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No, because I don't like Jack Nicholson movies. "Be you, but bigger?" There's a lot of this missing from magic. People think their presentations and scripting have to have a consistently magical or sleight-of-hand theme. It's rare to hear people talk about technology, or culture, or...

Cardistry and flourishing tends to be for yourself, something you enjoy doing. Other people might be impressed somewhat by it, but you can't really do much with it besides show off - really like any other type of object flourishing. So if you're having fun with that, cool. But, yes, magic hits...

what So let's re-cap: he says things you don't like, so that makes him a loser. Or is it: he proves you wrong, and you can't actually respond to what he says with further debate, so you attack him in regards to something not even relevant to the discussion. Seems to be popular opinion around...

Apparently. It was funny when he first posted it, way back when, because, I mean - wow. Just look at it. It's like watching MST3K, where you can't believe how bad the movie is, and you just have to laugh. For a bit, I honestly thought that was his way of conceding from the argument, sort of a...

You are going down, sir.

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I thought of the greatest idea for this. But I'd need, like, four weeks before I'm ready. Even if this doesn't take off, I've got a video a-comin'!

Actually, that's hilarious. I remember when that was first posted. It was awesome then, too.

Take them back and get a different deck. Target's pretty lax about their returns policy.

It is a dumb generalization. For example, I am over 18, and am not jealous that he can flourish, because I don't find flourishing interesting or entertaining. And you know, if I were jealous of someone's ability with cards, there's other people I'd pick to be jealous of. We're not just going...

Like with your other videos, you still really want to be Daniel Madison, and you're probably going to hear the same comments you got last time. No doubt here you got inspiration from Dan's Wrath trailer? I really couldn't enjoy this because I know it wasn't you - it was your bad imitation of...

EDIT: Steerpike beat me to it.

It's odd - almost as if the torrent-folk spreading free magic amongst one another have a better sense of community than, say, other magicians.

1.) A large chunk of today's magicians are teenagers with very little to no income? Or some aspiring magicians might not have the money to spend on the art they love? 2.) The nature of our art requires that we can only know about 30% of the whole effect until we buy it. You can't really tell...

Luckily I have 15 minutes free! For one, I now know how to do that trick thanks to your video. You really, really have to stop performing tricks with so little practice. I know you're eager, and it's fun to perform, but practice, practice, practice! The video itself: Was the editing an...

Just to nitpick here, cards aren't the only things you can carry around that you can launch into an impromptu routine with. It's not, really - a middle ground is an attractive option. The thing is, that first option, the diversification? That side of the river is dry and choking, with no one...

I've found that Paul Harris' Counterfeit Spectator is just easier to do than Fraud. I love Fraud to death, but the gathering of materials and set-up make me want to punch a wall. With CS, it's a similar effect (manipulating ink permanently on a bill), with the added punch of their very own...

So, why aren't we, as magicians, as a whole, looking for new stuff that HASN'T been done to death? Why aren't we putting the old stuff down and saying, "What can I make that no other magician can?" Because, not shunning the classics or anything, but you can't look to the past for everything...

That is the question of the thread. May I also add, "What can you do with just cards that other magicians can't with a wider variety of props?" And this is taking into account that, yeah, you can pull out some coins or mentalism (those are always the things people say they can do besides...

I'm genuinely confused by what you wrote, as in I don't understand the bulk of it, so if I'm off-base with what I'm saying here, my apologies in advance. There IS a reason to do something else, and part of advancing in magic is figuring that out. Even someone dedicated to a particular field of...