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sniper1![]() Veteran user malta eu 343 Posts ![]() |
Well while reading some old copies of the Linking Ring, I came across a great entry by Lou Dermann and I think it will be in the best interest to post it in here, for I'm sure it will help a couple of lost souls out there find their way home.
Ok, here it is just as written: Quote:
SUCCESS in professional magic, when all is said and done, boils down to just one thing : how much people like you when you're NOT doing tricks -- the same as in a good marriage. Well, that was the whole article published in the Linking Ring on March 1973 and the only thing I don't agree with is that you can't change {in my opinion it's very hard, but you can change}. Apart from that, all the rest was sound knowledge 40 years ago and it's still good today.
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The Donster![]() Inner circle 4817 Posts ![]() |
They need to update it. Anyone care to help or any suggestions?
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kOnO![]() Special user 545 Posts ![]() |
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On 2005-01-19 09:11, sniper1 wrote: 40 years ago? Seems like only yesterday.
It is a lot easier to get older than it is to get wiser.
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sniper1![]() Veteran user malta eu 343 Posts ![]() |
Yeah , pretty funny ehh , 40 years have past and most magicians are still the same
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Reis O'Brien![]() Inner circle Seattle, WA 2467 Posts ![]() |
My new favorite cliche of the day magician is the "Creepy Mystic". That's the guy that wears all black (jacket, tie and shirt), and grows a goatee (also dyed black).
He tends to stare at you just a little too long with that Rasputin-wanna-be look, thinking that he is drawing you in to his hypno-spooky, Christopher Lee vibe, when really all you're thinking is, "What is that in the corner of his eye?" or "Is he going to try and kiss me?" Then he writes "4 of clubs" on his arm in ashes. Good for you, Anton Von Dork... now give your mom her matches back. |
sniper1![]() Veteran user malta eu 343 Posts ![]() |
And what about the ,STREET MAGICIAN WANNABEE .
can write a whole encyclopedia about those
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donsmagic![]() Loyal user 258 Posts ![]() |
Many years ago I had a comedy magic paperback book by Lou Dermann. He was very insightful. Wasn't he a early writer for All in the Family?
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daffydoug![]() Eternal Order Look mom! I've got 14062 Posts ![]() |
How about th young kid who trys to convince everybody that he has traveled to the Far east and explored thr "mysteries of the Orient?"
Or the David Copperfield wannabes?
The difficult must become easy, the easy beautiful and the beautiful magical.
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Wolflock![]() Inner circle South Africa 2257 Posts ![]() |
Or the plain "WANNABE"
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Fishsticks![]() New user Greensboro, NC 70 Posts ![]() |
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On 2005-01-19 18:29, Reis O'Brien wrote: Why would your mom give you matches? That's not a good mom. |
Popo![]() Loyal user Valparaiso, IN 219 Posts ![]() |
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On 2005-01-23 12:11, Fishsticks wrote: Not a good mom but one heck of an assistant! |
Comedy and then the magic![]() New user Los Angeles, CA 65 Posts ![]() |
The best is the laymen magician who is... the "magician" who thinks he is a magician just because he goes to the magic meetings and lectures and hangs out with magicians and just knows how to do the packet tricks, yet is fooled when showed a david blaine special.
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Wolflock![]() Inner circle South Africa 2257 Posts ![]() |
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On 2005-01-26 06:17, ComedyAndThenTheMagic wrote: LOL. oh hell yes. He is also the one who ca do every type of shuffle and flourish known to magicians but still cannot figure out how the spectator can be fooled the previous magician's simple classic force, but yet is not impressed by all his flourishes.
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The Donster![]() Inner circle 4817 Posts ![]() |
Of course, but why not invent a name of a shuffle, then say it was in such and such a book and see what the guy does.
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The Village Idiots![]() Elite user Orlando 464 Posts ![]() |
I have said this before in other topics but I think one thing that a lot of performers do wrong is they don't play to their character. You have to look in the mirror and cast yourself accordingly. If you aren't funny don't try. If you aren't sexy don't try to be. If you aren't spooky leave spooky magic alone. It took me a while to define my character and what would suit me to perform. Since I have I have had much more success with audiences.
On stage we are just an extension of who we are. Amped up a bit. I have read in a book recently, forgot the name, that on stage we are Superman and off stage we are Clark Kent. Find out exactly who Clark Kent is and that will tell you what kind of Superman you are. That was a really great book. I'll try to find out the name for ya.
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Comedy and then the magic![]() New user Los Angeles, CA 65 Posts ![]() |
The village idiots, if you talk to John Armstrong he has a similar theory called the superhero theory, which concers our character and magic talents that go along with it and what talents and gifts we have as superheroes and/or performers.
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