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Keynote & Motivational Speaker for Corporations & Organizations

World-Renowned Sleight-of-Hand Magician as seen on Penn & Teller: Fool Us

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Update - July 2012

After 15 years of doing magic on a local level, two years ago I started a national business - SeeLiveMagic - supporting professional magicians around the country and connecting the best entertainers to the best venues in their city.
 Since starting, we have:

• grown from 2 to 65 performers
• expanded from Florida to 15 other states
• performed over 900 shows
• reached over 90 million media impressions
• have been featured on TV and in magazines.

Our sister company - Restaurant Magic Business - has focused in on the food service industry, where we've truly carved out a niche, taking our time to perfect and establish replicable systems to support single-unit owners and multiple-unit operators. After two hard-working years, our efforts are being recognized by the industry.

Check out this video interview with our clients and this industry newspaper article.

To support these entrepreneurial ventures and be able to hire the finest web designers, photographers and video-graphers, I've had the pleasure to keep a busy performance schedule.

I'm lucky enough to have clients invite me to perform at their Weddings and Trade-Shows. And major corporations invite me back year after year to speak at their Franchisee Conferences and Global Summits. (btw: these are all 4 video links to live performances that I haven't shared until now.)

After traveling across the world for 10 years and performing magic in over 200 cities, I've settled in the #1 most visited city in the world to help welcome visitors with magical hospitality.

Our team of local performers is the Official Magicians of the NBA Team: Orlando Magic!

And I get to present an intimate dinner-show at the #1 Upscale restaurant here in town: Christner's Del Frisco's Prime Steak and Lobster. I would really love to see you there if you are visiting town - it's one of my favorite places to perform and to have dinner! Reserve your tickets for our next show.

Finally, a magic trick that I produced and distributed to magicians around the world for three years has "exploded!" I wish I could say this figuratively, but it actually happened, literally.

Two boxes filled with specially printed and chemically treated paper spontaneously combusted from static electricity. Everything inside either burned or was flooded. So it goes.

The photo you see is of my burned luggage and cases of cards, books, DVDs and 15 years of equipment and memories.

I can only be grateful that I wasn't inside when the tragedy happened and am here to now tell the story that no matter how careful you may be for however long, you never know when something unexpected or tragic can come your way. All we can do is be grateful for every living moment!

Well that's it for the update. I hope you, dear reader, are doing wonderful. Be safe and be healthy!
Onwards and upwards until next time!

Official Magicians of the NBA Orlando Magic on TV

It's been another amazing season with the Orlando Magic NBA Team!
In the last year we've had two great appearances on Good Morning Orlando where we got to talk about our performances and do a bit of magic.

Check out the first video of close-up magic:

then watch us make one of the Orlando Magic Dancers appear, before doing a special piece with the t-shirt at the end:

 

Orlando Magic is Back in Action!

The wait is over and we have finally pulled off the greatest trick of the year: making the NBA season re-appear !

Our team of magical entertainers is proud to be back as the Official Magicians of the Orlando Magic basketball team delighting all the fans before and during each game throughout the Amway concourse!

Catch the best magicians in Orlando performing interactive close-up magic, right before your eyes!

OUTSIDE: During pre-game Fan-Fest, come catch the amazing magic off the court along with the rest of the Fan Fest Crew, outside the Amway Center!

INSIDE: During breaks and in-between quarters and halftime, witness the impossible while visiting the lounges, bars and restaurants inside the beautiful Amway Center concourse!

For full details: http://www.seelivemagic.com/venue/orlando-magic-nba-team/

See you at the games!

More Magic at the Orlando Magic Games!

It's been an exciting past few weeks doing magic at every Orlando Magic home game.

A few nights ago I got to perform on the court, with the awesome mascot, STUFF, helping me amaze one of the fans!

Here are some pictures from the performance.

Pic #1. Producing cards from fire
Pic #2. Stuff stabbing the selected playing card in mid-air with his bare (dragon) hands!


Also, I just did an interview with Scott Jacobs at the Juiced Sports Blog.
Check out the Interview:
Part #1 and
Part #2.

Official Magicians for the Orlando Magic NBA Team

Update: August 2015

Watch Video of Kostya Kimlat and his team of Orlando Magicians for the NBA's Orlando Magic

Original Post: October 2010

I'm very proud to announce that our company has become the official magicians for the Orlando Magic NBA Team. We will be providing magic entertainment to delight all of the fans at the brand new and beautiful Amway Center in the heart of Downtown Orlando.

Check Out Press Releases Here:

http://www.newsalbum.com/Article/33822-Live-Magic-Sparks-Orlando-Magic-Fans-This-Season
http://www.buzznewzz.com/news/live_magic_sparks_orlando_magic_fans_this_season
http://www.prlog.org/11002605-live-magic-sparks-orlando-magic-fans-this-season.html
http://www.prfocus.com
http://www.pr.com/press-release/269923

For more information on where you can catch LIVE MAGIC ENTERTAINMENT throughout Florida, check out: www.SeeLiveMagic.com

Catching Up

Quick update of what's been going on:

-Traveled to 30 cities in 2 months, lecture tour comes to a successful conclusion!

-Got home and got incredibly busy with events and the new dinner-show theatre experience.

-Finished the production of Volume 2 of an Instructional DVD for magicians (see photo)

-Moved into a new office in downtown Orlando to pursue a new venture.

It's exciting times and much more to come!

Zen in the midst of chaos

It's been said that you've got to be careful what you wish for.
Having had my passport stamped upon arriving in the UK I looked at a few last empty pages and wished to get another stamp or two before the upcoming expiration date. Later in the week I borrowed a book from a friend to take on the road, knowing I wouldn't have time to finish it, but wishing I did.
Well now thanks to all flights in Europe being grounded due to the volcanic ash, I've been frantically journeying from train station to train station, finding plenty of time to finish the book and even earning another stamp upon leaving the UK and going into France. Be careful what you wish for!

It was quite a hectic day and a total thirty hours of straight travel. Dozens of failed calls to the airlines, hundreds of people waiting in line to purchase the few remaining train tickets, running from station to station in London, staying up all night in Paris to be the first to purchase the next connection...it's been insane and adventurous and frustrating and comedic all at the same time. As with all adventures, it's much more entertaining looking back and sharing the story with friends. But when you're in the thick of it, it's tough not to throw your arms in the air and give up all hope. At times like this, you've got to find a little gem of happiness to hang onto.

Luckily, the book - "Magic Matters" by Robert Neale - has been wonderful company. In particular, there was a trick accompanied by a Zen Buddhist tale that I share with you now with pleasure:

Retold from Zen Buddhism, Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1959, page 61 and read in Magic Matters, Canada: The Theory and Art of Magic Press, 2009, page 112.

...
A traveler was fleeing a tiger. He ran until he came to the edge of a cliff. There he caught hold of a thick vine and swung himself over the edge.

Above him the tiger snarled. Below him he heard another snarl. He looked down and saw a second tiger peering up at him. The vine suspended him midway between two tigers!

Two mice began to gnaw at the vine. He could see that they would eat through it very quickly. Then in front of him on the cliff side he saw a luscious bunch of grapes. Holding on to the vine with one hand, he reached over and picked a grape with the other.

How delicious!
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Back on the road...

After an amazing trip to Buenos Aires to meet incredible magicians and perform at a great convention and then an exciting hiking trip to El Calafate, Argentina I've been busy at home with a number of shows. And now it's time to hit the road again. I've updated my tour page for magicians and posted my public appearances on my client website, as well.
Time to pack my bags once more...

What a time!

The past two months have probably been the busiest two months of my life. Between a new weekly dinner show and lots of great corporate events I've got to perform my full evening show two dozen times, finishing up my time here at home with a standing ovation from an incredibly warm crowd of one-hundred-fifty people. I've also started work at several local venues, and although I will be traveling, my friends will continue to perform magic at places like Ceviche, Maggiano's and Melting Pot so anyone who is visiting Orlando or lives in Orlando and is looking for live entertainment...stay tuned, there will be a full schedule and lots of great nightly venues soon!

Check out the new website! ----> www.magicshoworlando.com

Hope to see you in Orlando or somewhere on the road.
Time to pack my bags...

"Evening of Mysteries" Continues in Orlando

Thank you to all those who came to the opening week of the new show, "Evening of Mysteries" at Del Frisco's. Starting tomorrow I get to perform the show weekly here in Orlando in a beautiful dark, Victorian-style room, by candle light. There's only two "card tricks" in the show. The rest can best be labeled as "curious coincidences," and "uncanny oddities." What will happen depends on who shows up. The poster and details are on my website and there will be much more coming in the weeks to come. I'm excited to perform while I am home. In February, I get to perform in Argentina and then the travels begin again. But for now, I'll be glad to be in (oddly chilly) Florida and spend my time doing what I love!

An Evening of Magic - New Dinner Show in Orlando

Hello Friends!

I'm excited to announce a brand new dinner-magic show in Orlando.

"An Evening of Magic - Elegant Dining and Sophisticated Sleight-of-Hand"
will be presented at Del Frisco's - one of the finest steakhouses in the country.

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
December 28, 29, 30th - 2009
Dinner and Showtime: 7:00 - 9:30 PM

Purchase Your Tickets Today at KMagic.com
Only 3 Shows & Only 24 Seats per show!

Special VIP Seating for your group of 4 is available.

For more details, check out my entertainment webpage or call: 407-719-9288.

Home, once again...trying to stay here

After another two weeks on the road I have arrived home safely. I did leave a car on the Jersey turnpike. But all the wonderful friends and magicians I got to see along the way in DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Long Island, Goldsboro, Charlotte, and Asheville made it all worth the trip! Thanks to everyone who came out to the lectures, seminars, and workshops. The last three days were spent in Daytona Beach, where I performed and lectured at the Florida State Magic Convention.

If you are a magician, along with picking up the great "Jinx" copy of Genii magazine, pick up the October issue of MAGIC. Inside there you'll find a new "discovery" in card magic that I call "A Curious Case of Murder." It's really just a story...words conjured up from the art printed on playing cards many decades ago. But it's something that took me a decade of looking at playing cards before I noticed it. I'd like to call it an anthropological find, if anything. And it's also a fun effect to present, if you're into that sort of thing.

Thanks again to everyone who came out to the lectures. East, West, Home is best. I'll be in sunny Florida, doing card tricks during this winter season. There are a few one-day corporate events in Dallas and elsewhere, but truly, this is the best time of year to be here in sunny Florida...even if the hurricanes are just around the corner. If you're in the cold parts of the world, come and say hello.

Magic, Neuroscience and the Brain

I just got home from Chicago, where I attended the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting, which opened up with a session on how the art of magic can help scientists make discoveries about the brain. I had the pleasure of watching my friends Eric Mead and Apollo Robbins intrigue and astonish an audience of ten thousand scientists.

Check out the USA Today Article.

I am incredibly excited about these studies and discoveries. I do hope that the researchers and neuro-scientists won't get tripped up by confusing methods for effects and lose sight by focusing too much on the technical "secrets" of magic. There's much more to be explored. Right now neuro-scientists are focusing on the optical. Would they be interested in the psychological or the emotional? I would love to see the effects on the brain of certain magic effects.

There's lots of room for discovery ahead and I am excited to see what comes next.

The magic never ends...

I'm home for just a few days, recovering from an incredible weekend of magic in Toronto, and it's time to pack my bags again and head to the other side of Canada. I'll be performing on the X-elent Lecture Series that is orgnized by Lee Asher. As soon as the tour is over I'll be heading over to Denver for the Magic in the Rockies convention, which is always a blast.

The response is coming in from the WARNING Trailer and short clip shot at LIVE - I'm glad that people are excited to receive it. The release date is set for September 18th.

We shot some more short clips for the WARNING "instructional area" while I was in Vegas, and I just got permission from some other creators to include their ideas, as well. I'm excited to have contributions from: Vito Lupo, Derek Hughes, my friend form Austria - Philip Tawfik, Michael Weber and Chad Long. It's really the small touches that make this effect so powerful. Can't wait for everyone to see these new videos.

Live Performance in Vegas

Live Performance of WARNING from Las Vegas.
Shot at the very end of MAGIC LIVE at 4:30 a.m.
You thought I was kidding about the no sleep part?!? :-)

Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL58fdNFWnE

Thanks to the awesome guys at iTricks !

Off to MAGIC LIVE!

I'm packing my bags and heading off to Las Vegas for MAGIC LIVE!
Last year I got to do 12 close-up shows in Vegas. This time, I get to hang out and hopefully get fooled badly by some of the best magicians in the world.
I'll be hanging out and performing !WARNING, so if you're around, be sure to say hello.

Jeff McBride and Chad Long say...

A few more friends have responded:

"What a fun, direct piece of magic." - Jeff McBride

"So off the wall and visual - what a great idea!" -Chad Long

It's been non-stop work to get this all ready.

Coming soon...

"WARNING"

David Regal says...

"Kostya has produced an opener for the real world that lets an audience know you do the impossible in a nanosecond." - David Regal

From the flame

One of the most wonderful parts of being a magician are the pure moments of creation you get to embrace. When it's just you and the unlimited horizon of possibility.

Like the Phoenix, this magical idea arose from the flame. I'm excited to release it out into the wild world for magical performers everywhere.

Stay tuned for release date and more info...