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smokingkills Regular user 102 Posts |
These days I see an increase in the type of performance and patter where the mentalist (magician) sees the need to "expose", ridicule, condemn, and "explain" away psychics and anything connected to them. They do this to the extent that what the audience ends up seeing instead of being a myseterious magical entertaining experience, it more of a cold, geeky puzzle for them to try to solve.
Have some mentalists gone a bit too far and ruined the art that we once called magic? |
robwar0100 Inner circle Buy me some newspapers.Purchase for me 1 Gazette and 1747 Posts |
I never called psychics magicians. Having said that, magic is a big tent, perhaps bigger than most of us would like.
Magic is clowns using props; children's performers and parlor magicians combining sleights and props; close-up performers using all sleights all of the time; close-up performers using specially designed and machined pieces; bizarrists focusing on the story; mentalists tapping into thoughts and trying to influence decisions, card experts who do nothing but flourishes and manipulations, silent performers who focus more on the character than the magic, and the list goes on. As to whether some mentalists who have ruined the art, well, they might have ruined it for some guests and some audiences, but this thing call the magical arts has been around for millenia, and it will take more than some mentalists going too far to ruin it. Bobby
"My definition of chance is my hands on the wheel," Greg Long.
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funsway Inner circle old things in new ways - new things in old ways 9982 Posts |
A fanciful response ...
the land of everwhen, kids fashioned tiny galleons from walnut shells and paraffin, empowered by laughing breaths against tissue sails on toothpick masts across a bathtub sea; and the magic was that you and I were there, and hold that bit of awe and wonder safe inside. In this new computer age, kids fashion starships from pixel shapes and dancing lights, empowered by batteries pushing contestants to battle across a smudgy screen; and the magic is that you and I remember, and can still laugh and dream about such simple things. Yet, what folly to limit our horizons to bathtubs and monitors, and pretend that what we can imagine defines the universe. There will always be a conceptual zone of imagery between what is practical and conceived but impossible in which magic clamors for release and life. We pretend at living and we pretend at magic, and one cannot sustain without the other. Magic cannot die unless innovation dwindles or the batteries run out – or we pretend that magic does not exist.
"the more one pretends at magic, the more awe and wonder will be found in real life." Arnold Furst
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robwar0100 Inner circle Buy me some newspapers.Purchase for me 1 Gazette and 1747 Posts |
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On 2010-11-21 17:18, funsway wrote: Preach it. Bobby
"My definition of chance is my hands on the wheel," Greg Long.
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