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I just Joined 2 days a go.I'm 14 i started magic at the age of 12.My specialty in magic are card tricks i love flourishes.im really good at flourishes.
i also love Street magic.my favorite magician is David Blaine.
i dont like criss angel he uses camara tricks 2 much .Magic and camara tricks are whole different subjects.


What is your specialty

ellusionmarco wrote:Magic and camara tricks are whole different subjects.

Hello and welcome to TM!

Just to start a controversy on your first day here, I'd say that magic and camera tricks are very similar. Magic is deception, right? (Unless you believe in real magic, which is another matter...) (Hopefully), nobody agonizes over doing a DL because it's deception. As was in another recent thread, we "entertain people by fooling them". Camera tricks are just another form of deception...

For example, I love Derren Brown's show Trick of the Mind. I think he's a genius and a born performer. However, I also know that he frequently uses off-camera work (e.g. asks someone to write down their chosen number but doesn't show that on camera). Therefore, do I call his show rubbish? No, I think it's great. If a camera trick will produce an entertaining and magical result, by all means go for it.

However, the thing to avoid is when camera tricks remove the entertainment. For example, if you make a video of a card change where there's an obvious cut in the middle, that's not entertaining. The trick is making sure that the end result is magical .

I'm rambling now (HELP!!! I'm too young to degenerate into meaningless conglomerates of words elephants monitor sprinkler aaarrrgghh sorry ) so I'll stop before I write anything too inconsistent and incomprehensible.

Kati

katrielalex wrote:

ellusionmarco wrote:Magic and camara tricks are whole different subjects.

Hello and welcome to TM!

Just to start a controversy on your first day here, I'd say that magic and camera tricks are very similar. Magic is deception, right? (Unless you believe in real magic, which is another matter...) (Hopefully), nobody agonizes over doing a DL because it's deception. As was in another recent thread, we "entertain people by fooling them". Camera tricks are just another form of deception...

For example, I love Derren Brown's show Trick of the Mind. I think he's a genius and a born performer. However, I also know that he frequently uses off-camera work (e.g. asks someone to write down their chosen number but doesn't show that on camera). Therefore, do I call his show rubbish? No, I think it's great. If a camera trick will produce an entertaining and magical result, by all means go for it.

However, the thing to avoid is when camera tricks remove the entertainment. For example, if you make a video of a card change where there's an obvious cut in the middle, that's not entertaining. The trick is making sure that the end result is magical .

I'm rambling now (HELP!!! I'm too young to degenerate into meaningless conglomerates of words elephants monitor sprinkler aaarrrgghh sorry ) so I'll stop before I write anything too inconsistent and incomprehensible.

Kati

Thanks I see your point.

ellusionmarco wrote:my favorite magician is David Blaine.
i dont like criss angel he uses camara tricks 2 much .Magic and camara tricks are whole different subjects.

I do not quite agree i think David Blaine uses more camer tricks and gimmicks. FOr example when he did the balducci levitation he used camera tricks too look like he was 2 feet off the ground. He also uses the raven and the cigarette through coin tricks, both which can be bought from www.penguinmagic.com

Criss Angel is a little more daring as one can see in his TV special although i feel not everyone will agree with me for some reason. One example is when he does the barrell drop or sets himself on fire.

Both are entertaining tho.

What does criss angel use for the voodo doll trick. some say its black magic what do you thing.

i still think criss angel uses more camara tricks
For example when he walks up the wall.

I really liked the water to beer trick that was crazy.

but i agree david blaine does use camara tricks
and gimmicks.

I have no idea how he does it but it was really good.

I also liked the water to beer trick awsome trick.
is there another trick out there like it.

Hi ellusionmarco, welcome to TM.
You'll find many cardicians around these boards.

I am not sure...i wonder how he did that trick

hi i just joined 7 days ago.
i hope you like the site as much as me

wELCOME TO TM