The Magicanada Project

Liam · Joined: 30 Dec 2007 Posts: 424

Well first off, i would drastically alter the patter if i wanted to do this where the people might leave. Ei: table hoping
Second of all,
they care because, as i stated, i am going to show them something they wont see anywhere else. Not great motivation. But also, i tell them that this is much more impossible than anything they have seen yet in the show.
In essence there is no reason for anyone to give a danm about any magic trick. Think about it. If a trick actually accomplished anything worth doing i would be mass produced and sold to normal people.

Danm, Reuben Kazeem Mabubbi, you got me thinking of a justification and now i think my entry was crap due to the lack of one...

Well from all of the think i've done over the last year the two ways to justifie what you are doing are:
-Demonstration
-Story

I'm sure in not the first to come up with something like that, but that is what i've come to.

And i guess that my effect is a demonstration.
The magician is demonstrating a skill that no one has.
I'll try to come up with something better Razz

Teddy, i gotta ask:
Was your entry inspired by mine?
Not accusing, just asking.
Just because both of ours have to do with moving energy, and you also didnt vanish a match at any point. You didnt even put it in your fist Razz

Good job so far everyone!

Reuben The Great · Joined: 11 Sep 2007 Posts: 245

Hey Liam, liked your phrase about the magician displaying a skill nobody has.

After creating absolutely shit effects, with absolutely garbage justifications I realized how garbage they were. Discussing how cards have weird molecular properties that allow them to morph back together, how cards are like b rothers and have a complex dna structure-- after the meeting with Ben, i was like; wow, everything I perform is garbage.

Like Ben said, if they were to have the waiter deliver their food mid performance, they should tell the waiter to wait.
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Liam · Joined: 30 Dec 2007 Posts: 424

yes that is a nice question to ask yourself
i think they probably would during mine, just to see where i'm going with it.

Reuben The Great · Joined: 11 Sep 2007 Posts: 245

For me, they'd be like,

YO WAITER! YOU TRIPPIN' BOY? THIS SHIZNIT OVER HERES IS PERFORMING SOME MAGICO! MAAAAAAGICO! YOU GOTS TO BE KIDDING ME UP IN THIS BURNIN' HOUSE!

And my card is STILL on the top!
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Ben Train · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 268

For the record, I can count on one hand the number of times people rejected food, or asked a waiter to wait...

In theory though it's a nice idea.

So, check this out:
I started a routine talking about global warming and how we're elminating a season...

what? What the fuck was I talking about? Who cares?

Doesn't matter. Why? It was the starting position for an effect premise (and method). The end result involves me being a psychic and solving a murder mystery.

Oh this one:
Someone picks a card and I predicted it. Who cares, right? Well, now it involves them going on an adventure (less gay then it sounds...) to win some prizes, and ends with me being a princess (ok, maybe it is as gay!).

The moral? Don't worry if you start week. As long as you keep certain things in mind and finish strong!

Ben
p.s.
I'll show the first trick I mentioned, with the weather/psychic/murder, at my lecture.

teddy · Joined: 31 Aug 2007 Posts: 166

Liam · Joined: 30 Dec 2007 Posts: 424

Another entry:
The magician demonstrate mastery of sleeving techniques iwth a flaming match. Basically, he secretly throws a flaming match up his sleeve, across his chest, down the other sleeve into his other hand. Without extinguishing the flame.
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Michael Kras · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:04 pm Post subject:

The magi, feeling spunky, wants to woo all the chickadees at a sock-hop and decides to prove what a daddy-o he us.

He whips out his pack............ of cigarettes, removes one of the cancer sticks, and flicks it up into his mouth to show off his wicked cool skills. In the same far-out fashion, he produces a book of matches and tears a single match out of the book with speed that would make Jack Kerouac titter. He then proceeds to light that baby up, striking it sharply against his stubble. The DJ stops playing 45s, the dancers stop hand-jiving, and the entire party screeches to a halt. They watch in silence, waiting for the magi to light his cigarette. Oddly, he makes no motion to do so... just holds that burning match plenty far away from the cigarette between his lips. Suddenly, without warning, the flaming match just seems to melt away, becoming an object of nothingness. Eve Arden SHREIKS and points at the magi's face.... shockingly, the cigarette between his lips is now alight and smoking! The magi walks outside to finish his cigarette, while Johnny Casino and the Gamblers get on the stage to perform their rendition of Love Me Do.
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Liam · Joined: 30 Dec 2007 Posts: 424

Ben Train · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 268

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