by jdmagic357 » Mar 12th, '11, 09:56
Exposure is not the problem except concerning greedy dealers who sell our secrets to the public with not even a peep out of most magicians. Seems as long as a price is put on exposure it's ok?
Be that as it may, what hurts magic more is poor performances. When the lay sees a so called magician perform badly, they assume our craft is worthless, or something for just children who aren't smart enough to catch the mistakes. This hurts all magicians even the top pros. How often have I been asked, "so what do you do for a living?" and when I respond I'm a magician or mentalist their response is,"no your real job". Now of course that's from people who have not seen me perform, but the point is the same.
If we want to protect so called secrets, we need as magicians of old did, and keep them to ourselves. Stop trying to make a buck with every idea or variation and release only those things we either no longer use or are ok being known. Today information is instantaneous and there's no way to stop it. Not with petitions, laws, whining or whatever. We have to be big boys and girls and understand that things have changed and to be actualized, we have to change to.
So add my names to the petition for no petition, as that's the only one I'll sign.