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You can say that all you want, but DV is still a legit form of media. And if you're going to use it to propagate your work, you need to understand it. That said, color changes don't impress me much anymore. They make a nice little quick shot, but i wouldn't do a routine of them. The...

There is some flexibility. In some cases it's more 90/10 or somesuch. Curiously the majority of web content seems to follow a strange deviant form of Paredo's Law. For all the successful content, there's an ocean of sewage to muck through first. Of all the blogs out there, how many are...

Nevertheless, Paredo's Law is a constant.

Why is no one answering the question in the thread title?

Drew, the big difference between you and many others is that you at least understand the learning process. And you don't pretend to be anything you aren't. You honesty sometimes comes across as blunt or crass, but at least people talking to you know where they stand. The internet has given...

A ha! Right you are. I use Dreamweaver simply because coding by hand for someone as dramatically right-brained as I am is about as incomprehensible as the square root of turkey.

I'm not afraid to say it. Most people online don't know what they're talking about. Some boards have a higher concentration of working pros. But a lot of places I look are mostly a bunch of armchair magicians and wannabes. Look at the damn Magic Cafe! Sure there are working pros there. But...

I'm going to cut straight to the point this time around. A lot of magic just does not work on camera. Period. That point is important to the issue and I'm getting a little frustrated that you have yet to address it in any way. This is not an issue that can be fixed by amateurish attempts at...

I beg to differ. Using your phone during a show? Rude as hell. The star of the show throwing a temper tantrum over it in front of the whole crowd? Unprofessional and wholly unacceptable. If I'm the guy sitting in the audience, let me be the one to deal with the cell phone twits. I've...

There was a time in society where a devastating wit was valued and being a provocateur was an acceptable pastime. It was a time when people weren't hypersensitive about everything. Where did that mindset go? Way I see it, if you're in the public eye and can't deal with some snobby...

Not a bad likeness. Though my hair is longer these days. It makes it easier to hide the horns in public. What the hell are you on about? Free advice: don't play armchair psychologist with a guy who actually studies psychology. Now bring me a Vanilla Coke, a little doobage, and a hot...

Criss, dear boy. When are you going to learn that huge balls and sixpack just aren't enough to coast on?

He's been stalking me for the last couple of days, posting this whenever I appear. He made that picture a month or two ago when the three of us put him in his place.

No one can be faulted for having a brain. What I'm asking is if you're trying to justify a conscious attempt to reverse engineer a method. But that in itself looks suspicious. You keep forgetting that cameras are not like human eyes, nor do they record in the fashion that human memory...

Here's a little website with some information on the process of radiometric dating that also debunks a couple misconceptions. One of the first results on Google. I would like to also add that this illustrates how easy research is in this day and age. When planning out a mythos for one's act...

They usually say that because it's the first mentalism book they ever bought and has a ton of trick in it. Dr. Bob's Fundamentals covers just that. Tricks, performance theory, group psychology, holding a crowd, suspending disbelief, thematic routining, handling of gimmicks, etc. There is...

Doesn't scan. Radiometric dating is based on the halflife of Carbon 14. It is physically and mathematically impossible to produce a negative number.

No, I meant specifically your way. What you're doing right now, everyone must use your process in order to be original. Do you think we're that stupid that if we don't reverse engineer a trick first that we'll just be carbon copies? Because it's not about who the trick is supposed to fool...

Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic is a gold mine. Definitely go for it. And if you're thinking of dabbling in mental magic and mentalism, you're not going to get any better than Bob Cassidy's ebook Fundamentals.

I want to thank you guys for taking up the challenge to raise the bar. You both had engaging and interesting contributions and I hope that others will follow your example.