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Kbuck54 Veteran user 343 Posts |
Growing up in the 50s, my Grandfather would tell me stories of how he worked for Harry Blackstone Sr. building scenery and props for his show. He would show me marvelous coin and silk tricks. When ever a Magician was on the ED sulivan show, I would be glued to the big black & white T.V. set. I still have the first trick that my father bought me when I was about 7. That's why, when I watched THE MAGIC BOX short movie, it brought me to tears.
Shazam. Keith
SHAZAM!
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Stu Montgomery Veteran user St Petersburg FL 354 Posts |
As a young boy I'd watch the late David Nixon on TV. Fascinated by his magic through the medium of late 60's, early 70's black and white TV. Carving a career as a police officer took my interest away, till the late 80's & a period of illness when I'd time to myself...just when Wayne Dobson ran his first Series of A Kind of Magic, and The Best of Magic were broadcast.
That was when I became hooked and (long before the Internet) decided to learn the art. So, Wayne Dobson gets the vote for the most entertaining, likeable TV magician, and the variety of The Best of Magic are responsible for these years in magic. I'm now into mentalism - but mentalism with a theme & story...each effect in some way related to a final revelation. Inspired now by Colin Cloud & his contemporary style.
"Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be" Longfellow.
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Wizard of Oz Inner circle Most people wish I didn't have 5150 Posts |
Father Photius...that is AWESOME!!!
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
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Photoboy New user 8 Posts |
My dad took me to a little magic shop in down town Hobart In when I was 8 or so and then to see Doug Henning and David Copperfield when I was a little older and that was back in the 70s. My love of the craft and the art started there.
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Stu Montgomery Veteran user St Petersburg FL 354 Posts |
And after all that's been said, I guess the next logical question is: What Keeps You In Magic?
"Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be" Longfellow.
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Kbuck54 Veteran user 343 Posts |
Chasing that since of wonder,
SHAZAM!
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Wizard of Oz Inner circle Most people wish I didn't have 5150 Posts |
The look in their eyes of total disbelief. A college kid hopping out of his chair and screaming "no you didn't!" Smiles. Laughter. Applause. The satisfaction of knowing that for a brief moment, you brought joy into someone's life.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
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djjkarate New user Always Sunny in Seattle 56 Posts |
As a kid, I really thought magic was "magic", not just a trick... I know, sorry to burst everyone's bubble.. When I got married 32 years ago, my father-in-law used to perform for the local elks/eagles clubs in town... He retired and gave me all of his magic that he had from the 60's.. Well, I went crazy and started right in his foot steps... Although my wife said I was a much better performer than he ever was.. Hey, we were already married, so I figured there was some truth to it.. So basically on/off depending on work etc, I added tricks to the collection, perform a few times a year at church and at family get-togethers... I buy way too much magic, as I still thinks some tricks are "magically" done, just to see how it's done... I think I've watch every episode of "breaking the magicians' code" on TV.. Hey, I think the guy is great !!! Like Muhammed Ali,
he performs a trick and then shows how it's done... That we we are always tasked with fresh and new magic to preform.. cheers, don |
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Vangel New user 26 Posts |
I've watched magic since I could remember but I really fell in love with magic after seeing Lu Chen's performances on TV and thought "I wish I could do that"
After watching magicians, I loved the idea of getting creative and changing methods and mixing different routines to present unique stories and experiences. I've always had overwhelming reactions and feedback and I've been continuing to perform ever since. I'm a magician but I still see the magic in magic. |
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Taterini Special user 604 Posts |
I was asked this question last year at IBM in Phoenix and I had to stop and think about it, and then I remembered..... I was about 5 or 6 when my Mom decided to let me order a magic kit from Chex cereal, I think it was free with 7 box tops or something like that...
http://www.mrbreakfast.com/cereal_ucp_sl......cid=1323 I still have that thing somewhere. My Dad always did card tricks, he was a WWII Veteran and he had learned them while in Europe I suppose.... he never would show me how to do any of them. Today, just seeing that look on people's faces when I "throw them a curve" it makes me think about when my Dad would sit and show my cousins and I card tricks.... I have to smile because it takes me back to that much simpler time when I was the one wondering...."how do you do that?" |
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DomKabala Inner circle I've grown old after diggin' holes for 2827 Posts |
Magicland of Alakazam tv show with Mark Wilson kindled my interest in magic as a child in the early sixties. A magic set received as a Christmas gift from Santa fueled the interest into an inferno.
Cardamagically Dom
We don't stop playing when we grow old...we grow old when we stop playing.
God is enough, let go, let God. Gal 2:20 "Anything of value is not easily attained and those things which are easily attained are not of lasting value." |
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lopike New user 23 Posts |
It started with a friend showing a magic trick. And the illusion shows on TV further ignite my passion.
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Andrew Immerman Regular user California 108 Posts |
Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants
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phil_n New user Sheffield, UK 28 Posts |
I think the first magic trick I ever saw was in Primary school when I was about six. One of my classmates had a felt bag into which he could make things vanish. Following that it was shows like the Paul Daniels magic show, fast forward a bunch of years to Penn and Teller's various shows that made it to England.
In terms of when did I start with magic, I bought a marked deck and a Svengali deck when I was at secondary school and did tricks for friends and family. Then would come a long break... ... I'm not entirely sure exactly what it was that got me 'back' into magic, David Blaine's original Street Magic stuff maybe (it was shown a lot as part of cinema advertising here), along with a love of card games generally and Derren Brown's various shows. But I think what makes me want to keep doing it was the smile on my girlfriend's face when she picked a royal flush for me from a bunch of face down cards (Paul Gordon poker trick). |
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RobertlewisIR Veteran user Colorado 367 Posts |
It's a round-about sort of a story. I grew up around magic a bit. Joe Givan was a friend of my father's, so I grew up knowing the difference between good magic and "Uncle So-And-So with his card tricks." And of course I had a few magic books and a magic set as a kid, but I was never SERIOUSLY interested in learning.
My passion was always for science, really. And in a strange way, that's what led me back to magic, because I was reading James Randi and his ilk talking about how people use conjuring tricks to fool people into believing pseudoscientific nonsense. And at some point, while studying all of that, the bug bit, and it bit hard. To this day, though I do love performing, I'm still much more interested in the history and psychology of magic than I am in performing it.
~Bob
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RogerTheShrubber Veteran user 301 Posts |
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On Jan 23, 2014, sammagic wrote: Many years ago I saw an episode of the original Hawaii Five-O which featured a slight used to steal a 1913 Liberty Head nickel. That one episode inspired me to get into both coin collecting and magic. You could also say that the episode changed my life and cost me thousands and thousands of dollars, but I digress. I added card magic to my repertoire when I realized that even the lousiest card tricks can utterly amaze. I was in Cub Scouts and one day the husband of the den mother was doing card tricks for us. The first three or four fooled all of us completely, but then the guy did a trick I figured out. The trick was so bad that I wasn't even sure it was over. There had to be more with a trick that bad, right? A second climax? But there wasn't! And everyone around me was fooled by it! I knew better than to let on that I knew it, I didn't want to act like a jerk in front of the guy or possibly make him feel bad when he was doing something nice for us, so I sat there in stunned silence - but it wasn't the trick that stunned me, it was that nobody else knew how it was done. It was like April 1st in the Twilight Zone. I got more amazement out of that fact than out of any of the other tricks. The guy did a few more tricks, and I didn't figure out any of them. The only two effects I even remember from that day are a.) the stupid trick that I was able to figure out (I know you've all seen it, I have no idea what it's called), and b.) his show-ending show-stopper, which I later learned was Steffi Storm's The Wizard. Anyway, getting back to that trick I thought was so awful: I started showing it to friends, and they couldn't figure it out either. Before long I started to suspect that this was all some practical joke on me and that everyone in my neighborhood and elementary school was in on it. But fast forward to summer vacation. We're in Cape Cod, and I showed the trick to a couple kids (strangers) my age. They didn't get it either. It was then it hit me: "If a trick this bad fools people, I can't wait to learn a few good ones." From that day on card magic became my primary interest where magic is concerned, but I still always have a few coins in my pocket specifically for coin tricks. |
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MRSharpe Special user Never a dull moment with 940 Posts |
I wish I knew exactly what got me into magic. Now all I can think is, "How do I get out!" Just kidding. Being a voracious reader as a child and being gifted with or buying several magic sets got me started.
Custom Props Designer and Fabricator as well as Performer from Indiana, USA
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cockyroach New user 6 Posts |
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On May 25, 2014, RobertlewisIR wrote: It was actually a video of James Randi (who I am familiar with from his work with skeptic groups, not his magic) debunking some dude, and then a documentary of another magician also debunking the same person that spurred me to actually act on my desire to learn magic. I had the bug first bite a few months ago while watching some videos on youtube of a show Penn and Teller did in the UK where magicians tried to fool them. I didn't really like a good number of the acts, but I just love anything Penn and Teller. Plus, there were a few that just made me smile. This one guy had a rather simple act, but his presentation was corny and silly (he was in a dragon costume) which I loved. It planted the desire. At the time, I did not believe I was capable of learning (Ive never realy been good at anything). The odd thing was, it was something the con said about just having nothing but time to practice (he developed his skill in prison) that made me realize this might be something I could do. I have plenty of time given my bizaare work schedule, and it was vyer satisfying when after a week of just plowing through I was finally able to shuffle a deck of cards (I went right for the in the hands riffle shuffle, do or die -- took me more hours than I want to admit to get it down, but after a week my fingers started to cooperate). |
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Lin_ New user 70 Posts |
The point of time when I knew magic is TV Show on my country, Around the new millenium, some broadcasts are showing us more magic TV shows, and around that time, I have known the notion of magic. then I started to find some magic informations on the internet. That was the point of introduction in magic to me.
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challengedmichael New user 52 Posts |
I was an eight year old enrolled in a summer class at the local YMCA that taught magic and as they say, the rest is history
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