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Pop Haydn Inner circle Los Angeles 3691 Posts 
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I am never creative unless I have to be. Most of my creative stuff was forced on me by necessity. I am only creative when it comes to solving problems. If I can get a great routine that works for my character, why would I change it? If I need to do it in the round, need to make it work for different audiences, need to make it longer or shorter, need to make it fit my character, etc., etc.--then I have to become creative. I almost always start with a classic, and just keep solving problems until it is right.
My whole act is really just what happens when you start out doing classic tricks and just keep solving problems over 50 years... |
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8357 Posts
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If you don't mind, Pop, I'll just agree with you! So! All like he said folks!
Although I had planned carefully before I did my first tour, there were a "few" problems that needed to be handled. And, as Pop just said, "One solves them as they "come up".
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16543 Posts
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"Mater artium necessitas" William Horma as I recall.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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George Ledo Magic Café Columnist SF Bay Area 3042 Posts
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On Aug 1, 2016, tommy wrote: That pretty much sums it up. And it also explains why so many modern "inventions" are crap.
That's our departed buddy Burt, aka The Great Burtini, doing his famous Cups and Mice routine
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Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts
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On Jul 31, 2016, Pop Haydn wrote: I think you are selling yourself short. If one subscribes to the theory that there is nothing new under the sun, then everything we do is a creative application of something else. Problem solving is just that. You may be looking at the fine line between art and science. The NASA engineers that helped bring back Apollo 13 had to use such creativity to essentially put a square peg into a round hole. Taking a classic effect (a known entity), and making it fit your needs (character, time allotment, venue, etc.) is the same.
~michael baker
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