This is not bashing anybody in anyway but more of how I see this sort of thing right now by many younger magicians.
Many of the new threads coming up and posting a vid of this "new" effect is getting a bit old. I see so many young people performing effects that just randomly use a few different sleights together to get something "new." The reason for the quotation marks is because that even though it may not have been published I'm sure a number of magicians have come up with something quite similar.
I believe it would be best to chill out on all of this, mainly to help you and help the community a bit. Not saying don't create material necessarily but stop trying to create it. So many of you try so hard to put sleights together in a mix of turning over cards and clipshifting them to the top and some other nonsense. This isn't how the really great effects are brought to the eye of magic community.
Slow down on rushing on creating material isn't healthy for your magic in any sort of way. You essentially come up with mediocre things that don't have any zing or any real punch behind it. Again if something like an idea pops in your head on something that would look very cool then write it down and work on it, but don't just try to create because forcing it never makes it looks pretty.
Work on other peoples material and find about sleights and effects rarely seen and used by the magic world. Some sleights I have seen and other methods that are very useless in some effects could go very well using them in a much different way to accomplish something very different. Practice this if anything.
Practice the cool stuff that you find interesting from some big names or a nice little magic book you are getting for the holidays. Work on things that are tried and proven to work in many settings. Get an idea of what works and why it does, because throwing together stuff isn't going to cut it.
So to end it and sum it up in case anybody tries to put words in my mouth. I'm not saying stop creating but instead stop trying to create material that is just a bunch of nonsense piled up on top of each other. Practice other things to get creative juices flowing, let it come naturally through a dream, through a accident, something.
While I'm sure quite a few people disagree, there are a few exceptions. Mainly flourishing, or cardistry, w/e people are calling spinning the cards and calling art. That's something you can actually try out and try to work sleights together, I don't really consider anything like this art for quite a few reasons but I'll hold back on that rant today.
Many of the new threads coming up and posting a vid of this "new" effect is getting a bit old. I see so many young people performing effects that just randomly use a few different sleights together to get something "new." The reason for the quotation marks is because that even though it may not have been published I'm sure a number of magicians have come up with something quite similar.
I believe it would be best to chill out on all of this, mainly to help you and help the community a bit. Not saying don't create material necessarily but stop trying to create it. So many of you try so hard to put sleights together in a mix of turning over cards and clipshifting them to the top and some other nonsense. This isn't how the really great effects are brought to the eye of magic community.
Slow down on rushing on creating material isn't healthy for your magic in any sort of way. You essentially come up with mediocre things that don't have any zing or any real punch behind it. Again if something like an idea pops in your head on something that would look very cool then write it down and work on it, but don't just try to create because forcing it never makes it looks pretty.
Work on other peoples material and find about sleights and effects rarely seen and used by the magic world. Some sleights I have seen and other methods that are very useless in some effects could go very well using them in a much different way to accomplish something very different. Practice this if anything.
Practice the cool stuff that you find interesting from some big names or a nice little magic book you are getting for the holidays. Work on things that are tried and proven to work in many settings. Get an idea of what works and why it does, because throwing together stuff isn't going to cut it.
So to end it and sum it up in case anybody tries to put words in my mouth. I'm not saying stop creating but instead stop trying to create material that is just a bunch of nonsense piled up on top of each other. Practice other things to get creative juices flowing, let it come naturally through a dream, through a accident, something.
While I'm sure quite a few people disagree, there are a few exceptions. Mainly flourishing, or cardistry, w/e people are calling spinning the cards and calling art. That's something you can actually try out and try to work sleights together, I don't really consider anything like this art for quite a few reasons but I'll hold back on that rant today.