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curtgunz Special user Only 99% of users have more than 784 Posts |
There is a huge flea market in Canton, Texas.
I've just moved to the area and am wondering if anyone is doing anything like Svengali Decks or the like at it. Does anyone know?
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*Mark Lewis* V.I.P. 1325 Posts |
I hope not. I will discourage them if they do. Mind you, people usually fail at it when they find out how tough it all is. Magicians don't have the evil mentality required for this, I am afraid.
And Curt. You certainly don't. I have looked at your church fun website in your signature. This ain't for you, I promise. |
Starrpower Inner circle 4070 Posts |
I suspect they will fail and fail until they finally succeed. Isn't that the way it usually goes?
How many years did you do sven pitches, Mark, before you felt you were "good" at them? Also (and this may seem like a dumb question, but I have to ask) how much of a problem is wind when doing those outdoor pitches and how to you deal with it? |
Ray Pierce Inner circle Los Angeles, CA 2607 Posts |
All good notes. It's not creative, it's just hard work... at least 6 pitches per hour, sometimes 12 hours a day. Yes, if you're good you can make money but as Mark said, many magicians fail at it. It's not about magic, it's about sales. Magicians don't typically have the right mind set for it because they are trying to perform and show off their skills. This is about convincing your spectators that you have ZERO skill and if you can do it ... they SURE can! It's the antithesis of most everything we do as performers.
If you can get into the right mind set, throw away your magic ego and be willing to work REALLY hard... you might make money eventually. If you do... you will develop skills you can use in so many other ways on stage. Study Mark's work, anything on pitching by Don Driver and practice practice practice!
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*Mark Lewis* V.I.P. 1325 Posts |
Starrpower. I was good from the first day. I wish I bloody wasn't. It would have saved me decades of hell on earth. This is the toughest business imaginable. You have no idea how tough it is. Don Driver won't tell you that because he wants to sell that bloody DVD of his. This is not a business for babies and it can make you into a very tough, hardened person.
Don Driver is a miserable *** and so am I. Do you really want to end up like us? You can't imagine the sheer stress of this business. Don't even think about doing it. As for wind that is the least of your problems. I have had knives thrown at me by irritated vendors and people threatening to put lighted cigarettes in my eyes. One lunatic jumped over my table to attack me. Wind? I can relate to that. I have worked on Central Pier in Blackpool in gale force winds. I had to put fishing weights on the cards to hold them down and it didn't always work. Cards were blowing into the sea. This is why I find trade show work so easy in comparison. Those mamby pamby trade show magicians I have met who chatter about how hard the work is have no idea what crap they are talking. They would't last 5 minutes in some of the places I have worked. Let us see how they do when a Belfast bomb goes off in the middle of their demonstration and people are screaming and hollering. I still managed to keep the crowd. How? I am a GRAFTER. That is how. |
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