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mddkf New user 24 Posts |
I use a triple threat wallet and I am struggling with my motivation for taking my wallet out. Should I make a bet with someone? It just seems strange to me to lose their card in the deck and then throw my wallet on top of the deck. Help. Thanks.
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Dynamike Eternal Order FullTimer 24148 Posts |
Magic is about entertainment, not betting.
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mddkf New user 24 Posts |
I'm not really making a bet. I just struggle to come up with a reason why I am pulling my wallet out in the middle of a card trick.
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Father Photius Grammar Host El Paso, TX (Formerly Amarillo) 17161 Posts |
Generally the "motivation" is the card is lost, neither you nor the spectator/audience member can find it, why, because it is in your wallet. Thus, you not only located the selected card, but magically transported it to your wallet.
"Now here's the man with the 25 cent hands, that two bit magician..."
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scaevola Loyal user 251 Posts |
I don't do this trick but I saw someone pretend to be unable to find their card and get frustrated. Then say something like "I am going to put my money where my mouth is" and pull out the wallet
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J.Robert Loyal user Gettysburg, PA 240 Posts |
I use it in my ACR, for the finale I hand the spectator the deck and have them shuffle. I snap my fingers and the card comes to the top without me touching the deck. But it doesn't. I try again. No luck. Of course I purchased the special "magician's insurance" that I carry all the time in the special, zippered compartment in my wallet. Lo and behold, when removed, it is their signed card. -J.R.
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Brad Burt Inner circle 2675 Posts |
This is a GREAT topic. Really. It points out something that I have long contended: Most magic has NO justification for it happening ... so don't worry about it!
Consider: What possible reason could anyone have for finding a signed card in a lemon, watermelon, or any other place a signed card is found??? None. The fact is that you really don't need a justification for most of what you do magically! What possible justification or sense is there in magic a coin vanish? Think about it. What is inherently dumber that making 'MONEY' disappear with no seeming reason other than to entertain? Why would you do that? Would a normal person take a hundred dollar bill and light it on fire for REAL? Don't think so. The fact is that very nearly everything that we do as magicians is done just, and read this carefully, FOR THE SIMPLE DOING OF IT. It is done....BECAUSE, WE CAN! That's all. And, because the doing of the goofy stuff we do is in fact INHERENTLY ENTERTAINING IN AND OF ITSELF. Part of the 'mystery' of magic is the simple weirdness of it! Show a couple of one dollar bills and instantly change/blend them into a two dollar bill. It's far and away my biggest selling item...but, who would ever conceive of doing it UNLESS they were a magician? Who would want to do it? One of the only tricks that I can think of that actually makes sense is the Hundred Dollar Bill Switch! Now, there's a trick that REALLY grabs at the heart AND purse strings! There's a trick that a REAL magician would happily sit around all day doing: Changing a stack of ones into hundreds!!! But, who in their right mind would think that taking half dollars and making them magically vanish and appear inside a small brass pill box was something that JUST had to be done? No one! EXCEPT for a magician. And, that's exactly WHY magic on the whole is not just odd, but interesting in it's oddness and thus entertaining by the nature of it. You see MAGIC ... IS .... entertaining. What most of us have to do is figure out how NOT to get in the way of what magic IS. Can that entertainment once discovered by the performer be improved upon? Absolutely!!! Although I firmly believe that a boring person can derive entertainment value from doing a magic trick well...an entertaining person can take magic and, well, end up in Las Vegas making a REALLY good living. Have fun,
Brad Burt
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JSBLOOM Inner circle 2024 Posts |
Brad,
Brilliant! |
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