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Do not presume to lecture me on what criticism is. I know far better than you do and routinely take criticisms that would reduce someone like you to tears. Why? Because I can tell who's a windbag and who's got the goods. The fact that you say "outright criticism" is bad proves that you're...

Ignoring me works a lot better if you don't address me directly. Besides that, what's not to get? You blamed a lack of reaction in a performance on an inanimate object someone else used and you expect me to sympathize with you. You then go on to say that it's bull**** another magician could...

Okay... Am I the only one who sees what the **** is wrong with this sentence? In fact, let me post again with bolding and italics for emphasis. Holy ****... No, your point seems to be that you're pissed that gimmicks stole your thunder once. More approval-seeking talk. It's an...

Which is a stupid thing to say because the audience shouldn't know the difference. And really, this does nothing to change my opinion. You felt you worked harder and deserved a bigger reward than your friend. Good, I don't want to hear it. The deck did it. You seriously just said that. I...

You want validation for your hours of work behind the scenes. You want someone to verify that it was all worth it. You want to be rewarded for your blood, sweat, and tears. Just like everybody else. But you ain't gonna ****ing get it. Get over it. What your friend did impressed the...

Practice: You're Doing It Wrong

No, what she said was, "Just pull your pants back up and get out of my office." I wouldn't call that innovation. This may be a bit presumptuous of me, but it sounds like you're still in stage 3, testing the waters for stage 4. True innovation, as I said, is very hard to come by. Protip...

Keep in mind I'm not going to give you the answer you were probably looking for. Building a skill is a long and tedious process. It follows 5 steps unerringly. 1. Imitation - You mimic the best to learn the ropes. 2. Distinction - You figure out why the things you're doing work or don't...

Are you suggesting that the spectators would actually be able to tell the difference? If you're instead speaking for only magicians, then there are two problems with that. The first being that I don't perform for magicians because magicians are *******s. The second being that I don't like...

Well, here's a basic consideration. A dissolve, cross fade, or dip to black generally implies the passage of time, divorcing one scene from the next and showing that time is being condensed to move you on to the next scene. To accomodate for cuts, you want to give yourself about 6 seconds of...

I've seen many young magicians go through three stages. First, they use primarily gimmicks. It's appealing. Though difficult to master, they're often easy to learn. Even a simple thumb tip has hundreds of uses and is very easy to start using immediately. The kind of effects that they can...

If you want to know how to edit, I can help you out, but you need to give me something more to work with. I need to know what your routine is supposed to look like. You don't have to show me, but can you draw yourself a storyboard? Stick figures are okay if you're not good at graphic...

Do it at the speed that looks good. Too many flourish specialists obsess over speed and the whole thing looks like a jumbled mess. If you can make it look good slow, do it slow. Brian Tudor can go **** himself.

Resumes are rather formal. Are you writing an actual resume or are you trying to write ad copy for a flier or brochure about yourself?

Between Royal Road, Crash Course 1, and Easy to Master Card Miracles vol 1, you'll be good to go for the better part of a year at least. Add in a copy of Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic and you'll have more material than you thought a human brain could contain.

Well we already know that most people here already either respect me or hate my guts, so I don't see it making a difference. But mostly, I just don't want my clients googling my name and finding this place among the search results. And to some extent I don't want the previously mentioned...

It's hard to take a person's word on that when they can't describe themselves beyond a collection of bland adjectives. If you can't describe yourself accurately, how do you know you're not putting up certain affectations in different social situations? It's like how I hear guys say, "When I...

Humor me. It sounded like a profile on a dating site. Too many parenthetical statements and usage of the words "and" and "but." My experience is that people use too many adjectives not enough of everything else, verbs in particular. Any adjective that is used has to mean something. I...

I think I'd make a pretty sweet kaiju. I could do a buddy movie with one of Godzilla's old pals like King Seesar.

Suppose you and I are competing for a Halloween show. What kind of show would you pitch and how would you describe it and yourself to the potential client? My point is that it doesn't matter if the best you can come up with to describe yourself is, "Oh, I'm laid back and always smiling."...