Brian Brushwood, in one of the theory 11 live things said that difference between teaching and revealing is how you have to pay the money to learn a lesson, but you have to give up being surprised at a effect, to quote directly "being sugar is less awesome than tasting sugar" as it means is being a magician can mean less fun for you because you give up the ability to be shocked by many effects, if you can give up that as the cost
Yes, the reveal of invisible deck is a mistake on his part, but just because he showed ID it does not instantly make him an enemy of the art, also i still firmly believe his quote and how he said that sometimes being the magicians is not as good as being the spectator.
The fact that not only did he expose the ID and tell you how to make it, he has exposed more than a few strong principals all in the name of pimping his book test and driving up views for his sponsors. How would he feel is someone exposed his book test?
I am sure that he will feel very bad, but Brian Brushwood is not the point here, the point is if you can give up the experience of being fooled (and I admit that magicians can be fooled a lot and that happens a lot whether it is me, or you, or anybody) and get out of being the wise guy (he did this, I know all about it type of jerks), and appreciate not the effect, but the technique, the dedication one must had to go through to achieve the effect, I believe that is teaching.
P.S. And I know that I am getting off the topic sometimes and adding stuffs up that I haven't mentioned previously, and that must bother you a lot and I am sorry if it does, but what I thought this morning and what I am thinking now are a little different because I thought about this the whole time today and my opinion changed a lot. But if you ask hundred different magicians ( of all area from the working pros to amateur that just got started in magic, or people that are exposed a lot by public to people who only do underground magic) what is the difference between teaching and revealing, there is no doubt that there will be one hundred different answers without any fine line, and I respect you for saying what you believe in magic, and how you think about it, and it is a learning experience for me, so thank you.
I wouldn't listen to everything Brian Brushwood says. The guy tried to do a smash and stab routine and ended up impaling his hand through a large nail. He's not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed.
I am sure that he will feel very bad, but Brian Brushwood is not the point here, the point is if you can give up the experience of being fooled
if you ask hundred different magicians ( of all area from the working pros to amateur that just got started in magic, or people that are exposed a lot by public to people who only do underground magic) what is the difference between teaching and revealing, there is no doubt that there will be one hundred different answers without any fine line, and I respect you for saying what you believe in magic, and how you think about it, and it is a learning experience for me, so thank you.
No it will pretty much be the same. Showing the general public in an open forum how an effect is done. An effect that you did not create is exposure. Now there are some younger magicians who learned how to do something on yourube and think that the person who they learned it from is great and that they are teaching, but it is still exposure. I'm sure as this thread goes on you will see the majority will say that the youtube "teachers" are exposing.
Please do not speak for the whole magic communities, even in this forum there are five or six people with different answers, and everybody is entitled to their opinion, there might be same starting baseline I.E. Val Valnentino (masked magician), but there are some really secret people who does not even share their magic because that is also exposing to them, I believe Charles Miller, a brilliant magician, did not share his effects at all, to him the baseline would be higher than say Dai Vernon,
Title says it all. This topic has been intriguing me as of late.
And, yes many people who does YouTube thing gives away effects and gets money from them, but people like Mismag teach it not for the profit but because he enjoys the challenge behind it, and the reason why the kids like YouTube so much is that it shows them effects for free,