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ufo Inner circle Phoenix, Arizona 1185 Posts |
I'd just like to say that I will never even use the term "Ala" again. Nor will I order a dish like chicken "ala" King or any of that. This was great!
Thanks Kyle! Thanks Jeff! Thanks Bob! Its great to be hangin with the thinkers in the Café. -Ed
"What's your drug?" she asked. "Hope" he said, "The most addicting one of all."
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Magic Nathan Regular user 110 Posts |
I can't help but notice that Michael Mode had a few things to say about this topic.
Please, please don't ever emulate HIS act..it'd be terrible to do your act " Ala " Mode. Sorry...couldn't resist. Nathan |
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jeffhobson V.I.P. 246 Posts |
OK. . . time to lock down this post. Geez.
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knmagic Elite user 436 Posts |
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On 2005-04-10 04:02, jeffhobson wrote: You started it Jeff. Just let the ball roll... I like Kyle's comment about listening to the music then develop the routine from there. It's a great idea...I think it's safe for me to say..I will chose the song first then develop my routine...ala Kyle. Thank you all for the great comments. |
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magic4u02 Eternal Order Philadelphia, PA 15110 Posts |
Wahooo I am now considered a thinker. hehehehe Serisouly though, it is a metter of how to think creatively to open yourself up to be able to develop your own ideas and your own magic that best relates to your character and who you are on stage.
KN: Thanks for the complement. It is just an idea I use a lot of times which I refer to often as "reverse thinking." It really is not new at all, but seems to be new cause too many people do not tend to think in this manner. Too often you are holding a prop or a trick and you are trying to FORCE it down into some routine. You tend to give up to easily cause it just is not coming together, so you end up going fopr those books or mimicking another magician's routine because it is the easy way out. With "reverse thinking", you allow yourself to open your eyes up to really SEE things and have the magic and creative ideas come to you. You let the things around you to give you ideas for routines, patter, music etc. When you start thinking in this manner, the ideas start to flow a lot easier. I would like to also share with you a brainstroming idea that I have used many times myself for my art and design work, but it also works great for learning to think creatively. It also helps to generate better ideas when your mind feels blank. The problem with creativity and brain storming is that we can not always focus as much as we want to be able to. There are so many outside influences and distractions that prevents our mind from staying on topic. We tend to drift around too much and never get a chance to lock in on some great ideas and to really explore them in detail. The other problem is that we over think things too much. We often get hung up on trying to be creative and trying hard to figure out a particular idea, that we allow other great ideas to just roll on by our mind. All this frustration often leads to lack of creativity and so we shy away from trying it again out of fear. So how can you brain storm effectively to really generate results while avoiding some of these more common pitfalls? Well, one suggestion is to occupy your mind and teach your mind to think a certain way by simply fooling it. The mind is great at doing tasks and accomplishing them. When your mind is actively involved in a step by step process, there is no time for it to wander like it often does in most creative processes that we have used in the past. One way to do this is a form of brain storming that was taught to me years ago and that I have modified since then over time. It is a process that focuses the mind to being creative even if it does not realize it is doing so. It works something like this: Start off with an idea that you have for a act, routine or even a show. Figure out to yourself what are the main words or ideas that you want to generate ideas for in this new act or routine. Try and come up with the single words that best reflect this act. For example, let’s use the idea of coming up with a magical routine that is themed around the idea of art. When we look at it we get two main words that are the focus for this act. Those words are “art” and “magic”. Next, take out a sheet of paper and on the left side of the page, write the word art on the top. Now go over to the right side of the page and write the word Magic. Start with the word art. Start to think of any word that you can think of that has to do with the word art. The idea here is a free-flowing generation of words. You are not trying to develop ideas or thoughts. Just simply write down words that you associate to the word art. Some of these words might be; paper, color, paint, paintbrush, easel etc. I think you get the idea. Now you do the same thing for the word magic. Just generating words and not stopping to dwell on any of them. Once you have compiled your lists, the fun and creativity really starts to happen. The idea is to start to cross reference words from both lists to generate new words and new creative ideas. For example you may take the word paintbrush from one list and the word “vanish” from the other list. All of a sudden you generate the idea of a vanishing paintbrush. You keep doing this by cross-referencing other words together. It works great and is a way to start training your brain to think creatively. The more you use this exercise, the more your mind gets trained to think in a creative fashion. Just like anything, creativeity comes with practice and you must be willing to work at it. Kyle
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knmagic Elite user 436 Posts |
WOW, that's a very good advise. I can even take your advise and apply to me real job. When I dream/imagine, my mind keeps flowing every where and I ended up losing my thoughts. I'll use you suggestion to write them down. I'm sure some good routines must come up. I love music and dream of things I could do when listening to it, your method definitely will help.
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magic4u02 Eternal Order Philadelphia, PA 15110 Posts |
Thanks Ken. It really is an exercise that you can use to train yourself and your mind to think creatively. I try and do this with my art, design as well as coming up with new magic ideas. It forces my mind to stay focused and the outcomes I come up with even surprise me sometimes. Give it a try and let me know how it works out for you.
Kyle
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magicmode New user 94 Posts |
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On 2005-04-09 23:05, Magic Nathan wrote: Nathan, That's funny. I actually used to use "Magic Ala Mode" in my promo when I first started. Michael Mode |
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magic4u02 Eternal Order Philadelphia, PA 15110 Posts |
It certainly is a cute and practical. People would certainly remember it.
Kyle
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Review King Eternal Order 14446 Posts |
Never steal from the living. All material should come from someone that's dead at least a week.
Anytime I meet a Magician whose work I admire, I ask them how they're feeling. David Williamson's a big guy, so I had my nephew ask him.
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Brent McLeod Inner circle 1792 Posts |
As Kyle mentioned
I also find the music first then develop the act-great fun & develops your own style......... |
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magic4u02 Eternal Order Philadelphia, PA 15110 Posts |
Thanks Brent:
I just like to think about my magic and approach my magic from different directions then most do. I can easily get inspired by other things that are totally not magic related in the least. to me this is outward thinking and that is what allows me to be more creative in the magic that I do. Kyle
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