Magic Tricks

I'm a seAfter only watching 3 effects this lecture pisses me off already...

First of all, "Word Search and Destory", the theme and concept is fine...but the "MixMaster Force" just doesn't look natural. Yes, it is better than the hot rod spelling force, but it's still not good. The classic double sided pick, to have the spectator drops the pick on the table, and remove the face down one just looks so much cleaner. Or you can use the method in Max Maven's "Nothing" DVD to force one, either way it's better than "MixMaster Force"

"School of Rocks", the way he performed it, just make it looks like he failed predicting Spectator'a thought of band, and just trying to cover it up with bunch of card tricks. Wrong premise given in the beginning for spectator to expect. Say if you wanna take a chance of hitting, when you fail, at least makes it look like it's a gag on purpose or light hearted joke. It just look awkward the way it's presented.

"George and Abe", many sleight are used in this routine, but the sleights aren't chosen correctly, there are many sleights to choose from that can make the routine much more natural and clean. The shuttle pass was a poor choice of solution for the transposition effect, for example, a "pointing transfer" will look way better as a solution. The sleight where he "pushing the thumb in" just doesn't look good, of course it can fly in the real world, but there are much better choice of sleights out there......

After watching these 3 effects just pissed me off, because with the advanced of technologies, we get to learn so much about magic and we can get any information we want. This is ART of magic going backwards, not forward, I'm pissed off and I can't fisnishing watching the rest of the lecture!