Kainoa Harbottle

is originally from Honolulu, Hawai’i and began performing magic in junior high with a comedy magic group threateningly (though also disingenuously) titled “The Magic Mafia.” During high school, Kainoa performed semi-professionally, including weekly tablehopping at Curtis Kam’s showroom in Waikiki, as well as in restaurants and private shows for both the business sector and the tourist industry.

Kainoa’s work is seen by both magicians and spectators as unbelievable. His magic was designed for visual impact, cleanliness of method, and modular climaxes, developed "in the trenches" of what magician's refer to as strolling or table-hopping environments. His thinking is seen as revolutionary by many of magic's top performers, and he has the bad habit of making the most difficult material look easy. Couple that with his engaging personality and offbeat sense of humor and you have what is sure to be an unforgettable experience of great magic.

Kainoa is known among his friends as being rather C3P0-ish: hyperknowledgable in regards to obscure and unimportant things (having taught college English for seven years), insistent on order (learned from chasing small children around Punahou School's Magic Classes), and overly concerned with being sent to the spice mines of Kessel or banished to a statistically difficult to survive asteroid field. He remains in search of his R2-D2 counterpart.

Come visit him in his world at kainoaland.com.

Printed Materials:

Coins on Edge (2003)

Cointopia (for the COINvention, 2003)

A Petite Pamphlet on Pasteboards (2004)

Cointapalooza I, Shell Shocked (2006)

Coinapalooza II, International Deceptions (2006)

Ate Misbehavin' (with Curtis Kam, 2007)

Trifectas: a bibliographic journey for lovers of coin magic (2007)

Video and DVD Media:

Palms of Steel 1 (1999)

Palms of Steel 2: Fists of Fury (2002)

COINvention Inaugural Collection (2005)

New York Coin Magic Symposium, Volume 1 (2006)

New York Coin Magic Symposium, Volume 2 (2007)