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soveda wrote:I read a good essay talking about how what we do is directing attention rather than misdirecting.
Can't remember who it was by, I'll look it up.
magicofthemind wrote:Magic and Showmanship by Henning Nelms is very useful.
Barry
artychris wrote:For me there was two things that really helped.
Learning and using a retension vanish. How moving the empty hand draws the spectators eye... That was the key for me!
And getting out there and doing magic! Then analyising it after.... Not in a really harsh and self critical way, but looking at what worked and what didn't, and in each case, why... I have a little note book full of analysis from new routines and tricks...
As far as reading material for you goes, Strong Magic, by Darwin Ortiz is superb, as is The Five Points of Magic, by Juan Tamariz!
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