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Funny how you dive for the safety of that utterly meaningless distinction instead of admitting to your own mistakes.

This effect has been marketed before. Mark Edward has a version in one of his books, but I'm going to hold back saying which one for one particular reason: most Russian roulette tricks are performed badly. Consider if you can pull this off with a modicum of taste and if you have the kind of...

Just keep your cool and if he starts hurling insults, block him. If he threatens to reveal your tricks to others, block him. Chances are he won't carry out the threat unless he believes you would actually react to it.

And Scott Baird. Dude knows coins better than anyone here. I can't believe I'm tipping this, but I do a coin trick that's barely even a coin trick. Uses a gaff yes, but that's not a problem. Docc Hilford teaches it. Incredibly powerful, but not for everyone.

This is how you know you've got the upper hand. When a person starts sending ultimatums, it comes from a position of powerlessness. Just tell him to shag off, block his channel and let him scream and cry in indignation with only his pirated My Chemical Romance albums to keep him company...

The phrase I used was motion blur filter. Get it right. That said, perhaps you should either invest in a non-awful camera or choreograph your routines better to accomodate for the limitations of the technology. Rhetorical question I'm assuming, but I'll answer anyway. For the same reason...

Yeah. That'll show him.

The term was coined a few years ago by the admins of the Metal Archives wiki. It's a recurring joke among metalheads that people who enjoy the sub-genre of black metal refer to things they like with words such kvlt, br00tal, and necro. Kvlt in particular is sometimes used to describe things...

What the **** are you on about?

If I'm reading this right, you're pissed off that kids are getting into magic. Kvlt kiddie syndrome. A common symptom of kvlt kiddie syndrome is the disdain for any and all gimmicks and a haughty conceit on the virtue of sleight of hand over everything else. Translation: Screw you all...

As evidenced by some of the knee-jerk reactions this thread has gotten. I was born shortly after the whole Culture of Nice thing started to take hold. It drove me berserk. After a while it dawned on me that the people who kept repeating "be yourself" and it's associated slogans as a...

I could build my own car and give it a more personal touch. Does that automatically make it good? Woulda, shoulda, coulda. None of that does me a lick of good because it just goes in circles about idealism without getting anything practical done. And how exactly would your suggestion...

When you dismiss advice of learning how to work with media by saying, "You don't need to be George Lucas," yes.

kvlt kiddie syndrome. Don't let it happen to you folks.

It's stupid to use strawman arguments to disdain someone offering help in their area of expertise. It's stupid to dismiss the other guy's craft because you think you're already good enough. That damn blur filter. It was distracting. Not only by concealing all the wrong movements and...

I'm not asking for George Lucas! Drew, you're smarter than this. How drunk did you get to throw me answers this breathtakingly stupid? And my point is that if you can't edit or frame a shot in even the most rudimentary ways, I can't give feedback because I can't tell what the **** is going...

You don't need a more expensive camera! Watch, I'll Google what you need. http://www.videomaker.com/learn/production/cinematography/ http://www.videomaker.com/learn/post-production/picture-editing http://www.videomaker.com/learn/post-production/sound-editing/ See? That took me 30 seconds...

What?! I'm not asking for the next Haskell Wexler. I'm just saying that if you're going to produce videos of yourself performing magic as often as Lamont does, at least learn how to frame a shot and get some basic editing skills under your belt. It's not that hard! Why is that so...

On the note of being productive, I've posted several challenges so far. Only two people have so far followed through on it, with a couple new guys stepping up to make on the Money challenge. Part of the problem is that most of the people are content to continue being mediocre.

I couldn't tell what the hell was going on because of that damn motion blur effect. It looked like editing. It drives me up the wall that everyone thinks that being a magician is good enough to carry everything else. The attitude that you don't have to develop some simple competence at...