"Green" Magic

Welcome to The Magic Castle here in Hollywood California with Melissa McGinnis of GreenopolisTV and the one and only, green magician, Steve Trash.

Steve Trash is the world's greatest green magician and he's awesome. He'll be performing here in Los Angeles and he'll be showing you GreenopolisTV audience his tricks. But first, he'll be telling you where he got his start.

Steve used trash in his magic shows because he needed items. When he was a kid, he moved to New York City and started working as a busker for a street performer and people would give him items that they'd just pick up off the street. They'd go, "hey do a trick with this," and he would do a trick with the found object. In return, the people would give him more tips.

Steve came up with more tricks with trash and it dawned on him one day that he could actually share a message about the interconnection with nature of people doing tricks with trash.

He's going to show you a bit of magic with a leaf. People underestimate the value of nature. Nature is way more valuable than you give it credit for—the air, the land, the water, the plants, the trees. We cannot live without nature. He'll be showing you what it means.

Nature may be as much as valuable... 100 times more valuable!

Steve always tell a story while doing a trick so when people come to his show, they learn something not just have a good time. It's very important to him for the magic to be "quality" and because he doesn't want to be a lame magician and not just tacking some green message on there. He actually lived in an earthbound home in Frogpond, Alabama which is very highly-energy efficient as he believes that he has to walk the talk; it's a little hypocritical if you don't make steps in your own life and just be a "go green" kind of person.

His second trick will be a trick with trash—a cocktail napkin from The Magic Castle. This cocktail napkin was valuable to somebody who needed maybe to wipe off just a little bit of food but decided to throw it away. When they throw it away, they have to make a decision: is it valuable? Is it not valuable? He'll show you what it means. Watch the video to learn what he did with the napkin to show the interconnection of nature.

When you throw something away, it doesn't just disappear—it goes somewhere else. You see, everything in the natural world is connected. You can't throw garbage away because in the natural world, there is no "away."

That is such a great trick and tip. Nothing goes away. Choose responsibly.

You can see a lot more green magic at http://www.youtube.com/stevetrashnetwork

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[Tmanda1]

@rubiksbillli who cares how he really did it, do you really have to ruin it for everyone? Hes trying to make valuable points. Go recycle yourself.

[rubiksbillli]

2:52 he puts it between those two fingers because he's going to use his pointer finger to misdirect you and make it seem like he transferred the ball when he really didn't. 2:57 he did a shuffling thing with his hand to combine both balls in his hand and squeeze it to make it seem like its the size off one ball and then places both balls back in the palm.

[entmage]

I got to get a hat and tie like that (actually I'm more of a bow tie guy)

[tpvalley]

why did u name it after a drug?

green magic was a type of heroin in the 60's/70's.

high purity. a black man imported it directly from vietnam, in coffins of soldiers.

[theorganicfreak]

sexy excstasc lol

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