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Welcome to the "Dear Magicians," series. In this series, I discuss/rant on a variety of topics, both positive and negative, in the magic world. These videos will be addressed to magicians and I really encourage you to seriously reflect on the topics covered in these videos. If they apply to you, don't take offence but rather work on improving yourself to be the best version of yourself that you can be. I really appreciate you taking some time to watch this video. Enjoy!
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[pagmatic]

I used to "perform" like Peter Turner. I watched his videos and picked out stuff and showed it to friends. Most of the responses were "that's cool". I expected them to lose their minds! I went back and studied/copied it again and still minimal reaction. Why? I wasn't being original. I didn't have my own material and character. He recently said something that changed my way of magic: "Take your skill and turn it into language". Ta Da!

[chrisjamesmagic]

Thanks for doing this video. This is important. I get many people who say they are not creative. That’s like saying I’m not strong. If that’s the case then you go and work out. With creativity you work that muscle so to speak.

[ScottishDave]

I love the triumph effect. I also added the sloppy shuffle to it so you get three kickers from it.

First phase - the deck all arranging its self face down again ( if spread the deck tightly to hide their selected card )

Second phase - spread the deck and Their selected card being only one face-up

Third phase - give them their selected card, turn deck face up, and spread to allow them to put their card back in . To reveal that all the reds are together, along with the blacks al together.

It's nice easy strolling routine that gets great reactions

[CallousCoder]

Also something to do is take an effect and change the props. I love Andy Nyman’s Killer Elite — I love movies and the movie baddies is a great angle. I always loathed the poker chip! It made no sense in the context of these characters. Also I want to always have a pseudo psychological force or explanation.
So first I thought what can I use instead of a poker chip? What makes sense? Well since the are all movie bad guys a gun makes sense. They shoot each other one is left standing (no nonsense of lucky poker chip, Andy!) and we can prove it’s his gun proving his the survivor. There are basically two outs that involve that gun.
Then I still have the one out in the wallet but I made it so much more fun. It out Tony Montana in a black envelope, I take out his image and as I do a lot of white powder falls out. People know what that is of course and I snort it up and say: “it’s a shame to let it go to waste!”
So again I took the stock effect and a stock out and made it theatrical. The secret is, this powder is vitamin B powder — we use in special effects to have prior snort “magic dust”.
Now the default photos I changed. First of all the printed plastic cards look too “manufactured” I just picked real photos. But one is black and white (Tony Montana), One has a border, one has his name and one is landscape.
I never liked Andy’s performance: “that’s the survivor done”. It misses a last step. And in my case it’s: “why did you chose him as the survivor?”
They’ll give a reason which I don’t care i will say: “well that certainly helped. But I didn’t know that, it’s not like I can read your mind, let alone predict the future… I also nudged you, as you look, you subconsciously took the only person who has the name written in the image and it has a white border. This draws you in.”
Vice versa: “Did you notice it’s the only black and white photo of the 4? That is what stands out to your subconscious.”

And there’s a lot of by play because I use a tiny key chain gun. So I can say: “in a moment you will grab my tiny gun into your hands and gently squeeze it… the trigger it is, 3 times. Now be careful as my tiny gun has been known to prematurely discharge… well in actual fact this doesn’t fire and the trigger doesn’t even work…” most of my effects have sexual innuendo or blatant teasing.
Like with a lie detector: “I want you to lie convincingly… I’ll have my work cut with you as you are obviously pathological liar. 😅” and it gets a laugh from him, and the audience. Mentalism is too boring and somber without good jokes and cheeky remarks.

[jones]

I love your evocative imagery with this trick. It's the best Triumph patter I've heard that puts all the cliché presentations to shame.

OK, I can't improve on that but I might try a science-y spin: After the sloppy shuffle, say the face-up/face-down cards are like magnetic particles with their polarity all jumbled up. Have the spectator rub their chosen card to give it an extra "charge" & then lose it in the "chaos".

Take out a Joker or Ace (maybe on the table from the beginning) and say you can use it like a magnet to help flip particles from North to South. Now, (presentation twist) instead of spreading all the cards for the reveal, take the top block of cards and swipe your Joker to "depolarize" those particles. Spread to reveal them all face down. Take the bottom block and swipe to "depolarize" and then spread them.

Lastly, take the remaining middle chunk and "depolarize" them saying that all the particles will now be flipped except, perhaps, the chosen card with the extra charge imparted by the spectator. I like this chunky reveal because it uses the rule-of-three to build suspense for the big reveal rather than a single long spread.

[CallousCoder]

Most magicians aren’t engineers/problem solvers and to make it even worse not even creative writers. You can take a standard effect and make it your own with your own engaging patter using standard effects even. But most just regurgitate the performance and patter. Let alone create an original method.

I made a living for 12 years creating high tech mentalism solutions for my own show. Just to stream line it. From stuffing printers into table and making them wireless before wireless printers existed to electronics to know what thing was picked up from a box.

To having a computer reading my mind using text to speech and speech to text as a two person code.

[scevr]

0:25 I think we should NOT look at comments so that we don’t copy someone’s idea lol

[goodbug]

Okay im not looking at the cmments, Btw my magic character is called sticmman he loves choclate syrup and he has really intense mood swings, I come out with some cards nad i say i will do the stupidest card trick in the world!!! then i keep dropp[ing cards with the shuffle and it becomes all mixed and im like oh crap my momma like piles, you take pile you shuffle(basiclyh get the whole group in on it, getting them doign a casino wash face up and face down, Then ima talk about how each of us have stupid and smart thoughts, and then i tell them this with better presentation while culling, and then ask them to pick a card, and have them sign it and talk about how this card is like them, like this is who they are in paper, like orogami them or cardbox that. Anything they want!!! now i finish up and the ending is like how the face up are smart thoughts and the face down are stupid, and there card is the only one face down, so me being so stupid failed the trick by making them be the stupid card and i get very confused and happy. and then i transitiion into the world fastest card tircM<!!!

[themagicbuzz]

Good video Sir thank you. I genuinely invent my own patter because I most often can’t execute many skills lol. I do practice incessantly but try to be way to diverse lol. Rather than narrow my magic love focus I make up stories to work around my shortcomings. Sounds bad but at least 75% of the time it works. I suppose it’s cheating but that’s magics crazy cousin right?!

[mbcxts]

I don't have a problem with people copying other magicians routines if they've paid for the trick. Yes originality should always be encouraged but the vast majority of people have only seen a magician live a few times, so the chance of you performing a trick they've never seen before is very high. The problem is when you're booked for an event by a booker, they definitely want magicians who are different and that's where being original can be very beneficial because it can lead to repeat bookings.