Like every beginner in debbling in magic, i tried to get fame by coming out with stupid theories and moves and later realise they've either been done before, or just plain stupid. Anyways, heres 2 of the better ones.

[A]

The spectator's attention is uniform to that of the magician, wherever the magician is diverting his attention to, the spectator will follow suite.

and;

[B]

Everything is magic has a purpose, purpose can be different for magician and spectator.

For hypothesis [A], it simply means that whereever the magician is interested on doing (dealing a card, revealing a card, talking etc.), is where the spectator is interested in, and msot probably be looking at. If you recall all the greg wilson's deck 'deck disappearing' tricks, he is able to do what now magicians call distractions because he is talking, attention it to his face, instead of the cards. This hypothesis is just made to make the term 'distraction' more defined.

As for hypothesis [B], it was something i noticed when i was reading through some of penguin magic's tutorials. I noticed a number of their tricks required you to do things that you cannot account for, and the only (weak) explaination is that you were fumbling/messed up abit etc. Thats porbably the reason why hecklers get into your heads while you're performing. I feel that if tricks as such are handled to you, one should revise it and try to smoothen the whole act. Next time you do excessive squaring up after the spectator 'puts his card in the middle of the deck' (after the pass), you either give a reason for that, or just do the sleight really really well.

Just to define things up a bit. :ph43r:

I think you meant misdirection. This is a very important thing in magic.

yeah misdirection and distracting the audience.

do u seriously mean "distraction"?

even misdirection may be a misnomer. misdirection should be the control of audience's attention, making them think that the unimportant is important. this will work for the magician as well as u dont have to do much as the audience will want to look at what they think is important. (eg. introduction of a new object)

i seriously think its the blending of both elements :P

I think these two ideas can be summed up in two phrases:


Attention Control

and

Motivation.


That's all :P

-Kev