On 2012-12-01 21:19, Danny Kazam wrote:
For those who want to know.

http://merlinawards.wordpress.com/controversy/

Please don't flame me for speaking my opinion. (lol)

Many of my friends seen the David Letterman show and told me they knew how he did it. They were right, but I acted like I didn't know how it was done in respect to Daniel Garcia being the first to cash in on these old idea's. Needless to say, I don't perform it anymore.

This doesn't mean that in the right hands, for the right people, it won't go over very well.

On 2012-12-03 13:13, magicPhred wrote:
You had a cell phone in 1976? Mustabeen a BIG balloon

On 2012-12-02 00:26, Danny Kazam wrote:
I thought that article was about the merlin awards. Sorry, I didn't even finish reading the whole thing before posting a link to it. The url started with "merlinawards" so I thought is was the merlin awards website. Sure the heck looked like it. Tim Ellis has an article about the merlin controversy too, but no point in posting a link to that one now. My bad.

On 2012-12-03 23:23, Zombie Magic wrote:
Christopher Lyle actually improved this trick.

On 2012-12-03 23:01, Danny Kazam wrote:
I'm just saying, it works for some and for others it doesn't. It was Ammar's presentation of it on t.v that my friends seen. From that they were pretty much able to get their first guess right on the nail. Maybe I should of said "right conditions" instead of "right hands".

On 2012-12-05 10:22, Christopher Lyle wrote:

Quote:

On 2012-12-03 23:23, Zombie Magic wrote:
Christopher Lyle actually improved this trick.

Technically it was mine all along, but I digress. Also, Ammar did my original version on Letterman.

On 2014-02-18 23:51, Tricster6 wrote:

I've been performing about six years now and I know I'm still wet behind the ears, but I cannot believe how the art is crucified by exposer you would think if I just paid you my hard earned money to get a method to an illusion I'm not going go make a YouTube video much less go on tv to expose it. that's like driving your new car out of the dealership parking lot and then pulling over about 10 feet down the road so you can get out and pay some kids to key your car up for you so it will lose more value. How can you say You truly lov e the art but then go out and expose the very thing that makes it an art in the first place. People pay good money to be decieved but not when they know the secrete. The ones out there exposing the methods do it so they can feel like there the cool guy. Tell me if I have the art all wrong but I thought that the art is about deception and to have deception you have to have secretes there is no astonishment unless there is secrets. So why in the h* would you go and give that very thing that is key to making the art so appealing in the first place away to the public that is lunacy at its best. That would be like a doctor grabbing someone off the street and teaching him everything that he knows and then giving him his job for nothing all the work and years of collage education that he had to pay for just gives away for free. the mask magician, I'm astonished that he didn't come up missing to say at the end of the show the reason he exposed all those methods was because he thought everyone should be able to enjoy magic if you re watch the ending of the show he really does use this lame excuse to validate why he exposed all those methods well that is ridiculous people enjoy magic from not knowing. he exposed all those methods so he could be in the lime light and what he did was a serious blow to the art. If want the art to keep losing the mystery and the awe that make it what it is keep going this path. The magic community needs to find some legal vehicle that will protect the art at all cost.