For starters you claim your grandma knows nothing about magic and yet you state that she said which I don't believe, but if it 's true how would she know what a pass is unless someone has told her.

Second if you die would you like to be buried in? A KISS coffin or A Criss Angel coffin because that's what it's getting to... Criss is putting his name and/or logo on too many things.

Third I will say that the woman in two and champagne bucket on the spectator hands and others like it are cheesy effects, but you can't expect him to do sleight of hand all the time because he's not entertaining the magicians watching... he's entertaining the general public who have little or no magical knowledge.

And finally I will say that there is absolutely nothing wrong with him exposing tricks on TV because it's not ruining anything for anyone... what he's doing trying to build a interest in magic for aspiring magicians... getting there feet wet in a sense and hopefully there they'll make the next step and head to a real or online magic shop and start learning more.

And if you think it's a way for Criss to promote his DVDs you're right because it may happen but once people finish watching them... they may go off and learn more from other magicians and start defining a style.

I completely disagree that pulling apart a woman is a cheesy effect. Maybe as a magician it seems that way because its blatantly obvious to us as to how it works-

but people that don't know how it works will swear pulling someone apart right in front of them is absolutely impossible, and that Angel had to use cgi for that illusion.

If you look at Angel's videos posted by people on youtube as well, that is one of the most commonly posted videos because its one of his most talked about effects.

As for the other stuff, I agree mostly.

However, I have to admit, I'm starting to wonder why magicians are so against stooges and camera tricks now.

I used to agree it hurts magicians who perform daily, because it does. It can make our performances look much worse at times under the right conditions.

But then once I began working towards posting my own videos on myspace, I realized that I too can do the things Angel is doing on tv on my media-- the internet.

My point is we are no longer at a disadvantage to tv magicians because we have the internet as our media now, which means the camera and/or stooges are at our disposal as well now.

So why not use them? Tv magicians are using them, so what is the difference between them using it on tv and us using it on the internet through things like myspace or our websites?

Tonto, is that you??? Your scaring me.

lol

yeah its me.....

maybe I'm turning to the dark side or something lol....

idk I'm just not seeing why not to use stooges and camera tricks moderately anymore since I realized they are available to all of us..

If more magicians start using camera tricks and stooges then even more people are going to expect us to do the impossibly impossible, and personally I don't want to have to deal with people asking me to levitate 15 feet into the air or make a card appear inside of someones skull. Of course those are pretty extreme situations, but it gets the point across, camera editing and stooges are bad for business, at least in my oppinion.

Now keeping a camera at an angle so as not to expose an effect is completely different, that is just having the camera at the angle that the spectator would be in, and is simply protecting the secret.

-Matt

I agree with Mat!

Yea but it was darn fun to see the faces of those people

hey i have a question what the heck is a stooge

Stooge is an assistant who masquerades as an audience member.

thnxs man

Also Larry, Moe, Curly



Sean

And don't forget Shemp!

A stooge is a small, furry, clawed marsupial that will attack at random.
Dont get near a stooge, it might just be the last thing you ever do

But really, what famous magician doesnt use stooges?

i hope that is a joke

O_O if what your saying is serious then you can just forget magic being a true art.