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Hello Sleepy heads,

It's 2 A.M. over there in England right now and I was wondering who is up? If I was there, I would just be getting up about now, give or take a bit. We are 8 hours different, it seems.

I was wondering how many of you are creative at night? And, if not night, when is the time when you find your creativity just flowing?

For me, it can happen anytime day or night but I love the night because it is dark and still. And there seems to be mystery in the night, and, of course, where I live, things that will eat you and drag you off into the depths of darkness. My walk to the barn from my home is about 200 yards or so, that's about 182.2 meters on your side of the pond. And it is a walk of darkness, down a dirt lane sided with towering blackberry bushes reaching above my head. Yet, to the workshop I will go for it is there that my magic dreams become real. One day, something will probably get me. I've already had close encounters with bears and up to 227 pound (that's 103 Kg) kitties. And of course, there is always the bigfoot. And even if you don't believe in such things as sasquatch, well, in the darkness, you just always wonder if something will grab you.

I would love to hear from any of you who want to share when you create, and, if you have any rituals or habits that you do that get you into the space with your muse.

The reason I see this as a relevant topic is not merely because I thought it might be fun but often we don't think about our creative side much and generally many of us certainly don't hone it. Yet, if we can learn to do that, oh then that is when the magic can happen for us and it can lift us out of our normal routine and bring us into whole new ways of looking at tricks and illusions and such.

It's all about getting in tune with ourselves (I know, this sounds very California - well, hey, it's not like I said get there with avocados - though now that I mentioned that), hmm.

Most of us, I imagine, buy our tricks or at the very least watch dvd's and read books and then do what we learned. But there is so much more when we make the magic ours, really ours. And that is the beauty of what I am trying to say here. My dream is for all of us to lift magic into new places that is has never gone before, and, while I am not an English lass yet, I hold that as my dream in my heart and I long to be one of you. After all, you have to admit, you Brits do have the cutest accents of anyplace, bar none. And, since I love languages and accents, I have to follow my heart.

I realize that I jumped around here a bit (I don't think of my writing style and magic style as lacking logic, but instead, I like to see it as dancing in intuition and emotion), but golly, it is 2:30 A.M. Well, at least where you are. So I can at least imagine being night happy.

I hope all of you are dreaming magical dreams of wonder. In fact, my eyes twinkle at the thought for I so love dreaming.

Now then, what are your dreams and how and when are you creative?

Love,

Amanda Angeli

each time i look at your picture i have creative dreams.

do robots dream of electric sheep.

mostly i dream of combining effects to creat a childrens show from what i already have, then test it out on my dream audience, sometimes it goes well other times i have to make a sharp exit.

ah sleep, perchance to dream in the world of timeless slumber, were all the world is a stage and we are meerly player apon it.

magicdiscoman wrote:each time i look at your picture i have creative dreams. .

Hello MagicDiscoMan,

Oh my gosh, you still have that photo? I'm embarrassed.

As for Robots, I loved that book. You've read the book and seen the movie, right? Oh, and what a truly wonderful example of lucid dreaming.

And, that was Shakespeare, right? Oh how beautiful.

Love,

Amanda Angeli

For sure! I am up. Last night atc around 2:00 AM I created a revolutionary Thought-Of Card effect, and I master knuckle busters in mere minues. Weird though, that I can't perform them in the morning. And no, I didn't dream that.

Amanda

I was up at 2am and would have responded to your post if I had just been on TM at the time

Michael

Michael. when I read your post I was thankful that I had other things to do at 2am instead of coming onto TM

I don't understand what you mean. That is what happens during my late evenings. At 2 AM two weeks ago, I mastered Paul Harris' Arrow Split Arrow, but gthe next mrn\ing I couldnb't catch the card to save my life.

I think it lies in your abuse of words like 'revolutionary' and 'mastered' - I doubt it was revolutionary, and if you can do something one night and not the next day then you clearly haven't mastered it.

Mastering an effect is not just about getting the technical element down perfectly either.

Precisely

I mastered the vanish of a couple of pints of Guinness leading up to 2am and next morning, I reproduced approximately one pint in the bathroom

Hello! How are we all on this fine Saturday evening? Im in a really good mood and im not sure why!

Im currently reading through Art of Astonishment volume 3. Invisible Palm Aces is one heck of trick! Im trying to learn it whilst watching Blod Diamond. Anyone seen that film? Its really good, i recommend it to everyone! The only problem is that its so good that i keep forgetting that im reading my book and lose my place on the page! Oh well.

Hoot Hoot!

Twit Too

3am and I really should not be here!!!

dat8962 wrote:Amanda

[quote}I was up at 2am and would have responded to your post if I had just been on TM at the time

Hello Daty,

It would have been so fun had you been on. I love your act your working on, your 8 or so tricks you mentioned on the other post sound great.

Oh, and your Guinness trick sounds really fun to practice too.

Hey Tricky, thanks for the book and film ideas, both sound great.

Love,

Amanda Angeli

I was up that late, I usually am up to at least 2.

But that night tequila was in the mix. So I try to avoid the forums during that time. Wouldnt want to be the forum drunk.

Yes, at night is when I do a lot of thinking and creating and such.
Last few nights I have been working on my cook book.

When it comes to creating new effects, changing patter or presentation. There really is no ryme to it. Some times they just hit me during the day, and I have to write them down before I forget. OTher times I will sit down, and just think about what I want.

The same goes for my escapes. I could just be driving down the road, and "bam" get hit with an idea. LAter that night I will hone it and build apon it. Sometimes using the internet to gather more information and ideas for it.

The latest effect I created, and have been working on for the past 6 months hit me while I was at a party, and rightfully so. As the effect is for party and pub/bar situations.


And this might sound goofy maybe even a little embarasing... but thoughts will hit me while on the pot.