<exactly what I wanted to say>
Jordan
jordan
i think you got too hung up on the phrase "the best"
it doesnt _actually_ mean the best
its just something you say
there is no argument weather that was the best pass
the only argument is weather that was a good pass
it looked ok
his hands didnt move much
but there was no audio
and it was a very cheap camera
so there is no reason to talk about it
since we are not even seeing the other three quarters of the performance
in the form of those missing frames
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you also get too hung up on this business of showing off your pass
who cares?
its a magic sleight like any other
all other ones get displayed on youtube
why not this one?
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now
i would definitely not post a video of me doing the pass as a color change
thats silly
but if i wanted to show my pass off to magicians
i would get a relatively high resolution camera
with a good speed
and keep the sound in
i would do a trick
and say that the pass was involved
that way people could comment on it
and give me feedback
which is important
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There are so many things I want to say regarding these types of topics. I personally feel they're absolute nonesense and cannot be in any way proved at all. We can all speculate about who's got "the best pass ever", but it's ultimately something that we will never find an answer to. For one thing, someone who we think has the best pass on video, may have the worst pass in real life. It's unfortunate but usually the case with many things in magic - they tend to focus on just one angle; the webcamera angle.
I personally don't find any of these videos to be particularly amazing at all, because they have the wrong idea to start with. The pass is a move that was created under misdirection, a moment of time when the audience isn't paying attention to the pack. This is the complete opposite to that of any Pass videos on the net; and they say "OMGz, thts da best pass eva!!!", or my personal favourite in the comments, "Perfect." - Is it?
The initial idea of these shifts is that is it supposed to look like "nothing"; but every single one of these videos look like "something". In the case of these videos, the unnatural jerky action of the hands heavily give away that something is happening, when it should be the other way around. The final thing I dislike of both "Pass" and "Colour Change" clips is the sheer boring sense you get of them. So you can do a decent Pass, well done - what else can you do? I would personally like to see how that pass could be utilized in an effect, rather than just film a technique to shift two packets.
I am very sorry for the rant but I feel it needed to be said. I see too many of these around and every single Pass video you see on the net has the wrong idea, the very wrong idea. It is great that they are working on these techniques, but until they utilize it in an interesting way, I don't feel it's worth sharing to the community.
Remember: it's not what you got, but it's what you can do with it that counts.
Jordan
There are so many things I want to say regarding these types of topics. I personally feel they're absolute nonesense and cannot be in any way proved at all. We can all speculate about who's got "the best pass ever", but it's ultimately something that we will never find an answer to. For one thing, someone who we think has the best pass on video, may have the worst pass in real life. It's unfortunate but usually the case with many things in magic - they tend to focus on just one angle; the webcamera angle.
I personally don't find any of these videos to be particularly amazing at all, because they have the wrong idea to start with. The pass is a move that was created under misdirection, a moment of time when the audience isn't paying attention to the pack. This is the complete opposite to that of any Pass videos on the net; and they say "OMGz, thts da best pass eva!!!", or my personal favourite in the comments, "Perfect." - Is it?
The initial idea of these shifts is that is it supposed to look like "nothing"; but every single one of these videos look like "something". In the case of these videos, the unnatural jerky action of the hands heavily give away that something is happening, when it should be the other way around. The final thing I dislike of both "Pass" and "Colour Change" clips is the sheer boring sense you get of them. So you can do a decent Pass, well done - what else can you do? I would personally like to see how that pass could be utilized in an effect, rather than just film a technique to shift two packets.
I am very sorry for the rant but I feel it needed to be said. I see too many of these around and every single Pass video you see on the net has the wrong idea, the very wrong idea. It is great that they are working on these techniques, but until they utilize it in an interesting way, I don't feel it's worth sharing to the community.
Remember: it's not what you got, but it's what you can do with it that counts.
Jordan