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My, aren't you optimistic. The problem I see with your logic is that it assumes most of them are already fit to entertain an audience because they were successfully able to knock down a straw man. But the mechanics and the theatrics are two different skills. They do not necessarily develop...

Then I should be able to say that just because someone is adding a new perspective, doesn't mean that perspective has any merit.

I think the final portion of your speech has the great potential for a visual of entrapment. I keep thinking of puzzle boxes and the like done in reverse, but that's not magic per se, even though if performed correctly the visual metaphor would be clear. I'm sure there's an effect or two out...

Point stands. XCM would be seeing a lot more exposure if the move monkeys would just learn how to hold an audience. Right now, the number of performances for webcams versus live audiences is disturbingly lopsided and the manipulation community has no one to blame but themselves. Yes, most of...

Your perspective was irrational, sensationalist and uninformed. Don't cry when I say so. If you can't handle your opinions being criticized, don't voice them in the first place. Okay, first of all it definitely won't have any effect because this sort of thing has been resolving itself for...

Apply Occam's Razor and I think you'll get your answer: most of them just aren't interesting enough to hold a crowd no matter what they're doing. And more still have convinced themselves it can't be done, so they don't even bother. That is a slight relief, but the fact that the painfully...

You have my attention. Go on.

Hold on... did you just say to only perform to people you know well? Please, please, please tell me I read that wrong. How often do you perform for a live audience versus your webcam? I want to hear this.

I've seen this situation before. Ignoring it has a pretty good track record of working. What, did you think I just pulled this out of my ass? And what the hell does his age have to do with this? Why are you bringing this up? What did you hope to accomplish by doing so? Why are you wasting...

Why are the suggestions for ignoring him to death in the minority? Stop making like televangelists and trying to convert the little bastard. Just stop giving him what he wants and he'll move on to another gimmick in his bid for attention. Sheesh.

The method I use can be found in an Edward Norton movie. No, I won't say which one, though some of you have probably already guessed. If you haven't, you need to watch more movies. Method works very well for me. No gimmicks, no setup, very easy to do, but requires you to have a certain...

I'm going to disagree with you there because it sounds to me like you just don't want to do the work or the critical thinking it takes to do anything except regurgitate a canned routine. As for your friend, I have only your word to go on for that, but therein lies three problems. The first...

http://pittandpendulum.blogspot.com/2010/05/getting-over-approach-anxiety.html My blog post on approach anxiety.

I would actually argue that Nic Cage is someone for magicians to look up to. The man can do anything. His only problem is that he's crazy and consequently difficult to manage. No kidding, he said of Drive Angry that when he found out it would be shot in 3D he was thrilled with the potential...

If you think being creative only entails coming up with new mechanics, than perhaps a lack of imagination on your part is at the root of the problem.

I'm actually not that concerned about the current accessibility of magic since the general population is still only peripherally aware that brick and mortar magic shops exist. I'm more bothered by the fact that most of the stuff being put out right now is crap. But then again, I'm a New Media...

Don't want to see this buried. For me, any performance has to pass two basic question similar to those Theater brought up. "What am I looking at and why am I looking at it?" If I cannot answer either of those questions from the audience's perspective, I don't use the effect or that particular...

I have not been here in 8 months because I got tired of the crushing dullness. But I'm logging in and breaking my silence to say that is one of the most depressing things I have ever heard a magician say. If I remember some our conversations right, then I'm in danger of suffocating on the...

I like the concept of the mentalist as a conduit or enabler of phenomena. I've tinkered with it a bit myself and gotten some good results. If you haven't check out on YouTube for a video of Uri Geller performing on Israeli TV and demonstrating his ability to move the needle of a compass. If...

So you think it's kosher for you to say whatever the hell you want, but I don't have the same right. Should have seen that one coming.