hey,
i would like to discuts about usefull card magic, i started to think this topic after EMC2011. for those who dont know . EMC is essential magic conferce, you can look up the speakers list to see that this is the best convention that you can listen to.
a lot of top magicians gave lectures and preform their own reputaur for me one of the high light was the annoucment that dan and dave will preform in the last day, there where other cards guys preformances before that that either went for amazing cards trick( ACAAN by lu chen, Wow..) dani daortiz.. but i saw those guys doing preformances for live audience, i never got to see the bucks.
i think that their cards skills are known and practice by lot of young magicians world wide, and thier moves and flourish take time to master, i worked at bars with some of their effects in close up, but i was curious to see them going live on stage . for my supprise and EMC( i guess) when to host annouct the buck twins they said that they will do another lecture on how to film youtube videos... why they did that? maybe their skills are not working on stage, where they affraid that in compare to the other magician they will look bad?
as a preformer i have a lot of issues with their ICE MAN presention, and putting your presention in your flourish is not good, because can you preform the pandora or molecule 2 one card production 8 times in one night while working tables? can you do it on stage with out a video screen( do you have wha it take to set up a video screen in your show?) the answer is NO. even dan and dave cant do it, those moves are hard and cards will fall and cards falling in walk around magic looks bad.. i think that they didnt want to show thier blof.. even when they agree to do some moves.. some packets finished the move out of their hands well live stream sucks...there is diffrence between lectures and shows. if you can show well you dont lecture.
also i follow a lot of talent shows world wide, when a skillful card magician(look for inseki channel, very skillful. and see what he went for Italy got telnt audition..) come out to preform he goes for cards manipulation with music in his audiotion and not a fancy colur change or a unique flourish. TOPAS talked about manipulation in that session and explian why this is not juggeling and why crowd love to see this . I think that good mainpulation act for a young magician is much more useful then any new age trick, and i dont have a manipulation act but i kinow lots of tricks...
what is a new age trick for me? things that didnt tested on stage for 10 years.. for example digital downloads at t11. or on demand at D&D. i love them those tricks are great gor 2-3 people close up but if i was putting this time in calssic manipulation, i could have a world class act and get book for places who look for stage. the kid that won last fism jordan gomez. is 17, and practiced magic for 3 years before that, and went for CD mainpulation.. do you think that he knows the molecule?
so are we fooled by slik moves and special HD camera angels? does card flourishs are good for a proffesinal working magician? i think that practicng on those moves is a lot of fun and posting on youtube is a nice start for young magician but are those youg magician are something more than a copy created by the SYSTEM?
i would like to discuts about usefull card magic, i started to think this topic after EMC2011. for those who dont know . EMC is essential magic conferce, you can look up the speakers list to see that this is the best convention that you can listen to.
a lot of top magicians gave lectures and preform their own reputaur for me one of the high light was the annoucment that dan and dave will preform in the last day, there where other cards guys preformances before that that either went for amazing cards trick( ACAAN by lu chen, Wow..) dani daortiz.. but i saw those guys doing preformances for live audience, i never got to see the bucks.
i think that their cards skills are known and practice by lot of young magicians world wide, and thier moves and flourish take time to master, i worked at bars with some of their effects in close up, but i was curious to see them going live on stage . for my supprise and EMC( i guess) when to host annouct the buck twins they said that they will do another lecture on how to film youtube videos... why they did that? maybe their skills are not working on stage, where they affraid that in compare to the other magician they will look bad?
as a preformer i have a lot of issues with their ICE MAN presention, and putting your presention in your flourish is not good, because can you preform the pandora or molecule 2 one card production 8 times in one night while working tables? can you do it on stage with out a video screen( do you have wha it take to set up a video screen in your show?) the answer is NO. even dan and dave cant do it, those moves are hard and cards will fall and cards falling in walk around magic looks bad.. i think that they didnt want to show thier blof.. even when they agree to do some moves.. some packets finished the move out of their hands well live stream sucks...there is diffrence between lectures and shows. if you can show well you dont lecture.
also i follow a lot of talent shows world wide, when a skillful card magician(look for inseki channel, very skillful. and see what he went for Italy got telnt audition..) come out to preform he goes for cards manipulation with music in his audiotion and not a fancy colur change or a unique flourish. TOPAS talked about manipulation in that session and explian why this is not juggeling and why crowd love to see this . I think that good mainpulation act for a young magician is much more useful then any new age trick, and i dont have a manipulation act but i kinow lots of tricks...
what is a new age trick for me? things that didnt tested on stage for 10 years.. for example digital downloads at t11. or on demand at D&D. i love them those tricks are great gor 2-3 people close up but if i was putting this time in calssic manipulation, i could have a world class act and get book for places who look for stage. the kid that won last fism jordan gomez. is 17, and practiced magic for 3 years before that, and went for CD mainpulation.. do you think that he knows the molecule?
so are we fooled by slik moves and special HD camera angels? does card flourishs are good for a proffesinal working magician? i think that practicng on those moves is a lot of fun and posting on youtube is a nice start for young magician but are those youg magician are something more than a copy created by the SYSTEM?
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