yeh yeh.. true but who said it was true? i've got one word for you..
MARKETING, just because someone says something in their adversitement, doesn't mean it's true.
do you think that the creators of Theory 11 HONESTLY think they are the 11th theory of magic?? of course not, it's just a tag line, not a promise.
"Theory 11" wasn't a result of a bunch of guys sitting around and suddenly they had an epiphany and found the long lost 11th theory of magic, it's just a tag line for marketing. It's exactly the same as anyone saying "the 8th wonder of the world".. Such a thing doesn't exist.. it doesn't mean anything, it's just a memorable phrase.
Truedat. But that's not exactly what they sounded like in the 'What is t11' video. They sounded like 'Hey everybody get your cards out because this is going to be REVOLUTIONARY omg!!'
That is truly what I got from it, and when I got here I still had that feeling.
And I remember a little while back, and almost to current day when there were forums ALL over decknique about 'theory11 is the new e'
And I would read these forums, and even defend theory11 quite a bit. I'd tell people the tricks on here are amazing, and the artists are amazing. And they are.
But then, when I entered the forums, I had an epiphany, which is basically my most recent post to this. And that's what I started to think.
The thing is, there's so much false 'nationalistic' esque. feelings (if I can call it that) towards this site from the members here. They would fight to the death to win the arguement that theory11 is not at all like ellusionist. Why? Because of video's of great magicians telling them what this site is and how it is different. And because of this they truly never get a chance to stop and think about what this is, deep down.
And what is it? A revolution in magic? I don't understand, how so? Recycled tricks in the 1on1 section, dvd's of redone tricks from the the 50's and 60's? And I know they said 'Were not building tricks we're building performers,' but that doesn't make sense to me. And it doesn't because we know how to perform. We know how it goes, and telling us the exact patter to use isn't helping anyone. All it does is allow us to be unoriginal; and even if these are merely suggestions, we'd be better off not even having an idea of what to do because everything would be so much more original. I'm not quite sure I get this here.
I mean, at least ellusionist sells the art of astonishment. What can theory11 say... they sell the Paper Engine? Totally out of control? I don't think so; they sell material like Witness, which has already been published with a different title in a cheaper place. They sell things like panic, which, despite it's originality, an unbearable amount of people that I really feel bad for will find out the method, if they're someone practical who allows the deck to be examined, will be dissapointed that they just wasted money. What else, torn and restored card, bill changes? Haven't we seen these things somewhere before?
-Sean Fast