87/ Met a card mechanic named Sal Piacente. I could not tell his false shuffle from a real shuffle. He was SCARY good It was the only time I've completely gone "Okay, clearly I have NO ability to discern what is or isn't real, I give up"
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88/ One day I want to make an act that somehow turns Godel's Incompleteness Theorem into a magic premise. Hold me to this
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89/ Idea: renovate a school bus. 1 half is living space, the other half is a fold out stage. Tour the country, performing anywhere I can park. Invite people on to enjoy the show. Yes, I want you to hop on the magic school bus
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90/ I want to do this in a show. Play with multiple contradictory back stories. Play with the how performance and magic is allowed to lie, but we still sorta want truth.... but do we really? Maybe we just want fun and people are bad at making shit up.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1179956848285216769?s=20 …
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Venkatesh Rao @vgrI think the reason I liked the Heath Ledger joker so much besides the performance itself was that they deliberately screwed around creating an unreliable origin story. The fact that he tells multiple contradictory stories is the best part. https://batman.fandom.com/wiki/The_Joker_(Heath_Ledger) …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
91/ I'm gonna busk this summer! This excites and terrifies me! One reason I'm so attracted to this is because of how much of an "unhackable test" it is. Many agree, if you can make it on the streets, you can make it anywhere http://paulgraham.com/lesson.html
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92/ "how do you recover from fucking up a magic trick?" You're biggest advantage is that the audience has no idea what is supposed to happen. If you completely change plans on the fly because something fucked up, they might never even notice
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93/ Some moments are so strong you need to let them breath. After one trick I do, I avoid eye contact and pretend to look for something in my pocket, so that they can have the space to freak out without me going "That was crazy, right, right,right?"
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94/ you: The cups and balls have been around for thousands of years, there's no way you could do anything new with it— jason latimer: YOU DARE TO CHALLENGE ME MORTAL!?!?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJN1iMOfgAc …
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95/ If you're gonna be weird, you have to play it serious. Boldly stride forth and be the most confusing entity that these poor suckers have every encountered. Let Jonathan Burns be your guiding lighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkX0p-LqcAg …
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96/ ("we just had a fight" 69) The CIA once brought on magician John Mulholland to teach their agents how to be sneaky, spiking drinks and whatnot There is an official government document title "The CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception" https://archive.org/stream/cia-manual-trickery-deception-2009/cia-manual-trickery-deception-2009_djvu.txt …
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holy shit this is part of MKULTRA what an amazing book
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