- (React) We're gonna take a walk down Memory Lane,
and you're gonna react to some of your old YouTube videos.
- Oh no! (laughs)
Who allowed that?
Okay, this was definitely filmed with probably the worst piece of equipment
that I could possibly own.
Oh lord, okay, that looked cool! That was really cool.
That was, I did a good job. Empty box?
And that, there's a card! There's a card.
I'm just going so fast right here. Pick up a card.
Bam, it's gone, and back!
And the thumb comes right off it, right back on.
That's great, I love how I didn't know how to edit at this point,
and so I was really trying to get it under the 30 second mark.
I just rushed to turn the camera off.
You can see I do the last little magic trick,
reappear disappear, and I'm like (yells)
turn it off, turn it off as fast as possible.
Five tricks in 30 seconds, that's pretty impressive,
for like what, a 10 year old? I'll take it.
You know, you ever get just like something in your throat,
and you just (coughs) ugh!
Like that, it's weird.
I don't, I should probably not keep these there.
That's not a good idea.
Oh no!
This is when I was, I believe I was 12 in this,
so a couple years later.
This is when I was doing a talent show for the city of Cary, North Carolina.
I moved around a lot as a kid,
that's actually why I started doing a lot of magic.
You meet a lot of new people, and so I was like hey,
pick a card, I'm Sean, just, I'm the magic guy.
I was performing for my first time ever,
a crowd of over 200 people.
- (Sean) Hello. - (crowd) Hello!
- Oh, you can see how nervous I am.
I, you can hear the sigh in my voice.
I literally go hello. (sighs) (React laughs)
Okay, what a lot of people don't know is this was pre-planned.
We had someone in the audience that I was already gonna point to.
- (Will) And the Oscar goes to...
- Me for best performance of pretending to pick an audience member.
We're on a stage, and unfortunately during this time,
there wasn't a lot of like zoom in cameras
that we were using for equipment.
I don't think anybody in the crowd could see anything that I was doing.
I don't know why they agreed to put a card magician on stage,
but I think they were like kinda just,
the audience was kinda just reacting to
how the person on stage was reacting,
so luckily the magic wasn't half bad.
- (Sean) Just like that, your card is interlocked with the necklace.
The Jack, the Clubs, just like that.
(audience applauds) - That's pretty good.
(claps)
- (Sean) Oh wait, let me take the thing off right here...
- Ugh, and then the necklace gets stuck with the mic.
Is it cool if I... - (React) Yeah, you can scoot.
- Move over, 'cause like, this might be better if it's like this
and then vanish, and then reappear.
Should look better. (laughs) - (React) Yeah!
- A little bit better.
You know, it's something that you have to work on,
and I've definitely worked on it.
- (Sean) Hey everybody, I'm Sean Sotaridona,
I'm only 13 years old, and I do magic.
- Oh, who thought it was a good idea
to put my face that close to a camera?
That was, and why am I off to the side?
These were the first days of me recording street magic ever.
- (Sean) Do me a favor,
and why don't you sign your name right across the front there.
- I remember doing, this time, I did the same three tricks.
Like you'll see,
it's almost like the same trick in every shot.
It was cool though. Like, she had a great reaction.
- (Sean) The next card here, the five of clubs,
I want you to watch the five of clubs, I tap it right here.
It changes into your card.
- (both) Oh my God!
What? Oh my God, dude, you a wizard!
- All my friends would just like quote that as kind of like a meme
or joke, like oh dude, Sean's a wizard!
I just remember being very proud of that video.
It was one of the first videos that I was like okay,
I'm gonna learn how to edit a little bit,
gonna put some music, you know, compile the videos together,
and it was kinda my first quote unquote street magic special.
I was really inspired by David Blaine.
He released a lot of street magic specials growing up,
same with Criss Angel, and he was really inspirational,
'cause he was able to take magic, and take it from stage,
and bring it over into TV,
and I was like okay, I wanna do the same thing.
TV, but to social media.
A lot of people ask me what happens when I mess up a card trick.
Say they picked the eight of hearts,
instead of the eight of diamonds, I just go like this,
and it actually moves to form the shape of a heart.
- (React) No! - Like that, eight of hearts.
- (React) Get out of town.
- That's weird. - (React) Hold on.
(Sean laughs)
- (Sean) Then you do your magical gesture, and one card...
- Hey, ah!
♪ (upbeat music) ♪
Oh my God, you can see where the editing and what not
is starting to come into play.
- (Sean) Hey what is up guys? Sean Sotaridona Kisela
is here back at it again with another video.
(Sean laughs) For the first time in a long time,
I am gonna be teaching you guys easy magic tricks
that you can do right now at your home.
- Wow, you can see I'm getting more comfortable with the camera.
You know, I'm using hand gestures now.
We have two angles instead of one.
High production!
I'm glad that I did a back angle.
You can like really see what you, as a magician sees.
I'm impressed.
- (Sean) One of my favorite things that I do at school,
and this little pencil vanish.
You go up to someone, and just go watch, watch the pencil.
Vanished, just like that, and then you can make it reappear.
Turn on, you stupid camera! - Oh God! (laughs)
Okay, I'm glad I kept the wittiness,
'cause this was a little bit more of a serious video,
I'm like thinking the only thing that, my only note is like,
why am I not happy in this, at all?
This looks like this was like a homework assignment for me.
(laughs)
- (Sean) And you wanna hold it really casually,
you don't wanna, it's right here,
but you don't wanna make it seem...
- Yeah, casually, that's how you hold things casually.
- (Sean) So you can hold it kinda loosely,
and then what I do is I go back
in that grip that you did with the...
- I'm not the best teacher at this moment.
- (Sean) Right in there. - Right.
- (Sean) Right in that, right in that grip.
- Beautiful, this was a great cut!
I remember, I was editing all my videos at this time,
so that was perfect!
- (Sean) Do you wanna learn some magic
to impress your friends at school? Coming up!
- (laughs) Ah, way better intro, look at that!
- (Sean) First up is a vanishing crayon.
- Getting straight to it.
- (Sean) ...is wave, vanish. - Crayons are gone!
- (Sean) Just like that. - Look at that!
- (Sean) So basically in this type of crayons,
you have a bunch of half crayons.
- I love how I'm happier. I'm way happier!
I've found my personality. I'm out here, you know, first, second.
Magic tricks to impress your friends at school, let's go!
- (Sean) Cool little party trick. - I went straight to it.
Oh, that's awesome. - (Sean) Whoa!
- I can do that way better now.
That does not look as good as it should.
- (Sean) And pretending to snort it in.
This gives the perfect illusion that the pencil is going up your nose.
If you did enjoy this video, please hit that like button down below.
Can we get this to 20 likes? Can we do it?
- 20 likes? Oh my God, that is insane!
So there's a couple tricks that I taught previously.
So there's the one where you make it vanish, like that.
You can do it a little swifter like that,
and then I used, I started to do,
a little bit of (sniffs), like that. (laughs)
- (React) Ugh! That was smooth!
- Thank you, thank you. - (React) Yeah!
- I used to do this all the time, which is one that I taught was
making it vanish like that,
but I started to do this one a little bit more,
which is just a simple kinda vanish and reappear.
So that's like kind of a new version of the one that I've been doing.
(laughs)
- (Sean) Alright, straight ace right there, okay.
- Oh, look at that!
Addison Rae, Dixie D'Amelio, Nick Austin.
- (Sean) We're gonna do four, there's one in the middle.
You got yours, you remember yours?
- (Addison) Yeah. - (Sean) Don't forget it okay?
Jack, right? - (Addison) Yeah.
- Wow. - (Sean) You remember your card?
Don't forget it, big dog. I remember it's a king, don't worry.
- Wow, and I feel the confidence, compared to the other clips,
my confidence was definitely up there.
- (Sean) Dixie, can you hold out your hand like a flat table here?
Name a number between one and five, go!
- (Dixie) Uh, three. - (Sean) One, two, three.
I think we're on a roll, we're on a roll.
- (laughs) We got the first card! Okay.
This is one of the toughest tricks that I know.
- (Sean) Whose card is this? Whose card, that's your card?
- Wow, we got, okay, so we're two for four.
- (Sean) Check this out. Addison, you grabbed the Jack, right?
- (Addison) Yeah.
- (Sean) Touch the back of one of these cards.
- She grabbed the one card.
- (Sean) Go ahead, take it out.
There's no way that's your card, the Jack!
- It's the Jack, oh!
This was a little plot twist that we had here.
We had one last card.
- (Sean) Last card is your card, right, the ace?
Grab any card that you want.
Bam, your card...
- And I remember messing up, it wasn't the ace.
- (Sean) You know what, I'm a magician, I can fix this.
- But we recovered, we recovered.
We took that 10 and we changed it right into the ace. (laughs)
And look at Addison's face and everybody in that.
Aw, that was awesome. That was really, really, cool.
It really gives me a chance to reflect how far I've come,
definitely since 2012.
You can see where a lot of my trials and errors came about,
where I was trying different things, learning some new stuff.
Really, really, cool to reflect,
and it's cool to see me grow as a person.
I'm just so thankful to be where I'm at today.
Be sure to check out my brand new Facebook show
Random Acts of Magic on Facebook Watch and IGTV.
And don't forget to watch all of my other magic videos
on my socials, SeanDoesMagic.
It's literally the exact same technique,
but it's just like a little bit more, just refined.
Legit. (laughs) - (React) Pretty damn impressive.
- Cool. - (React) Okay.
Well, my mind's been blown. - Vanish!