theory11 SNC - roundtable discussion - Tom Isaacson

[j.bayme]

This week's Saturday Night Contest will be our third theory11 roundtable. Our first was a few week's back with Dan and Dave Buck; followed by one with Wayne Houchin shortly thereafter.

Tonight's discussion will be with theory11 artist and professional performer Tom Isaacson - creator of Prophet. Check out Tom's artist page here for his background and level of experience. Tom is the real deal - he is a performing, working, creative professional that we'll be talking with today in between two gigs. He works more events than most performers I know, and he learns from each of them.

All questions are fair game. Feel free to ask anything you wish as long as it is on topic, relevant, professional, and respectful. We'll be choosing 5-10 questions for discussion during the podcast. Questions must be submitted in response to this thread (limit 3 per member), and all questions must be in on or before 9:30pm EST.

The podcast will be recorded immediately thereafter, and will be posted in this thread on or before 11:00pm EST.

Looking forward to a great discussion tonight. Remember that all questions must be submitted by tonight. If your question is chosen for discussion during the podcast, you'll receive a 1-on-1 video of your choice - on the house.

UPDATE :: This roundtable discussion has been posted. Listen to it now here.

 

[hijackedmagic]

1st!! Yes, another roundtable!!

 

[Magic Man4293]

How are the spectators reactions different when your perform for a camera apposed to a regular performance without a camera?


-Michael

 

[Volcan]

1.) How long were you into magic before you started performing at paid gigs?

 

[emanmagic]

1. How long did you play with the "easy money" plot before you came up with prophet?

 

[emanmagic]

2. What furure effects will you be coming out with?

3. If you could create ANY effect...what would it be?

 

[hijackedmagic]

1). Who are the biggest influences in your life and towards your magic?

 

[Squ!rrel]

Creating magic is something that has never come naturally to me so i'd be interested to know about the process you go through when creating effects.
Do you one day decide you're going to make an effect, decide what the effect will be then work out a method? Or is it just a more gradual process e.g. one day you think of an idea and you start messing round with various ways to achieve and it slowly evolves into the final effect.

 

[Ahmed Fouad]

My Questions:

1)what got u started into magic?
2)What do u dream of achieving in the future?
3)What do u think is the best quality that a performer should have?

 

[d_dooms]

question1

what do you recommend to us on how to use our creativity to create our own effects.
how do we start?

Daniel Cuartas, 21
Medellin - Colombia

 

[Squ!rrel]

Here's another question I just thought of.

When performing magic do you try and get your audience to believe that what you're doing is 'real' i.e. Trying to convince them you really can do magic, have supernatural powers, are psychic etc or do you let them know it's skill based. Or perhaps not say anything and let them make their own conclusions?

 

[hijackedmagic]

2). What gives you inspiration? Is it a family member, an animal, a friend, or something else?

 

[stoneface]

Do you think the internet is helping or destroying magic?

 

[$OLDIER]

1- Since you are a professional magician, what are the reactions of the people around you, and if celebrities too.

2- What do people think of you as a performer especially celebrities.

3- What is the most valuable thing that you own in your life in magic or out of magic.

 

[stoneface]

I heard on the fourms that people heard on myspace of facebook that you had a card thru window...anything you can comment on about this?

 

[Jv]

1.Describe a situation in which you did “all the right things” and were still unsuccessful. What did you learn from the experience?

 

[Creeper]

Question # 1
One of the biggest problems in magic is people being unoriginal. How do you distance yourself away from everyone else? How do you become someone other than your average everyday magician?

 

[tsarothpaco]

1. If someone said you could have a deck of cards or all the change in my wallet, which would you choose to perform magic with?

2. If you weren't doing magic now, what would you be doing instead?

3. For someone who as far as I know doesn't flourish much, what are your views on it? If you do flourish then what do to separate it from magic and keep it just as entertaining?

~PaCo

 

[d_dooms]

q2

He works more events than most performers I know(...) J. Bayme

how do we achieve this success? how do we jump the hobbie state onto the business one?
when and how did you know about that it was the right time for you to start getting money with magic, make magic a business?

Daniel Cuartas, 21
Medellin - Colombia

 

[stoneface]

Do you still work on those knucle busting moves that you would never do in a performance or only stuff that you would perform for an audience?