The stupid charity event exposed magic again...

That Moses Lim and Lion King... Sigh.

Well,

Justin you should'nt say stupid really...

They have the show to help cancer patients.

Heh,

But i sorta agree on the magic exposure part, they won't understand anyway.

Sign..All my classmates will surely be doin this durin readin period..then they'll sae, 'see, i also know magic!'..then i'll have to force a smile fer them.. <_<

Crap, I miss it again. Anyone knows the repeat?

Yeah, this sucks, forcing a smile and saying, 'yeah yeah yeah.'

What did they expose?

its sad to have the secret given away, but it is already quite exposed, plus i dont think it is really "magic".

all they exposed was the interlocking the hands together thing with the thumbs pointing down, but only the magician can turn his hand back up.

moses lim did a rabbit pan effect, quite poorly. i think it must have been obvious to the audience how it was done. at one point after the effect, he even flashed the BLACK gimmick to the cam accidentally.

Its sad to see magic has been cheapen to this state. But, still, who is to be blame?

I feel that it is none other than ourselves. People no longer need to dig up books to find methods to magic, all they do now is pay some money to get the method. And then they expose it intentionally, or unintentionally.

Well, i guess magic will no longer be the same anymore.

again i dont think its really "exposure". its some cheap trick.

the only thing was that i think the rabbit pan thing shud be done better.

I use the interlocking arms bit quite frequently. But I really doubt my performances will be affected.

People forget. Magic has survived numerous exposés over the years, and thousands of us still make a decent living off of it.

By Friday most people would have forgotten that they saw this. If you perform it for anyone on National Day, you will blow them away, even if they had seen this program and that particular segment.

Don't worry too much about the actual exposing. The main issue is the complete lack of respect they have for the art which lets them do this in the first place. How much respect will they have for you as a performer if they think all your effects can be esaily exposed?

Imagine telling a web designer or any IT person: "Aiyah, your job easy what, only use computer whole day."

They will maul you. :g:

- Raoul

I miss the show again... :( anyway don't worry about the exposure, it's your presentation that makes the tricks look magical, w/o presentation it's only a secret, no doubt it harms magicians but if you can present a trick nicely, your audience (even if they know how it's done) will still enjoy it...it's the overall presentation that create the magicial effects, not the tricks or secrets...

someone once told me this:

if you can make your audience enjoy your show, making them laugh (jokes not tricks), they'll forget everything even after you just expose (fumble) the secret to them...what your audience wants to see is your showmanship, not the secret...

I hope this help...

-Alan-

shall we maul them? :P

I think it's unfortunate that the general public opinion doesn't understand what magic is, as demostrated but the absolutely unnecessary exposure in the show.

But I'm not going to point fingers at the producers because they probably have no intentions whatsoever of hurting magic and they have no idea that what they do does damage the general opinion of magic.
I guess we have to take the respect for this art a little more seriously before others will respect it too. Hopefully, someday, we can all contribute to teach the public a little more about magic than "Let me teach you all how to play it"
B)

That is very true Alan!

I'd totally agree with you, i've seen the best tricks done by really skillful hands, but bored me to death. ;)

In my opinion, the people who exposed these effects shouldn't be blamed. After all, who doesn't want to perform the impossible for a 2 hour show? Its the people who thought these folks how to do the effects who should be blamed.

Its v true tat they expose magic.But u guys must take note, we are magicians and know how the trick is done.The public might not know if they do not see the trick behind it.That is y,i never say to my audience tat the above trick i gonna show u is blah blah blah...i say, the magic i gonna show u is blah blah blah..it sets people tink that does magic really exist?if u say trick, they will be busybodies and try to make u lose face..