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I've long-since forgotten the names. Some film students I knew. They considered themselves avant garde. I considered them never-gonnabes.

Ever consider that you just didn't do a very good job of it? Maybe I'm tired of doing all the legwork for you. Like I said before, myself and others have given you the content you ask for. But you didn't do anything with it.

But doing it my way, the information actually gets out there. Your way, it goes ignored by most. Look at the thread I started, "You are not an artist!" Probably the most confrontational thread I ever made. And within 24 hours, it got more views than even the forum rules proper did in over...

I accept it from him because Christopher Guest knows how to make it work. The amount of work he and the other actors put in to developing their characters during pre-production means that the improv comes naturally. They don't have to think about it. Also, for a mockumentary, it greatly...

Because I stubbornly refuse to submit to mediocrity. My greatest character flaw is without a doubt the fact that I just don't know when to quit. I'm getting through to some people. I can make a difference to at least those who have a future in magic. But I'm never going to affect that...

Oh spare me. The petulance and whining of my critics is really beginning to get on my nerves. The hypocrisy is especially tiresome. The subject here is what separates trickery from artistry. If the best argument that people can think of is to say that getting reactions and entertaining is...

Yes you are. Were you listening at all? The only way I can get you rabble to pay attention for even a nanosecond is to rock the boat. If I'm nice and smiling through my teeth, pretending that everything is all sunshine and puppies here, you lot ignore it in favor of crying your eyes out...

Fine talk considering you answered with the same homogeneous fluff as everyone else. If you ask for an ego dump of cretinous circle-jerking, that's exactly what you get. And don't accuse me of laziness. I've tried to raise the bar. And you notice that almost every thread I do that in...

I prefer to set the bar a bit higher if I'm going to have the audacity to call myself an artist. I'm a bit rare among my generation of magicians in that I don't believe in settling. We sometimes catch a window A glimpse of what's beyond Was it just imagination Stringing us along? More...

See me after class. And no it isn't. Did you ever stop to consider why those so-called simple tricks work so well? It's the only method I have left, and it's the only method the masses actually pay attention to.

I'm not trying to advocate against inspiration and the genesis of ideas. What I am opposed to (and I admit that I rather jumped the gun on this one) is the notion that a lack of planning creates purity. It's a Pavlovian reaction in me, because I see it in every single medium. Filmmaking...

If questioning things is good, then why are you complaining about me questioning the value of this thread? And I refuse to apologize for having some standards as to what makes a discussion advanced. Cerca Trova is supposed to be advanced discussion topics. How is this advanced, and how is...

You could have asked me first about quoting that message.

How was this not selected for a topic? I might as well throw down a few more, as utterly futile as it seems. -A discussion of The Power of Myth. -Semiotics and its use in magic performances. -Creating multiple layers of deception. -The ideo-motor response. -Urban legends as a...

Now say something of actual value or use to me. Frankly, I grow weary of listening to your fractured attempts at discussion. You've changed your argument too many times for me to bother counting, you seem to make very little attempt at understanding anybody, and just dive for the reply as...

You're missing the forest for the trees.

That's professionalism. The textbook definition of a professional is one who is paid for his services.

You'll pardon the self-promotion, but there is a demo video of my performance on my website. It sounds to me like you're just trying way too hard to be poignant and instead creating leaps of logic that could cross the Grand Canyon. But now you're losing track of the objective.

Give me something to be positive about. You think this thread is positive? It's digital opium. Cerca Trova is billed as, and I quote, "Advanced discussion on theory, technique, and psychology of magic and cardistry." This is none of the above. It's a copy and paste job from someone's...

I stopped reading after this.