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Dynamike
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Posted: Jan 17, 2012 11:26am
I never used flowers in my street busking acts before. I just started using feathered flowers for my paid shows last year. After seeing the following picture of one of my paid shows last year, http://bloomfield-mi.patch.com/articles/photo-gallery-labor-day-picnic-at-temple-israel#photo-7631233 I look at the flowers are more of an attention getter to the viewers. If I was busking at a festival, I would do the flowers first. It should help stop others who are coming my direction later in my act because of the beauty, colors and attraction. It might help ladies put more in while passing the hat because ladies love flowers.
Anyone used flowers while busking before?
Dynamike
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epoptika
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Florida
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Posted: Jan 20, 2012 12:20pm
Sounds like that could be a good idea Mike.
What kind of case is that sitting on your music stand? I'm looking for something just like that.
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Dynamike
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Posted: Jan 20, 2012 6:59pm
It is a DJ turntable case. It is made to hold CDs too. I forgot the brand and model after having it a few years. Check to see if a DJ shop around you will carry a case similiar.
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epoptika
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Florida
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Posted: Jan 21, 2012 10:32am
Thanks Mike. Will do.
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MagiCol
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Dargaville, New Zealand
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Posted: Jan 26, 2012 12:02am
Hi, Mike.
A suggestion if you use flowers is to do a balancing act with them. Get an extension stem to make a flower higher and impress the crowd. Try balancing a flower on a finger on each hand. Maybe have three flowers bound togetehr on their stem and balance that as one. I don't think most people realize how easy it is to balance tall things - the taller the easier. I sometimes goof around balancing a 260 balloon. Your main enemy is going to be the wind - even a breeze can be bad for balloon balancing. Oh, another thing, try balancing a long peacock feather - its probably the easiest thing around to do it with. It throws high-tossed diabolos, and plate from spinning.
Balancing isn't magic, but it is visual, breaks the ceiling, and can be astonishing to the onlookers.
From Colin - who is currenlty working on getting a plate spinning from vertical position...
The performance makes the magic.
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MagiCol
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Posted: Jan 26, 2012 12:04am
"It throws high-tossed diabolos, and plate from spinning." "It" is the wind, not the peacock's feather, that makes diabolos hard to catch, and plates stay/land on a stick.
The performance makes the magic.
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JoeJoe
Inner circle
Myrtle Beach
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Posted: Jan 26, 2012 3:22pm
Using color to attract attention is the most misunderstood principle. You don't need to be decked out in every color of the rainbow like a hippie ... all you really need is two contrasting colors. It is the contrast of the colors that attracts the attention!
I've gone through every color of the rainbow, and I always end up going back to black and white. White is every color of the rainbow, black is none of the colors of the rainbow. Thus, you have the highest contrast possible which results in the most attention.
Children do seem to be more interested in colorful props than adults do ... my personal opinion (which is not "right" or "wrong", it is just my opinion) is that you should play to the adults because they are the ones that give the kids the money. In other words, the more my show looks like a "kids show" the less impressed the adults are, thus the less value they perceive my act to have. I started out as a "bar magician" for adults, and then became a "children's performer" and in more recent years I have been gearing my act towards the "entire family". Common sense dictates that the wider your appeal, the more attention you can attract thus the more money you can make.
That's a good pic Mike ... the red suit and the yellow flowers is a good contrast, if I were you I would consider only producing yellow flowers and not red ones - as red and yellow have a higher contrast than red and red.
And that's a better suit than your other one ... just remember that when summer gets here, you shouldn't wear it. That's why you had to stop performing and sit in the shade because you were getting dizzy after blowing up balloons. If you want to be a worker, you need to wear clothes you can work in. Wearing a suit on the sidewalk in the summer time is asking for a heat stroke. If you insist on wearing it, make sure you have some Tylenol in your pocket - it's a fever reducer, so if the heat gets to you, pop one just as a precaution.
Your a big guy, lots of flesh ... that's insulation, you need to take this seriously for your own good! I'm a skinny guy that is anemic - my body doesn't absorb iron properly and as a result my core temperature is lower than the average person's. That's why I can work on the sidewalks in 120 degree heat index without sweating.
-JoeJoe
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DoctorCognos
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Posted: Feb 21, 2012 12:07am
I often use one of the cheap American Flag Card decks (made by Bicycle) that you can get at Walmart and a number of otehr places.
You fan one way, and they show one primary color red or blue, at the top, and two other colors a little at bottom of fan.
Then, fan the other way, and the primary changes.. $1.99 to $2.99, pretty cheap for a fanning deck that
Walk around the pitch fanning the cards and it catches the publics attention.
Another advantage of these cheap colorful cards, is that they have no white border, which means your fan looks great even if it isn't perfect.
Bright colors, and shiny baubles, (Rings, and Cups and balls), and you can attrack people's attention.
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Ekuth
Inner circle
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Posted: Feb 21, 2012 9:45am
To add to what Joejoe said, as another hot climate worker (Aridzona, you don't get much worse than that)... HYDRATE.
A gallon of WATER (not soda, not Gatorade), per day. Anything less and you WILL collapse when the mercury hits 90+.
Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate.
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ed rhodes
Inner circle
Rhode Island
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Posted: Feb 21, 2012 11:26am
Fortunately, I don't live in that hot a climate, but I agree you have to keep hydrated. My fave is to freeze a 24 oz bottle of water. That way it stays cold most of the day.
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Dynamike
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Posted: Apr 26, 2012 10:43pm
The flowers on the video should be very helpful if it is not windy or if the flower pot is weighted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckBLZFiEuUM
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Nick W
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Posted: Apr 27, 2012 8:43am
Skip the flowers, just use your dynamic fantastic and amazing personality and energy to bring em in!
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Dynamike
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Posted: Apr 27, 2012 12:43pm
Thanks Bro.
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Nick W
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Posted: Apr 28, 2012 7:43am
I'm serious!
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Dynamike
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Posted: May 7, 2012 10:31pm
You are right Nick. "It is not what you do, it's how you do it."
Dynamike
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