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tboehnlein Inner circle ohio 1787 Posts |
Yesterday I had a school gig for Learning to Read Week & is what I was hired to do was teach a few simple tricks in which I provided written instructions for & to speak a little about the history & background of magic. One of the effects that I taught was swallowing a goldfish (using a carrot peel), so any how I was returning from the pet store the night before when a very simple yet effective idea came to me for a barehanded production of goldfish. I tried it on my wife & kids when I got home & they liked it so I did it as an opener for the school kids & got a wonderful reaction. My question is this have many out there ever added a routine at the last moment in the past I have not but may not be hesitant to in the future.
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Luke Dancy Inner circle Las Vegas 1157 Posts |
Usually adding something in at the last moment isn't a very good idea. Typically the process is to master the method so you can focus more of the presentational aspect of the effect. Just a thought.
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tboehnlein Inner circle ohio 1787 Posts |
Luke I fully agree with what you stated that is why I posted my initial question. I have always frowned on this in the past, but was quite taken back by the success that I had in this instance & have immediately added & performed it on several occasions since. Just a little breaking the paradigm I guess.
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Stephen Long Inner circle 1481 Posts |
Sometimes, when you find something interesting enough that is not too difficult to pull off, it is hard NOT to perform it.
I am very guilty of this and I KNOW I shouldn't be doing it as I'm performing it. But, since I add an element of doubt into everything I perform anyay, if something ever did go drastically wrong, I could live with it. Some day I'll learn... (I hope.) I am still young and naive. At least I have all these years of magic ahead of me to look forward to... Gonz :carrot:
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Peter Marucci Inner circle 5389 Posts |
The biggest problem with adding something at the last minute is: How do you get it to fit in with your scripted show?
What's the reason for it? What's the motivation? If you can get over that, and can do the trick (of course!), then it's probably okay to do it. Although, I wouldn't recommend you make a regular thing of it (for the reasons in the preceding posts!) cheers, Peter Marucci showtimecol@aol.com |
Matt Graves Special user Huntsville, Alabama (USA) 504 Posts |
I've done that tons of times; sometimes an idea will hit me and I just can't wait to try it out. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. I remember one time somebody had just bought a class ring, and they asked me to see a trick, so I just immediately landed on the idea of vanishing the ring and reproducing it, and he let me borrow it, and I did the vanish and brought it back, and he was really, really impressed. Another time I tried a trick of pushing a pencil through a handkerchief (that I learned on David Copperfield's website) and just thought it would be easy so I went ahead and showed it and it totally flopped . . . so it's a gamble.
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