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None of that answers my question. Why mentalism? And for the love of Christ, do not throw one mentalism effect into a card show. Every hack does that, and it always sucks. Do not be that guy. Mental magic for the sake of variety is one thing, but no one is going to buy for an instant a pure...

Let me answer that with another question: Why mentalism? If you're doing shows as a comedian/magician, that's your niche. Why are you trying to be Derren Brown?

Performing magic and filming magic are not the same thing. I've tried shooting in vehicles before and it's a pain, and I wasn't even trying to record magic. If you go ahead with this, remember that you were warned that if it can go wrong, it will.

And you failed. Boards like this are supposed to be a place for mutual support. It is not a place for you to ***** for YouTube subscriptions or focus group whatever video you want to churn out. Mind you, you are talking to a guy who has been busting his balls for the last couple of years...

To add to that, I checked your posting history and pretty much all of it is just posting links to your stuff and talking yourself up. At not a single point have you offered to help anyone. You just keep posting your videos and telling us to like them or subscribe to your channel. Am I the...

I can believe that at this point Stigmata is so over-exposed that any reaction to it is Pavlovian.

I'm not clicking that link until you tell me what the hell is in it and what that title means.

Craig, you know me. I didn't call Stigmata mentalism. I said mental magic. I have no problem with magicians knowing a little bit of mental magic, as it makes a nice spice to a routine now and again. And I listed Fulves as as a maybe on this count. Wilson, Hugard, Braue, and Bobo come first.

Please try to clean your post up a little. It's a bit difficult to follow. I understand English is not your first language, but there are too many run-on sentences and I keep losing track of the message. Just a little more punctuation to break things up should do it. Anyway, you have a...

No. Because I don't think Tudor is that good of an actor. You obviously haven't met some of the people I know. There are certain personality types out there who are like a Hawaiian volcano: they will go into a slow burn for weeks, if not months, at a time, oozing rage and hatred all along...

I would recommend reading this before you attempt to study NLP.

No. He really isn't. He put out a couple of DVDs that people liked, but once you get past the pure speed there's not a whole lot of interesting stuff going on. Because speed is really all he has. His routining is choppy, his presentation can be summed up as, "Bet you can't do this," and he's...

Acknowledging your existence is not an invitation to a card trick.

Not having seen the performance, I can't say specifically what you did. But the way you talk makes me think that when you perform it's all about you and what you can do. That's not very interesting to watch unless you yourself are so damn interesting the whole room wants to talk to you without...

Having a handful of go-to effects that you do consistently well is much better than knowing a million different effects that you're only okay at. What books and DVDs do you have? I need some idea of what you're working with.

That depends entirely on what you already have. I'm not going to tell you to buy anything. As long as you have at least fundamental book, you have enough material to start coming up with your own routines. What do you do most often?

I start out with a method or type of presentation and work from there. Mainly, I write out the dialog and actions like prose. From there, I hammer out the method almost entirely by feel. I never use more than a couple of sleights per routine, so this is comparatively easy to the time I spend...

Right there we've isolated part of the problem. Rehearsal is at least as important as practice. Without the effects you're not doing magic, you're telling jokes and making conversation. Without the scripting and blocking you're not so much doing magic as demonstrating sleight of hand. You...

If I had to guess, I'd say in your performance you pause between the steps, almost resetting your arms, hands, posture. Is that accurate? I ask because it's something I've seen before. When you practice, do you also rehearse? You go through the routine, saying the scripting out loud...

Repeat after me. There was no remake of The Haunting. I will not hear of that cinematic aberration in my presence. Crap Classic Interesting but could have been better Okay Okay Crap Meh Didn't see it I want to open you up to some different perspectives on this. In particular, I want you to...