How did you get expose?

[ArmanMagic]

Every magician on here had to seen something that made them just fall in love with the art of magic. Was it when a friend fooled you with a magic trick, or maybe watching a Magic TV special? How did you get exposed to magic? Personally I got exposed when I saw David Blaine's "Dive of Death" TV special and at first I thought I was just some freak trying to kill himself but then I saw him perform magic up close in front of real people and it got me hooked! I think it will be very interesting to hear how others on these forums got exposed in magic.

 

[JButterfield]

Ran into a singer I used to work with, he told me he had quit smoking, and took up card magic to help him with that. He showed me a couple of colour changes, and an ambitious card routine.

I saw a book called Modern Coin Magic at the bookstore, sand saw David Roth on the Late Show with David Letterman, and i was hooked. Went to the magic shop (Browser's Den in Toronto) shortly thereafter, and spent far more than I ever did on cigarettes.

 

[HaveOuts]

I was 12 years old in 1990; my grandma on my Dad's side (who we called Nanny) showed me my very first card trick in person. It's still an effect I use to this day some two decades + later. And although I wasn't even a teenager yet it has the same effect on adult laypeople as it did on me back then.

That single incident sparked my passion for magic, and I've been doing it since. Obviously, this was well before the days of the Internet/Youtube, so I learned the good old fashioned way through books and recording magic shows on TV with a VCR, and pause/rewinding/slow motion repeat...etc.

I'm just as excited and passionate about magic now at 34 as I was at 12, and in some ways even more so.

- Steve

 

[Leadsl]

A friend's cousin performed magic as a hobby, he performed in the school bus to me and some other friends. He blew us away with Jay Sankey's Back in time and WH's Stigmata. I was astonished and started looking at tutorials on youtube, then to better stuff and so on.

 

[RickEverhart]

All it took for me was a trip to Myrtle Beach at the age of 19 and watching the close up magician behind the counter of the shop. I believe it was a shop at Broadway on the Beach down there (the little shopping plaza). I was hooked after he vanished a silk in a thumb tip not 3 feet in front of my face then and showed me D'lites. I immediately pulled my money from my wallet and haven't looked back since. Ha Ha. Now I pull more and more money out of my wallet...but now I also make money doing magic, so it evens out and keeps the wife happy that I don't use "our" funds to support the hobby.

 

[WitchDocIsIn]

Took me a long time to like magic. I've seen a bunch of specials on TV, but I never really enjoyed big box stage magic, so it never held my interest. Manipulation acts have always bored me, I found myself thinking, "When will they do some tricks?"

In 1995 I saw Ricky Jay's special, Ricky Jay and his 52 Assistants and that showed me that magic could actually be entertaining. Then I basically forgot about magic until I was about 24, when I saw David Blaine and he showed me that magic could be done for anyone, not just on a stage.

Then when I was 26, the girl I was dating went on a trip and I learned a couple card tricks to show her when she got home. Got hooked by the reactions, and studied seriously. Now the girl is gone, but the magic is still here.

 

[formula]

Back in the 90's someone in school performed a french drop, that was the first time I was exposed to magic.

 

[Jebzy]

It happens two years ago, when I came to new school and I didn't know anybody. I feel lonely, then I start to searching things - I hate dancing, singing. Then I saw some cool, funny magic act on Youtube, I think they were Penn & Teller, but I don't know. The I found some cool tutorials on youtube. From that day my magic life starts. And I love it. (sorry about my bad English).