did you read my post

read again, here il help

I just read your post agan why did you want me to read it agan?

David Blaine is a good magician. Is he skilled at sleight-of-hand? NO. He is a good magician because of his good misdirection and presentation. He did get lucky when he got on TV.

I am going to disagree with you when you say that he is bad at slight of hand if you cant do slight of hand good then you cant do magic.

I am not shure if you realize this or not, but shows like chriss angel - mindfreak would have come around anyway. eaven tough blane was the first with a major street magic show, if he didn't do it someone else would have. As far as the effects go, chriss does not use actors the difference between chriss and blane is simple. Blane used stuff that has ben around for a while now, and chriss comes up with new illusions. Illusions that really pack a punch. Just becouse you cant figure out how it is done does not mean its camera tricks.
ALSO on a presonal opinion, magic a lot of times is about acting, and chriss is a way better actor than blane. Blane has the kind of monotone like when he "spit" the snake into the backpack.... Not having the monotone he had might have ben better.

While i dislike Blane i have to agree with you on one thing, Blane is a great magician, yes at slight of hand, as well as misdirection).
The man is not too popular, or liked... But he is good i wil give him that. Mabe as far as great.

i said in my post a bunch of stuff including:



in response you said a bunch of stuff including:



see were im goging?

Regardless if you like him or not, saying that is absolutely absurd.

-Tony

I dissagree Blaine did not invent Street Magic, He just got lucky with it on TV. Street magic has been around for century's, and can you tell me a trick Blaine invented?
-Team Buzz

I did not say he was bad at sleight-of-hand, just that he was not really good. And you can do magic without sleight-of-hand.

I dont know how you could do magic without slight of hand.

And this was my response If david Blane did not make magic more poppular then how did he get you into magic.

Self-working tricks. Not the best, but no sleight-of-hand.

Actually that's not true. Most "self working tricks", especially card tricks do require a bit of sleight of hand. For example: take a "do as I do" card trick. MOST are coined as "self working" but still involve a few very simple "moves." I mean where is the brightline for self working where it goes into "sleight of hand." I mean there's no real such thing as a "self working" trick. Otherwise there would be no need for a magician to perform the trick.

While I agree with you that he did not invent street magic, I have to disagree with you when you say he got lucky. Luck has nothing to do with it. David Blaine put together a solid team (including Paul Harris, who helped him come up with the "street shaman" persona that everyone here has been criticizing). You dont just end up on TV by luck, he put together a team and worked to get a studio to back him. Pitching an idea to tv executives is a lot of hard work. It wasnt luck that got him on tv, it was vision and hard work.