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Audience. You don't do shock magic and geek stunts for a crowd that did not specifically pay for that. It's just bad taste.

You could read my blog. Look at my website. Both are linked in my signature. I can also direct you to my YouTube channel. Starting this January, I'm going to be posting one new video a week for a year, a series that I imaginatively titled "52 Weeks of Magic." If you want to start this fight...

How is it a contradiction? Do you actually understand what I'm trying to say? Or is it just personal? Toby said he wanted to give people a certain feeling in that performance. He didn't. And he knows why he didn't. Now he wants to do better. He knows what he's trying to accomplish, which...

Or maybe you should learn to stop regarding mediocrity as brilliance.

A lot of egos in this thread. I'll have to call them all under the weight of my own. Here's my take on it: some magicians bill themselves as honest deceivers. Tricksters who openly admit that they are professional liars. Fine. They can go do that. However... others are looking to make...

This has what to do with my point? So you're unrealistically optimistic then. Which is a bit like saying that reading a cereal box is just as good as reading Alexandre Dumas, because either way you're reading something. And yet you have committed nothing. Hyperbole, kid. I'm not...

Same difference. When I'm bored, I don't break out my webcam and shoot videos of myself smoking a doobie and writing haiku about peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwiches. Some things are just never meant to see the light of day. Again, you didn't think you had to do a good job, so...

Between now and June, I've bought one thing. A utility gimmick to be exact. And I probably won't be buying much else for a while. I'm not saying this to be antagonistic, but two months is not really that long a time.

I see that your antagonizing is getting subtler, though no less juvenile. I give it another day before you start harassing me for a favor again.

I read this as, "I don't have to do a good job, so I won't." Then don't use the video. Or don't use music at all and instead just try to record decent sound. You could afford a camera. Get a microphone. Then learn to edit. You could try not taping yourself wandering off like a...

While Lee Strasberg did develop the Method school of acting based on Stanislavski's work, the book itself is not Method.

In this thread, you were criticized for making a ****ty video. You made excuses. I broke it down to a blow-by-blow about why it sucked. You never posted in the thread again. More? Well you'll have to wait until tomorrow for that because I need to get some sleep and don't have the time to go...

You don't take criticism.

Spoken like a true *******. Here's your medal. And with one swift stroke you have squandered the remaining good will you may have possessed. I never claimed to be a humble man. But even I know better than to let my ego do all the talking. You've got a lot to learn, boy. Sadly I don't...

Let me answer that with another question: Do you really need to buy new material right now?

Gypsy thread can be done on stage, but not knowing much about your experience I can't really recommend it. Those who keep recommending Saw and Thread for an auditorium and a charity event need to stop immediately. Time, audience and venue are the three things you must think of first and I see...

And about maybe 5% of those people have actually read either book. It's true. Once someone can pigeonhole you, the mystique and charisma is gone. May as well throw another suggestion for a book in there because I know it will never come up by itself. "An Actor Prepares" by Constantin...

See, this is what I said why I did earlier. It all goes in one ear and out the other with this kid. He's not reading our critiques. He's just looking at his channel's traffic figures and patting himself on the back. And no, I don't want to see the video. At this point, watching another...

Finally! I was wondering how long before somebody would bloody say it.

There is no solidarity in the magic community. Magicians are predominantly a bunch of backstabbing narcissists. Give me something to be positive about. Most of you are trying so damn hard to act like everything is cool that you just frustrate the rest of us who would like to see things...