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More than any other magician, I would love to meet Rod Serling, Roger Corman, and David Cronenberg.

I believe the specifics on those laws vary from state to state but still a good idea. Stage hypnosis is generally kept entirely separate from hypnotherapy. Still I see no reason not to make sure your ass is covered.

Actually it does. Knowing how to speak to a crowd is paramount, though I would also recommend an acting class at some point. A lot of people disagree with me on this, but I also recommend reading Robert Greene's books. The man writes with an extremely amoral tone. His books are not how-to's...

Now we're getting somewhere. First thing you're going to do is get that, "unsuspecting people," nonsense out of your head immediately. That's not how hypnosis works. Because it's a voluntary and cooperative agreement between performer and participant, no one can be hypnotized until they give...

I don't think I made my point clear. Are you doing this for your own gratification? Or are you doing this because you have a genuine interest in performing?

Something I want to add. When using title cards and text effects in your videos, simple fonts are the best fonts. Copperplate, Verdana, Helvetica, Georgia, Univers, Calibri, that sort of thing. To most people, a lot of these fonts are virtually indistinguishable from one another. Part of the...

With that attitude, I ain't telling you ****. I don't want you studying hypnosis until you tattoo the following word onto your eyeballs: RESPECT. Stage hypnosis is not something you do to get your own jollies. It's a form of theater and entertainment that requires mutual respect and...

Define street artist, if you please.

I often wonder why so many guys do this. Do they think it's expected of them? Do they just lack the imagination to do anything else?

What does that even mean? That's not the same thing. No.

Who's we? Certainly not Rian, because he kept explaining it to me, trying to convince me to keep watching the damn things.

First, read this thread. Shoot something besides just your hands and pick music that actually fits the on-screen action. Second, this is hardly anything new. I've seen at least half-a-dozen variations on the market and this one does not look markedly different enough to set my world on fire.

That's the sort of thing you really should look up skincare for. If you have naturally oily skin, that's going to require one type of solution. If you just perspire heavily, that's a different solution. If you're in need of a quick fix, rolling a piece of chalk in your hands will keep them...

I really don't think this is too much to ask. It would be a refreshing change of pace from all the recent contests that have all either been, "SHOW ME YOUR MOVES!!" or, "Say the secret word and win a hundred dollars."

Before I dedicated myself completely to mentalism, I fantasized about doing a stage show set completely to some of my favorite rock and metal bands from around the world. In particular, I really, really wanted to do Against the Wind by Dungeon and when Tim sings, "A thousand sins behind my...

Sucking at improv is a big one. I see a lot of guys who don't rehearse and their delivery has more dead air than a catacomb. That's assuming they don't use filler words. If you're presentation is 5 minutes long and three of those minutes are you going, "Uhh..." then something is seriously wrong.

Then I'm still not your target audience. I don't give a damn about the mechanics of magic, I want theater. This is not theater. And you're not going to win me over by expounding on the premise. No amount of explanation is going to change the fact that this is not the sort of thing I want to...

I had a problem with these videos and this sums it up. I clearly am not the target audience. To develop that thought, there are already thousands of YouTube videos of a disembodied pair of hands doing card tricks set to music I don't like. The redundancy aside, I could get a similar, but...

To build on what Dado and Craig are saying remember the golden rule of marketing: when you try to please everyone, you please no one. I currently have two markets I'm targeting and my services and marketing materials are all tailored to match them. I'll probably branch out in time, but that's...

First, please read this thread. Second, are you positive that this is new? Have you checked to see if this is genuinely original? I can tell you that I personally thought on no less than 3 occasions that I had created something new only to find it in The Jinx a couple weeks later.