Consigli per iniziare ed imparare la Magia di Jason England
Inviato: mer ott 14, 2015 9:10 am
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https://www.theory11.com/artists/jason-england
E' in inglese, parla soprattutto di Cartomagia, ma e' sicuramente da leggere e capire, soprattutto il punto 3.
What advice would you give to someone starting out learning magic?
Well, there are many things I'd like to tell someone just starting out, but I'll limit myself to just three for the purposes of this response.
1. Learn from all available sources in these approximate ratios: 85% from books and 15% from videos/DVDs/instant downloads. Stay away from YouTube. If you're an expert, you can navigate those waters, although I don't see why any sane person would. Beginners will only get themselves in trouble trying to emulate what they see there. If you had access to a good teacher, you could alter that ratio a bit, but it works pretty well for everyone else.
2. Get a solid grounding in the 20th century classics. It will help you more than any other single thing you can do. If you're interested in card magic, you need to read, in no particular order:
The Royal Road to Card Magic - Hugard and Braue
Expert Card Technique - Hugard and Braue
Scarne on Card Tricks - John Scarne
Card Control - Arthur Buckley
The Encyclopedia of Card Tricks - Hugard
The Expert at the Card Table - S.W. Erdnase
Close-up Card Magic - Harry Lorayne
The Cardician - Ed Marlo
Dai Vernon's Inner Secrets Trilogy - Lewis Ganson
Dai Vernon's Ultimate Card Secrets - Lewis Ganson
The Card Magic of Paul LePaul - Paul LePaul
The Revolutionary Card Technique Series - Ed Marlo
Greater Magic - Hilliard
The Dai Vernon Book of Magic - Lewis Ganson
Stars of Magic - various contributors
Only after you read the books on the list above should you seek out more modern books. Card College is an excellent series and one I recommend. The same can be said of the Card College Light series. Any book by Juan Tamariz is also excellent. The books by Darwin Ortiz are must-haves for anyone serious about card magic.
3. Don't look horizontally for information, technique or advice. Look vertically. This is something that I first heard from Darwin Ortiz during a discussion I was having with him regarding mentors. Darwin used the phrase "looking horizontally" versus "looking vertically" to refer to the peculiar manner in which "internet" magicians seem to look to their peers for information, when what they should be doing is looking to more experienced performers and established experts. You see this all the time in online forums. Someone has a question, and instead of "looking vertically" by sending an email or PM to the person that could likely best answer their question, they put it out in front of the entire forum membership. What you wind up with is, at best, an answer by committee. Frequently, the most experienced professionals, with the most insight into the problem or question at hand, don't even bother to answer. Why should they waste their time composing a good response when it's likely to simply be drowned out by the herd of incoherent and moronic replies from the non-experts? Even more ridiculous, are the idiots that begin their "answer" with this disclaimer: "I don't actually use move XYZ, but here's my take on the matter." If I still haven't convinced you, let's change the subject matter and you can see how ridiculous looking horizontally is. If you had a question about a potentially deadly disease that you think you might have, and you had to use the internet to find out information about it, would you really bother asking your questions on a forum full of first-year medical students and then try and sift through all of their guesses, speculation and nonsense, or would you track down and ask a few recognized, board-certified specialists in the field? I think the answer is obvious. If you really want a worthwhile answer to a serious question, look vertically.
https://www.theory11.com/artists/jason-england
E' in inglese, parla soprattutto di Cartomagia, ma e' sicuramente da leggere e capire, soprattutto il punto 3.
What advice would you give to someone starting out learning magic?
Well, there are many things I'd like to tell someone just starting out, but I'll limit myself to just three for the purposes of this response.
1. Learn from all available sources in these approximate ratios: 85% from books and 15% from videos/DVDs/instant downloads. Stay away from YouTube. If you're an expert, you can navigate those waters, although I don't see why any sane person would. Beginners will only get themselves in trouble trying to emulate what they see there. If you had access to a good teacher, you could alter that ratio a bit, but it works pretty well for everyone else.
2. Get a solid grounding in the 20th century classics. It will help you more than any other single thing you can do. If you're interested in card magic, you need to read, in no particular order:
The Royal Road to Card Magic - Hugard and Braue
Expert Card Technique - Hugard and Braue
Scarne on Card Tricks - John Scarne
Card Control - Arthur Buckley
The Encyclopedia of Card Tricks - Hugard
The Expert at the Card Table - S.W. Erdnase
Close-up Card Magic - Harry Lorayne
The Cardician - Ed Marlo
Dai Vernon's Inner Secrets Trilogy - Lewis Ganson
Dai Vernon's Ultimate Card Secrets - Lewis Ganson
The Card Magic of Paul LePaul - Paul LePaul
The Revolutionary Card Technique Series - Ed Marlo
Greater Magic - Hilliard
The Dai Vernon Book of Magic - Lewis Ganson
Stars of Magic - various contributors
Only after you read the books on the list above should you seek out more modern books. Card College is an excellent series and one I recommend. The same can be said of the Card College Light series. Any book by Juan Tamariz is also excellent. The books by Darwin Ortiz are must-haves for anyone serious about card magic.
3. Don't look horizontally for information, technique or advice. Look vertically. This is something that I first heard from Darwin Ortiz during a discussion I was having with him regarding mentors. Darwin used the phrase "looking horizontally" versus "looking vertically" to refer to the peculiar manner in which "internet" magicians seem to look to their peers for information, when what they should be doing is looking to more experienced performers and established experts. You see this all the time in online forums. Someone has a question, and instead of "looking vertically" by sending an email or PM to the person that could likely best answer their question, they put it out in front of the entire forum membership. What you wind up with is, at best, an answer by committee. Frequently, the most experienced professionals, with the most insight into the problem or question at hand, don't even bother to answer. Why should they waste their time composing a good response when it's likely to simply be drowned out by the herd of incoherent and moronic replies from the non-experts? Even more ridiculous, are the idiots that begin their "answer" with this disclaimer: "I don't actually use move XYZ, but here's my take on the matter." If I still haven't convinced you, let's change the subject matter and you can see how ridiculous looking horizontally is. If you had a question about a potentially deadly disease that you think you might have, and you had to use the internet to find out information about it, would you really bother asking your questions on a forum full of first-year medical students and then try and sift through all of their guesses, speculation and nonsense, or would you track down and ask a few recognized, board-certified specialists in the field? I think the answer is obvious. If you really want a worthwhile answer to a serious question, look vertically.