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First, it's a relief to find someone with actual theatrical experience. I have a hunch that no less than 75% of the people I told to take an acting class to improve their magic never followed up because it sounded too poofy. Second, this helps. The inherent problem you're facing in going to...

So is this listed on the Creative Commons?

Lesson number one: never accept a show unless you already have an act ready to go. That said, I can't recommend anything because I don't know you from Adam. I know nothing about what you're like as a person, exactly how much experience you have, what persona you use on stage, or what your...

There's a point where I stop being impressed by color changes. That point is after the second one. You've obviously practiced your technical chops, guy. But an audience is constantly asking themselves two questions. "What am I looking at? And why am I looking at it?" This video answers...

Well pardon the hell out of me for trying to help. Kid, I'm actually a mentalist. People pay me to sit around and read minds. Did you ever stop to think that maybe, just maybe, there might be some merit to what I'm saying? I don't know why I bother sometimes. None of you listen to any...

You're proving my point, which Christopher already explained. Did you even read the link I gave you?

If you're only interested in learning single effects, you're not ready to be a mentalist. If you decide that you'd actually want to take this seriously, then I suggest you start here.

I've said it before and I will say it again. Teller is arguably the most expressive performer working today. He can do the knucklebusters, but he doesn't have to and in fact rarely does. I think a lot of magicians forget that this is really a form of theater, and we're all actors. So act...

Take it a step further and consider sports fans. People who pay for season tickets, who tailgate, buy all this memorabilia. Let's not even insult the numbers by talking about how many sports fanatics ever become professional athletes. Money is only part of the perception however. I...

One of the most important things to bring up is the reticular activating sense. This is a function of our brains that evaluates any and all sensory information that is irrelevant, inconsequential, banal or so constant it doesn't warrant further attention beyond initial recognition. People on...

You want to run that by me again?

It's not unheard of, but also not that common. More often, theme parks having a Halloween event will hire magicians to do stage/platform shows or work the crowds. I actually worked Kennywood Park's Phantom Fright Nights in 2007 myself. I learned from that a hard lesson: be very careful who...

Okay, you've got me thinking and now I'm going into full on hippie vision quest mode. I'm just going to throw every idea I come up with at the screen and we'll see afterward if any of it sticks. -First thought that leaped into my mind is the Russian abstractionist painter Wasilly Kandinsky...

That's better, thank you. I'm not a reality TV fan, but credit where due, you managed to show yourself as a legitimate entertainer to a TV audience so props.

That much is obvious, but I think what Chris is getting at is posting newspaper articles about yourself in lieu of a more... personable introduction is putting the cart before the horse. We don't know you, we know nothing about you as a person, and that makes the self-advertising a bit cloying...

Don't bull**** a bull****ter. At 20 bucks a pop. Posting a link to your store tends to undermine that claim. Christ, at least when I plug my books I don't try to hide the fact that I'm trying to put gas in my car.

Thought I would update you all with this link. Good Old Games dot com is having their holiday sale, and Arcanum is half off. If you don't know, Arcanum was a turn-based RPG from 2001 that takes place in a world of Tolkien-esque fantasy with the twist that the world is in the middle of an...

Insult comedy is one of the most difficult styles in the world to pull off because it's very easy to cross a line. In fact, I would say the reason you're frustrated is because these guys don't understand that comedy itself is very difficult. There are no shortcuts. References to violence...

That's the problem I'm seeing. I'm all for trying to be calm and reasonable about this, but despite the fact that my knowledge of Caribbean religious practices can be charitable described as "rudimentary," I'm pretty sure none of them involve setting someone's head on fire.