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TheAzzman New user 21 Posts |
Yeah the focus. focus. focus. thing is terrible, but its a subconcious thing I do, you see I've been a one liner stand up comedian since I was 16, I'm 21 now. Now As a one liner comedian I'm not used to silence during my performance, either I'm talking or the audience laughing, but never no dead air, so I'm still easing into the verbal performance side of the art form, its just an intrinsic fear of silence I've grown to have.
As for the camera being so close to the cards, isn't that the concept of close up magic, to be so close to the action nothing can happen out of plain sight? |
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Thomas Wayne Inner circle Alaska 1977 Posts |
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On 2011-03-19 15:13, TheAzzman wrote: Maybe you should practice your sleights a bit so that you can get into (and out of) the work a little quicker, thereby cutting down on the number of times you feel the need to repeat the word "focus" over and over and over and.... And maybe you should practice your sleights a bit as well, because virtually all your handling seemed to be obvious and a bit clumsy. Quote:
As for the camera being so close to the cards, isn't that the concept of close up magic, to be so close to the action nothing can happen out of plain sight? So what you're saying is that when you perform live you have the spectator(s) bend down over the top of the deck while you hold it about 4 inches from their face(s)? TW
MOST magicians: "Here's a quarter, it's gone, you're an idiot, it's back, you're a jerk, show's over." Jerry Seinfeld
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TheAzzman New user 21 Posts |
No usually I don't have to spend 20 minutes setting up a camera for 20 minutes, I can just do it Instantly. Also who are my sleights obvious to, you!? because I think your mistaken, I don't do magic for magicians, I have nothing to prove to them. A laymen shouldn't even know what a double lift is, and I asked a laymen to watch this said video, she had no idea how it was done. If you want to be fooled by a magician, go back to watching Penn and Teller and Tommy Wonder, I'm not who you want.
My magic is created for working street conditions with regular people. Usually I know how to control an audience and its way easier, I'll be completely honest and say I'm not a youtube magician, I hate cameras and find myself getting extremely shy around them. I don't tell my spectators where to look ever, there's a little thing called "misdirection" and "psychological positioning" I don't need to do such things on camera as much. But as said, i' not here to fool you, I'm just here to show a few neat ideas that I've been working for a while. Now this post may sound harsh, and I may hae misread this, but how else can you read "It is the worst I've seen." There's a difference between Criticism and Critiquing, you should practice your diplomacy, it's quite clumsy. Have a good day Mr Wayne. |
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TheAzzman New user 21 Posts |
P.S. all. I want it to be clear this is work for commercial settings, not magic for magicians, some of the sleights in here a fair few of you WILL know, because they're classics, my only intention of the original post was not to show off or any such thing. My name is Aaron Ducker not Brian Tudor, all I want to do is make working commercial routine ideas. I was never a rich kid who got magic lessons or got a fully working "metamorphisis" box, I started magic learning sleights with nothing more than the change in my pocket, the classic T n R paper and a deck of old cards I won in an arcade. What my aim in magic is to provide working material for people using stuff that would just be around their home, no need to go shopping, no need to buy over priced gimmicks, I'd give away every single I had for free, but if I were to youtube and teach my methods, that exposure. I'm not here to make money or show off to anyone, I'm just here in good will and in good nature to share some astonishment and here some feed back, not to be criticised because I'm not doing "magic for magicians." I don't think that's important in a commercial situation. Some of my effects are just old effects I've changed to simplify them for beginners, so they can get hard hitting magic right from the minute the start, I have a pretty much self working ACR that I've taught to a few beginners which requires no complex sleights that the ACR often demands. Now some may get into magic to show off, I got in to magic for the simple reason I want to spread hope and happiness, I don't want to be Ed Marlo, I don't care for the fame of Penn & Teller, I just wanna spread the message of hope magic brings with the world.
This is why I do magic. |
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Thomas Wayne Inner circle Alaska 1977 Posts |
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On 2011-03-19 16:25, TheAzzman wrote: Magic brings a "message of hope'? That's a new one on me - unless you're talking about you hoping they won't figure out how you did it... TW
MOST magicians: "Here's a quarter, it's gone, you're an idiot, it's back, you're a jerk, show's over." Jerry Seinfeld
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TheAzzman New user 21 Posts |
Its not a new concept one much wiser magician once said in the early 2000's BBC doco-series "Magic" 'magic is a series of messages of hope, a woman is sawn in half, but she is always put back together, theres always resolution" Thing will always work out: hope
"you're talking about you hoping they won't figure out how you did it..." this is the exact reason people hate magic, because of the kind of philosophy, about secrets, and not figuring out stuff. Its art, not competition. This is why people hate magic, because they feel its them VS the magician, they have an obligation of challenge, and statements like that only reinforce this. Magic is not about challenging an audience, its about showing them something beautiful they don't usually see, an experience they will remember. Now good day Mr Wayne... |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts |
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On 2011-03-19 15:13, TheAzzman wrote: You have no idea. I believe that it was Walter Gibson who described in The Complete Illustrated Book of Close-Up Magic an effect in which the magician magically tied several knots in a strand of human hair, then magically untied them. The audience members were each given a microscope with which to examine the hair before the knots were tied, after they were tied, and after they were untied. That's close-up magic! |
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TheAzzman New user 21 Posts |
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Haha, what a covoluted plot, sounds like a great effect though, if you can afford to carry 100 microscopes on you for the audience. But I believe that would classify as very, very close up magic |
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Jell92 New user Denmark 93 Posts |
Wow have you no self criticism? That is one bad video - the tricks as well as your card-handling are awful! However you are a fine comedian, as I am sure it must have been a joke, that it took you about a week to understand why we wanted you to post a new video. At least I hope so.
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TheAzzman New user 21 Posts |
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Wow have you no self criticism? Be a professional, theres no such thing in professional conduct as criticism, that's for journalism and ****. Critique is different, I said that Critique is "that's ok, but instead of going a-b-c, here's a really good way I use to get from a-c." No one's done this thus far really, just been critical ****. How's this helping anything but your own ******** ego's? Now there has been some nice posters amongst the ****. I'm quite the comedian, but the biggest joke on this forum is, "magicians helping magicians." Surely that's purely ironic, the only thing I witnessed, "Is narky magicians, being over obnoxious *****." Now this will probably be my last post on this forum, I'm wasting my time here. This is nothing more than basically a masonic brotherhood who hold close to their ideals and tries to bring down anyone who doesn't conform, that's not an art form, its a job, its an anti-art. Art is about creativity, new ideas, different. Have a nice day everyone, I'm out! |
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Fábio DeRose Inner circle San Paolo, Brasile 1477 Posts |
Was your idea to cause people epileptic seizures?
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kentfgunn Inner circle Merritt Island FL 1639 Posts |
Azzman,
Whoa, come back here. You have original ideas, that alone should keep you going. Some of the criticism was harsh. There are some really talented magicians on this board. Their standards of what constitutes good magic are different than yours. Youth is always an easy thing to pick on. There are many magicians your age who are really talented. They discovered one of the greatest gifts though. They can evaluate their own performances critically. I think this ability could really help you. I posted a cups and balls routine on a busking site. I'd done some busking as a sailor and thought I'd get all smiles and compliments. I got power-slammed. These guys expressed their opinions and I really took some of their comments to heart. I didn't agree with all they said, BUT, some of what they had to say was really valid. The cups routine GOT BETTER because I listened. Don't run away. Pick your favorite trick from the collage you posted. Practice it more. Get a video with you performing for real people. I suspect you'll get a much more positive reaction and . . . you might get better by that process. Getting better at magic is difficult. I'm 53 years old and I still know I need to improve a great deal to be a good magician. Don't proffer your performances with such a high sense of self-regard. Humility and a sense of the larger world that is the VERY POSITIVE magic community on here could be an asset to you if you only . . . Practice more, perform more and don't come across with that huge chunk of timber on your shoulder. KG |
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TheAzzman New user 21 Posts |
I will be clearer, My material is not magic for magicians, what I want to do is what I've done already non-professionally, Create good solid magic for people of low income, that's what most of my lifes work in magic has been about, creating material for the little people who are often ignored by the magic community, humility is what I teach, now I will not run away, but I see no point in posting here anymore, you guys are not my target market, your all well to do magicians, you couldn't give two hoots aobut my product and that's because I guess it really wasn't created for you. Soon I will release my lifes work in magic, my first little manifesto of performance with a few routines, (At a very budget price, I don't care about money, I care about magic as art, not magic as a career, a guy can have the neatest writing, but does that make him immaginitive, no) but its probably not for anyone here, So I'm not gonna waste time here, when time is so scarce, and talk is so cheap, so THIS may be my last post. I also offer my apologies for wasting everyones time here.
I also appreciate the kinder comments, and I do critique my work quite often, but what most people don't seem to understand here, is I handle my cards like a simpleton purposely because I don't wanna appear like a master magician, I wanna intergrate with them and relate to them, so they don't expect whats coming so much and suprise them more when I get to the final reveal, I do the sleights adequately enough to a laymen, but I move as they would move with the cards, I'm purposely not trying to look overly skilled. PS. I love the cups and balls, I often use it to close my party set, it kills every time, its by far my favorite trick in magic, and I've inovated a few ideas into it, and my own moves, but I've read everything I can find on it from "Discoverie of witchcraft" down to watching that close up guy do the clear version. When I was starting out, I would practice that for 8 hours a day or more! I even teach it to people who wanna learn using Paper cups and Tissue balls, its cost effective, ghetto and still works as good! Now I'm out probably for good Sincerely, Aaron. |
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TheAzzman New user 21 Posts |
PPS I know there was a peel back in one vid, only a magician would understand the relevence of whats happened, a spectator would probably gloss over that, that was a little mistake, and I realise that was there, I can actually critique my own work, but I'm not a youtube magician, I work live, because A) I can really connect to a person that way and share with them, and B) My work is created exactly for these situations, simple somewhat off the cuff that fit most situations, I don't make youtube tricks, I make working live effects, and I perform them in my way, because its how I perform, it works for me and I get the job done.
Now I have some real work to do, again posting here was probably a mistake. But I've learnt a lot in this short time Aaron Ducker signing off. |
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epoptika Elite user Florida 477 Posts |
Twenty one years old and you are ready to release your "life's work" in magic? Do you think the magic world is ready?
BTW; You DID invite people, at the beginning of your first video, to "tell me what you think" did you not? |
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