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My new occupation *UPDATED* :D

Started by Lies, November 02, 2009, 12:57:30 PM

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The Magic Society did at least seem to receive you well, so that's a good sign. Nice job on the new tricks.
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Triple Zero

awesome trick lys!!

for some reason--and even if I'm totally wrong about it, you might wanna adapt your act a bit to subvert that feeling--I feel you did the blindfold trick somehow by knowing the sequence of cards, and all you had to know was the first card and from there on you could predict the rest of the sequence.

even though I might be completely off about this, and I couldn't find you switching the deck at any moment (unless it was during a camera pan, but I doubt it), so I still have no idea how you actually did it :)

but you might wanna adapt the act a littlebit because the second, third and fourth correct cards, you do much too quickly. you say "I think it is ... ummmmmm" even before the guy holds up the card and the audience has a good chance to psycho-magicallipathically beam it into your heart, and you look like you are trying to *remember* which card comes next instead of receiving it via astrally activated audience anchors. I get a similar vibe when you are doing the writing down part, trying to count 21 cards into the stack.

You might want to act more like doing something very magical. Like Derren Brown says in one of his books, you could for instance act like it hurts, receiving the thought rays is giving you a major magical migraine. Point your hand at the stack of cards or the audience, like you're somehow "distance reading" the information from the aether or whatever. Meanwhile tell them something about Quantum bullshit and how everything is connected through the Quantum Inseperability Principle and the ERP paradox and why the LHC keeps failing. Ask two people for their birthdate, and someone for the minutes in the hour on their digital watch, use a bit of creative Law of Fiving to divine the next card from that, whatever, go wild :)

Either way, just some advice, if you want it, even if you did it entirely different way, try to not appear like your memorizing something and act out some crazy magical bullshit.

I loved the video anyway, keep it up!
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Lies

Quote from: Triple Zero on November 14, 2009, 04:46:18 PM
awesome trick lys!!

for some reason--and even if I'm totally wrong about it, you might wanna adapt your act a bit to subvert that feeling--I feel you did the blindfold trick somehow by knowing the sequence of cards, and all you had to know was the first card and from there on you could predict the rest of the sequence.

even though I might be completely off about this, and I couldn't find you switching the deck at any moment (unless it was during a camera pan, but I doubt it), so I still have no idea how you actually did it :)

but you might wanna adapt the act a littlebit because the second, third and fourth correct cards, you do much too quickly. you say "I think it is ... ummmmmm" even before the guy holds up the card and the audience has a good chance to psycho-magicallipathically beam it into your heart, and you look like you are trying to *remember* which card comes next instead of receiving it via astrally activated audience anchors. I get a similar vibe when you are doing the writing down part, trying to count 21 cards into the stack.

You might want to act more like doing something very magical. Like Derren Brown says in one of his books, you could for instance act like it hurts, receiving the thought rays is giving you a major magical migraine. Point your hand at the stack of cards or the audience, like you're somehow "distance reading" the information from the aether or whatever. Meanwhile tell them something about Quantum bullshit and how everything is connected through the Quantum Inseperability Principle and the ERP paradox and why the LHC keeps failing. Ask two people for their birthdate, and someone for the minutes in the hour on their digital watch, use a bit of creative Law of Fiving to divine the next card from that, whatever, go wild :)

Either way, just some advice, if you want it, even if you did it entirely different way, try to not appear like your memorizing something and act out some crazy magical bullshit.

I loved the video anyway, keep it up!

Cheers man, yes, I agree, it still needs a lot of work, as I've mentioned, it's something that I haven't really tried in public at all, it's got a lot of rough edges that need some smoothing out, but yeah, thanks for the criticism, I see what you mean in that it could appear I've memorized a deck and switched it.

It's not how I did it though, but I suppose that is another way of doing it.  8)
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as long as you don't become the next david blaine, you're 'alright' :lol:

Lies

Quote from: Lyris_Nymphetamine on November 15, 2009, 02:58:35 PM
as long as you don't become the next david blaine, you're 'alright' :lol:
Fuck David Blaine, he's a horrible magician and its amazing he got his own damn show.
- So the New World Order does not actually exist?
- Oh it exists, and how!
Ask the slaves whose labour built the White House;
Ask the slaves of today tied down to sweatshops and brothels to escape hunger;
Ask most women, second class citizens, in a pervasive rape culture;
Ask the non-human creatures who inhabit the planet:
whales, bears, frogs, tuna, bees, slaughtered farm animals;
Ask the natives of the Americas and Australia on whose land
you live today, on whose graves your factories, farms and neighbourhoods stand;
ask any of them this, ask them if the New World Order is true;
they'll tell you plainly: the New World Order... is you!

Lyris_Nymphetamine

Quote from: Lysergic on November 15, 2009, 05:33:07 PM
Quote from: Lyris_Nymphetamine on November 15, 2009, 02:58:35 PM
as long as you don't become the next david blaine, you're 'alright' :lol:
Fuck David Blaine, he's a horrible magician and its amazing he got his own damn show.
i don't even consider him a magician. he's a hack.

Lies

Quote from: Lyris_Nymphetamine on November 15, 2009, 07:05:43 PM
Quote from: Lysergic on November 15, 2009, 05:33:07 PM
Quote from: Lyris_Nymphetamine on November 15, 2009, 02:58:35 PM
as long as you don't become the next david blaine, you're 'alright' :lol:
Fuck David Blaine, he's a horrible magician and its amazing he got his own damn show.
i don't even consider him a magician. he's a hack.
Touche.
- So the New World Order does not actually exist?
- Oh it exists, and how!
Ask the slaves whose labour built the White House;
Ask the slaves of today tied down to sweatshops and brothels to escape hunger;
Ask most women, second class citizens, in a pervasive rape culture;
Ask the non-human creatures who inhabit the planet:
whales, bears, frogs, tuna, bees, slaughtered farm animals;
Ask the natives of the Americas and Australia on whose land
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Lies

This is my latest video I filmed for a performance for the magic society again, this was filmed on my swear in night, where I got to see all the secret meeting stuff that happens before anything else does and I'm now an official official magician, they gave me a book and a certificate and everything.

If you enjoy watching me recall random numbers, you'll love this.

The knights Tour.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZkoYqSpxhI

(It still needs some improving, I know, but it's mostly there :D)
- So the New World Order does not actually exist?
- Oh it exists, and how!
Ask the slaves whose labour built the White House;
Ask the slaves of today tied down to sweatshops and brothels to escape hunger;
Ask most women, second class citizens, in a pervasive rape culture;
Ask the non-human creatures who inhabit the planet:
whales, bears, frogs, tuna, bees, slaughtered farm animals;
Ask the natives of the Americas and Australia on whose land
you live today, on whose graves your factories, farms and neighbourhoods stand;
ask any of them this, ask them if the New World Order is true;
they'll tell you plainly: the New World Order... is you!