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since so many of you want to use the mystic theme for your magic acts.. I would try a more light/happy version...


the room is filled with light, flowers, deers and bunnys and everyone of them lives in a perfetct harmony. then I would enter the stage and say: "I will now take you to the butiest(sp?) place you can imagine!"
and i would take the whole audience into the wolrd of Wizard of Oz! and when they all have experienced the whole movie I would take them back to this world and go for the big bow!

This contest reminds me of a magic parable I heard a while ago - I'm sure you all know the one I mean. It's the one where some random guy learns that he can do magic, real magic, and decides he wants to make some money doing it. He books himself into the Magic Castle and, on stage, does a perfect levitation. Up, into the air, 15, 20 feet, no wires, nothing. The audience yawns and booes him off stage.



Kati

Kati brings up a good point!

If our ideal "supernatural" power is the same as what we already can seemingly achieve (levitation, money production, llama/camel transpos), then is there really a difference?

Would you say that we are already doing "real" magic?

Just a friendly reminder: Midnight is the deadline! I appreciate everyone's posts and I look forward to rereading them. I think this was a worthwhile exercise, even if it did not garner the response of the previous.

Once again, thanks to all who have participated and to all who are still going to.

Peace,

M. Skutt

my superpowers:

play-doh power....
an animal on stage, someone shouts out a different beastie - i manipulate the animal in a non-sexual manner until it resembles the named one...

The Vision from The Avengers...aaah one of my favourite Marvel comic characters, anyways:
an audience member can bring along any object and push that object straight through me and out the otherside, whilst im being x-rayed...

Inside the Outside:
I'd be able to mimic someone who is dead, like super-chanelling, but talk exactly like them, finger print change, and have all their memories and skills....

that'll do for me...

okay im gonna have a go here super type powers hey.
okay the effect.
a coin and a can (hmmm seen this b4)
the coin is placed inside the can rattled about then like my fave xmen villian magneto you begin to concentrate the can start to shake about and jump the BANG the coin ripps through the wall of the can into your waiting hand. leaving people stunned, mothers hiding there children in the first trash can.
or first the coin is placed in the can then the can jump up from the table into your waiting hand first then the can is replaced on the table floor etc.
now on the second attempt the coin rips out of the can and WOW. and in homage to the inspiration it shall be called magneto

mike skutt wrote:If our ideal "supernatural" power is the same as what we already can seemingly achieve (levitation, money production, llama/camel transpos), then is there really a difference?

I would say that there is. I think that the feeling of real magic would be unmistakable. You would KNOW that you had seen something different. There would be no comprimises. Everything would be as fair and above board as possible. As open and as visual. Even if they didn't realise this consciously, surely subconsciously they would see a difference between your real magic, and it's directness, and that of your average card or coin or miscellaneous object worker.

Whatever they want you could give them. No questions asked, no funny procedures. Which is why I like your burlap sack idea so much. Actually, thinking about that there must be someway of performing a watered-down version of that in reality...got me working that one out now .

I think that setting would play an important role as well. Do a levitation as Kati described on a stage in The Magic Castle, and there's all sorts of room for possible methods. Do it out in the open - or in their house - and let them come up and check for themselves - and then you have something incredible. As well as that, a real magician would not stick to things identified with magicians. He or she would probably discard the old pieces and do things we can only dream of.

Good points there Cardza.

AND THE WINNER IS...

CARDZA


The use of the 4 elements and the imagery of pulling a branch of a tree through the back of the theatre's wall was amazing!

Everybody had great ideas and I thank you all for playing along. I do think this was an important exercise:

1. It would appear that the majority of use would be doing shows in a theatre if we had supernatural powers. Very interesting...

2. Levitation was a biggie in our supernatural world. It would appear that man's fascination with flight may be more deeply rooted than I thought. I'm curious: is it more because we want to fly or because we want to show others that we can fly?

3. Thinking beyond what we already consider "supernatural" powers was harder than I thought (I'm speaking personally). However, I have hope that a new branch of "supernatural" experiences will be discovered, thus expanding our repertoire as magicians...but wouldn't it be great if the opposite was true? If magician's created real magic and reality had to follow suite?

Once again, congrats to Cardza and thanks to everyone who responded to this. You are all amazing! Now let's fulfill our destiny and go out into the world and share our gift!

Peace,

Mike Skutt

Congrats Cardza! I found this to be a lot of fun and would love to participate in another one! Looking forward to entering the next! if there is one at least...

Congratulations Cardza!

Yep they sure are great fun

I won! Cool and thanks .

Well done mate!