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m1tech New user 4 Posts |
Where can one learn all the "top shelf" magic that artists like Criss Angel perform? not the filler stuff that people can get anywhere... I'm talking about the rare, hard to find stuff. the really wild mentalism stuff, the crazy illusions (salt shaker through table), making people vanish in the middle of the street or on a picnic table, etc. etc. etc.
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Spellbinder Inner circle The Holy City of East Orange, NJ 6438 Posts |
You learn this stuff from the same magic books we all have used and that are sitting in plain sight in every public library in every country of the world... then you give the idea a twist or a nudge and amaze the heck out of magicians.
Anyone can draw a realistic portrait of another person sitting in front of them. What makes you different from the real artist is not how you draw (you both use a pencil to make the same kind of marks on the paper) but how you SEE what's sitting in front of you. The true artist SEES the world in terms of light and shadow, geometry, perspective, proportions. What makes the experienced magician different from the beginner is that he IMAGINES the magic, then figures out a way to make it happen. You mentioned the salt shaker through the table. I assume you're referring to something you saw Cyril do on TV. But it began with the same old salt shaker through the table that's in every beginner book on magic, then Cyril took it a step or two further. Cyril did not become Cyril overnight. He evolved into the amazing magician that he now is over time, but he, too, had a starting point. There was a time when he only knew how to do the traditional salt shaker through the table. He mastered the trick, then began thinking about it. Go and do likewise. By the way, this is what we call X-Treme Magic and we have discussed it at length on The Magic Nook Forum, in case you are interested in becoming an X-Treme Magician some day.
Professor Spellbinder
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m1tech New user 4 Posts |
Magic nook forum here on magic Café?
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Spellbinder Inner circle The Holy City of East Orange, NJ 6438 Posts |
Magic Nook Forum as on The Magic Nook web site. Check my signature.
Professor Spellbinder
Professor Emeritus at the Turkey Buzzard Academy of Magik, Witchcraft and Wizardry http://www.magicnook.com Publisher of The Wizards' Journals |
Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
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On 2006-07-26 09:38, m1tech wrote: What puts magic on that top shelf is not so much the "stuff" but finding the right stuff for the venue and how one dresses up and presents that "stuff". When you look in those older books, keep in mind that material was properly dressed and presented for its time. It's really up to you to pick the place and how to dress up the material to make it relevant for your audience.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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Bill Palmer Eternal Order Only Jonathan Townsend has more than 24312 Posts |
The main differences between the 95% and the 5% are
1) viewpoints 2) creativity 3) publicity For example, you aren't going to see Criss Angel doing Impaled using a prop he got off the shelf. Inestead he and his creative staff figure out a new setting for it, rebuild the prop and stage it outdoors with a group of new characters. Look at every scene you see as a play, and all the people in it as characters. Some may know what is going on, others may not. That's all irrelevant. The audience is the one watching the performance on the tube, not in the venue where it is being recorded. BTW, sometimes those three differences are also called money, brains and guts. The main thing is that their stuff is different because they go out of their way to make it so.
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m1tech New user 4 Posts |
I think you hit the nail on the head Bill. Very good point. Thanks
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