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I suppose I can agree that his tricks are very impressive visually, because that's exactly what they are, visual. There's little audio in his presentation, which frees up your other senses, thus allowing you to take in more visually. I think if he added too much patter to his tricks (as any magician, really), people would get too caught up in his patter and lose track of the visual (most important) aspect of the trick.

JAlexBrown

Besides his "look" does all the speaking for him (isn't it priceless?)

Without meaning to offend anyone across the pond as it were, I've always thought that had "Street Magic" been filmed in Britain, it would've been rubbish, because (as has already been mentioned) his lack of patter is made up for by the reactions of the public.

I'm not meaning to insinuate anything about Americans as an audience, except perhaps that they are more open to being approached like that and more responsive to very visual effects, which I consider a good thing. I know from personal experience of performing to both British and American people, that we Brits are often a lot more stoic when approached by a magician.

(For those looking for an example, go to magicbox.uk.com and look at the demo videos, you'll see a great number of underwhelmed reactions to often very good tricks.)

I do agree. I have performed to America ( the country ) and they scream and shout and its with a very 'look at me' attitude. When we travel to the carribean yearly, its the Americans whispering at 4 in the morning and their 'whispering' wakes you as its like a foghorn going off. Americans do seem to love the sound of their own voice ( very good for us magicians ) ...

but in the Uk.. we get people who give REAL reactions.

I hope I havent offended any Americans in here, Im not generalising but its an observation I find for some reason tends to be true of the Americans I encounter, and I know that 99% of you ARENT like that, I just tend to meet those 1%.

And in the UK we equally have those people who love the sound of their own voice.. and HAVE TO talk loudly on public transport and on their mobiles..

though thats usually because they have watched too many American films