Critics: it's time..

jake the snake magic · Mar 22, 2009

ok so I want to here what you guys think of my video of thread by wayne houchin, i really tried to make this one good. Bring on the advice please no flaming...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHbN9Tp2Z3k&feature=channel

enjoy!!

-Jake

EJ · Mar 22, 2009

Pretty good. It was performed a tad to quick. Try slowing it down, especially when it comes to the part when you pull the thread. Other than that, well done!

jake the snake magic · Mar 22, 2009

thanks man!

ZacEckstein · Mar 22, 2009

i likes it too, just slow down, then it will be perfect

Eggnof · Mar 22, 2009

It was good, it also could benefit from a bit more acting when the string goes from the mouth to the eye, I feel like it happened very quickly. It seems like if you COULD get string to go from your mouth to your eye it would take a bit, and also be a bit more painful or uncomfortable. Just my thoughts, keep it up.

JJM10 · Mar 22, 2009

Pretty straight forward effect, but you did it well. One thing I would work on is pulling the thread into your mouth. You can clearly see you 'lapping' the thread in, where I would like to see it look more fluid, as if you are pulling it out of your eye, and it is thus it is being drawn into your mouth. Others have said to slow down, but when performing for an audience I'm sure you will have a presentation, patter and some more drama so I dont see the pacing as a huge problem.

kevin · Mar 22, 2009

the string needed to be longer coming out of your eye, to match, but good job!

jake the snake magic · Mar 22, 2009

kevin said:
the string needed to be longer coming out of your eye, to match, but good job!

oh yeah ik when i was making the piece i was like sort of having one of those stupid moments in my brain lol but w/e thanks

r.zhang · Mar 22, 2009

That was no different then the other 200 performances on youtube... No drama or even speech. Wayne has put out an amazing effect and I don't think these videos that I've seen of it have done it any justice. You're pulling a f*ckin string from your eye, but now it seems that everyone has trivialized the whole idea.

praetoritevong · Mar 23, 2009

Hmm. My first thought was this: What was magical about it? If I think about how I would define magic, that wasn't it. As a couple of people have said, timing is one issue. Another, is that I don't believe you when you pull out thread from your eye. It looks like you've gotten a loose eyelash, that's what your expression looked like, I didn't feel the thread enough, and I didn't feel like you believed you were pulling thread from your eye.

jake the snake magic · Mar 23, 2009

drkrelemnts said:
That was no different then the other 200 performances on youtube... No drama or even speech. Wayne has put out an amazing effect and I don't think these videos that I've seen of it have done it any justice. You're pulling a f*ckin string from your eye, but now it seems that everyone has trivialized the whole idea.

Man comn down! I didn't ask for you to go off on me like it's the worst vid ever, I just wanted advice on how to make my performance better.

-Jake

jake the snake magic · Mar 23, 2009

praetoritevong said:
Hmm. My first thought was this: What was magical about it? If I think about how I would define magic, that wasn't it. As a couple of people have said, timing is one issue. Another, is that I don't believe you when you pull out thread from your eye. It looks like you've gotten a loose eyelash, that's what your expression looked like, I didn't feel the thread enough, and I didn't feel like you believed you were pulling thread from your eye.

yes, thanks ill try to act a little more like it is extremely painful next time. Good advice.

-Jake

r.zhang · Mar 23, 2009

jake the snake magic said:
Man comn down! I didn't ask for you to go off on me like it's the worst vid ever, I just wanted advice on how to make my performance better.

-Jake

Didn't want to sound mean, but I'm a little angry at how everyone keeps putting up the same pointless video. I just feel that this is an effect that deserves an audience. Anyway, most of what I think has been said. Slow down. Pause several beats before pulling it out. Make it look as if it's difficult because you're pulling a string from your eye; making it look easy kills the entire thing. I'm sugarcoating this but that's my advice. I hope you find it more helpful then my first post.

aJohnson · Mar 23, 2009

As most people said, slow it down. This effect is much more effective when done slowly,

jake the snake magic · Mar 23, 2009

yes thanks to everyone for their kind words. And coming back to people saying that there are alot of vids like this, i totally agree. I really wasn't trying to show off my skills of this effect, as i've said in other replies, just needed a little advice. And yes I do this all the time live and it's prob one of my favorite tricks. So from what i hear as one big thing is to slow down and i will deff take that to mind.

thanks

-Jake

visualartist · Mar 23, 2009

You should've performed for people instead of just the camera.
Technically,it was good.
But performing something like this isnt about technique,but how,what you say to an audience.
Your acting.So us critiquing this isnt really going to help you.

jake the snake magic · Mar 23, 2009

visualartist said:
You should've performed for people instead of just the camera.
Technically,it was good.
But performing something like this isnt about technique,but how,what you say to an audience.
Your acting.So us critiquing this isnt really going to help you.

i pm'ed you a live performance i filmed a month or two ago

-Jake