A few years ago, the thought occurred to me that one of the hardest things from which to escape would be a suit of plate armor (or if you prefer, plate armour). The knights of old are said to have had virtual pit crews of squires to see that they we…
How did your trip to Moscow last month go? Did you have good crowds there? What escape(s) did you demonstrate for the Russian audience? Inquiring minds want to know.
Got your e-mail about your upcoming gig in Moscow. Congratulations! You picked the right time of the year for it. Three months later, and you could have reprised "Ice Trap": without much need for preparation!
Hope that we will all see how you do in…
While a lot of folks do make purchases online, there are still a lot of folks who do not. I can speak only for myself, and I am only just getting into this tech stufff. I prefer to go into a shop, hold the item in my hot little hand, and buy it the…
I am a little embarassed, but I figured I'd "rag" on myself before somebody else throws a "Gotcha!" at me. The idea of competitive escapology has been used at least once, in one of the "Ant vs. Dec" segments of the popular UK show "Saturday Night Ta…
Most of the ideas I come up with are absolute death traps, and are thus not suitable for escape demonstatio use. However, I've found that some of them can be tweaked so as to make them useful. Here is just such a tweak of one of my recent inspiratio…
Discovery Channel has released a video package of two DVDs containing the ten episodes of "One Way Out", plus the pilot episode. However, disribution seems a little spotty. One major chain is not stocking it in their stores, but allows customers to…
As a person who must live with a visual impairment myself, I can see some possibilitie. Buit how do you arrange for Mikey to film it? Would he have night vision equipment so that it would look like the sotsfrom Baghdad six years back?
Saw the hanging stunt on JonathanEscapes. Interesting idea. I'm sure that Jonathan is aware that "counterweight" gallows are an American invention, used in several of our States (and in at lest one Canadian province) during a period running from the…