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Clinton W. Gray New user 100 Posts |
I think it depends on the reatuarant. Here in Vancouver I work a place that does everything it can to insult and annoy its patrons. Balloon swallowing, earplugs, fake vomit are all fair game!
Clinton W. Gray
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Turk Inner circle Portland, OR 3546 Posts |
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On 2009-08-20 17:43, prestyman wrote: Man, that's some business model. Patrons willingly line up to be annoyed and insulted. Food must be "out of sight" great.
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Bill Palmer Eternal Order Only Jonathan Townsend has more than 24312 Posts |
The most practical thing to work with, if you are working in a restaurant, is sponge cubes.
They don't roll.
"The Swatter"
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Colonel Clark Regular user Mesa, AZ 127 Posts |
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Here in Vancouver I work a place that does everything it can to insult and annoy its patrons. Balloon swallowing, earplugs, fake vomit are all fair game! Kindly share the name if this delightful place so that it may be avoided. |
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magiclimber Veteran user Boulder, Colorado 315 Posts |
I think the ear plugs look awkward, plus I'm a fan of the classic red sponge balls.
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Clinton W. Gray New user 100 Posts |
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Kindly share the name if this delightful place so that it may be avoided. The Elbow Room. They insult and abuse the customers, with very foul language. If you want water or coffee, the staff yells at you to get it yourself. If you don't finish your meal you're forced to pay a fine. The collected money goes to a charity to feeds homeless people. It's a great place. They've been in business for almost 30 years. People line up for hours just to get a seat. (hence the reason they need a magican!) What I loved about working it was that I could literally do ANYTHING and not upset anybody. X-rated balloon animals, cards in bra, goshman "ding dong" were all completely appropriate. In this new era of political correctness, it was a refreshing change to not worry about offending someone. My favourite policy at the place was that all dogs were allowed EXCEPT seeing eye dogs! That's funny. Tom Sellek, Hilary Swank, Chad Lowe, Kirstie Alley, Parker Stevenson, Sharon Stone, and Goldie Hawn are regular patrons.
Clinton W. Gray
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slyhand Inner circle Good ole Virginia 1908 Posts |
There is a place like that in Chicago called "Dicks Last Resort" (The Shame of Chicago) If you ask for a napkin they throw about 10 at you. A fun place to visit.
I am getting so tired of slitting the throats of people who say that I am a violent psychopath.
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formfoam New user 75 Posts |
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On 2009-08-13 00:28, Roland Henning wrote: Quote:
On 2009-08-20 21:49, Bill Palmer wrote: William Wortman! spong cubs! morph foam cubs! For example such as morph dragon |
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TheAmbitiousCard Eternal Order Northern California 13425 Posts |
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On 2009-08-21 23:45, prestyman wrote: Sounds like fun to me!!! We could all use a little of this in our sanitized lives. I hope I can go.
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Corbett Inner circle Indiana 1161 Posts |
Where does one find a set of sponge cubes?
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Lawrence O Inner circle French Riviera 6811 Posts |
Even if avoiding balls which roll all over the place, the problem is not so much a question of shape but a justification of whatever these strange things are: my routine is involving alleged new French "make up sponges" under marketing test by Christian Dior (sponge semi flat cylinders) that opens a cool dialogue with ladies
Magic is the art of emotionally sharing live impossible situations
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Bill Palmer Eternal Order Only Jonathan Townsend has more than 24312 Posts |
Goshman made a trick called "and then there were...4" that came with nearly cubical sponges. Also, you can make them. Just get a piece of sponge sheet about an inch or two thick, a utility knife and a straight edge.
"The Swatter"
Founder of CODBAMMC My Chickasaw name is "Throws Money at Cups." www.cupsandballsmuseum.com |
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TheAmbitiousCard Eternal Order Northern California 13425 Posts |
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On 2009-09-11 17:59, Lawrence O wrote: For a real pro this is a goldmine for creativity and humor. Don't listen to anyone that tells you not to use a spongeballs because "how do you justify them?" That advice is from the armchair quarterbacks that don't/can't relate to an audience and perform mostly on magic forums. For LawrenceO they are makeup sponges. What are they for you? For me they're just balls. Sometimes noses. Depends on my mood.
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FunTimeAl Special user 987 Posts |
I like to produce one from under my shells as a transition from my shell game routine to my sponge ball routine.
I call it a "red bellied pea eater" & go into my crocodile hunter accent and...well, that's enough to get the point across I suppose. Chad |
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Lawrence O Inner circle French Riviera 6811 Posts |
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On 2009-09-12 15:33, Frank Starsini wrote: The point is not, as always, what the sponge balls are for the performer, and admittedly sponge balls are a gold mine for creativity and humor. The point is to justify what they are for the audience so that their imagination can get hooked on whatever the rest of the routine favors. Not giving them a link to reality makes it more difficult for the spectators to get their imagination have a a ground to fly away from and along the lines of the plot (which naturally should have some form of relationship to the initial justification.) Not using a justification doesn't prevent getting an effect, but it makes it extremely difficult to make it "pure magic" (as Derren Brown would put it). If it is not necessary to have a plot to "fool" spectators, it is then not necessary to justify what these strange things which do not exist in real life are. However if one wants to play with the spectators' imagination and leading them in a dilemma, it is better to have the prop related to the audience in some sort of way. Clown nose, ear plugs, make up sponges, school slates sponges... work but we also need to justify why we use several of them. All of this seems irrelevant to the ones who only use their experience and their rationalization to analyze perception. Perception however has been very deeply studied by the scientists of the Gestalt Theory. I feel sorry if I don't have the arrogance to contradict some rules that were well established by scientific observation over almost a century. My slope is to be creative within what is actually deceptive. We are back to the Simon Aaronson's debate: "the point is not that they don't understand how it's done, it's that they know that it can't be done"
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Ragman Regular user 161 Posts |
Doesn't anyone use Goshman's sponge ding-dong? The kids love it...Their parents turning red in the face is them holding in the laughter...!
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Bill Palmer Eternal Order Only Jonathan Townsend has more than 24312 Posts |
Goshman once told me that he wished he had never invented that thing!
"The Swatter"
Founder of CODBAMMC My Chickasaw name is "Throws Money at Cups." www.cupsandballsmuseum.com |
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Conus Special user 657 Posts |
Soft foam donut-shaped earphone covers for Ipod headsets now come in a variety of colors -- including snow white.
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Ragman Regular user 161 Posts |
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On 2009-09-19 23:27, Bill Palmer wrote: The best part of that trick was the packaging, the first time I ever saw it, it was in a brown paper bag. I was in a magic shop and a young kid wanted to know what was in the brown paper bag. The owner quickly said it was his lunch. Later he pulled me aside and asked me if I knew what it was. He then showed me, I will admit that it is a had to be there moment but we had a bit of a laugh over it. |
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