Hello.
I just wanted to share a small story of mine (nooo...not another one) that demonstrates the difference between what magicians see, and what the audience sees.
In Art class, I usually perform magic and mentalism (mostly mentalism now) for my fellow classmates. I didn't have a deck on me one day, and didn't know any more mentalism effects I could show, so I took a cutter and broke the tip off. It was quite sharp, and my classmate eyed me suspiciously. I false-transferred it to my other hand (palming a sharp object is not painful) and paused for a beat.
Then I just tilted my head and "swallowed" it.
She gasped. "Take it out, take it out!" She said.
At this point I could have spit it back out, or fulfilled my morbid pleasures. I did the latter.
I gulped really loudly, and she screamed.
To make a long story short, for the next 5 minutes, I pretended to be choking, gagging, spitting, and then asked for water. She couldn't sit still.
When you compare the amount of "trick" in that effect, all that was required was palming. When you put that amount alongside the reaction I got, it was probably a 1:30 ratio.
If you can do that with something so small and understimated in our magic society, please let me know as well. And the TRUE amount of impact happened a few weeks after that effect....
We were in Art class, and Natalie (my classmate) suddenly said to me, "You know, David, you shouldn't go do MRI scans when you grow up."
Me: "Why?"
Natalie: "I heard that if you have metal on you, they will magnetize and attach themselves to the scanner."
She had me lost up until this point. I had no idea where she was going with this.
Natalie: "You swallowed a CUTTER! It'll probably slice your stomach or something..."
I couldn't help but laugh, and the true impact of my tiny trick dawned on me.
I hope you guys enjoyed that read, and please share any that you have had. My ultimate goal in presenting this story is this:
What's simple isn't always good,
But what's good is almost always simple.
- Bob Cassidy
This is magic, for me.
::dAvid
I just wanted to share a small story of mine (nooo...not another one) that demonstrates the difference between what magicians see, and what the audience sees.
In Art class, I usually perform magic and mentalism (mostly mentalism now) for my fellow classmates. I didn't have a deck on me one day, and didn't know any more mentalism effects I could show, so I took a cutter and broke the tip off. It was quite sharp, and my classmate eyed me suspiciously. I false-transferred it to my other hand (palming a sharp object is not painful) and paused for a beat.
Then I just tilted my head and "swallowed" it.
She gasped. "Take it out, take it out!" She said.
At this point I could have spit it back out, or fulfilled my morbid pleasures. I did the latter.
I gulped really loudly, and she screamed.
To make a long story short, for the next 5 minutes, I pretended to be choking, gagging, spitting, and then asked for water. She couldn't sit still.
When you compare the amount of "trick" in that effect, all that was required was palming. When you put that amount alongside the reaction I got, it was probably a 1:30 ratio.
If you can do that with something so small and understimated in our magic society, please let me know as well. And the TRUE amount of impact happened a few weeks after that effect....
We were in Art class, and Natalie (my classmate) suddenly said to me, "You know, David, you shouldn't go do MRI scans when you grow up."
Me: "Why?"
Natalie: "I heard that if you have metal on you, they will magnetize and attach themselves to the scanner."
She had me lost up until this point. I had no idea where she was going with this.
Natalie: "You swallowed a CUTTER! It'll probably slice your stomach or something..."
I couldn't help but laugh, and the true impact of my tiny trick dawned on me.
I hope you guys enjoyed that read, and please share any that you have had. My ultimate goal in presenting this story is this:
What's simple isn't always good,
But what's good is almost always simple.
- Bob Cassidy
This is magic, for me.
::dAvid
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