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Occams Razor New user 41 Posts |
Here's another magic rip off artist at work. It's a kid named Stanley Tang, who has ripped off 3 tricks: Paper Into Money, Card Warp and Professor's Nightmare, and he is claiming them as his. He's now selling videos of himself performing the tricks, and then explaining them for $10. The performances are pathetic. Check them out at: http://www.devzone.info/wsomagic/
When will idiots learn that it's not right to rip off tricks when they don't belong to you? Occam |
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Bob Sanders Grammar Supervisor Magic Valley Ranch, Clanton, Alabama 20504 Posts |
How did he miss "Pick a Card"? LOL
Bob |
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nikyas Loyal user Kuala Lumpur 207 Posts |
Does the link work?
When I click it, it brings me to some marketing site. |
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Michael J. Douglas Inner circle WV, USA 1645 Posts |
Nikyas,
That site is still Stanley Tang's, but it's no longer about magic. It's about his marketing programs. However, I found another site of his that is selling magic - http://www.moneymakingstuff.com/magic.html It's obvious he's not a magician; no practice, fumbling, etc. If he's such a marketing "guru"...well, isn't the first rule of marketing to have a quality product?
Michael J.
�Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things.� --from Shakespeare�s �As You Like It� |
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Rennie Inner circle I think I have about 1826 Posts |
The book is $47.00, and the video is $47.00, but now a special offer of both for $47.00. Wow, what a deal.
I have not seen a video/DVD of a pro in years selling for that price. I guess Stanley (who I have never heard of) is special.
The effect is the important thing, how you achieve it is not.......
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Tom Bartlett Special user Our southern border could use 763 Posts |
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On 2006-11-18 03:21, Michael J. Douglas wrote: The answer is NO, you don't have to have quality anything to get rich selling; look at Ronco or Thomas Kinkade.
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Nick-V. Special user Create and Devastate 817 Posts |
Let's all shoot for Quality and the Genuine Article.
Support Greatness, Live Well, Be Happy!
Peace on the Magical Streets
~Nick V.~ |
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Pete Biro 1933 - 2018 18558 Posts |
I love the reference to Kinkade. What awful stuff and it sells like crazy. ARgh..
STAY TOONED... @ www.pete-biro.com
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usg353d New user 50 Posts |
Sad really...
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Damon Regular user 108 Posts |
I only watched him doing the card change and couldn't go any further. Looks like it was the first time he did it.
Sad is right!!! |
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Ron Reid Inner circle Phoenix, Arizona 2732 Posts |
I really like Thomas Kinkade. You guys are talking about the guy who paints pictures of houses with lights, right?
Ron |
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Damon Regular user 108 Posts |
You want to see something magic related and sad at the same time about Mr Kinkade. Check out this site below and go down to the personal conduct section. I'm guessing S & R did'nt send him a Christmas card again this year!
Happy New Year all, Mark http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kinkade |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
Given the way he "marks his territory" you'd think he'd be right at home in the S&R compound.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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Pete Biro 1933 - 2018 18558 Posts |
Sorry Ron, if you know art Kinkade is a hack (most of the stuff he produces is done by others in a factory setting).
STAY TOONED... @ www.pete-biro.com
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Spellbinder Inner circle The Holy City of East Orange, NJ 6438 Posts |
Everyone knows artists are supposed to be poor and cut off their ears and end tragically. Kinkade has turned his art into a big money-making business (can we say "profiteering" and link it with his name?). Therefore, forget that you like his art and look down your nose at his businessman's ways. The same goes for those TV celebrity magicians like Blaine and Angel and Copperfield. The nerve of some people to make money from art!
However, Stanley Tang really is the pits, you have to admit!
Professor Spellbinder
Professor Emeritus at the Turkey Buzzard Academy of Magik, Witchcraft and Wizardry http://www.magicnook.com Publisher of The Wizards' Journals |
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Tom Bartlett Special user Our southern border could use 763 Posts |
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On 2006-12-31 16:56, Ron Reid wrote: Thomas Kinkade does not sell art at all, he sells mechanical reproductions of “art” and it is also questionable if what he does or his people do for him, could be considered real art. What he does is no difference than someone doing a bronze sculpture making an image of it, then signing the image and selling it. Unlike an etching which is artistic process on the other hand photo mechanical or digital reproduction is not an artistic process. Maybe a better analogy of what he does would be better explained like this: Chevy make a car that sells for $50,00.00, they take a photo of the car and sell a limited edition of 1000 at $10,000.00 for each photo, personally singed dy the designer, but call it a car instead of a picture of a car. Car = Art do you get the it? The group that bestowed the name “Painter of Light” which he acquired a Trade Mark on, is a group that he formed and was the head of. He is a great promoter in the tradition of P.T. Barnum but not considered an artist by any museum or artist group or association other than the ones owns or are controlled by Thomas Kinkade and his corporation. I'm not saying the stuff he sells is not collectable but it is more in line with Baseball cards and “Hot Wheels” than art.
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MagiClyde Special user Columbus, Ohio 871 Posts |
Personally, I like his paintings. I don't consider them worth the money he asks, but they are still very pretty in my eyes.
There is something ironic between his behaviour and how he pushes the Christian angle to sell his stuff. Guess he's an example of how NOT to behave.
Magic! The quicker picker-upper!
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Tom Bartlett Special user Our southern border could use 763 Posts |
His pictures are pretty. We repainted our dinning room, it's pretty too, but, like what he does, it is more a skill of craft than art.
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leverkus New user 27 Posts |
Wasnt this a discussion of magic rip off???? I know, there are many like this one out there selling magic or unreal effects....but in the link given above....there isn't even a reference to hi or an email adress or hoy to pay or get it....if I wanted to get this, I couldn't....how???
but not only little kids wanting to make money have this kind of rip offs. the biggest magic store in internet not to say names but simply LIE to the magicians when selling their producs. like wanting to fools us by selling something hat isn't. actually young amateurs go and buy these. but with stigmata.....youre not able to "read someones mind" like it saied int he promotional video. and its not ney, this trick is pretty old and sold as their own creation....punctured....its the same...i just say this one on an old coin magic tricks book....about 6 xears old or more....and I think this is much worse than a little person trying to get some money |
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Tom Bartlett Special user Our southern border could use 763 Posts |
From what I have observed the ones you are talking about , are getting ripped off by dealers because, they want a magic trick that takes no practice, in other words something for nothing. Another reasons, they get caught up in the hype, dealers the dealers spew and don’t do their home work, by reading reviews, asking others magicians or just popping in on The Magic Café.
This post is not about that kind of rip off. It about representing someone else’s product, routine or others types of intellectual property as yours and selling it or even giving it away. Especially if it is an substandard, cheep, misrepresented copy of some one else’s work.
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