I'm sure this will be deleted as soon as someone of power reads it but I just wanted to encourage everyone interested to read the review on DD in the Dec. 07issue of Genii magazine!
Mick
Mick
I'm sure this will be deleted as soon as someone of power reads it but I just wanted to encourage everyone interested to read the review on DD in the Dec. 07issue of Genii magazine!
Mick
Mick:
With that said, We will do the right thing here. I can't disclose the full details yet (because they have not been fully finalized) but we have been in touch with Steve Dusheck and have reached a resolution. Needless to say, we are working as hard as we can to correct the mistakes made with Digital Dissolve & we have implemented a workflow to insure that something like this doesn't happen in the future. There's no conspiracy here, just a series of unfortunate mistakes that we are working to fix.
I just took one of my pills so I could visit the Café without getting upset. Today I received Digital Disolve in the mail. The person who bought it gave it to me. I can honestly say the DVD and routines are very good. But the Bueno handling is the standard putting both coins in the persons hand and removing the gimmicked coin right out of Bo Bo. I cannot see how anyone could take full credit as the inventor of a trick using my gimmick and my display moves.
There is a move by Lee Asher that is very good and also practical. That deserves high praise.
They should have watched my DVD or read my instructions because they missed some important handing, that probably seemed minor to them, when first showing the coins.
I do not do street magic. I designed my handling so a lot of people could see the visual change rather than two or three people. The last place I performed for two years had 8 people at each table. I often did parties where I was surrounded by a large crowd of people so my visual change was performed at chest level. When I demonstrated the trick at conventions or when lecturing, everyone saw the instant change.
My routine evolved to become practical for every working condition. They should have shown my original routine on the DVD. They also missed out on one the lines I use that is very important.
The gimmck is well made but the shim serves no purpose and only adds bulk. The Teflon makes the gimmick too slippery. The noise problem can easily be corrected. I told Jamie there was more to making a sliding shell than just removing half the rim. He didn't want any additional help fro me. I'm sure Jamie and I will become friends again, in time, and I'll tell him how to fix the noise problem.
All in all it's a good product. I feel very bad that Bueno took all the credit.
By the way, I did not start this thread or have any of my friends start it. I do not know most of the people supporting me or the many magicians who send E-mail directly to me. Only three personal friends have contributed to this topic.
Steve
can I get a link for it?
On 2007-11-23 09:41, Steve Dusheck wrote:
Two of my friends have been in contact with two people involved with Theory 11. Both have received completely different offers. Now Wayne states that no one knew I had been selling the gimmick and moves for decades and have it on my DVD. They knew enough about my gimmick to credit it at the end of the DD DVD and they also changed the dates of when I put the trick out. One of the people involved with the copy of my routine quoted a passage from my original instructions on the Genii Forum years ago so he certainly knew Bueno's handling was almost the same as mine and that bueno did not invent the gimmick. Everyone has at theory 11 different story so I don't know who to trust.
They all seem to think that it is a matter of money. Getting a royalty is not the issue. When I give people permission to make my tricks I do not ask for any royalty or payment of any kind. It is the Theory 11 DD DVD giving credit to Bueno that is the issue and they don't want to change the DVD.
I do not believe no one at theory 11 knew the gimmick and moves were mine. Since they knew enough about me to add my name to the credits they could have easily contacted me before releasing the trick.
One person involved at theory 11 stated they sold a thousand DD so far. Another person at Theory 11 claims they only sold 60 of them. So even if I only cared about royalties, as they assume, I certainly can't trust their financial statements if I expected royalties.
Copying tricks is a way of life in magic. It's not moral or ethical but it's not against the law. The majority of magic hobbyists don't care who invented the trick or who made it as long as they can buy it. MM has been doing a very good business for years. Sometimes magicians complain about them but it soon goes away and they continue to sell their versions of the tricks.
This issue will soon fade away because everyone wants a sliding shell and they will buy it from anyone. In a few weeks the gimmick will be in a box of old tricks and the hobbyists will need the next, newest trick.
That's enough for now. The issue is not resolved. But you can bet they will not keep the Bueno trick off the market.
Steve