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]]> Comment on Cups and Balls Week 4 Round-up by Smiling Mule http://sleightly.com/blog/2010/03/01/cups-and-balls-week-4-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Smiling Mule Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:12:03 +0000 http://sleightly.com/blog/?p=656#comment-48 Some engaging stuff here. Your posts deserve more conversation than they get. Although it's not really surprising, as discussing anything beyond the "best double lift" is rarely met with more than a blank stare from most "magicians." The cups and balls is a must for anyone interested in magic, even if you never intend on performing it in public. I'm all for simplification so the two and even one cup ideas are appealing to me, but there is still something very poetic about threesomes (down Freud, down!). Some engaging stuff here. Your posts deserve more conversation than they get. Although it’s not really surprising, as discussing anything beyond the “best double lift” is rarely met with more than a blank stare from most “magicians.”

The cups and balls is a must for anyone interested in magic, even if you never intend on performing it in public.

I’m all for simplification so the two and even one cup ideas are appealing to me, but there is still something very poetic about threesomes (down Freud, down!).

]]> Comment on Cups And Balls Week 1 Round-up by lawrens godon http://sleightly.com/blog/2010/02/07/cups-and-balls-week-1-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-38 lawrens godon Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:53:27 +0000 http://sleightly.com/blog/?p=446#comment-38 Hi Andrew, Thank you for blogging my 2-cup and balls routine ; it's so much fun to see great routines here for us to enjoy ! Best, Lawrens Hi Andrew,
Thank you for blogging my 2-cup and balls routine ; it’s so much fun to see great routines here for us to enjoy !
Best,
Lawrens

]]> Comment on Is Ellen Good for Magic? by Tony T http://sleightly.com/blog/2010/02/01/is-ellen-good-for-magic/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Tony T Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:10:26 +0000 http://sleightly.com/blog/?p=363#comment-36 Andrew I'm inclined to agree with Mike to a degree. Consistently having a guest who discusses magic as an art and performs is a good thing even if one occasionally has an off day. Just as with any other performing art, audiences will become accustomed to seeing a variety of performing styles & ability. The contrast in styles & talent should only help educate the public and perhaps start them down the road of acceptance of magic as a legitimate performing art. Tony Andrew

I’m inclined to agree with Mike to a degree. Consistently having a guest who discusses magic as an art and performs is a good thing even if one occasionally has an off day.

Just as with any other performing art, audiences will become accustomed to seeing a variety of performing styles & ability. The contrast in styles & talent should only help educate the public and perhaps start them down the road of acceptance of magic as a legitimate performing art.

Tony

]]> Comment on Is Ellen Good for Magic? by magicmikeLA http://sleightly.com/blog/2010/02/01/is-ellen-good-for-magic/comment-page-1/#comment-35 magicmikeLA Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:11:08 +0000 http://sleightly.com/blog/?p=363#comment-35 Really interesting post Andrew! Awesome thoughts. Though I'm totally biased since I was on the show, I'm a pretty big believer in the idea that any magic in pop culture is good publicity (and I'm stoked the average laymen doesn't know to look up "red hot momma"). I definitely agree that badly performed magic can give the art a bad name, but the fact is when people are thinking about magic, we get hired for more gigs. My biggest problem as an adult-only performer, is that people don't think about having a magician at an event or adult party as often as a parent will think about having a magician for their kid's party. As an example, on the day of David Blaine's last special, my website traffic tripled, for (I assume) the fact that magic was in people's minds that day. ~Mike www.magicmikeLA.com Really interesting post Andrew! Awesome thoughts.

Though I’m totally biased since I was on the show, I’m a pretty big believer in the idea that any magic in pop culture is good publicity (and I’m stoked the average laymen doesn’t know to look up “red hot momma”). I definitely agree that badly performed magic can give the art a bad name, but the fact is when people are thinking about magic, we get hired for more gigs.

My biggest problem as an adult-only performer, is that people don’t think about having a magician at an event or adult party as often as a parent will think about having a magician for their kid’s party. As an example, on the day of David Blaine’s last special, my website traffic tripled, for (I assume) the fact that magic was in people’s minds that day.
~Mike
http://www.magicmikeLA.com

]]> Comment on Interview with Penn Jillette by magicritique http://sleightly.com/blog/2010/01/20/interview-with-penn-jillette/comment-page-1/#comment-32 magicritique Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:06:48 +0000 http://sleightly.com/blog/?p=305#comment-32 Penn & Teller don't expose anything. You only think they have. Penn & Teller don’t expose anything. You only think they have.

]]> Comment on My Personal Nemesis by andrew http://sleightly.com/blog/2010/01/06/nemesis/comment-page-1/#comment-30 andrew Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:08:01 +0000 http://sleightly.com/blog/?p=123#comment-30 You're freaking kidding. You're saying H&B lifted it from him? You've got a source on that? It wouldn't surprise me, since they weren't all that great at crediting their contemporaries, but this is the first I've heard about it for this particular move... You’re freaking kidding.

You’re saying H&B lifted it from him? You’ve got a source on that?

It wouldn’t surprise me, since they weren’t all that great at crediting their contemporaries, but this is the first I’ve heard about it for this particular move…

]]> Comment on My Personal Nemesis by magicritique http://sleightly.com/blog/2010/01/06/nemesis/comment-page-1/#comment-29 magicritique Sun, 10 Jan 2010 06:10:09 +0000 http://sleightly.com/blog/?p=123#comment-29 The Pop-Up is a Vernon Move (It's from ECT, surprise surprise) The Pop-Up is a Vernon Move (It’s from ECT, surprise surprise)

]]> Comment on Laymen Aren’t Stupid by KiKeNiCo http://sleightly.com/blog/2010/01/09/laymen-arent-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-28 KiKeNiCo Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:45:40 +0000 http://sleightly.com/blog/?p=203#comment-28 That's why I've never liked these storytelling routines: they fit in that "too perfect theory", too perfect to be casual, off the cuff improvs, and that doesn't fly over the spectators. This is the kind of trick that doesn't benefit from a shuffle (they even suffer because of it, making the method obvious, or exposing it), and even if the shuffle was made by the spectators, it would scream "switch" to them, for method and effect are too close. I should mention here Juan Tamariz for his complex approach to magic routines to cancel out every possible solution for those "almost too perect to be believable" tricks (triple coincidence anyone?). So, if you are going to perform this, you should note that you are not going to fool anyone, so make the best out of your story and stage persona, because there's no magic here, just a deck in order to tell a story. You might as well do just this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyV7n4WstMY) , which I think is the most funny, interesting, original, "off the cuff" storytelling deck routine I've ever seen (and he's not even a magician). PS: On a side note, I would like to bring attention to one little thing in this routine which I think it's just pure genius (again, going back to Tamariz theory), and may work even better than the best false shuffle out there : the spill of the cards over the floor. It's just a gag there, , but it could just lead one to remember the trick as if the cards were spilled and gathered to perform the trick: well, far fetched? 2 people I've shown the video long time ago recalled it just like that... That’s why I’ve never liked these storytelling routines: they fit in that “too perfect theory”, too perfect to be casual, off the cuff improvs, and that doesn’t fly over the spectators. This is the kind of trick that doesn’t benefit from a shuffle (they even suffer because of it, making the method obvious, or exposing it), and even if the shuffle was made by the spectators, it would scream “switch” to them, for method and effect are too close. I should mention here Juan Tamariz for his complex approach to magic routines to cancel out every possible solution for those “almost too perect to be believable” tricks (triple coincidence anyone?). So, if you are going to perform this, you should note that you are not going to fool anyone, so make the best out of your story and stage persona, because there’s no magic here, just a deck in order to tell a story. You might as well do just this

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyV7n4WstMY)

, which I think is the most funny, interesting, original, “off the cuff” storytelling deck routine I’ve ever seen (and he’s not even a magician).

PS: On a side note, I would like to bring attention to one little thing in this routine which I think it’s just pure genius (again, going back to Tamariz theory), and may work even better than the best false shuffle out there : the spill of the cards over the floor. It’s just a gag there, , but it could just lead one to remember the trick as if the cards were spilled and gathered to perform the trick: well, far fetched? 2 people I’ve shown the video long time ago recalled it just like that…

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