quite possibly the most true thing said in the history of these forumsMarketing.
quite possibly the most true thing said in the history of these forumsMarketing.
When you walk in a thrift store do you ever check the book section for magic? Who knows you might leave with something special.
Are levitation really that impressive? All spectators know, Magnets and strings. Do you get better reactions with Animations or levitation?
Was Dai Vernon approving camera effects and stooges? He states that the effect on the AUDIENCE (which is the people at home on their TVs and Computers) is the most important. If Dai was alive today would he approve of Mindfreak?
If the spectators know how you did it, does it really matter if they are smiling? Your goal was to entertain them. By discovering your secret, you made them happy. Even if you do not like it, but they do, is their really a problem?
I'll most likely turn this into a thread itself, but here:
Is it possible that there is an amazing magic book, like an autographed copy of the entire Tarbell course, in your local thrift store? This also goes for Magic DVDs. When you walk in a thrift store do you ever check the book section for magic? Who knows you might leave with something special.
What makes magic different from similar performance arts? Like comedy, and acting.
Solid pointIf this is what you are aiming for maybe you should be a clown, a juggler, a storyteller, or a comedian. Those are all good titles. Don't kid yourself and call yourself a magician
First, the magic. Performance of magic can contain comedy and acting, and other such, but probably not singing. Copperfield danced. As to the entire "art" vs other "arts" part, not much. Does it help to add that Picasso said, "Everything you can imagine is real"?What makes magic different from similar performance arts? Like comedy, and acting.
I have a question to ponder about actually...credit to @Antonio Diavolo for making me think about this...
Why does the term self-working even exist? What ARE self-working tricks?
I mean, all tricks require you to do SOMEthing. Now what you need to do may differ.
For some tricks you may need to count 7 cards off the deck, for some you may need to remember the third card from top, for some you may need to execute a DL, for some a force, for some a second deal.
I don't think there is any trick that's really Self-working...
So isn't the idea of self-working tricks wrongly labelling tricks which require more performance skills than sleight-of-hand-skills?
Isn't that what makes self-working tricks kinda notorious among beginners at least? They either avoid perfectly great ''self-working'' tricks thinking that they want to perform magic and not self-working stuff OR they feel since it is ''self-working'', it need not be practised.