This 16-year-old Londoner is making magic cool again:
It’s a freezing cold February afternoon in Regent's Park and, somewhat peculiarly, a teenager in ahoodie and beanie hat is sat opposite me shuffling cards. “Shall I show you a trick?", he asks. I write my name on a card , place it back in the deck, and watch as he somehow manages to turn the entire deck -- 10 of hearts aside -- totally translucent. “You can keep that,” he says, handing me the card bearing my signature.
It was Billy's mum that set him on the path to making magic. “She owned a children’s cafe, so she used to do my birthday parties,” he says. “When I was seven I had a Harry Potter themed birthday with a Daniel Radcliffe lookalike. Apparently, I said to him: ‘Are you not going home on your broom?’ because I saw him get into his car at the end of the day!”
Everyone went home with a party bag full of “crappy magic tricks”, like one that would make a coin vanish. He remembered wanting it, and being curious to know how it worked. That, he reckons, is the moment the seed for his future career was planted. A few years later he began googling card tricks, and not long after -- having finessed the finer details -- it became his new hobby.
By the time he was 14, now old enough to leave the house and meet new mates around London, word spread of the teenage lad with a knack for illusions and hand trickery. Billy stood out, I suggest, because he was doing something that few teenagers in the 2010s paid attention to. In an age of digital trickery and deepfakes, he’s managed to dedicate his free time to an art form most young people don’t care for.are, after all, the masters of reinvention.
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