For crying out loud, sometimes you lot get to me.
Oh noes it's available on an TV advertised site! Now everyone will know how it's done!!!
PLEASE!. Contrary to popular belief not every spectator your come across is out to get you and is going to go to some website that is selling that one specific trick just to catch you out when you perform it.
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As a side-note, go to google - go to it right now and type in "magic tricks online". Look on the right hand side of the page at the sponsored links... WHAT?! THEORY 11?!?! OMGWTF SELL-OUTS?!
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The only people that are going to know how it's done are magician's that purchase the trick and curious laymen that are those people that
just have to know. What's the problem here? I for one don't see any problem, why?
1) I'm not in this to fool magicians. Sure it's a nice feeling if I do, I'll not deny that, but this isn't my intent when I go into a performance - Ooh I wonder how many people will be fooled, because if I fool them I've entertained them and if I fool other magicians that makes me better than them.
2) Those people that
just want to know are
exactly that. They
JUST want to know, it's their nature, they can't help it. My boyfriend is one of those people for example, if I show him a trick and he can't figure it out, he has to know and guilt trips me into telling him
. There was an episode of
House recently where there was an on-going argument between House and the patient (who was a magician): House argued that it was better to know. The magician argued that to know takes the magic away; or something to that effect. (Go watch the episode it's full of win and House - who is made of win)
I don't know why people have got into this state of mind that if we fool other magicians it makes us the best or whatever. What will it take for us to forget that not every layman has the 'magician's eye' that we supposedly have that allows us to spot a double lift a mile away.
It often annoys me when I see others say, that's too obvious or I figured it out therefore it's rubbish and laymen won't like it.
Steerpike has a great story about a conversation he had with another magician. I'll let him tell the story but the punchline is:
This guy says to me, "What would they know? They're not magicians."
Ugh... Rant over.
- Sean