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jprace Inner circle 2209 Posts |
Hi Devin,
Thanks a lot for taking some time to answer our questions. I would like to know when you started creating magic. Also, if you started off young, how did older magicians treat you and how did you handle these situations? Thanks, Jeff |
Devin Knight V.I.P. 2493 Posts |
Jeff,
You might say I was born to do magic. Some consider me a child prodigy because I was doing magic at the age of five! Later today I'm going to write a short bio on my childhood. In the first grade I figured out how to make a pull using rubber bands so I could vanish things like tissue or a coin. I did this at the age of six with no knowledge of pulls. I had seen magicians vanish handkerchiefs and decided I wanted to do the same thing and hence thought of a way to do it. I will give more details in the article I will write called - Child Prodigy |
Failed Magician Inner circle Still working on the DL even after made 2100 Posts |
Hi Devin,
Thanks for your time in here in the Café. I would like to know if you've ever felt down? You know, when tricks are hard to pull off and you know that it will take you a bit longer to perform it using appropriate sleight? What did you do when it happened? What made you to choose to become a mentalist? Thanks, Hendra
Magic comes through perception. -HS
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Devin Knight V.I.P. 2493 Posts |
I think the only times I feel down is when a new item I release isn't fully appreciated by the magic world. Not often, but sometimes I will spend years developing an effect that I think should take the magic world by storm (such as my Improved Lexicon Phenomena)and then it has dismal sales.
I didn't really choose to become a mentalist, I sort of morphed into that. In my earlier days I toured with a massive illusion show. To get publicity for the show I would often do a Blindfold Drive or Headline Prediction. These of course were mental effects. In 1986, I did my Ultimate Headline Prediction, in which I predicted the Newfoundland Plane Crash that killed over 200 people. This prediction looked so real it caught the attention of the Associated Press and the story went worldwide and appeared in over 2000 newspapers, as it didn't appear to be a trick. Unfortunately, it also caught the attention of the so-called psychic police who set out (but failed) to attempt to expose how it was done. Luckily for me, it also caught the attention of Al Mann, one of the top mentalist of all times and this lead to a long-term friendship with Al Mann. Once I met Al, he was very impressed with my ideas and over the years I started adding more of his ideas to my act and greatly improving many of them. Hence you might say that Al Mann influenced me to turn toward mentalism and he helped developed my abilities and later I became his protege. Al later said in some of his writing of me that I DID everything he had created (which was true.) |
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