If you feel this pertains to you then please read this and take no offense as this is simply the observations of a newcomer here at the forums.
It seems as though people have become lazy to a point that makes no sense. You ask the email of a person in a post that requires roughly a minutes time, yet google would take that same amount of time if not less. What reasoning is their behind this, what logic is rattling around in there?
Habits are something I have grown fond of and it truly does help to have good ones. One of those is not succumbing to any sort of laziness if possible, like taking an extra two minutes when I'm a bit tired to take out the trash or some mundane chore that takes little to not time.
Applying this to magic would of course be directed at presentation, because frankly that aspect of this performing art has long since been lost from the newer generation. They will be the biggest move junkie you've seen in your years of magic but won't spend two minutes on a simple story to go along.
Nobody will spend the ten seconds to ask audience member's name in a performance, the lack of control to speed through the effect because you want to see their reactions at the conclusion of the effect.
I have no idea where this laziness comes from, because I know many of you read some of the amazing posts out there by some of the more seasoned members here. You know what is to be accomplished yet very few of you take the initiative. Well I have come to some reasoning as to why this could possibly be.
First let me tell you a quick little chat I had with a 14 year old amateur magician. Great kid, very nice and wasn't a kiss ass like most kids are, no offense to anybody. I saw him perform in the mall, he was asking for advice, and everything he could have possibly done wrong was done. I had a nice chat about the details of things he should change to really the get the best performance out of every effect.
Well two week later and this kid did nearly a complete 180 in everything he did. His sleights were already fine but they seemed honed as if he was paying attention, his presentation wasn't to shabby for something not really tried. He did another performance for the same sort of group of people and he blew them away, to be honest I doubt I could have gotten any more astonishment out of the group.
Now that you know this little story I'll tell you why he was able to do something so amazing that some of you only dare to read about. He tried, simple as that but I can't put all the blame on one party really. This generation has been growing up on videos and very few of you understand the fine details of a presentation. You think you need some sort of five to six minute presentation when it's not even that.
Nobody seems to put the intiative to find out, however very few of us mention something like this. How long should it be, what should it appeal to, what sort of things are best in your presentation? Simple things that could ignite some sort of spark in people. It doesn't take that much effort to make it that much more amazing.
Now if you get to this point then thank you for reading this if it pertained to you. I plan on writing my thoughts on the finer details of presentation when some other veteran members post some of their ideas. Just remember that you can only be pushed so far, can't be holing your hand the entire journey.
It seems as though people have become lazy to a point that makes no sense. You ask the email of a person in a post that requires roughly a minutes time, yet google would take that same amount of time if not less. What reasoning is their behind this, what logic is rattling around in there?
Habits are something I have grown fond of and it truly does help to have good ones. One of those is not succumbing to any sort of laziness if possible, like taking an extra two minutes when I'm a bit tired to take out the trash or some mundane chore that takes little to not time.
Applying this to magic would of course be directed at presentation, because frankly that aspect of this performing art has long since been lost from the newer generation. They will be the biggest move junkie you've seen in your years of magic but won't spend two minutes on a simple story to go along.
Nobody will spend the ten seconds to ask audience member's name in a performance, the lack of control to speed through the effect because you want to see their reactions at the conclusion of the effect.
I have no idea where this laziness comes from, because I know many of you read some of the amazing posts out there by some of the more seasoned members here. You know what is to be accomplished yet very few of you take the initiative. Well I have come to some reasoning as to why this could possibly be.
First let me tell you a quick little chat I had with a 14 year old amateur magician. Great kid, very nice and wasn't a kiss ass like most kids are, no offense to anybody. I saw him perform in the mall, he was asking for advice, and everything he could have possibly done wrong was done. I had a nice chat about the details of things he should change to really the get the best performance out of every effect.
Well two week later and this kid did nearly a complete 180 in everything he did. His sleights were already fine but they seemed honed as if he was paying attention, his presentation wasn't to shabby for something not really tried. He did another performance for the same sort of group of people and he blew them away, to be honest I doubt I could have gotten any more astonishment out of the group.
Now that you know this little story I'll tell you why he was able to do something so amazing that some of you only dare to read about. He tried, simple as that but I can't put all the blame on one party really. This generation has been growing up on videos and very few of you understand the fine details of a presentation. You think you need some sort of five to six minute presentation when it's not even that.
Nobody seems to put the intiative to find out, however very few of us mention something like this. How long should it be, what should it appeal to, what sort of things are best in your presentation? Simple things that could ignite some sort of spark in people. It doesn't take that much effort to make it that much more amazing.
Now if you get to this point then thank you for reading this if it pertained to you. I plan on writing my thoughts on the finer details of presentation when some other veteran members post some of their ideas. Just remember that you can only be pushed so far, can't be holing your hand the entire journey.
im too lazy to read that whole thing.
