"If you missed this lecture, you wasted some of your ring dues! Ian performed a whirl-wind of effects using ropes, balloons, sponge balls, silks, thumb tips, flash cotton, and a variety of other props. At Applebees, afterward he showed some of his coin matrix effects that he didn't have time to include in the lecture. All of his effects were practical and most of them were doable with objects many ring members already have laying around in a drawer or box somewhere."
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Art form
Magic is an art form that has been parodied by amateurs. Like people who dress as mimes and think they are Marseil Marseau.
I rather think of magic as repertory theater. Magicians doing their rendition of classics (and non classics). Like any theater, you have professional theater and community theater. Anyone can get a script, but most only emulate a performance they have seen. Or, merely read the part. Others can get it right.
I think its is time for magicians to consider our art in this fashion.
I rather think of magic as repertory theater. Magicians doing their rendition of classics (and non classics). Like any theater, you have professional theater and community theater. Anyone can get a script, but most only emulate a performance they have seen. Or, merely read the part. Others can get it right.
I think its is time for magicians to consider our art in this fashion.
As a magical performer and inventor, I consider my part as the playwright who comes up with the lines and moves and directs the performer.
---Ian
---Ian
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