The reason I'm basing your intellect on the magic is because the post you wrote before and the one you wrote now. It is not based on the language or anything like that, I just couldn't understand your sentence structure and made it hard to understand the points you were trying to make.
I have no problem with many opinions, and the one you made wasn't an opinion, it was basically a accusation. Another quick little gripe is that apparently magicians have no real perspective over another magicians performance. Well, that's just dumb and incorrect because magicians ask for other magicians advice on effects, presentation, and performances. Why would any magician buy a book on performance and presentation when it's obvious it's that person opinion on it and their judgement on the subject? Exactly.
Now to talk about why the video is not art. What in it makes it memorable, real, something that puts the mind on standstill? I am unfortunately getting a bit annoyed at you right now and your defense on the video.
If you can honestly tell me that the vid about 5 speed is anything close to art in magic then you need to stop everything and reflect your standards because they are low. Do I believe he was trying to make a memorable performance, no. He is in the line of many tricksters that shows something that looks cool, and has no real presentation.
Don't try to defend him when he obviously has no performance and knows he doesn't. I can judge whoever I please to judge, especially if someone posts it so they can be open to judgment. I just hope you are lying to yourself more than anything, because that 5 speed video was just bad. He pattered about what he was doing, I know what he's doing because I have two functioning eyes. He doesn't need to tell me what my eyes can see, which is the problem with many "magicians."
Probably going to post a thread about this since you aggravated me unintentionally of course. Magic can be art in the right hands, but people just saying that because somebody performs some tricks is not correct.
Don't feel obligated to post a reply to this, my opinion of you will most likely not change and that's fine. Not everybody will like each other for many reasons, it's just bad it has to be these reason.