The person who knows it all is especially annoying to those who don't....
hahaha, that's funny. so who died and made you all knowing?
The person who knows it all is especially annoying to those who don't....
The person who knows it all is especially annoying to those who don't....
The person who knows it all is especially annoying to those who don't....
Translation = bla bla bla.
To everyone else:
The sooner you stop feeding the troll, the sooner the troll will go away. That is of course unless he or she has no life. Either way, pathetic is pathetic.
Sometimes I feel like we alienate people in these forums... But then I think about what they have said in the past and realize that they only alienate themselves...
I'm pretty sure that a card switching places in their hands is going to be impossible and just as impressive regardless....You can believe what you want but in the end of the day the audience is there to see not listen.
He fails to realize that The audience does not believe in real magic and that everything they are seeing is trickery...I just choose to be honest about it...they will never be able to figure out "how I did it" so it is "magic" to them...If you define magic as an effect that astonishes... Regardless... their selected card appearing inside a kiwi is going to look impossible to them... A magician is not a juggler...A magician is a guy that amazes people with their trickery and sleight of hand.
You forgot about the third option...presenting what you are doing as skill and as something that cannot be explained...Well it can be explained but I wont explain it so it remains unexplained....Is it a puzzle now?...Only if they want it to be a puzzle...but those people are the ones that see everything as a puzzle anyways...Also I don't tell in presentation that what I am doing is my card skill until they ask....And if they asked they know damn well is not magic....However sometimes I do choose to perform my sleightfest + flourish combo..thats what you call a modern magician...visual effects no BS.
me too but If they ask I tell them straight out...That is what they are thinking anyways....You don't understand that it is a given that people who ask how stuff is done are thinking that you are fast with cards...people that really believe that you have powers just go :wow:
I come from the modern school of thought that people want to see effects not hear memorized lines/stories...I mean seriously? Cannibal cards and Vacuum cards?.....What is good patter video according to you? In before some Old 1976 video.
If you define magic as that I agree...and essentially this is what I do minus all the ridiculous magical lines....
Like I said..You just defined magic as "a combination of skill and knowledge and gimmicks"...The only difference in reality is that by calling your stuff "magic" and dropping ridiculous lines you insult the audiences intelligence and you will look like dishonest and foolish in the process....The audience will experience astonishment either way you want to call it...the effect will be the same.
Magic- A Guy doing effects to astonish and entertain an audience by creating illusions of seemingly impossible feats using purely natural means.
getting back on topic, I would agree with you. I have a trick based on that question that I like to do to people.
I am now hanging in suspense... What is said trick and how do you apply it?
I use Joshua Jays split decision. Just in case someone reading this hasn't seen the trick im gonna explain it.
Basically, two cards are selected and shown to two people. also you have different people help each spectator remember their card. So each card is shown around to people. Then you lose them in the deck and the way josh does it is he says hes going to find one card by sleight of hand the other by magic. So he gets the first one shows it and its right for the first persons card. Then he goes for the next one. He holds the card up and asks the audience what the other card was. Half the people say 9 of clubs and the other half say no it was the ace of diamonds. Then he rips the card down the center and shows each half one at a time one side the 9 of clubs and the other side is the ace and how they fit together perfectly.
So what I do is when someone asks "What is magic?" I comment on how I get asked that a lot, then I tell them some other related things people have asked." Like, since I know the secret if it ruins it for me. But I tell them the question "what is magic" is one I can't answer. People have their own definitions of what magic is to them, what they know it to be. The dictionary says its producing illusions or sleight of hand, and a lot of the time people define it as the impossible. I decided im not gonna define it, or even try to. Instead im going to show you sleight of hand and then what looks like magic..." then I go into the trick from there.
It's a very simple trick, but it hits hard.
~Nikki
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