I personally hate gimmicks and all tricks that use gimmicks or some form of device that does all the work for you, i want to get everyone elses views on gimicks. I personally have never used a gimmick, maybe the odd duplicate card but nothing like the biting a coin in half or the deck with a hole all the way through or that raven thingy these are items you use to impress someone, no skill, no practice nothing just a trick. For example Blaine and the new guy dynamo, Blaine, used some good old fasion card techniques but he edited a lot and i mean A LOT of his work to make the tricks look better for the viewers at home and to make himself look better than he is. Now what is the point in doing that, it really annoys me to see him do this. And the new guy dynamo loves his gimmicks and by repeating what david Blaine does in the united states in the streets of england isn't anything new or impressive its just the story behind his magic (nothing more) that has put him on telly. Magic is amazing when you can do it anywhere with anything or someone elses deck of cards, that is good magic not here i have a deck of cards in my pocket watch this coin wrapped in flash paper burn its way to your card. Gimmicks really do not impress me personally and quite franky (edited out) !!! please share you views.
