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So I watched all the videos to see if you guys are all that you seem to think you are. My evaluations are below. Quick Changing Aces: Generic electronic music, utterly pedestrian effect that more magicians would care about than an actual audience, pacing and cinematography so bad I wasn't even...

Poor site design, a product page that tells me exactly nothing, and a bunch of videos of scrawny dudes refusing to show their faces on camera. I smell a rat.

Derren Brown is a very eloquent man. I somehow doubt if asked to explain the performance theory of mentalism, he would use quite as much hot air as you did. I asked a question directly and you didn't answer it, so I can only assume that you don't have an answer. You're just operating under...

That's a very roundabout way of saying, "lol i dunno."

A pen, my pendulum, and a coin purse with a pair of English copper pennies in it. That's it. One of the perks of being a mentalist is freeing up a lot of pocket space.

To add to that, everyone's heard, "Show, don't tell." But the corollary most forget is, "Imply, don't show."

This slipped off my radar. Apologies. If you're working with Card College, that alone is enough. Make a list of 6 effects from that book that you do really well every time.

I do palmistry. I already stare at people's hands enough as it is. Show your face, show some personality, show us you performing in front of real people.

No it isn't. For the sake of argument, how would you propose making a Q&A act "visual?"

If you want people to pay attention to you, than you have to be interesting enough to be worth looking at. Not a single one of those videos is anything I haven't seen a million times before. Disembodied hands doing generic card tricks to generic music. No personality, no style, no substance...

http://pittandpendulum.blogspot.com/2010/08/beginners-guide-to-mentalism.html To address the thread, the obsession over the last few years with everything having to be more visual is getting really old.

Irrelevant. You stated your opinion as a fact. Just don't do that, okay?

Actually, you are objectively wrong. Your town might not be busker-friendly, but there are guys on the continent who can pull down 1k Euros in an afternoon. The UK in general is pretty busker friendly. You can find videos of street magicians and musicians all over YouTube. I believe in...

Quick aside, it's easier to read if you just use the Edit button instead of making a new post. Arrogant is not the first word that description conjures. Let's go with... generic. Everybody describes themselves in terms like that. What makes you different? Eugene Burger has been...

First of all, forget trying to do what David Blaine does. Get a folding table, learn some parlor magic, and busk the traditional way. You'll pull down a lot more money that way, trust me. Second, you'll have to tell us what you actually do. What material you have, what you're particularly...

Part of what this goes to is that Johnny was friends with magicians. He learned personally from Paul Gertner, who made two appearances on the show himself. He could parody magic with an insight of someone who knew. Let me put it another way. When people make jokes about nerds, have you...

I know what it is, but I want to know what you think it is. This answer tells me everything I need to know. So that in mind, do not tell me how to criticize.

Oh, sweet chocolate Buddha... Sometimes people are wrong. It is not immoral to tell them so. And before you go on about constructive criticism, define it. You don't want me to answer that. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the greatest performers of our generation still debate...

God no. The purpose of a mentor is to guide you through your journey toward your success. Mentors have experience and intuition that you have not yet earned. They streamline the learning process by removing a lot of the trial and error method and impart their knowledge directly to you...

Then you don't want mentalism, you want tricks. You want mental magic. There's a difference. Also, I got a sense of deja vu here so I did a search. Not much has changed, has it? Even a non sequitur needs context. There's lots of different kinds of entertaining and lots of different kinds...