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impossible man Elite user 403 Posts |
I just saw a search topic featured on Yahoo! - Magic Trick Secrets Revealed. Nice.
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BCaldwell Special user is really regretting his 524 Posts |
Welcome to the wonderful world of instant access of information. The problem as I see it is not the search topic, but the fact that the information is available for free online.
"...that's just my opinion. I could be wrong." Dennis Miller
~Bob~ |
Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
That's a good first term approximation. Consider what terms are attached to magic knowlege and then state the second term.
I'll be here. And j0ntown@yahoo.com is better for discusions of ethics and possible tactics.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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rippedandrestored35 New user 54 Posts |
That's terrible. I wich people would keep magic to themselves.
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Jeff J. Special user Connecticut 787 Posts |
Rippedandrestored35 said:
"That's terrible. I wich people would keep magic to themselves." Me too. But as long as those guys (Ammar, Malone, Chance Wolf, Osterlind, etc.) keep putting out that magic, what can we do, huh? |
Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21219 Posts |
The problem is that "magic secrets" have become a business unto themselvs. The performance of those secrets for an audience seems to be a much smaller business today.
Danny Doyle
<BR>Semper Occultus <BR>In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act....George Orwell |
impossible man Elite user 403 Posts |
Well, I notice that I often gloss over entire tricks in my books, and sometimes go back to the same trick once every few months before I really read it through and learn the method. So I'm wondering if just staying off the beaten path will be a good plan, finding tricks that the audience will not take time to fathom. They tend to like one sentence explanations like, "the whole deck is aces." It's worked for me so far. According to Henry Hay, in his time everyone knew how the multiplying billiard balls worked because of Mysto Magic sets.
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edh Inner circle 4698 Posts |
IMO the sellers of these secrets have lost respect for the art. As Dannydoyle said it has become a business for these people rather than an art to be performed and respected. If the "big names" do not respect these secrets how can they expect the hobbyists and newcomers to respect magic. Whether they are aware of it or not these "big names" do set an example.
Magic is a vanishing art.
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vance2276 New user Montana 72 Posts |
When I first started magic and did my simple tricks, I did explain a trick a few times. For me, I enjoy a good performance as well. So even when I find out how a trick is done, I'm still impressed with a good performance, the skill, technique, etc. When I explained a trick to laypeople, I did it because:
1) to stop their whining 2) because I thought for some reason that they would enjoy the performance as well The result was always that their sense of wonder sank and they became disinterested. This cured me of ever wanting to explain another trick, no matter how much they whine or guess. I know that my explanation will just ruin their sense of wonder, so I refuse to do it. |
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