Let me start by saying that performing Magic is a gift - for reasons we all love.
However, I can't help but feel that performing magic can also be a curse, because it ruins "normal" magic that was intended for laymen. I try and be a good spectator and not grill someones hands, and get involved in the story, but sometimes you just catch yourself trying to dismagicify a trick. I recently saw a clip of Penn & Teller on a morning talk show, and started to ruin the magic for myself. Here's the clip, trick starts at 1:31, is about 4 min long:
In this clip, I see something happen which I automatically assume was part of the trick. Obviously I wont reveal it, but if you have any experience with magic, and are watching as a magician and not a layman, you will catch it. However, the most bewildering ting is that the move Penn performed here was made to throw off magicians. I'm left guessing stupid methods that are normally described to me by laymen.
So the question is; Why? Why would Penn & Teller go on live television, and still fool magicians. My answer: They're better than us. They know that only expert magicians (whom I'm sure are on these forums) will know what happened, and even then they want us to keep guessing. They want to provide magicians with magic, and they are one of the few peoples that can do it (and yes, peoples was used correctly there... I think. I'm 80-90% sure.)
Thoughts?
However, I can't help but feel that performing magic can also be a curse, because it ruins "normal" magic that was intended for laymen. I try and be a good spectator and not grill someones hands, and get involved in the story, but sometimes you just catch yourself trying to dismagicify a trick. I recently saw a clip of Penn & Teller on a morning talk show, and started to ruin the magic for myself. Here's the clip, trick starts at 1:31, is about 4 min long:
So the question is; Why? Why would Penn & Teller go on live television, and still fool magicians. My answer: They're better than us. They know that only expert magicians (whom I'm sure are on these forums) will know what happened, and even then they want us to keep guessing. They want to provide magicians with magic, and they are one of the few peoples that can do it (and yes, peoples was used correctly there... I think. I'm 80-90% sure.)
Thoughts?
