Using this beautiful art to our advantage

[heavymetalholic]

Well Besides magic i do a few other things, Im in a band( were recording our fist full leath album right now) I'm a actor ( I was a powerade commercial some time ago)

But seeing How I love magic, I use it as much as i can to my advantage, for example when I go to a Audition, I walk into the room with a piece of gum in my mouth, once on camera, I act like I forgot to take the gum out my mouth, and that it was rude of
me to chew gum in a interview like this. While saying I will save it for later, I preform "wrap it up" by Jay sankey.

Not only do they look twice, but they remember me, and it gets me call backs.
(For those that do not know, a call back is when they liked your first audition, and want to see you again)


Does anyone here use magic to their advantage? In any way, thats not, "Hey wanna see a trick?"

 

[Guardian18]

This is kind of stupid, but if there is something that is small and I don't want it, or don't want to eat it, I just palm it. My mom never noticed yet.

 

[captainslaughter]

yes by doing magic i get free stuff

 

[adjones]

Mods, you might want to change the title of this thread... I thought it was about a toy at first.

 

[D ICE R]

I use it quite often.

One time I was at a restaurant and the manager noticed me from a private party I did a few months before. He asked me if I could show him something in exchange for a free bottle of wine for the table. I was wearing a loop and did the simple fork move. When he came back I started doing a metal bending routine and he just lost it. Two days later I was offered a job there.

And way too many bar bets to win free drinks and stuff like that.

 

[tsarothpaco]

Yes I sometimes use magic to an advantage...other than cheating at friendly study hall poker games

I'll palm things and say I lost it or palm someone elses and it gets me a chuckle

Other than that not really, but I have some ideas to use it.

I don't know if anyone has done this but you can use magic to propose/ask someone out in a sort of romantic way. Besides just rose productions an idea would be to classic force one card in a deck of 51 she loves me not and 1 she loves me (that one being the she loves me one). Another would be doing Zamiel's Rose but changing the patter to talk about her, if you know this effect you can probably understand and create some patter.

Edit: Suiceboy's reply made me remember, today I did a magic bet trick where my friend thought he would win and it got me a slice of pizza

~PaCo

 

[SuicideBoy555]

I performed satisfaction guaranteed by Daniel Garcia and got a free double whoper meal at bk.

 

[dejavu05]

I use magic to my advantage by disappearing then reappearing where they keep the money in casinos such as the Bellagio, Mirage, and MGM Grand. Who needs to do it the way they do in Ocean's Eleven when you have magic. No just kidding. I don't do too much stuff like previously posted, but I do false transfers a lot if someone gives me something small (and of course I give it back after pulling it out of their ear).

 

[jimmah01]

good thread!


i've always wondered of other applications of magic other than as you said "hey wanna see a trick?"


i wanna know more about the sexy card trick from the ultragaff deck. that's seems like fun.

i always thought about leaving contact details with someone in a card in hand routine.. so DL an indifferent card and show them, make them sandwich the card with my details on it then just abruptly walk away. (of course you don't use this as an opener.. do it as your very last trick)

 

[darosa.justin]

I use magic to my advantage by disappearing then reappearing where they keep the money in casinos such as the Bellagio, Mirage, and MGM Grand. Who needs to do it the way they do in Ocean's Eleven when you have magic. No just kidding. I don't do too much stuff like previously posted, but I do false transfers a lot if someone gives me something small (and of course I give it back after pulling it out of their ear).

SAME. Except the ear thing....it's kind've old school..don't ya think?

I do a lot of false transfers to my friends when returning stuff.

NOT to people in shops etc.
In Hong Kong:
1)people don't like getting fooled
2) the lifestyle is way too fast paced and chaotic, that shopkeepers etc. dont have time to watch magic.