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-I have looked to check their originality and they are truly original.
-Can't perform "Naked" by myself? No idea where you are going there.
-And once again, I quote myself, "Magic is for entertainment and is used to trigger seemingly unsolvable mind puzzles". Magic is indeed a puzzle and if they weren't we wouldn't have magic at all. By this, I mean that magic is entertaining because it puzzles the mind of the spectator to such an amusing state. If all spectators were unable to be puzzled then there would be no magic. It is this puzzling that allows for magic to exist. Yes, a literal out-of-the-box puzzle may be frustrating to some but that is not what I am talking about at all. Magic doesn't produce frustration, for the most part, it produces a feeling of wonder and awe of the impossible nature of what has happened.
-Thanks for your comment/feedback
On originality - Alright, I'll take your word for it.
On Naked - I meant, you don't seem to be able to perform your own effect. Still a lot of hesitation, no fluidity. A production should look exactly like that - a magical production. Naked looks like you've just cleverly hidden something that you're rather obviously reaching for.
On magic and puzzles - Magic is certainly
not a puzzle. What a spectator feels, if performed correctly, is wonder, or amazement. These are very different thing from puzzles. As I said before: a puzzle has a solution. A puzzle's only purpose is to be solved. A puzzle must be solved, or else it has no other rewarding value. Let's take some common puzzles...
A jigsaw puzzle. A jigsaw puzzle is rewarding because you get to see what you have put together in the end. A jigsaw puzzle is not at all interesting if you know that you can only get 60 of the 40 pieces together.
A rubik's cube. A rubik's cube is interesting to try and solve. It has a solution. There is no point to it except to be solved, and if someone attempts a cube and fails, then, apart from the extremely stubborn and/or resilient, will give up, and the cube will not be of any further purpose.
A sudoku. A sudoku is to be solved. Again, it has a solution. People persevere at these puzzles to try and get the solution. If we knew that there was no solution, then there would be no point to the puzzle.
Contrast with magic. Magic is unique in that it creates wonder (NB: Wonder is very different from puzzlement!). Magic challenges the participant to consider the impossible. Therefore the illusion of impossibility must be maintained. Magic strives exactly because there appears to be no solution. Once the possibility of a solution is formed (remember that a puzzle is only interesting in the context of its solution), then there is no magic because it is no longer impossible.
Magic should neither puzzle nor amuse. I am amused when I see a clever comedian or ventriloquist. I am puzzled when the crossword stumps me. Magic is a very different form of entertainment precisely because it transcends both.
Magic exists entirely outside of puzzles, and if puzzles did not exist, magic would be better for it. In the end, magic hasn't a thing to do with puzzles. A spectator is not puzzled when they see magic, unless it is done poorly. This is because puzzles and puzzlement is a strictly intellectual response. The state of being puzzled, by definition, is an intellectual response - because you do not understand something.
However, magic can never elicit an intellectual response, because we know intellectually that magic as we perform it does not exist. No, the reactions we garner are strictly emotional responses, because it is on that plane that magic is so powerful. This is where magic comes in. This is when good magic will never be forgotten, and bad magic will fade away by the end of the night. Puzzles are strictly intellectual, and hence another reason why good magic is never a puzzle.
