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Ok first off, what is the difference between street magic and close up? The reasons I do card trick is because:
1) i like to show off i guess
2) i love the reactions i get
3) its somthing not every one can do or will do, so it make me different.

Also i don't really like the idea of advertising myself as a magician to the onwer of a bar. I think then people will come up to me and demand to see a card trick. I don't like that, like i could do one right then, but i hate being told what to do. I do things on when and how I feel like doin them.

Hey Jags thanks for the tips, but about the entertainers lisence i don't think I really would need one, mainly because I don't just sit still and ask people who walk by me. I get out there and walk the streets. So to some degree its kinda like me just asking the time of day.

again thanks for all the help
kemo

Depending on how you structure your performances in street magic, I would definitely recommend jags advice. But be prepared - as soon as you say "i have somthing i wanna show you, something i cant figure out", make sure you have something REALLY quick but impressive to show them which doesn't require them to do anything other than watch, no-more than 30 seconds from start to finish. Once again, talk to them and say "wasn't that wierd, I really don't understand it." And the proceed to ask them if they would like to see more. This way you've taken up VERY little of their time but have still given them a small demo to help them decide whether you are worth their time.

Above all, as all magic advice should say:
HAVE FUN

The idea of doing the quick trick is good and all, except for the fact that I only have one good quick trick and it's the DL. So thats not all that impressive. I can't really use the "I can't figure this out" one on people. Also alot of the tricks I do envolve multiple steps. therefore most my tricks take a bit of time. As well as alot of my tricks envolve spectator participation(sp?) so I need them to be willing, and not have the trick forced upon them. But the one thing I always do is have fun. Because if I didn't I would quit right now.

thanks
kemo

I cant think of anything off hand for card magic that fits the quick description. However, if you were to expand your magic sphere a little you could try a simplified performance of something like "quantum bandits" which is a cool ungimmicked elastic band routine. You can get it as a download from penguin and the entire routine itself would be useful in the whole "would you like to see more" idea after you've "WOWED" them with the first phase.

Either way, just get out there and experiment with stuff and let us know what you find to work. We'll all be waiting here to find out.

i do the quantum bandits trick as well as another rubber band trick where the band jumps from your middle and index finger to your ring and pinky or vis versa. simple trick don't know if i t has a name. as far as i know my buddy made it up. and the day he taught it to me he use the "hey kemo check this out, i just can't understand it" maybe i should just try that.

kemo

Kemo wrote:

except for the fact that I only have one good quick trick and it's the DL

Firstly, the DL isn't a trick, it's a slieght.

If this is all that you have to perform with then I would seriously recommend that you stop performing until such a time that you've built up a wider repertoire. If you get caught out on the DL then by the sound of it you've got very little to recover with.

I'm also unsure about what you mean when you say that a lot of your tricks involve multiple steps? I'm taking it that you mean stages, such as in an ambitious card routine where the trick is continuously building up to the climax through increasingly impossible stages of making the card disappear and then re-appear?

Perhaps naming a few of your tricks would get you some better advice and guidance.

dat, i know the dl is a slight but it the i use it as a trick. just like the ambitious card but with only on step. it's quick and easy. and for the most part gets good reactions. also i have about 10 or so tricks in my repertoire, plus a few slights and forces so i can make up a trick on the spot by combining them. if you want to know what tricks i know and am working on look in the topic "good card tricks" i lissted a bunch of them in there. and when i say the trick involves multiple steps I'm think of tricks like the hitman, or revolver, the ambitious card, the daley show and two card monte stuff like those. hopfully that helps you understand it more.

kemo

cant think of anything off hand for card magic that fits the quick description

The best super impresive super quick card trick is (drum roll!!!!!!)

The invisble deck.

Kemo:

Buy one of these and start with it. It will knock their socks off. then put the deck up and say something like , "Thanks, I've really been wanting to show some one that, it's just so strange." wait a beat, then, "Oh, would you like to see another?"

Then you can retrieve a normal deck and have at them. They will be all yours.

Really, buy an ID.

ok other than gaffed tricks are there any good quick tricks?

kemo

How about one of the variety of colour changes that are out there.....they are quick, visual, and during street magic, they only require someones eyes.......it can be done while trying to reel the spec in for something else!

biddle trick
ultimate transpo

Both are easy, visual can be done in the specs hand with no gimmicks

i do the biddle trick already. but isn't the ultimate transpo a self made gimmick? or at least at double some where in it? also im kinda looking for a quick trick that - as moodini put it - only requires their eyes.

kemo

no, there's no gimmick - this fits the bill and is very visual

oh sorry my bad i got the ultimate transpo mixed up with the impossible transpo. do you know where i could see an effect video of the ultimate transpo?

kemo

ok disregard that last post i found a effect video of it in fact it turns out i even have the explanation video too. i have Born To Perform. thats not really the kind of trick im looking for. somthing closer to the ambitious card. where i can just show them its on top, move it into the middle so them it's not on the bottom not on the top, then *snap* it jumps to the top. they don't have to do anything but watch.

kemo