Certainly not all Lovick's reviews "nitpick" the way you describe. You have to consider the volume of DVDs he receives each month and to follow a template just writing about the effect would get quite boring for the reader - especially since so many effects in magic are similar, if not, the same. Plus, style and packaging plays a huge role in products and in my opinion, needs to be reviewed.
Magic-Con is a meeting of the minds, regardless of clashing ideologies.
I do not want to stray to far off topic and if this gets deleted or locked because of that then you should have done it with D&Ds post as that was off topic as well but here goes...
I find it interesting that you respond to this post when he has ALWAYS said great stuff about ALL your products.
So it is enjoyable to the reader to have a magic reviewer to actually make fun of a persons religion and to put down the creator of that trick? It is enjoyable for the reader to read about the creators clothing and to actually tear down the creator as a person? In that entire review there is exactly 3 words that talk about the trick itself the rest of the "review" is lovick tearing down the creator, using his faith against him, and jist saying stupid, idiotic statements that HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TRICK ITSELF! And that is ok? No sirs that is not ok and that is one of the reason we started our company because john lovick and people like him will not git away with this any longer.
Look at the podcast in question. It is supposed to be a conversation between all of you about the convention and what to expect from each person on the podcast..where lovick CLEARLY tries to take over the pod cast in an interview interviewee manner. Are you kidding me? The ego on lovick is jist superb! Then lovick thinks he will say something about youth and youth lecturing and what not and then Eric brilliantly shows lovick where he is wrong and lovick tries to cower his way out of what he said so confidently before and tries to side with mead. Classic.
Oh and by the way..yes it's me ( he was supposed to review captured)he reviewed and he is a bold face liar because in the first sentence he says he does not know me nor has he met me.
I had met lovick twice before that review came up in magic.
First time was at magi-fest 2008. It was me and David Williamson, john lovick, and other magi's at a table in the lobby. Kozmo had jist called me and we were talking about a recent project we were going to do and he asked me how magi-fest was and I told him who I was with he said "tell lovick I said hello" In the middle of everyone i said "John koz says hi" lovick then responded with a witty remark and that was that. I also talked with him many times through out that convention..never met me huh?
The second time was more personal it was at the IBM/SAM convention in Louisville KY. I sat in on the david williamson interview lovick did in the hotel room. In that entire interview I was sitting off camera and david even looks at me one time while he had said something funny. I also sat in on the mac king interview in that same hotel room.
Then downstairs in the lobby lovick thought he was being cute and was sitting with an underage girl on a couch both of them staring at me. Every time I would look back at them he was pointing at me and laughing in my direction. I later found that girl and approached her on the elevator and asked her what was so funny. She said and i quote " he was telling me about your enterouge and that you were a joke in the magic community"
Oh yea I forgot I also tried to git into the magic castle when lovick was the hiring person for talent (thank god he lost that job look at the horrible acts he placed in that yr). Lovick actually responded to my e-mails and said i would not be a good fit for the close-up room...I will be talking about that n the lovick review as well way to much to go into here, but the point is that he lied to every single one of you in that review. And that is the person we want teaching a magic conference. Really?
Really john lovick u, never met me..your on notice!
I will be posting up my own video review of lovick in the future on our site.
So to have lovick talk at a convention about his views on magic is like listening to ray charles describe a sunset..meaningless.
But who am I.
JM
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