Hello, dear reader.
Decided to pop in the forums after a long time. I see that the community got more mature in these months, seeing that threads about Angel and Blaine are being replaced by more intelligent and engaging subjects puts a (really beautiful) smile on my face.
So dear reader, take 5 minutes off your valuable time, put some music on, start reading and think. It's what people should do more.
There is something that is bothering me more and more in the Art of magic. And I am sure I am not the only one. I think it's the primary reason for the lack of respect that it gets (even though it gets treated more and more as an art form) from the lay public.
What is this problem, you sexy thing ask me? The wording we use.
What do you label your magic as? How do you ask people (if you ask them) to participate in your performances? What do you see your magic as?
"Do you want to see a trick?"
It's primarily because of this poorly used word (which is the means, but not the ends of the performance. Tricks are simply our technique that gets us to the goal. Poets have words, Musicians have notes, Women have breasts. And we have tricks) that we get the sceptical heckler-type spectators that just cannot engage in our magic and look at our feats as mere puzzles.
But how do you label the magic so it gets viewed as a piece of theater (or ritual, however you view it) that needs the suspension of belief for full enjoyment?
"Do you want to see some magic?"
"Let me show you something interesting"
"Let's try an experiment"
I hate calling my magic feats experiments, as it inclines laboratory science stuff. It inclines something boring, something educating. The word was created for something else. And it's used there. It's a shame that in all these years, a perfect word hasn't been created for us as well.
"Something interesting" is way too broad. What do you mean? Comedy is interesting. Dogs are interesting. Let's rather watch those, as I've seen them before.
"Some" magic? What do you mean by "some" magic? Is it like some joke or something? Too broad and doesn't tell you anything.
As a Slovenian (and I do apologize for my grammar), I face an even bigger problem. We use different language and our wording for "Magic", "Magical feat" and "Trick" is even poorer. The definitions are scrambled. And I bet my left toe that we aren't the only ones with the problem.
So I thought about it.
How about creating a new word? Creating a new word, that will be perfect, that will explain "magic effect", that will incline what we want to incline. An universal word for a "magical feat".
Is it possible to create something like that? And is it possible by meme-ing it forward (using it, forwarding it, informating the public about it) that it gets world-recognized and used on a daily basis?
It sure would be helpful.
-Sebastian
Decided to pop in the forums after a long time. I see that the community got more mature in these months, seeing that threads about Angel and Blaine are being replaced by more intelligent and engaging subjects puts a (really beautiful) smile on my face.
So dear reader, take 5 minutes off your valuable time, put some music on, start reading and think. It's what people should do more.
There is something that is bothering me more and more in the Art of magic. And I am sure I am not the only one. I think it's the primary reason for the lack of respect that it gets (even though it gets treated more and more as an art form) from the lay public.
What is this problem, you sexy thing ask me? The wording we use.
What do you label your magic as? How do you ask people (if you ask them) to participate in your performances? What do you see your magic as?
"Do you want to see a trick?"
It's primarily because of this poorly used word (which is the means, but not the ends of the performance. Tricks are simply our technique that gets us to the goal. Poets have words, Musicians have notes, Women have breasts. And we have tricks) that we get the sceptical heckler-type spectators that just cannot engage in our magic and look at our feats as mere puzzles.
But how do you label the magic so it gets viewed as a piece of theater (or ritual, however you view it) that needs the suspension of belief for full enjoyment?
"Do you want to see some magic?"
"Let me show you something interesting"
"Let's try an experiment"
I hate calling my magic feats experiments, as it inclines laboratory science stuff. It inclines something boring, something educating. The word was created for something else. And it's used there. It's a shame that in all these years, a perfect word hasn't been created for us as well.
"Something interesting" is way too broad. What do you mean? Comedy is interesting. Dogs are interesting. Let's rather watch those, as I've seen them before.
"Some" magic? What do you mean by "some" magic? Is it like some joke or something? Too broad and doesn't tell you anything.
As a Slovenian (and I do apologize for my grammar), I face an even bigger problem. We use different language and our wording for "Magic", "Magical feat" and "Trick" is even poorer. The definitions are scrambled. And I bet my left toe that we aren't the only ones with the problem.
So I thought about it.
How about creating a new word? Creating a new word, that will be perfect, that will explain "magic effect", that will incline what we want to incline. An universal word for a "magical feat".
Is it possible to create something like that? And is it possible by meme-ing it forward (using it, forwarding it, informating the public about it) that it gets world-recognized and used on a daily basis?
It sure would be helpful.
-Sebastian
