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- September 15th, 2014, 12:26 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Harry Lorayne's Wife Rene has Died
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7760
Re: Harry Lorayne's Wife Rene has Died
So saddened to hear of this Harry, sincerest condolences. Fond memories of you on the many Saturdays at the 42nd St. Cafeteria. I only remember Rene from her lovely picture you included in Close Up Card Magic -- one felt one knew you both.
- November 29th, 2013, 4:21 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New Blaine Special
- Replies: 41
- Views: 11123
- November 29th, 2013, 3:40 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Shin Lim performance
- Replies: 65
- Views: 15696
Re: Shin Lim performance
I loved what he did, presuming the video reflection was not edited film. Visual magic, pure artistry, whether one happens to like the particular art work or not. An excellent example of magician's craft of illusion. No pretense. Little reliance on character acting. Lovely. And I for one did not see ...
- November 27th, 2013, 8:11 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New Blaine Special
- Replies: 41
- Views: 11123
Re: New Blaine Special
Guimaraes and Delgaudio appear to be doing very well in NYC with card tricks, a lot of personality, and great presentations.
- November 27th, 2013, 12:19 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New Blaine Special
- Replies: 41
- Views: 11123
- November 12th, 2013, 11:51 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Copperfield: World’s Most Powerful Person
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1134
- August 18th, 2013, 11:11 pm
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Skeptics including Randi & Swiss
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6407
Re: Skeptics including Randi & Swiss
Bill -- JT has an extraordinary mind -- sometimes he gets carried away. I often enjoy the game of trying to decode him, if I have the time. At other times I just ignore. Everything you said seems very human and understandable. It takes a lot of work -- there is reward in learning something new, when...
- August 18th, 2013, 9:02 pm
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Skeptics including Randi & Swiss
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6407
Re: Skeptics including Randi & Swiss
I am not a grammar cop, but I found subject and verb to be inferred. Dunno. Could have misread and stand ready to be corrected.
- August 18th, 2013, 6:28 pm
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Skeptics including Randi & Swiss
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6407
Re: Skeptics including Randi & Swiss
I liked Jon's post because it introduced me to words that are part of the English language, interesting in sound, that I do not recall hearing before. That he was able to use them in a coherent sentence that expressed an opinion about the subject at hand, was to me impressive. No attempt to paraphra...
- August 17th, 2013, 7:00 pm
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Skeptics including Randi & Swiss
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6407
Re: Skeptics including Randi & Swiss
Houdini always made a distinction between religious beliefs, such as belief in the afterlife, and mediums, who used trickery to deceive bereaved people. He didn't quarrel with spiritualism, even, as a religion; only with mediums. And I think he recognized that some people who claimed to contact the...
- August 16th, 2013, 11:32 pm
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Skeptics including Randi & Swiss
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6407
Re: Skeptics including Randi & Swiss
Great article about the Skeptics movement, of which Randi and Swiss are exemplars.
- July 18th, 2013, 1:21 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Forward on Jewish Magicians
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1284
Re: Forward on Jewish Magicians
Shane Baker wrote:Nice article in the Jewish Daily Forward (English edition) about Jews in magic:
http://forward.com/articles/179810/meet-the-new-generation-of-jewish-magicians/?p=all.
Amazing article, and the video of David Blaine at TED is very impressive indeed.
- July 16th, 2013, 10:21 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: RIP Jan Howlett (David Ben's Wife)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5622
Re: RIP Jan Howlett (David Ben's Wife)
What a brilliant and dynamic person we all have tragically lost. Sincerest condolences to Mr. Ben
- May 17th, 2013, 10:19 pm
- Forum: Tenyo
- Topic: There Was a Rabbit Explosion in My House Today
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4121
Re: There Was a Rabbit Explosion in My House Today
Hell, my rabbit exploded before I even got it home.
- April 11th, 2013, 10:29 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Trailer for new Magic Film, Now You See It-And It Looks Good
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1148
- February 20th, 2013, 10:45 pm
- Forum: Alternative Media
- Topic: prominent blog praises Sleights of Mind
- Replies: 37
- Views: 7484
Re: prominent blog praises Sleights of Mind
The parts of their work that should concern us (as magicians) are those that expose methods and practices that magicians have generally agreed should be kept secret. That is of only passing concern to me -- exposure has always existed, and this is but a drop in that bucket. (although I kind of rese...
- February 20th, 2013, 9:18 pm
- Forum: Alternative Media
- Topic: prominent blog praises Sleights of Mind
- Replies: 37
- Views: 7484
Re: prominent blog praises Sleights of Mind
Not what we do -- what they do. The predicted appreciation of magic would be incidental, as the book was not written for that purpose. My point is that this should not cause us any concern.
- February 20th, 2013, 8:32 pm
- Forum: Alternative Media
- Topic: prominent blog praises Sleights of Mind
- Replies: 37
- Views: 7484
Re: prominent blog praises Sleights of Mind
Maybe so Bill, but I am not sure I would personally care whether a scientist has a precisely accurate understanding of how magic works in performance or not. I would even suggest that there is no demonstrable harm to magicians in this, but potentially useful benefit to the public in helping them fo...
- February 20th, 2013, 3:54 pm
- Forum: Alternative Media
- Topic: prominent blog praises Sleights of Mind
- Replies: 37
- Views: 7484
Re: prominent blog praises Sleights of Mind
But the problem lies not just with their book (which is presumably intended for an intelligent, but non-academic, audience). It is also with their academic articles. These articles are filled with the same presuppositions about how magic works, and are just as wrong. To the extent that these academ...
- February 20th, 2013, 2:03 pm
- Forum: Alternative Media
- Topic: prominent blog praises Sleights of Mind
- Replies: 37
- Views: 7484
Re: prominent blog praises Sleights of Mind
I have read the book also. I think it is key that it was not written for magicians. If magicians read it hoping to gain insight into magic craft they will likely be disappointed. It is written as a popular-level exegesis about recent learnings in the field of neuroscience. It is scientific. Most peo...
- February 3rd, 2013, 12:49 pm
- Forum: Columns
- Topic: Tom Stone's Definition of Magic
- Replies: 45
- Views: 32238
- February 3rd, 2013, 12:43 pm
- Forum: Columns
- Topic: Tom Stone's Definition of Magic
- Replies: 45
- Views: 32238
Re: Tom Stone's Definition of Magic
I think we might need the word illusion in there, or something to the effect of "presenting something seemingly impossible." I do not agree. There can be magic without illusion, and even without impossibility. If I put a playing card on the table, you name a card, then turn over the table...
- February 3rd, 2013, 12:29 pm
- Forum: Columns
- Topic: Tom Stone's Definition of Magic
- Replies: 45
- Views: 32238
Re: Tom Stone's Definition of Magic
Tom Stone wrote:mrgoat wrote:Magic: When you make someone feel, even for a split second, like a 6 year old on Christmas Eve.
Depressed?
LOL :-)
- January 4th, 2013, 10:42 am
- Forum: Alternative Media
- Topic: Clarke found it effective
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1598
- December 31st, 2012, 8:15 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Sausage Magic...and more
- Replies: 1
- Views: 914
Re: Nice cull
$15 and several years of practice later. His execution is very impressive methinks.
- December 22nd, 2012, 3:31 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Is this magical ... or just creepy?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2391
- December 22nd, 2012, 3:21 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Trailer for The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
- Replies: 1
- Views: 586
Re: Trailer for The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
Thanks for the link -- looks great! Releases in March.
- December 15th, 2012, 5:16 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Juan Tamariz Kicks Some Mighty ASS!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3652
- December 13th, 2012, 10:34 pm
- Forum: Alternative Media
- Topic: Tommy can you hear me?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 926
Re: Tommy can you hear me?
Well, I knew about most of those, but they really had me on the go cart track!
- December 11th, 2012, 10:43 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Absurd Cups & Balls Routine!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5092
Re: Absurd Cups & Balls Routine!
Just showed it to my wife and she loved it. What the hell do I know.
- December 11th, 2012, 9:08 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Absurd Cups & Balls Routine!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5092
Re: Absurd Cups & Balls Routine!
So what if it seems "borderline psychotic"? It's an incredible theatrical presentation. If you don't like theater in your magic, then it's not for you. Perhaps so. I do appreciate the skill of the performer, but I do not find the skit effective dramatically or magically. Dramatically the ...
- December 11th, 2012, 12:34 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Absurd Cups & Balls Routine!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5092
Re: Absurd Cups & Balls Routine!
Yes, frustration I agree, to an extent that seemed borderline psychotic. That I think detracted from the magic, whereas Cardini's good nature about the whole thing seemed to enhance it. For Cardini's character, magical things were happening. Yann's character seemed to resist it at every moment. The ...
- December 10th, 2012, 11:41 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Absurd Cups & Balls Routine!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5092
Re: Absurd Cups & Balls Routine!
Cardini was tipsy, and very understandable. I found myself asking what ailment our main character suffers from in this vignette.
- August 25th, 2012, 1:12 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Ricky Jay in NYC
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8847
- July 1st, 2012, 7:46 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Final five
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6054
Re: Final five
No problem about being off topic. I frequently go OT myself. Part of what Geller will lecture about is how to achieve what he has. It seems to me that there's a real interesting difference between the way magicians romance the lives of people who cheat at gambling, while simultaneously condemning p...
- July 1st, 2012, 12:55 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Final five
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6054
Re: Final five
Quite so Mr. Goat. To JT's point, we can account for the magic in a way that feeds credulity, as does Mr. Geller so skillfully, or in a way that playfully jolts the creative imagination. I think we do have a choice. Clearly if we do not account for the magic they will, to RK's point making us defact...
- May 12th, 2012, 8:38 pm
- Forum: Other Magic Publications
- Topic: Something troubling in Steinmeyer's new book
- Replies: 123
- Views: 45154
Re: Something troubling in Steinmeyer's new book
Umpa, I appreciate your scholarly approach though I will stay out of the way of the argument over what is or is not in the public domain. Unlike say general education, whose aims are usually agreed upon as for the common good, no one cares if the next generation of audiences is amazed by magicians m...
- April 8th, 2012, 7:28 pm
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: Who invented Bowling Ball from Briefcase ?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 26708
Re: Who invented Bowling Ball from Briefcase ?
Bowling ball or basketball from briefcase -- same effect as impossibly large final loads for the chop cup. Same effect as producing an elephant from whatever have you on stage, or a brick from under a hat. These things are only a matter of scale. Substituting an elephant for a tiger has technical hu...