For those who haven't seen Wayne's daily update on his site, he said that one of the tricks had to be pulled from the DVD, though he didn't say which (I'm assuming it's Candy Scam).
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Hey guys - unfortunately Candy Scam was the effect that I had to cut. Although I created the effect back in 1998 - it came to my attention that Luke Dancy published a similar idea in 2001. As much as I hated to do it - I had to remove the explanation...
However - Candy Scam wasn't the strongest item on the DVD and I'm more than pleased with the other 5 effects. Let me know if you have any other questions - or feel free to shoot me an email: wayne@waynehouchin.com and I'll try to address your question on one of my Daily Updates.
Talk to you guys soon!
Thanks for the info Wayne. I have updated my original post in this thread to now list the correct effects that will be on this DVD.
Doug,
Is this the interview with Wayne you were talking about above?
http://www.waynehouchin.com/teamawesome.html
I have my own version of this too and I was looking forward to Wayne's version. Mine works great but is not that practical because you have to make friends with the guy who refills the vending machine and then hang out at the machine counting the number of transactions before you can perform the trick.
You take a card and tell the spectator to hold it sandwiched between there hands.
Then you pull out a liter or matches and burn the back of anther card. You take the burnt card and rub it agenst the spectators hand the the burn travels onto the card inside the spectators hand the whole time.
I learned it off anther Sankey DVD. Its a awsome trick.
I'm surprised Wayne didn't include his ring flight routine that he had published in Genii. I think that it definitely would've been one of the stronger ones to add into this DVD set.
What makes you think that's the reason?
Personally I love WH's material, but I don't have much interest in this release. And it has nothing to do with where it's being sold. That's just silly.
I just don't think the price is justified. All the tricks have already been previously published, so there's no new magic here. Which leaves the 1 hour documentary. And for $35 + shipping you're looking at $40 for a 60 minute documentary. I'm sure there's some good stuff in the documentary, but I doubt there's much in it a lot of us who read magic books haven't heard before. At first glance it seems as if it might be a bit self indulgent as well. There's nothing wrong with putting yourself and your friends on video to talk about the first magic trick they saw, but in the end you have to ask yourself--what's the point? If the stories aren't just small set-ups to talk in depth about much larger subjects, then in the end it's just a collection of fanboy anecdotes.
I'm sure that's not the entire case with AoM. I haven't seen it, and I wouldn't expect Wayne to fill a DVD with just that. But at some level that does seem to be a part of it. And when I'm paying $40 to sit down and watch a 60 minute show I'm looking at my watch every time I think it's moving into the realm of self indulgence.
Again, I have not seen AoM--I want to make that clear--so these are just my thoughts on my first impressions of it based on the trailers and clips and descriptions we've all seen and read. I could be totally wrong. But for $40 I think my money could be better spent elsewhere in trying to expand my knowledge on the craft/artform. And that's what I've done. The "magic money" I had set aside this month I put toward Darwin Ortiz's Designing Miracles. Just got it yesterday, but so far it's an amazing book.
I think Wayne is an awesome creator and an incredible performer. I have everything he's released so far and I use all of his material. The man knows magic and I'm a big fan of his work. So perhaps my first impressions of AoM are totally wrong. And honestly, I hope they are because I love when I'm wrong about something in a positive way. I love when I'm not expecting some thing to be great and it blows me out of the water. But as of right now it just doesn't seem to be worth the asking price.