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  1. Mike.Hankins

    Happy Birthday T11

    And tonight...I shall MAKE toast for your continued success. Nevermind...I don't have a toaster...
  2. Mike.Hankins

    Camera tricks are okay to use in magic

    Terrible for who? If you had someone who was just a terrible actor and the other spectators around found out that there was a stooge involved, yes. It would be terrible... Just like using gaffs in a deck. Nothing at all wrong with it. Using a gaffed card is a lot like using a stooge in that...
  3. Mike.Hankins

    Camera tricks are okay to use in magic

    Stooges are used all the time... In my bar gig, I had one of the bartenders who was off and just "watching", help withvan effect that we performed each night, twice a night. The idea I had was to INTENSIFY the effect for the spectator, and guess what? It did. The effect I did could not have been...
  4. Mike.Hankins

    Camera tricks are okay to use in magic

    If the camera tricks are used CORRECTLY, ala Blaine...then nothing is wrong with using said prop to intensify the magic... Same thing with stooges...
  5. Mike.Hankins

    Camera tricks are okay to use in magic

    I will have to respectfully disagree. Blaine used camera tricks in his specials to benefit effects that normally could not be performed on national TV without a camera cutting away...There is nothing wrong with that.
  6. Mike.Hankins

    Criss Angels Calls Dynamo a "Copycat"

    What do you mean, "Copperfield got decked for less"?
  7. Mike.Hankins

    How to be an expert at anything

    I think it would be that other 5% that end up being the "trendsetters". The ones that we end up following and learning FROM.
  8. Mike.Hankins

    Where Magic Becomes Pure Beautiful Art

    There are several definitions to what the word "art" means...here are but 2... The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture,...: "the art of the Renaissance" Works produced by such skill and imagination. So if...
  9. Mike.Hankins

    Where Magic Becomes Pure Beautiful Art

    So I showed this vid to my fellow co-workers, and while I respect that the guy came up with an interesting idea for a color changing deck routine...some of us became a little "lost" by everything that was on the table. Literally. Some of us got a little bored and some of us enjoyed parts of the...
  10. Mike.Hankins

    What is an entertainer?

    Some people no matter how hard they study or who they learn from, will NEVER be a good performer.
  11. Mike.Hankins

    Creating an effect ?

    I know for a fact that what you say is true. My ex-wife is a dance teacher and has been teaching and has choreographed dances for MANY MANY years...for very well known people in the dance community. She always encouraged them to continue to try to make up their own moves and their own...
  12. Mike.Hankins

    Creating an effect ?

    In all honesty I think an important piece of information is being left out here: Social media... Go back 17 years ago when I first started really taking magic seriously. (Not that long ago, I know)... To learn and study, books were really the only way to go. (Unless you had the opportunity to...
  13. Mike.Hankins

    Creating an effect ?

    There are people on this earth who are just creative. Point blank. 2 names come to mind...Dan Hauss and bSmith. (I sit next to bSmith everyday and trust me, he is full of crazy ideas.) My version of Cannibal Cards came to me because of the TYPE of effect I wanted to create. I wanted to put my...
  14. Mike.Hankins

    Working Theatre When Copperfield's In Town

    Ummmmmmm, what?
  15. Mike.Hankins

    My Thoughts on Pirating Magic

    You may be right...but I am speaking on personal experience. A magic shop I used to go to, there was this guy...an idiot of a guy, who used to pirate magic DVDs and then sell them to the kids and even some adults for a smallllll smalllll fee...like $5 a pop. Never saw a good performance out of...
  16. Mike.Hankins

    My Thoughts on Pirating Magic

    It's interesting... A study done by NC State proved that the illegal downloading of albums prior to release actually increased record sales. This is not the first University to have conducted this 'experiment' either. With the magic community being so small, I doubt this same sort of idea...
  17. Mike.Hankins

    My Thoughts on Pirating Magic

    I couldn't agree with you more about piracy. However, and it's a BIG however, I do have one thing to add to the topic. But first let me say what pirating will do: It will make you a horrible magician/entertainer. We cherish the things that mean most to us, especially if we paid a pretty penny...
  18. Mike.Hankins

    What's your favorite Theory11 color change?

    Harbor Change is pretty good.. :)
  19. Mike.Hankins

    Magic Shops and You

    I think people who run magic shops should some how team up with sites like Theory11, Ellusionist, and Penguin. Unfortunately, who knows how much longer shops will be around. It seems its all moving to PDF, Online, Instant downloads and DVDs...which can all obviously be purchased from online sites...
  20. Mike.Hankins

    The Chop Change

    I would also suggest not being quick to put a name on a move if you haven't done the proper research to ensure it is in fact original. :)
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