“IDENTITY IS AN ELUSIVE CONCEPT. WE FEEL WE MUST DEFINE OURSELVES USING A RELATIVELY SMALL SELECTION OF ROLES AND CONSCIOUS CHARACTER TRAITS, EVEN IF NONE ACCURATELY REPRESENTS OUR NOTION OF “SELF.” THE CONFUSION SURROUNDING OUR TRUE NATURES IS FURTHER COMPOUNDED BY THE FACT THAT SOCIETY REGULARLY ASKS US TO SUPPRESS SO MUCH OF OUR EMOTIONAL, INTELLECTUAL, AND SPIRITUAL VIBRANCY. YET WE ARE, IN TRUTH, BEINGS OF LIGHT-PURE ENERGY INHABITING PHYSICAL BODIES, STRIVING FOR ENLIGHTENMENT WHILE LIVING EARTHLY LIVES. OUR TRUE SELVES EXIST WHETHER WE ACKNOWLEDGE THEM OR NOT, OFTEN BURIED UNDER FEARS AND LEARNED BEHAVIOR. WHEN WE RECOGNIZE OUR POWER, OUR LUMINOSITY, AND OUR DIVINITY, WE CANNOT HELP BUT LIVE AUTHENTIC LIVES OF APPRECIATION, POTENTIAL, FULFILLMENT, AND GRACE.”

AS YOU ALL KNOW BRANDON HAS A STRONG PASSION FOR THE ART OF, AND PHILOSOPHY BEHIND MAGIC. ALTHOUGH HE HAS BEEN STUDYING THE ART FOR OVER 7 YEARS NOW, MAGIC, LIKE SO MANY THINGS IN HIS LIFE, HAS BECOME A NEVER-ENDING PROGRESSION. HAVING AN AFFINITY FOR MAGIC, MENTALISM, AND ESCAPES, HIS LOVE FOR SUCH CAME ABOUT FROM CHILDHOOD DREAMS, AND THE PASSION FOR FLYING, TELEKINESIS, AND OTHER METAPHYSICAL ANOMALIES. BRANDON HAS ALWAYS HAD A STRONG AFFINITY FOR SUPERHEROS, AND THE MYTHOS BEHIND THEM. BEGGING TO BELIEVE THAT THESE WONDERFUL GIFTS THAT SUCH CLASSIC HEROES AS THE X-MEN, NEO FROM THE MATRIX, SPIDER-MAN, SUPERMAN, OR A EVEN A JEDI KNIGHT ARE IN FACT POSSIBLE. BRANDON HAS STATED, “IN THIS WORLD, MY PROFESSION AS A MAGICIAN, CAN BE THE CLOSEST THING TO BEING A JEDI, IF YOU RESPECT THE ART ENOUGH”.

HE READ LITTLE BITS OF MAGIC, AND PRACTICED FROM THE AGE OF 9 LEARNING A LITTLE BIT WITH COINS, BUT NOTHING THAT HE GAVE ENOUGH DISCIPLINE TO TRULY UNDERSTAND THIS BEAUTIFUL ART. IT WAS MAINLY A SPRINGBOARD TO SPARK HIS PASSION FOR IT LATER IN LIFE, AS HE WOULD LATER RECALL HIS CHILDHOOD DREAMS.

AT THE AGE OF 14, THE YEAR HIS BROTHER CACHE WAS BORN, HE BEGAN TO SERIOUSLY WANT TO PURSUE MAGIC AS A HOBBY AT FIRST WHEN DAVID BLAINE FIRST BROKE ON TO THE SCENE. IT WAS ON MAY 19, 1997, WHEN HIS FIRST TELEVISION SPECIAL, DAVID BLAINE: STREET MAGIC AIRED ON THE ABC NETWORK. BRANDON WAS HOOKED FROM THEN ON. THE NEW YORK TIMES WROTE, “HE’S TAKEN A CRAFT THAT’S BEEN AROUND FOR HUNDREDS OF YEAR AND DONE SOMETHING UNIQUE AND FRESH WITH IT.” AND HE DID, NEVER SEEING ANYTHING LIKE THAT BEFORE, BRANDON’S IMAGINATION NOW HAD TAKEN AN EVEN TIGHTER GRIP ON HIS LIFE, AND HE HAS NEVER TURNED BACK. HE VOWS TO DO WHAT DAVID BLAINE DID BACK IN THE 90’S. TAKE THIS INCREDIBLE ART, AND DO SOMETHING UNIQUE AND ENTERTAINING WITH IT. BUT ALAS, STILL NOT KNOWING WHERE TO FIND SUCH KNOWLEDGE OR SOMEONE TO EDUCATE HIM THE ART, HE ALWAYS KEPT WANTING SOMEONE THAT COULD BE SOMEWHAT OF A  MENTOR.

IT TOOK A FEW YEARS, BUT IN 2008 MET ROLANDO MEDINA,  A LOCAL MAGICIAN THAT WAS VOTED TEXAS 2007’S #1 CLOSE UP MAGICIAN, AND FORMED A BOND WITH HIM. IT WAS THERE WHEN BRANDON STARTED SERIOUSLY DEDICATING HIMSELF TO THE ART AND STUDYING EVERYTHING HE COULD GET HIS HANDS ON IN MAGIC, IT WAS FIRST IN THE FORM OF WORKING WITH CARDS. ROLANDO ALONG WITH OTHER LOCAL TALENTED MAGICIANS SUCH AS PAUL MIMS, RICHARD MENDEZ, DOUG GORMAN, DAVID COOK, AND RICHARD TURNER TAUGHT HIM A LOT, LEARNING FANS, SOME FLOURISHES, AND VARIOUS OTHER TECHNIQUES. BRANDON NOW IS VERY ADEPT IN THE ART OF CARD MAGIC. AFTER PERFORMING MULTIPLE CARD PRODUCTIONS, TEARING AND RESTORING A SIGNED CARD, OR EVEN PULLING A SIGNED CARD THROUGH A GLASS WINDOW. HE IS ALWAYS WORKING WITH CARDS, AND IS MASTERING SOME OF THE MOST ADVANCED TECHNIQUES OUT THERE.

FROM THERE BRANDON PROGRESSED TO TELEKINETIC EFFECTS, MOVING OBJECTS SUCH AS RINGS, DOLLARS, COINS, PENS, AND BENDING SILVERWARE. FROM THERE IT WAS ON TO MENTALISM, PERFORMING THESE EFFECTS WILL GET INTO YOUR MIND, AND DO ANYTHING FROM READING THE MIND OF A SPECTATOR, TO LINKING TWO SEPARATE MINDS TO THE POINT THAT ONE WILL FEEL WHAT THE OTHER FEELS.

FROM THERE BRANDON TOOK A HUGE STEP TOWARDS MAKING HIS DREAMS OF FLIGHT COME TRUE. ON HALLOWEEN 2007 AFTER MUCH PRACTICE BRANDON WAS ABLE TO PERFORM LEVITATION ON TO A STEP APPROXIMATELY 1 1/2 FEET OFF THE GROUND FOR A GROUP OF AROUND 30 PEOPLE. IT GOT A TREMENDOUS REACTION, AND IS STILL TALKED ABOUT TO THIS DAY. BRANDON HAS EVEN MASTERED CONTROL OVER HIS OWN BODY IN PERFORMING MULTIPLE PULSE STOP ROUTINES. HE PERFORMS IT TO PROVE THAT WE HAVE SO MUCH MORE CONTROL OVER OUR LIVES THEN WE GIVE OURSELVES CREDIT FOR, AND WOULD LIKE EACH OF YOU TO NEVER LIMIT YOURSELF. BRANDON HAS STUDIED WITH SUCH GREAT MAGICIANS AS RICHARD TURNER, LUKE JERMAY, BANACHECK, AND DANIEL GARCIA, DOC EASON, ALVO STOCKMAN, DAN HAUSS,  WAYNE HOUCHIN, AND OTHERS. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART, YOU ARE MY INSPIRATION, AND WITHOUT YOU ALL ADVANCING AND EVOLVING THIS WONDERFUL ART I WOULDN’T HAVE THE AMOUNT OF PASSION, DEDICATION, AND MOST OF ALL RESPECT FOR THE ART OF MAGIC.

DON’T TRY ANY OF THIS AT HOME, UNLESS YOU ARE A TRAINED PROFESSIONAL. BRANDON IS NEVER AT ANY POINT IN ANY DANGER, AND NEITHER IS ANYONE ELSE. BRANDON ASSURES EVERYONE THAT EVERYTHING HE DOES IS SAFE. HE HAS HAD SOME OF THE BEST TRAINING AROUND, BY SOME OF THE BEST EXPERTS AROUND, AND BRANDON HAS NOW HONED HIS SKILLS AND IS READY TO BLOW YOUR MIND.

YOUNG, AMBITIOUS, DARING, AND CHARISMATIC, BRANDON HAS NEVER STOPPED PUSHING HIMSELF IN HIS CRAFT. HARRY HOUDINI, BEING ONE OF BRANDON’S GREAT HEROES IN THE ART OF MAGIC AND ESCAPOLOGY GROWING UP, AND HEARING ALL OF THE MYTHS OF THE LEGEND KNOWN AS HOUDINI. BRANDON COULDN’T HELP BUT WANT TO KNOW ALL THAT HOUDINI DID, AND SO BEGAN HIS JOURNEY.  ONE OF HOUDINI’S MOST POPULAR PUBLICITY STUNTS WAS TO HAVE HIMSELF STRAPPED INTO A REGULATION STRAITJACKET AND SUSPENDED BY HIS ANKLES FROM A TALL BUILDING OR CRANE. HOUDINI WOULD THEN MAKE HIS ESCAPE IN FULL VIEW OF THE ASSEMBLED CROWD. AT AGE 25, FOLLOWING IN THE STEPS OF THE GREAT HOUDINI ESCAPING FROM A REGULATION STRAIGHT-JACKET WHILE HANGING UPSIDE-DOWN IS ONE OF BRANDON’S PROUDEST ACHIEVEMENTS. GIMMICK STRAIGHT-JACKETS CAN BE PURCHASED FROM MAGIC DISTRIBUTORS ALL OVER THE WORLD. BRANDON WASN’T INTERESTED. HE TRAINED FOR OVER A YEAR IN PREPARATION FOR THE ESCAPE AND IT PAID OFF, CEMENTING HIM IN THE MIND OF HIS FELLOW SAN ANTONIO, TX RESIDENTS TO THIS DAY.

BRANDON IS NOW CREATING HIS OWN EFFECTS, AND ACCORDING TO RESEARCH, WHAT HE IS CREATING HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE.  HOPEFULLY, WITH HIS CREATIVITY AND EXPERTISE, THIS WILL ALLOW THE ART OF MAGIC  TO EVOLVE EVEN FURTHER. DEMO COMING SOON!

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