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Caspar Veteran user Tacoma 316 Posts |
I posted this over at Ellusionist and thought it could be useful to those of us starting out in magic here as well!!!
My club lost several members this year due to their passing away and two of these oldtimers were my favorites. George Lagerquist and Dean Mullin, both of whom lived into their Nineties. They both taught me the value of hard work and Mr. Mullin added to that a lesson of Cool. He was Ninety plus years, drove a red RX7, and all their girls thought he was cute. I dunno about you, but I hope that I can live to be that old, still get around, and still have all the young girls find me cute. And to top it all off Mr. Mullin was a very humble man and a lawyer to boot. Everyday he had a half sandwich and a cup of soup. Mr. Lagerquist on the other hand was onery. He was one of the first members that I waited on. No one liked to wait on him because he always complained, and being that I felt special I would take his table whenever he came in. I found out that all Mr. Lagerquist wanted was to keep his teapot filled with hot water, two onion rings on his tenderloin, and know the dessert list. Those three thing which I was able to pass on to the waitstaff kept him happy and put a nice tip in my pocket every year at xmas. Anyway, thank you for sticking with me through the memory. Like I said these men taught me the meaning of hardwork and patience. These things should be applied to our art as well as anything in life. Watching someone perform Magic or watching videos it all seems easy, until we have dropped our cards while attempting a fan. Oh yes the fan, that delightful flourish that so many of us have cut our teeth on upon entering the door called magic. By a show of hands how many have posted a thread as to how to fan a deck of cards after trying for a few days. Got some advice, a little more practice, and few weeks later....Oh boy, I am getting better. A few months later and... it is as easy as breathing. The pass is probably the one sleight that causes the most grief here. Particularly its variations such as the invisible pass and the dreaded (dum dum dummmm) riffle pass. I can do the Pass and the invisible pass passably, but the riffle pass....I think I need another smoke. As for the other two....I am only getting better with practice, I can even perform with them now and have but still need a little more time to have confidence in them which means more practice. How about the decietffuly easy looking double lift....Ok I will stop! The point is... do not become discouraged and do not make the assumption that this is all so easy, now or even later when you can execute all of this with a surgeon's precision. Because next on the cirriculum is presentation...you don't want to walk around with people thinking that you are someone else right. Starting out we may use some of the lines that we have heard here or somewhere else but after a while the noodle kicks in and says....huh, as it stops concentrating on the sleight being performed and listens to it self. You have to be yourself and you have to draw on your own experiences, your own beleifs as to what the world is made of...that is the only way to shine. I have run into a few threads expressing admiration for Brad, Blaine, Angel, Marlo, etc., etc....They are all great because...they all have their own style. For me Brad makes magic sexy, Blaine makes it outright scary. and Paul Harris....Paul Harris needs to have a sanity advisory lable on his stuff because he is absolutely hiliarlous. There you have it. Work hard, have plenty of patience (which you just exhibited by getting through this post) and be yourself. Oh yeah.....Have fun!!!! Chew on this for a while and I will think of something else to write later! |
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