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KILLOWATT New user 2 Posts |
Hey all! Long time lurker, not sure if this is the right place to post this but I'm sure the mod gods will move it if not. Just wanted to ask if there is any legal mumbo jumbo in any rabbit-pulling-pansies bio saying I cant perform one of these illusions?
For example, me and my group are working on a presentation of 'Wrapped' by Justin Flom I believe. What I'm asking is am I allowed to perform the basis of another fellas trick if we change the patter and presentation enough? Chears! |
George Ledo Magic Café Columnist SF Bay Area 3042 Posts |
This question comes up here fairly regularly, and the answer generally is "if you have to ask, you already know the answer."
That's our departed buddy Burt, aka The Great Burtini, doing his famous Cups and Mice routine
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
? You bought the item and are asking about performing it? If so; it's expected that performers will present items as suited to their performing character, their audience, the venue, and the occasion.
http://www.thomasmoorecreative.com/site/......-wrapped
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
The Story of Wrapped!
The original "assistants revenge" plot was created by Robert Harbin in the mid 1960's, refined in to a working prop with Ali Bongo who premièred it on the David Nixon TV specials in the early 70's with a prop that looks almost identical to modern day assistant's revenge props. By the mid 70's several minor UK performers had evolved it from the big frame in to the "totem pole" illusion and in the process gradually switched it from being a swap to a straight escape. This escape idea was popular in cabaret/illusion acts across the 80's then fell out of favour. In 2002/2003 Peter Marvey created a variation of the old totem-pole illusion but updated with chains and pyro's - watching this inspired this version of my illusion as although the methodology and gimmicks are completely different (obviously) he has a choreographic move in his routine which provided the "eureka" moment for applying my method to a presentation; switching from my original idea as a way to secure someone inside a box to utilising this method to update the classic totem-pole illusion idea. In late 2010 (whilst we were already playing with the first prototype of this prop) Dany Lari presented an effect shrink-wrapping someone to a pole and changing places however he used a COMPLETELY different method and has a rather clunky presentation that requires at least 3 other assistants to perform it - I was initially annoyed that someone else had gotten a similar idea out before me but when I realised he WASN'T exploiting the principle I'd discovered and has this very convoluted need for so many assistants and props that I resumed work on my version. Wrapped has gone on to become one of my most talked-about creations employing radical new methods and modern technologies to create a novel new presentation of one of the great classic magical props. It's been lauded by performers and enjoyed by audiences everywhere thanks to its simple premise and baffling method https://www.thomasmoorecreative.com/site......-wrapped I wonder who your group is.
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