{"id":5238,"date":"2015-01-29T22:54:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T15:21:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T06:00:00","slug":"magician-tv-host-producer-to-perform-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/2015\/01\/29\/magician-tv-host-producer-to-perform-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Magician, TV host, producer to perform tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Host and producer of SyFy Television&#8217;s &#8220;Wizard Wars,&#8221; magician Justin Flom, will perform at Harding tonight at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>According to Flom&#8217;s website, he has appeared on talk shows including &#8220;The Ellen Show&#8221; and &#8220;The TODAY Show.&#8221; He is currently touring with country music group Florida Georgia Line and making appearances all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>Campus Activities Board (CAB) director Logan Light said he came across Flom on his YouTube channel and was immediately interested.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a YouTube search one day I found Justin, and was really intrigued not only that he was a magician but that he was young and someone that students would relate to,&#8221; Light said. &#8220;He&#8217;s also a Christian. I just felt like he was fresh, he seemed down to earth so I though he would be a good fit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Flom features many of his magic tricks in videos online, and has more than 87,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel. His trick &#8220;Soldiers Deck of Cards&#8221; has 4,833,781 views to date. To view Flom&#8217;s videos, visit his self-titled YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p>Amateur magician, sophomore Kelly Spangler, saw Flom perform at a magic convention. She said she admires his tricks because they are original.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has obviously created his own things instead of taking what other people did and recreating them,&#8221; Spangler said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a lot of close-up things that are really unique. He is super entertaining, super energetic and it&#8217;s going to be a great show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Flom&#8217;s magic tricks focus on using small, everyday household items rather than larger traditional equipment often used by magicians.<\/p>\n<p>Light encourages students to come see Flom and enjoy some evening entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of times students get caught up in studies and relationships and day-to-day life so I like to say take an hour and a half and come suspend your reality and come engage in something that will make you smile and laugh,&#8221; Light said.<\/p>\n<p>The show is in the Administration Auditorium. Tickets are $5 or $2 with a CAB pass. It is general admission and the event is open to the public.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Purchase tickets at the CAB office in the Student Center next to Taco Bell or at the door tonight. Doors open at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Host and producer of SyFy Television&#8217;s &#8220;Wizard Wars,&#8221; magician Justin Flom, will perform at Harding tonight at 8 p.m. According to Flom&#8217;s website, he has appeared on talk shows including&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14601,"featured_media":7420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[268],"class_list":["post-5238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-hurricane-florence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}