Hello all,
I've been getting increasingly disturbed by the amount of nonsense being posted in these forums. Please, don't get me wrong, I love discussing magic with the 10% of you that know what you're talking about and perform regularly. It seems this past month that the good information is bogged down by worthless one to two sentence posts by people under some delusions of mediocrity.
It seems people are wasting time trying to tell certain members valuable information, and it is falling upon deaf ears. Also, what the hell happened to anything resembling good grammar? Too many times I've looked at a thread that sounded something like this..
"IM NOT WHIning im making a point i can take critizm that prativotss guy i can take his critizm but when people say stuff i missed that isnt true like you never showed the 3 of c im not trying to get attention OK?!"
It took me a few minutes to actually understand that this was some type of English. Reading these posts are much worse than anything a SpamBot posts.
I wish we had a 'Private' forum, that sorted out the riff-raff. The Magic Cafe does this with the secret sessions, making sure you have 'x' posts before being able to get into a certain forum. I think this would help a lot, and make magic easier to discuss among people who actually understand the craft.
/end rant.
Now, here's my progress in my stage show that I'm planning to present within the next TWO years. I've recently purchased "Technique and Understanding" by Jim Steinmeyer, and "Build Your Own Illusions" volume 1 and 2 from Osbourne, and now I'm starting on building some illusions.
The first illusion that I'm working on is a Sword Box. I've always loved this one, and have some ideas for a cool variation on it. I'll try to let you guys know how it goes with this, and other illusions. Also, I would love to hear your advice!! I'm working on a card manipulation routine right now, and still researching and studying stage magic. It's like a whole new world!
Thanks for reading through my little novel of a thread, and I hope to hear from some of you soon!
I've been getting increasingly disturbed by the amount of nonsense being posted in these forums. Please, don't get me wrong, I love discussing magic with the 10% of you that know what you're talking about and perform regularly. It seems this past month that the good information is bogged down by worthless one to two sentence posts by people under some delusions of mediocrity.
It seems people are wasting time trying to tell certain members valuable information, and it is falling upon deaf ears. Also, what the hell happened to anything resembling good grammar? Too many times I've looked at a thread that sounded something like this..
"IM NOT WHIning im making a point i can take critizm that prativotss guy i can take his critizm but when people say stuff i missed that isnt true like you never showed the 3 of c im not trying to get attention OK?!"
It took me a few minutes to actually understand that this was some type of English. Reading these posts are much worse than anything a SpamBot posts.
I wish we had a 'Private' forum, that sorted out the riff-raff. The Magic Cafe does this with the secret sessions, making sure you have 'x' posts before being able to get into a certain forum. I think this would help a lot, and make magic easier to discuss among people who actually understand the craft.
/end rant.
Now, here's my progress in my stage show that I'm planning to present within the next TWO years. I've recently purchased "Technique and Understanding" by Jim Steinmeyer, and "Build Your Own Illusions" volume 1 and 2 from Osbourne, and now I'm starting on building some illusions.
The first illusion that I'm working on is a Sword Box. I've always loved this one, and have some ideas for a cool variation on it. I'll try to let you guys know how it goes with this, and other illusions. Also, I would love to hear your advice!! I'm working on a card manipulation routine right now, and still researching and studying stage magic. It's like a whole new world!
Thanks for reading through my little novel of a thread, and I hope to hear from some of you soon!