Close Up Magician - Oliver Parker

05/07/2024

Melting their minds 🔥

Always a good laugh performing magic for Elliott Hudson College end of year prom, not just for their students, but also their staff and teachers too! 😀

Lovely to work at Fearns Leeds Dock for the first time, such a cool space! 🤩

📸 Vic De Jesus

31/05/2024

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08/04/2024

Event in Horsforth, Leeds raising awareness for Men's Mental Health

10/01/2024

Shout out to all my repeat clients who trust me to bamboozle their guests/customers/staff for their events year after year! 🙏

📷 Some lovely photos from

Taken at the last couple of year's Christmas parties and a summer party for Luminate Education Group - such an honour to be hired for so many of their staff events over the last few years 😊

10/01/2024

🪄 Magical overdose 🤯🤣

25/12/2023

🎅 Merry Christmas! 🎄

Hope you're all having a lovely day with those you care about!

Thanks so much for following, supporting, Liking, commenting, sharing my work and hiring me to add wonder and amazement to your events - it means the world to me, especially this year! 🙏

14/12/2023

Get your halo dirty 😇

Absolutely loved making magic happen for the Sky Leeds office staff Christmas Party last night at for 2 and a half hours 🪄

Always an absolute pleasure working with Paul of ILTO Photography - who always effortlessly nails these moments first try 👌📸

Nice to catch up with some other bar industry friends too, now working at Dirty Martini 😊

09/10/2023

Hanging around in Barcelona for a couple more days...

Surprise wedding magic went down an absolute storm 🥳🤯 now to enjoy a little holiday!

29/09/2023

👻 Exactly 1 month to go until The Climbing Lab 's epic annual UV Halloween Party! 🎃
Check out some of my magic and Jedi mind tricks from last year 🪄

13/09/2023

📍 London 🤸

08/05/2023

They definitely picked the best day of the Coronation weekend for their garden party! 🌞

26/03/2023

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No matter how you move, xSuit's 8-way stretch fabric has got you covered!

25/03/2023

What a lovely afternoon entertaining everyone during lunch at the Samaritans Regional Conference today at Hollins Hall 😊

Huge thanks to Fay for hiring me! 🙏

17/03/2023

💚 Fly by Northern Lights ❤️

You might think I was lucky to catch the Aurora Borealis from my plane window this Wednesday night (15/3/23) flying from to ... and as a professional liar (magician) I'd be inclined to let you think that, but for once I'll let you in on a secret:

Trying to capture the Northern Lights 8 years ago was the reason I got into astrophotography! 🤩

The first times seeing it in Iceland I had no idea how to photograph the Northern Lights properly, but over recent years I've improved at taking photos, particularly of the stars at night and gradually accumulated much better gear & knowledge to allow me to do just that.

With all the incredible Aurora activity lately I specifically booked a window seat that would be North facing on a night with a strong Aurora forecast during my recent flight to the UK. Unfortunately the aurora activity wasn't as strong as I'd hoped when we took off according to my forecast app.
The steady ascent for the first 40 minutes through thick cloud almost had me falling asleep to the in-depth podcast I was listening to 😴 along with the harsh cabin lights ruining my chances of adjusting to night vision but once above the clouds I could start to see a couple of stars and a faint green band on the horizon by eye...

So I jacked up the camera exposure & pressed the lens up to the window for a test shot (see last image)...

Bingo 💚 Aurora ✅ but those reflections 😩

I spent 35 minutes hand-holding different long exposures through the smudged, dual layer, highly reflective window which was fogging over every few minutes, using my jacket held up against the window around the lens to try reduce reflections as much as possible.

Making it so difficult as the jacket constantly pulled on the focus ring of the lens, meaning with just my 2 hands I had to hold the camera still inside the flying tube, hold the jacket around, but not in front of the lens covering as much of the window as possible, manually focus on the stars and then press the shutter. Then wipe the condensation off the window & repeat.

Of the 146 shots, here's my favourite which left the cabin crew and captain amazed 🤯

24/02/2023

I can't compete with the magic of nature itself 🤩

But it sure was fun to be hired to make magic happen here!

Here's one of my favourite photos of the bioluminescent phytoplankton underneath the Milky Way in the Maldives last month.

19/02/2023

The Magical Maldives 😍

01/01/2023

Happy New Year! 🥂

Wishing all you lovely people the happiest and most successful year 💪

Brought in 2023 by doing what I love - making magic happen 🪄 followed by a breaking (breakdance) show in the Maldives for .entertainment then jamming with my fellow performers and then swimming in a magical bioluminescent phytoplankton filled sea 😍

Could have been worse I guess...

23/12/2022

Last Christmas party of 2022!

Thanks to SUV Prestige for hiring me again to treat your staff at this year's party tonight!

Had a blast with lots of really fun and creative events over the last couple of months and today was just the same, with lots of complimentary expletives from the thoroughly mind blown sceptics 🤣

I'm still so grateful for everyone's business from new clients and especially all the repeat clients who trust me for their events time after time! 🙏

I would normally cram in a few more events before the end of the year and about 4 in a row on NYE... But this year I'm packing my bag of tricks to perform in the Maldives to conclude 2022! 💥

Hope you all have a magical Christmas! 🎄🥳

18/12/2022

1 or 2?
Testing the stretchy trousers of my new X Suit 💪
It is legit "The world's most comfortable suit" but don't take my word for it...

13/12/2022

Being my own boss 💪
Loving wearing the super stretchy and comfortable for events all year round, I have 4 different types and colours of them now... Is that too many?!🕴️

07/12/2022

Portion of mind blowing magic for lunch? 🪄🍰♠️

Great idea by Principle Global to treat their staff for Christmas at the office today for an hour, we had such a good laugh...

In one gentleman's words: "I don't know how I'm supposed to concentrate on work this afternoon now, I'm probably going to lose sleep tonight thinking about how you did that?!"

Hopefully I haven't stifled their productivity too much for the rest of the day but at least they all enjoyed it as much as me! 🤣

28/11/2022

10 years of The Backroom Leeds 🥳

Thanks so much to these fine gents for hiring me for their club nights, New Year's Eves, annual staff parties and their own personal events so many times over the last decade!

Had an awesome night last week entertaining all their new staff and catching up with friends! 🪄

27/11/2022

Absolutely loved making magic happen 🔥 for Vicky & all her super friendly guests for her Birthday at Yorkshire Wildlife Park last night! 🦁
Thank you for hiring me 🙏

25/11/2022

Another awesome event for Proact last night at The Belfry Hotel & Resort - this time making 🪄 happen for their and 2023 company kick off!

I heard Proact CEO Jonas Hasselberg loved the previous personalised bit of magic I did for him at their staff party back in 2020, so I had to conjure up a different impossible souvenir for him to blow his mind again last night! 🤯

Huge thanks to Proact for all their repeat business, always a pleasure ♥️

17/11/2022

Having a fun day making magic happen for Proact today to stand out amongst other legal tech exhibitors at International Legal Technology Association at held at Allen & Overy LLP

29/10/2022

💀 Awesome night freaking people out with magic at The Climbing Lab UV Halloween Party last night! 🎃

Such a pleasure to have been booked every year since the start and so good that the party was back on after the last couple of years! 👻

Huge thanks to the incredibly skilled Poshfruit Creative 🖌️ for making time to make my face look awesome! ❤️

08/10/2022

😱 The power of an IMAGINARY rope ➰

05/10/2022

😱 I live for creating moments like this 🤯

🗨️"To say you were exceptional is an understatement! Thank you so much for being amazing, we were so honoured and delighted to have you. Our guests couldn't stop raving about you, thank you."

Surprise close up magic for Adedeji's 40th Birthday at last month 🪄

29/09/2022

Testimonial from Richard Jones after hiring me as a surprise for Parkdean Resorts Senior Design Leadership Team Away Day, to inspire them to think about creating joy in their work 😀

Had such a fun time performing a close up magic show, getting them all involved in their own amazement and then giving them each a pack of cards to learn some simple, yet mind boggling magic tricks to go away and create their own joy with 😊

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28/09/2022

"You're a cold magician bro! 💯✨😏" - Tinchy Stryder

I was just waiting in reception at Malmaison Leeds before starting a corporate away day magic session yesterday, when Tinchy Stryder complimented my dreads 💁 had a bit of a chat and had his mind blown when I gave him a flaming business card 🔥🔥🔥🤯

Genuinely lovely, down to earth guy! 🙏
Pleasure to meet after dancing to his tunes for years in the clubs! 🤸🏼‍♂️