Gianni's Site is up and running

Lupo1023 · May 22, 2008

Check it out:

http://www.magicisdead.com/G/

Look's like an interesting guy. Wasn't too awfully impressed with his uploaded videos but I'm sure they'll be more to come.

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P:L

apathy · May 23, 2008

Nice. One question though, what's up with the magicisdead.com website itself (Not Gianni's page)? It links to an image and that's all there is? Or am I missing something.

copperfield 14 · May 23, 2008

His videos were tricks from E and Daniel Madison. His eat the deck video wasn't good.

filth0013 · May 23, 2008

0:31 is such a joke.

MattTarrant · May 23, 2008

filth0013 said:
0:33 is such a joke.

lol Agreed.

Jakeh · May 23, 2008

Blink said:
lol Agreed.

Agreed x2

Actually, the whole thing seems to be pretty comical to me.. apart from the last part - was it really necessary?

adjones · May 23, 2008

The "Eat the Deck" was very lame. I hope this is a joke...

MattTarrant · May 23, 2008

Magic is Dead?

More like Magic is being killed, a slow, slow horrible death. lol.

Jakeh · May 23, 2008

adjones said:
The "Eat the Deck" was very lame. I hope this is a joke...

Yeah.. can someone say "camera advantage?"

Honestly, looking at these UMC (that's the abbreviation, yes?) people, they don't seem to be the "amazingly gifted people" that they apparently are. As someone here regularly says, they all seem to be cheap knock-offs (and I mean really cheap) of Madison.

Kinda lame.

And I still can't get over the fact that he was cutting himself with the little card thing. It's so stupid and so "Magic is soo hXc *black and white* and so am I! *invert*"

Creeper · May 23, 2008

Jakeh said:
Yeah.. can someone say "camera advantage?"

Honestly, looking at these UMC (that's the abbreviation, yes?) people, they don't seem to be the "amazingly gifted people" that they apparently are. As someone here regularly says, they all seem to be cheap knock-offs (and I mean really cheap) of Madison.

Kinda lame.

And I still can't get over the fact that he was cutting himself with the little card thing. It's so stupid and so "Magic is soo hXc *black and white* and so am I! *invert*"

That someone is me! Agreed, if magic really is dead, its because guys like this using camera advantages!

Dylan P. · May 23, 2008

this site is cool I guess. His tricks weren't something I'd want my kids watching at a birthday party though. Anyway, cool site.

sky_lark · May 23, 2008

filth0013 said:
0:31 is such a joke.

I third that. Or fourth. Whatever.

You can see the card starting to slide off... and then just change. Yeah, right.

CoryOOreo · May 24, 2008

Wow.

This "Magic is Dead" thing really is turning out to be quite pretentious. Just like several of you have said before, there's nothing revolutionary about these performers at all... They're simply Madison clones, with less skill. No offense to Gianni, but I expected more.

Creeper · May 24, 2008

Has anybody seen that Hunger Artist guy's video? Its also filled with camera tricks. d+m, or R3man, I'd love to see your input on the subject of camera tricks.

Jakeh · May 25, 2008

Creeper said:
Has anybody seen that Hunger Artist guy's video? Its also filled with camera tricks. d+m, or R3man, I'd love to see your input on the subject of camera tricks.

The Hunger Artist is complete crap, too.

I'd really like to hear Madison explain why these average people were actually chosen.

ThrallMind · May 25, 2008

Jakeh said:
The Hunger Artist is complete crap, too.

I'd really like to hear Madison explain why these average people were actually chosen.

I don't think the UMC was so much for skill (though I still wouldn't judge the members skill until we see more), as much as gathering those who are dedicated. I had read the UMC started with a bunch of people, and over the course of a year, without d+M telling anyone exactly what was going on, he weeded it down to those who you now see on the MAGICisDEAD site.

-ThrallMind

Jakeh · May 25, 2008

ThrallMind said:
I don't think the UMC was so much for skill (though I still wouldn't judge the members skill until we see more), as much as gathering those who are dedicated. I had read the UMC started with a bunch of people, and over the course of a year, without d+M telling anyone exactly what was going on, he weeded it down to those who you now see on the MAGICisDEAD site.

-ThrallMind

But surely, you can't be THAT dedicated if you resort to camera trickery.

ThrallMind · May 25, 2008

Jakeh said:
But surely, you can't be THAT dedicated if you resort to camera trickery.

Remember, d+M is a visual artist. He is also mentoring those in MiD. While it may seem Giannis' color change is camera trickery, it may just be a way for him to advertise himself. And since you see other very obvious camera tricks, he may not even be trying to pull one over on you to begin with.

-ThrallMind

Jakeh · May 25, 2008

ThrallMind said:
And since you see other very obvious camera tricks, he may not even be trying to pull one over on you to begin with.

I hope not.