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That is pretty damn chill. And that clears up what "no set up" means. Impromptu to its very bones. I am excited now.

There's a new video in the media section. It proclaims: no set up... I'm just beginning to get the slightest tingle of excitement here...looking forward to Wednesday...

I believe that's "Sistine."

E doesn't carry the System anymore, remember?

Interesting point. In our case, politics becomes an implication, rather than a statement. The "message" exists as subtext to the magnitude of the effect. Perhaps a good example of this is mentalism. There's the, "wow that's amazing" factor, but then there's always that eerie feeing you leave...

Samuel Beckett's existential play, "Waiting for Godot." Check it out. There is no right or wrong approach (unless it involves stabbing your spectator; artistic as that may be, it's just not cool). Really what I'm wondering is if magic should be used as a means to an end. Not so much the...

Oh, jeez. What have I done? I'm just going to leave this alone now. I've got an appointment with Godot I have to make...

Alright. How about Jackson Pollock? He's said himself that he doesn't want anyone to take his art for anything other than what it is. Not true in the least bit. Look at medieval paintings, cave paintings, Greek pottery...they serve an entirely different purpose, but are still art...

I've heard that Skywalker is kind of a pain in the ass, but I don't own it. It does look pretty cool, though.

But that's just the thing. What if I don't want to say something? Can't magic exists purely as a transcendent (boy I've used that word a lot) entity. Can't it just be? If you are unaware of this concept, it is everywhere, in every art form. Since when did everything need to have a purpose...

Another thing to consider is how magic is different from other art forms. I mean, a signature concept in dance is movement as self expression; showing one's emotions using the body. A big part of one school of visual art is transcendence of genre and meaning. This actually just made me...

Hey, man. I'm here in the real LA. That is, NOLA. We're pretty cool here too...

I think it really is largely a question of what we want our audience to take away from the performance. What are we trying to show them? I also think that it can be a practical issue as well. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it is easier to show a simple coins across routine as a...

I think that visual art and music are different enough from magic in terms of presentation that we can just focus on film and drama. Especially with film, there is an inherent political base that it is built off of, whereas drama tends to lean more towards the actor and becoming something...

OK, here's a question. Should magic be used to prove a point or to raise questions about current events, or should magic stick to the idea of magic for magic's sake? There seem to be two views that I've observed. There's the Paul Harris art of astonishment view, that seems to me to be about...

No. More like 3000. Although Mesopotamians are much older than that; about 10,000 BCE... Around 5000 B.C. was the development of the wheel and the spread of agriculture.

Wicked sick. And happy birthday, also.

Cool, it's my suggestion. What do I do to practice? Simple: I have a plan. I always start with a script. I need to know where I'm going with the trick before I learn it. This is especially true with coin magic, since I use my body language to cover my sleights. I base when I will do...

It's really just because of the parent post, I guess. This seems like a topic for a different thread...maybe it's just me...