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Its been awhile since I have started a thread with some good content so I
decided to just do this. I have been wanting to say this for a while so I guess
I'll just say it: Card magic is being Really watered down. All i see nowadays is
"Watch my Tivo variation" or "How do like my sandwich routine?" People aren't
treating card magic with the respect it should deserve. It seems like all people
do nowdays is impromtu card magic, and theres nothing wrong with that but
they play it down so it's almost dead. (Or at least mortally wounded) And
other non-card tricks i see people preforming live for people, but when it
comes to card magic (80% of the time) people just do it for the cameras, not
the audience. It's not that the tricks aren't hard hitting, its the people
performing them make them "non-hardhitting" if that makes any sense at all.
lets put it this way: Daniel Madison has some amazing hard hitting card
magic. I would much rather perform his tricks than say, somthing like the
biddle trick (bleh). And usally somthing like Burn is going to much better than
the biddle trick. but you can make the biddle trick look incredible and burn
look terrible by your performance. here are some examples:
1) Get your audience involved. have them hold the card while it changes,
have them push it in. have them look through the deck to see its not really
there. Do anything, but it helps to get them involved.
2) Don't rush it. rushing is the worst thing you can do (other than messing up)
the audience with think you have to pee or get somewhere if you rush. take
your time and let the magic sink in.
3) Hype them up. You need to get your audience exited to see your magic,
this goes hand in hand with taking your time.
4) Get exited with them. Dont be the dull monotone magician who knows
exactly whats gonna happen. get exited with them, this will also do number 3
hyping them up.
5) And finally, i wouldn't open with cards. (or any other classic magic, like coins)
start with something like a coin in bottle, or extreme burn (just a few
examples) people will regard you as more of a magician then, the guy who
does card tricks.
this is just my two cents this thread could go on, and on, and on...... but i want
people to start respecting your cards (in a theoretical sense) I will end with
a short story and be gone:
I saw a video on Youtube of a magician who just did this: he had the
spectator select a card, "insert it into the deck" he gave them an indiferent
card (double lift) and then i changed, the Croud exploded. he just did a
simple trick but he used all the elements I mentioned to make a "boring trick"
simply incredible.
so stop doing card tricks and start doing card magic.
thanks for listening,
Its been awhile since I have started a thread with some good content so I
decided to just do this. I have been wanting to say this for a while so I guess
I'll just say it: Card magic is being Really watered down. All i see nowadays is
"Watch my Tivo variation" or "How do like my sandwich routine?" People aren't
treating card magic with the respect it should deserve. It seems like all people
do nowdays is impromtu card magic, and theres nothing wrong with that but
they play it down so it's almost dead. (Or at least mortally wounded) And
other non-card tricks i see people preforming live for people, but when it
comes to card magic (80% of the time) people just do it for the cameras, not
the audience. It's not that the tricks aren't hard hitting, its the people
performing them make them "non-hardhitting" if that makes any sense at all.
lets put it this way: Daniel Madison has some amazing hard hitting card
magic. I would much rather perform his tricks than say, somthing like the
biddle trick (bleh). And usally somthing like Burn is going to much better than
the biddle trick. but you can make the biddle trick look incredible and burn
look terrible by your performance. here are some examples:
1) Get your audience involved. have them hold the card while it changes,
have them push it in. have them look through the deck to see its not really
there. Do anything, but it helps to get them involved.
2) Don't rush it. rushing is the worst thing you can do (other than messing up)
the audience with think you have to pee or get somewhere if you rush. take
your time and let the magic sink in.
3) Hype them up. You need to get your audience exited to see your magic,
this goes hand in hand with taking your time.
4) Get exited with them. Dont be the dull monotone magician who knows
exactly whats gonna happen. get exited with them, this will also do number 3
hyping them up.
5) And finally, i wouldn't open with cards. (or any other classic magic, like coins)
start with something like a coin in bottle, or extreme burn (just a few
examples) people will regard you as more of a magician then, the guy who
does card tricks.
this is just my two cents this thread could go on, and on, and on...... but i want
people to start respecting your cards (in a theoretical sense) I will end with
a short story and be gone:
I saw a video on Youtube of a magician who just did this: he had the
spectator select a card, "insert it into the deck" he gave them an indiferent
card (double lift) and then i changed, the Croud exploded. he just did a
simple trick but he used all the elements I mentioned to make a "boring trick"
simply incredible.
so stop doing card tricks and start doing card magic.
thanks for listening,
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