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That's the thing. I don't doubt my audience's intelligence. Very few of us do. It's breaking them out of an analytical mindset that counts. Docc Hilford built his early reputation on pocket tricks. Gary Darwin can own anybody at anytime with nothing but a thumb tip. David Blaine built...

Did not one or two of Dai Vernon's students fool him with effects he himself had invented just by changing up the presentation?

I took my name from my favorite literary villain, Steerpike of the Gormenghast Novels. He was sociopathic, athletic, ingenius, cruel, manipulative, and charismatic. The ultimate archvillain.

The whooshing noise you hear is the point going over your head. You're taking it at face value. The archetype of that video was infinitely more constructive than your original plan of playing nanny to YouTube. As to the second half of your post, silent dismissal says more than words ever could.

No, I tried something very similar to your approach. I got laughed at. The same thing is going to happen to you, and I'm trying to warn you about that. But so far, you have roundly ignored me, disregarded my attempt at something constructive, and rationalized away why you came to this...

But rating their video 1 star and sending them PMs to call them a cockhead isn't going to make it any better. They laugh at people like you. That is until they get bored and move on to a new flavor of petulence. Trying to stop YouTube exposure is like trying to stop teenagers from having sex...

So validate them by giving them the attention they want? You know, I recall a time when I was an upstart all gung-ho about fighting exposure. I tried your tactic on some exposure monkeys. Most of them never dignified me with an answer, but a couple wrote back laughing at me and calling me an...

http://forums.theory11.com/showpost.php?p=5729&postcount=9 Hey, this guy actually has a half-decent idea!

You know what I call that? Free publicity. I did post up for you an alternative to the otherwise childish suggestions being tossed around, figuring if you can't stop yourself from getting involved, why not doing something meaningful? But nobody paid any attention to that, because hey! It...

Get the hell over yourself. Your ideas are juvenille and reactionary. People like gOOfy, Tempest, and myself have taken more proactive stances and are actively to raise the bar for ourselves as magicians. Our audiences matter way more than the exposure monkeys, so we spend our time becoming...

I feel less alone in my stance on exposure now. And it's true, Corn Flakes are bland dandruff off the head of mediocrity.

The hell they would. While it is a truism that these kids are trying to buy social status, the reasons are different. Most of them just don't care about keeping secrets, others hate magic and want to see it taken down. If you leave nasty comments on their video, they whack to that.

There was a video on YouTube some time ago that is now long gone. Sadly. The camera showed a man with an acoustic guitar in his lap. The frame only showed him between the knees and the shoulders. He explained how to tune a guitar to drop D in a similar manner to some of the exposure...

I would rather douse myself in bacon grease and kick a junkyard dog in the balls than do anything like this.

That's not an excuse. I've fooled people with illusions that they knew the secret to. But I had to work to get there. You on the other hand so one amateur exposed and instead of taking that as a challenge to rise above as a performer you quit like a child. This is exactly what I'm talking...

This is so sad. I've been doing an ACR regularly for months. The number of times I've been caught lies somewhere between zero and, uh... double zero. That means 1 of three things. A. I'm just that awesome. B. You guys are making a big deal out of nothing and giving up without even...

I now see why some of you complain so much about exposure. Because you let the exposure monkeys win. I honestly think this is just proof that the magic community is far too reactive. We let things happen and then complain about them while at the same time doing nothing proactive to remedy...

This is a slightly updated version of an article I wrote on the Ellusionist boards a few months back. I cleaned up some of my some of my spelling mistakes and altered a few passages for the sake of brevity and clarity, and now hope to see what the community here can do with it. I want to start...

You're right, this is a forum. Give yourself a star. However, the miracle of digital anonymity does not give you carte blanche to make a fool of yourself. The threadstarter's criticism of Wayne is nothing I haven't seen before to which I responded with my usual "Build a better mousetrap"...

No one ever said anybody was perfect. Ellusionist have made mistakes and I did not like how they handled certain events. In cases such as the split with the Bucks I simply figured whatever disagreement was none of my business, and I truly believe it wasn't. I can still buy The Trilogy at my...