If someone creates the illusion that the impossible is happening, they are a magician.
you don't need to have wisdom, knowledge of current affairs, or even be "good at life" to do so.
Well sure you can be a magician and create the illusion of impossibilities, but if you are not loved by your audience how will you really connect with someone? Magicians are sympathetic characters in a play and in general most people are kind and down to earth. If you are a d-bag how will your audience connect?
An "Entertainer" is something much more. An Entertainer reaches their audience, connects with them, imparts their humanity, invokes emotions, and leaves a lasting impression.
I see what you did there, by your definition I wouldn't say I am a magician but an entertainer.
That's a very lofty statement. I've seen some amazing magicians and I've never had my life 'changed' by one.
Stands and taps his foot waiting to see where this goes
The first two were from YouTube. Couldn't tell you who the 'performers' were. They were not very good, but I just wanted to learn a couple tricks.
wow ok so i guess you really havent been impacted by it.
Wooah Nikki, of course he has ben impacted by magicians, they taught him two tricks through youtube, this planted the spark into Christopher's brain and it grew on it's own. I think I can safely say that most magicians got started after seeing/learing from, magicians.
Christopher it changed your life by making you a magician.
What is the point of trying to over analyze this? All you are tying to do in this thread is get people to argue semantics...In my opinion, a Teacher should be those things 100 times more so than a Magician should be.
I think you are under analyzing the power of a magician. Did you know that in a study of eating behaviors has found that the main cause of over eating stems from childhood? Do you know why it is so difficult for an adult to learn a new language, when a child can pick it up in a heart beat? Children can be easily influenced and conditioned. If a magician is performing shouldn't they perform at their best and teach them proper communication skills?
Magicians used to be teachers now they are “I am going to blow your mind.”
“If you can only consider yourself a magician with a deck of cards in your hand or a coin, you're not what a magician should be. A magician should be selfless since the art is often violated in some form in their eyes, but innocent in the spectators, so that's who it should be about. the spectator. You're a magician. the world is your canvas. Start painting.”
so your saying that Darwin Ortiz isn't a magician? how about Ed Marlo? David Roth? Dai Vernon?
edit: i forgot Dan and Dave Buck!!!
No that isn't what he is saying at all. He is only stating that in order to be up to par in what he calls a magician, you have to be more then a guy with a deck of cards in hand. Ortiz, Marlo, Roth, Vernon, Buck twins, are all magicians because they take the deck of cards and instead of just fooling people with one note colors, they entertain their participants with personality, etc.
This does it for me:
magician
1.an entertainer who is skilled in producing illusion by sleight of hand, deceptive devices, etc.; conjurer.
2.a person who is skilled in magic; sorcerer.
Don't copy paste from a dictionary. Dictionarys are put together by master of the english language, NOT magicians.
When it comes down to it though, the big picture is we are all artists and entertainers. Magic is just a specified area of entertainment. Just like music, dancing, ect. are also.
Correct, but we are not talking about the big picture here. We are talking about the specific form of entertainer known as a magician.
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