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I was thinking about magic as i do and realised that i love magic for the reaction
I think this is why i love the close up, on the street, a few ppl and the magician style.

But im curious as to what makes you lot do magic and your style/type ?

I just love to see the reaction on people's faces.
I also enjoy the constant learning process.
As with any hobby, you have to have a love for it, a passion.

Close up is brilliant, for me, it's as good as being able to sit down in a noisy room,
& have everyone fall silent as you begin to play a Bach peice.
I can now do both, so I will die a happy man.

Not for a while yet though

CArl...

Passion, earning money!, knowing people will not be saying "Our Tom does that, he learnt it on youtube"!

I have above-average manual dexterity. I am also very interested in Cognitive Psychology. The only place that I know of where these two things intersect is magic!
Primarily my interest is academic. Adulation comes a distant second.

Purely for the groupies. No other reason.

Purely so I can be Ted's groupie, no other reason.

I wanted to be Ted's groupie

There's room for everyone...

Ted wrote:There's room for everyone...

Wizard's Sleeve, Clown's pocket.

I don't know why, but after a few years of realising I far prefer writing material to performing it, I'm actually teetering on the brink of putting a show together for this summer. Only teetering, mind. I'm still looking for a core concept to build around. I might walk on with a pile of mentalism books, look through them, invite people on stage to hold them open at the right pages and play it for laughs - but with a real mentalism act going on underneath. Dunno yet.

The women...

... but seriously, because I've always loved doing it and so when it came to the point where I could earn a living from it I did. There's that famous saying where if you enjoy your work then it's not work. I feel that this applies well to me as it probably does to many of the magicians here that earn money from their performances.

Tomo wrote: I'm actually teetering on the brink of putting a show together for this summer.

Do it. You won't regret it. And that's a prediction.
I'll send you a mail...
T.

You do it Tomo, you'll go down brilliantly and will have great fun at the same time.

You must do it Tomo! i want to see mentalism with jaffa cakes

Stephen Ward wrote:You must do it Tomo! i want to see mentalism with jaffa cakes

"Ah so you think, that a Jaffa cake is actually a biscuit rather than a cake, well ladies and gentlemen, you've probably been wondering about the envelope hanging over the stage throughout the show........"