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I must say, I quite agree. I've never been particularly big on the whole 'let's improve our art' thing, knowing that there's a lot I can do to improve myself. But in my opinion, the best way to improve the art as a whole is to improve the standards of the people partaking in the practice, which...

I think he was trying to show how we judge people by what we are told, and we will judge two people completely differently just because of one snippet of information, never actually stopping to notice that those two people are one and the same. First impressions really count for a lot.

Hahahahahahaha! I salute you, good sir. Best of luck in the navy, and I hope to see you again when you return. Until next time...

You've done something else that not many magicians do to improve their magic here; listening and taking advice. Too many people completely ignore any advice and information given to them. Keep listening, and work on your presentation, and you could be better than 90% of other magicians around. :)

What Visualartist is saying is that you can spend as much money as you want on magic tricks, and buy the best effects out there, but you will still get the same reaction unless you learn to present a trick well. Maybe, rather than buying more tricks, a better purchase would be something like...

Really? That's interesting...

Oops, my mistake. I somehow got the impression you were talking about a longer, slower induction. Like I said, I'd just woken up :rolleyes: Actually, out of all the suggestions you made, the poetry one seems to be the one I'd most likely use. I can see how that could help. I think I'll try...

Glad you enjoyed it, man :) It's new to me, and when I tried googling it, I only found one example. That was a really long winded, drawn out induction. And thankyou for the advice, I really appreciate it, but I tend to keep my induction reasonably simple and rapid as it is. If I have them...

My main tip would be to watch loads of videos; take an idea that you like and adapt and change it. Take the new effect you have, and come up with original patter, that is not even faintly related to the starting trick. Now you have a new effect, tweak it, until any discrepancies or any bits you...

Haha, no problem ;)

To be honest, I'd say that's all you need. A layman isn't going to care if you do a sybil, leno or pandora, it's all spinning packets round your fingers in big displays. I think with those ten there, you have a good number of varied flourishes without falling into the trap of learning an...

Sorry, was that aimed at me? I was joking :p I think it's good that people are using magic to express their views about important matters, rather than just trying to pick up girls. That's what an artform should do. And if he wants to advertise his video, then he may feel free :)

This is deeply immoral and, some would even say, cheating to give yourself an unfair advantage. I hope you feel suitably disgusted with yourself. Despite all that, I voted for you. Best of luck man ;)

I think everyone's been turned down at some point, whether it is a more polite 'no thankyou' or a 'get lost'. The trick is to not let it phase you, to just try again to someone else. Obviously, by paying attention to your potential audience and picking a person/group of people that don't seem...

Gawd, has it been that long? Why am I not completely insane yet? ;) Thanks for the suggestion and the link, I appreciate it :)

Haha, when I click my fingers you will understand the correct usage of a semi-colon! Hmm, I'm still experimenting with different inductions. The main difficulty is with not being able to physically see how well the subject's responding; it's completely reliant on the feedback I get. Still, I'm...

After more experimenting, I'd say I'm hitting about 20/25% of the time. I'd encourage anyone else who's interested in hypnosis to give this a go too, see how it works for them.

Haha, okay, I'm always looking for test subjects :p Anyone who's interested in giving it a go, send me a pm with an msn address or the suchlike in.

I've been rather bored recently, and have decided to get back into hypnosis - something I've experimented with a fair bit in the past, but haven't done for a while. Well, I was idly wondering where I could get a large amount of subjects from, preferably subjects that wouldn't care if I got it...

If you want to do it as a stage piece, I can definitely recommend Deeper and Deeper - secrets of Stage Hypnosis by Jonathan Chase. Very good book which contains everything you need to know about stage hypnosis. I will also back up Reality is Plastic, whether you're doing it as a stage piece, as...