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<blockquote>Ron Bauer is the underground legend. A strong creator of routines and effects, he is rarely seen by the cogniscenti and even lesser known among the majority of the fraternity. For those who know, though, Ron represents the type of artist many of us would aspire to be.<ref>''Bill Kalush's New York City Conference 1994'' by Lance Pierce, 1997, p. 103</ref></blockquote>
 
<blockquote>Ron Bauer is the underground legend. A strong creator of routines and effects, he is rarely seen by the cogniscenti and even lesser known among the majority of the fraternity. For those who know, though, Ron represents the type of artist many of us would aspire to be.<ref>''Bill Kalush's New York City Conference 1994'' by Lance Pierce, 1997, p. 103</ref></blockquote>
  
The name caught on, and now Bauer is often referred to as "THE Underground Legend."
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== The Ron Bauer Private Studies Series ==
 
== The Ron Bauer Private Studies Series ==

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Ron Bauer
BornRonald Raymond Bauer
1938
Portland, Oregon

CategoriesBooks by Ron Bauer

Ron Bauer (b. 1938) is a professional writer in the computer and video industries, and a semi-professional magician. He's the author of a series of 24 "annotated performance scripts" for magicians, called the Ron Bauer Private Studies Series. He's also well-known for his T.T.T. (Two-card Turnover Technique)[1] and R.A.P. (Riffle Action Palm).[2] He maintained longtime friendships with Milt Kort, Jack McMillen, Don Alan, Ed Marlo, Dai Vernon, Charlie Miller, "Senator" Clarke Crandall, Bruce Cervon, and many others.

Biography

In the fifties, Bauer was the first magician to appear on the first two television stations in Memphis, Tennessee. He also became the first full-time professional close-up magician in the Detroit area after moving there in 1959. Several years later, he started his training in marketing at Maxon Advertising. In 1968, he founded Mr. Trix Enterprises, a highly successful children's entertainment company based in the prestigious Detroit-suburb Birmingham.

After almost a decade running Mr. Trix, Bauer turned his attention back to the video industry, and wrote, produced, and marketed the first training course in non-broadcast video production in the late seventies. His work in the video industry landed him a deal with Sony in the early eighties, and he headed to California.[3]

In the summer of 1983, Bauer managed to persuade his friend Ed Marlo to venture out of Chicago and attend the Pacific Coast Association of Magicians' 51st annual magic convention in Santa Barbara, California, much to the delight of West Coast magicians, many of whom had never had a chance to see Marlo.[4] The convention was a huge hit, with Marlo, Dai Vernon, Charlie Miller, and Jack McMillen all in attendance. It was the only time Marlo and Vernon ever shared a stage.[5] A photograph of Vernon, Miller, Bauer, and Marlo, posing on a sunny Santa Barbara beach, appears in The Vernon Chronicles, Volume 2: More Lost Inner Secrets by Stephen Minch (1988, p. 216).

Returning home to Detroit after finishing his work wit Sony, Bauer turned his focus to a new technology: personal computers. He wrote the first book for the public on Microsoft DOS, called Easy DOS It! (1986), which went on to become one of the best-selling computer books of the 1980s (It's also how Alex Elmsley learned DOS!).

In 1994, Bill Kalush held a private convention in New York City, inviting less than fifty of the top "workers" in the world. Although Bauer was invited, he was unable to attend, but sent a trick to be published in a book of material from the convention.[6] When the book was published in 1997, the author Lance Pierce described Bauer:

Ron Bauer is the underground legend. A strong creator of routines and effects, he is rarely seen by the cogniscenti and even lesser known among the majority of the fraternity. For those who know, though, Ron represents the type of artist many of us would aspire to be.[7]

The name caught on, and Bauer has often been referred to since as "THE Underground Legend."

The Ron Bauer Private Studies Series

This is a series of 24 annotated performance scripts written by Ron Bauer and illustrated by Sandra Kort. Originally published by John Luka Enterprises. Since late 1999, published by Sandra Kort at E-GADS (Electronic Graphic Art Design Studio).

Published Tricks In

References

  1. The Ron Bauer 2008 Lecture, pp. 17-22
  2. The Ron Bauer 2008 Lecture, pp. 23-28
  3. E-GADS Press Release, "Now Through Sunday, Ron Bauer is the Featured Guest on England's Premier Web Forum!", MagicTimes, February 20, 2003
  4. "The Vernon Touch" by Dai Vernon, Genii 1983 August, Vol. 47, No. 8, p. 25
  5. Jon Racherbaumer, "Vernon - Marlo, mutual respect?", The Genii Forum, November 5, 2004
  6. Bill Kalush's New York City Conference 1994 by Lance Pierce, 1997, pp. 11-12
  7. Bill Kalush's New York City Conference 1994 by Lance Pierce, 1997, p. 103

External Links

Think Like a Conjurer Official Ron Bauer Private Studies Series Website