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AaronishMagic Special user 635 Posts |
I've been doing the 'same thing' over and over for 15 years now.. of course there were new things added from time to time. I think the best way to motivate yourself is to leave it as it is, go do something outs in your free time. Completely forget about your material while you are not working. And after your show, talk to the people that witness your miracles. Enjoy how much they enjoy the show is what motivates me in my career.
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Jonathan Inner circle Oklahoma 1223 Posts |
I will add that watching richard Osterlind perform has helped me at times. He just makes it look so easy! I enjoy his personality and how at ease he is in his shows. more than anything, that's made those DVD's worth the money.
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scottybarnhart New user 81 Posts |
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On 2009-08-15 00:00, Jonathan wrote: I am revealing myself as being very much a fanboy in saying this, but he is absolutely what I aspire to be in the field. You are 100% right Jonathan: he looks incredibly natural, relaxed, and at ease when he performs. And beyond this, you get to admire the creativity and entertainment value of it all! This is all to say that he stands as an inspiration to not only myself, but to many, as someone to aspire to.
"Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage." - Woody Allen, Manhattan
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scottybarnhart New user 81 Posts |
And to expand on my last post, has anybody here read Harold Bloom's "The Anxiety of Influence"? For those unaware, he is a very controversal and, needless to say, outspoken literary critic who formulated a somewhat Oedipal theory of literature stating that throughout history writers have reflected upon writers preceding them with fear and trembling. These writers of the past tower over and dwarf the writers of the present. Thus, the writers of the present feel an anxiety from those who have influenced them and what the works precede them. That is to say, so much has been done before, and so well, how can one create something original? Consequently, the writers of the present try to 'kill' those writers of the past by besting them, or outdoing them, in an attempt to rise of above them (to bring it back around to Oedipus: they try to kill their fathers in order to become king). For example, James Joyce imitated Shakespeare's techniques to an extreme that is both imitation and an attempt at outdoing the Bard (longer chains of imitation exist: Cormac McCarthy imitates William Faulkner who imitated Herman Melville, for example).
It seems that this parallels many fields, including mentalism. Those of us who are younger reflect on those of the past and what they have performed and created with what can argue is both a fear and trembling of anxiety, as well as an awe. We, through a sense of contorted inspiration, are inspired to rise above them, much like I was mentioning to Jonathan and he stated originally. It is a means of staying fresh and continuing. Do not interpret this, though, as stating that there is a mass conspiracy to kill Osterlind.
"Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage." - Woody Allen, Manhattan
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Paul Shirley Inner circle Melbourne, Australia 1206 Posts |
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On 2009-08-14 17:06, Alexander Marsh wrote: and... THE CHICKS!! Girls LOVE magic... Don't they???? |
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MDantes Inner circle New Orleans 1435 Posts |
Anytime I used to get that "I have to present this again" moment was before I started to see what an impact and what "hope" my work gave people ( so they said). Like with giving readings and they way I perform things...
I started to notice how it "helped" some people ( again, so they said) ... I started to realize, with every new person or group that... even though I had seen and done this thousands of times... they had never seen this. They have never had this experience, and I go through my memory movie database and replay some of the reactions that had the most on ME. I remember how I and my work had impacted them... how they told me it had "helped". I try to remember that. They have never seen this. and if I don't do it now... they never will.
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BlakeAdams Special user Texas 641 Posts |
Alexander marsh I agree 100% I think of the money
This post has been very helpfull I think if I don't prepare, why will someone pay be 1,000 dollars for a 30 min show? that in itself is preasure |
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psychicturtle Special user UK 821 Posts |
Burnout gets to us all at some point, and it is never a one off thing. I just move to an 'magic-off' mode in a way - this can be difficult to get the hang of at first. Not when performing, but when I am not. I abandon it for a while. I Stop reading books about it, stop watching other performers, stop trying to devise new routines, and only perform pieces that I do so often I don't have to rehearse them anymore. This allows me to just have fun without stress.
Then I apply that free time to making music, shaping surfboards, reading fiction, learning other things, I just switch off from it for a month. That usually does the job. It's just a recharging process really. |
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Alexander Marsh Inner circle England 1191 Posts |
BlakeAdams - Exactly!
My stuff: AlexanderMarshMentalism.co.uk
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Daniel Nicholls Veteran user UK 390 Posts |
Whenever I lose motivation I get out my copy of heirloom and hit the town. Something about that routine never fails to get my creative juices flowing.
Close your eyes. Open your senses.
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