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Don't type with your elbows. Make sense. Construct actual sentence instead of posting a conscious stream of thought in angry response to people saying redundancy does not appeal to them. After your outburst earlier, I have no reason whatsoever to believe that you're any different from the...

It's nice eye candy. But I can do more with a key card and a brief explanation of how mind reading works than most magicians can do with the various clipshift tricks. Sorry, but I'm looking for something more than a cute distraction. Translation: I don't kiss enough ass. Give...

Yes, why ever criticize anything? Why demand absurd, petty things like standards and originality? That's for fags! Visually impressive, but another crotch shot video so it loses points automatically. And it's just another card location with no inherent motivation. It's eye candy, nothing...

Stop cutting each other's throats. The magic community is piss poor at showing solidarity. If the people who actually give a damn form a sense of community, they can weed out the poseurs and help refine the good ones.

I do. Choke on it. Because it is, and nobody does anything even marginally interesting with it. It's a waste of time. Again, I ask would you want a musician to record an entire album in the same key? Completely irrelevant to the discussion.

Remember to later smack me down when I come back drunk, otherwise we risk the traps I mentioned earlier. I may be aware of the dangers of my mastodonic ego being praised, but that doesn't mean I can't sidestep a pothole only to fall off a bridge. There will always be bad artists. Success...

This is symptomatic of internet artists in general. Go to YouTube and search for the various "shows" done by college girls. I guarantee you'll get through maybe three of them before either slipping into a coma out of boredom or waking up naked in the woods covered in filth. Now go to MySpace...

The implication being that artistic merit and fun must be kept on opposite sides of an electric fence for some arbitrary reason? Case in point. RD is dedicated to what he does and enjoys it, but not at the expense of forgetting that magic is theater. You lose people like this when you...

So it would seem. You must remember when dealing with amateurs that most of them will say whatever it takes to get out of having to hear any criticism of their work.

Oh, so it's my fault for reading "best magical collaboration" and having a part of my brain going, "The best collaboration of magicians online? Sounds exciting! Maybe I should look into this!" Granted, my expectations were pretty low because I know what YouTube magic typically looks like, but...

You called it "YouTube's best magical collaboration." Granted, that's like being the best at combing your hair, but it's still a little late to claim humility. Glad to know the bar is set so high. (goes looking for that bottle of dark rum)

I'm sorry but "to each his own" is not an acceptable answer when you have the gigantic balls it takes to call your work the best. Am I far off in saying that this is the first time anyone has been this openly critical of the entire concept of these videos? Because I guarantee you're not...

And you lost me. The internet is a fresh and exciting new medium, and it's potential to cross over with magic to raise awareness of the art and create new artistic statements is almost completely untapped. And this is what you do with it? Everyone take note that once again I was right...

Haven't watched the videos yet, partly out of laziness. That said, can you sum up this alleged storyline for me in one sentence and make it sound good? Warning bells go off for me when I hear people talking about stories now since the phenomena of self-publishing and inexplicably popular...

That's the right idea. Never be afraid to try something new. I often worry that the ideal of the Renaissance Man is dying off, but that's tangential and a rant for another time.

I have not watched a magic video on YouTube in about a year, barring people who asked specifically asked for criticism. They make my brain hurt for two reasons. 1. The magic generally sucks and is self-indulgent to the point of being pasteboard based pornography. 2. 99% of the people on...

Oh really? Your words: The advice Jerry gave was sound, but you're disagreeing with it anyway and babbling some hollow, feel-good rhetoric because... hell, I don't even know. Unless it involves buying the Encyclopedia of Playing Card Flourishes because, hey! **** Jerry! Jesus haploid...

Still not enough to convince me. 15 seconds apiece of teenagers demo-ing Dan and Dave material for however many minutes. I call that a sleeping aid, not an exciting collaboration.

Last night Deceptions Unlimited hosted Banachek himself for a lecture in Pittsburgh. I'm a little embarassed to admit that the first time he addressed the audience, I was trying really hard to place his accent. A mixture of South African, English, and... Jersey, perhaps? Anyway, the lecture...

So if you learn 1 move and one move only, that means you're good enough and can stop learning? No, your advice is frankly poisonous. MLM is saying, "You know, I want to get better at flourishing. Maybe I should take Jerry's advice and try learning some new things. Maybe I'll like them."...