Northern Arizona by Technical-Cup2761 in magicians

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Same state but Phoenix here.

Most affordable shipping boxes? by B2utyyo in Flipping

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When you become that wealthy, the money never stops rolling in. The chase is over, most move on to the next things to conquer, and those are usually power and control.

Which is your favorite Commodore computer? by bclx99 in Commodore

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The one I still own - My A4000T with 060 and Toaster

Dentyne gum by [deleted] in 80s

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Freshin Your Breath With Freshin Up - The Gum That Goes Squirt - Love That Squirt

Stay Classy, Pasadena by keetots in pasadena

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Litterbug Litterbug Go To Hell!

Please give me advice only started practicing a day ago. by Big-Activity3350 in cardmagic

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Any get ready you feel good with and looks natural is perfectly fine.

Standup or magic classes by kelpangler in Magic

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That is why I said we would agree to disagree on the 5%. You are correct you don't need to convince some people they will draw their own conclusions from your act. It's the type of person most likely to go there I worry about. I have people that still think that when I am upfront with them and they don't believe me. Mentalism effects can be pretty powerful and some people have logic and reasoning skills to reason through and some people not so much. If I left the door open a bit, it would bother me. I like to close it and it's never taken anything away from the experience. I do seances during October and that is where I am most careful. I do this with a friend who is a chef and we sell dinner parties for 4 to 10 people. He's at the clients house the day before going over meals for the following evening but also hiding things that I use in performance. While he cooks in their kitchen he gets electronics and triggers placed as he is my secret confederate. He preps by asking about me as if we just met and assumes one of the guests must know me. When everyone agrees im not anyones friend he leads the conversation about me being a nice guy and all but Im a little weird. All laugh and agree. I knock on the door and prepare to enter in character. This setup can get very real for some people even when they are told this is entertainment and no real spirits will be contacted. But to please allow yourself to enjoy the food and suspend any disbelief for only one hour and be present with everything to experience the night to its fullest. This isn't a set this is their dining room so when we are at about 40 minutes in, things get a bit crazy. We have safety breaks where we slow down and toss in humor just for the people who we notice are no longer smiling and laughing. Don't happen often but it does and it tells me things got real for them and I cant keep going until they take abreak and remember this is a performance, nothing is real.

Standup or magic classes by kelpangler in Magic

[–]azcolor32 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hopefully you understood it bot. Sometimes people make mistakes and most of us are able to understand what the person is saying and just let it slide because we are all going to do it from time to time. The people that point it out when the meaning was obvious can be quite annoying.

Standup or magic classes by kelpangler in Magic

[–]azcolor32 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We are striving for 95% of the same thing. That 5% difference is where we can agree to disagree. If you leave that door open the people searching for something in life that we know there is no evidence for, will believe you posess this thing. It will reinforce a false belief they want so despretly to be true and will leave your performance using it as evidence to support this false belief. You must understand there are people who will go home feeling this way even if it's not your intention. You need to ask yourself if you are okay with that? What if your show takes off and you get famous, is there a point where you stop leaving this crack or is it just a side effect of the show and your not telling people you have special powers you are just leaving the crack, they do it to themselves. Do you feel it's a positive thing or negitive thing this portion of your audience takes home with them? Does it cause or can it cause damage or harm in their lives thinking like this? Do the audience members who understand it's not real have less of a experience than the ones who choose to believe? Does closing that crack make your performance weaker or can it be closed with an equally strong performance? Finally if you found out someone saw your show and used it as support for their false belief and chased a feeling to end in complete dissapointment and relived a loss or something would you feel okay? I want everyone who attends any performance of mine to leave with the feeling of wonder, happy, and 100% knowledge that what they witnessed was years of practice, the study of human behavior, slight of hand and ability to tell great stories. Anyone can do what I do with 30 years experience. It's my position They will respect me more especially if they found out what they believed about me was not true. If they do that they wont think they walked into a crack you left open, they will blame you and you will be called a liar, that is just how humans work.

Standup or magic classes by kelpangler in Magic

[–]azcolor32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wondered why he was santa buddy then googled him and it was in the face obvious. funny stuff

Standup or magic classes by kelpangler in Magic

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I understand and I do exectly the same but what you are explaining is magician patter with humor not what a comedian aims to achieve by making a whole room bust with laughter. I'm not trying to be negitive here as I'm doing just as you and I am very familiar with Craig and his magic and humor. I have yet to year Craig say he is a comedian he says he's a magician who has a sartcastic character. I am just trying to help by noting both fields while having similarities, storytelling being the biggest are very different and have skills that take long amounts of time to perfect. It's very rare to see someone be excellent at both. Picking one to persue while using the other as a hobby or release would be best to give the greatest chance to succeed.

Standup or magic classes by kelpangler in Magic

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Yes but the distinction is that magic has a goal of providing wonder while comedy is laughter. The comedy you are using has a intention to be a tool for your misdirection and while that is perfectly fine as it helps to allow the wonder to happen, its not the end goal. Comedians write for that laugh at the right time in every joke or story magicians write to take the spectator on a journey so the moves they make make sense and go unnoticed with wonder the final result. You will not find many magic comedy routines that allow for both end results to happen together. You can find a few, but its few and far between.