tried a 12v supply for the first time, with 4.2v across each LED, trying to achieve at least 20mA for each light!

The final wiring diagram! Not the most perfect, but the least complicated wiring I could come up with..

Buying the parts! Sim Lim Towers is one of my favorite places! I could spend the entire day there shopping for inspiration!

Positioning the lights is one of the most time consuming parts of this project as it is difficult to measure and mark the placement on fur. I just relied on trial and error to make the distribution of the lights work.

Yikes! Made a mistake and burnt a hole in the costume, luckily it didn’t show up in the fur!

Testing out the circuit!

Looking good!

Final step! Attaching the blinker circuit and battery pack!

Nicely done!

Finally done with phase one of the project: just 36 LEDs for now.  For the 2nd phase, I will add 24 more LEDs that will run on a different flashing circuit!

I couldn't wait to test it out on stage, so I used it in my show that night!

Watch it in HD!!

People who know me, know that I have this crazy obsession with lights, and spend much of my spare time attempting to put LEDs on everything! Catch my next blog post for some of the more useless circuits that I've created! In the meantime..

This is one of my projects from a long time ago! 128 LEDs on an instant (Pro-X) backdrop! It has 32 programmable sequences with 8 variable speeds. It’s a remote controlled operation and doesn't require wall power! It runs for more than 4 hours on a single battery charge!

I used it in the finale of my production of WAAH Magic, back in 2009. This act has the older version of my LED costume (Ver3.0).  The blinking circuit was more random then.

Creating lights for costumes has been my hobby for the longest time.  I've lost count on the number of projects I've done so far. I've made many costumes for big musical productions in Singapore, as well as creating 250 LED costumes for my mass display item at the Asian Youth Games opening ceremony; An epic project! Luckily I had help from my friends Imran & Jeremy Tan! How can I forget spending hundreds of hours soldering and wiring each and every costume! It was all worth it! Check out the final result in this video! The lights are at their full glory about 5:20min into the video.

Kiki's crazy obsession with lights!

- Kiki Tay

*SCAPE MAGIC CARNIVAL!!

Come catch my latest production! *SCAPE MAGIC CARNIVAL!

Extreme Magic, Comedy & Illusions!

13th Feb 2011 @ *Scape Theatre!

Tickets $15 available online here!

See you there!

Show at Far East Plaza!

- Kiki Tay (via iPad)

SRJC Musical - Destination Imagination!

Back in April this year, I directed SRJC's Musical "Destination Imagination"

Setting up the stage...

Building a ramp to reach out to the audience..

Benita from Campus Superstar is an excellent singer! Here is a video of her during campus superstar. She did a great job!

Benita takes on the leading role, transforming herself and entering into a world of imagination. She also sings the theme song written by Bang Wenfu.

The Magical Transition Scene

Some scenes from the show

Click on the thumbnails to see a larger image!

Bang Wenfu wrote the songs in the show, it's always a pleasure to work with him! I'm a BIG fan of his work!

Dan Kwoh! My idol and my partner in crime for so many projects. Dan choreographed the show, and his choreography is amazing! More about Dan in my later posts..

Mimi, my stage manager! The real hero behind the show! what to do without her! Mimi was also the stage manager of my production "WAAH! Magic!" back in 2009!

Some behind the scene shots.

Dan rocking the house!

Thomas Ong and his friends came to support..

Studio recording of the Theme Song "Celebration of Life" written by Bang Wenfu!

Here is the Song "Celebration of Life" click to play

Everybody signed on the board after the show :-)

The Heroes of "Desination Imagination"! It's a pleasure and an amazing experience working with all :-)