tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31238111.post4732311787566611288..comments2023-10-05T09:59:09.607-07:00Comments on Reverie: Searching for beautyTom Frankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17636917644087489492noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31238111.post-49784524140620879592008-09-25T13:51:00.000-07:002008-09-25T13:51:00.000-07:00How come you lowered the Stripper Deck price to $2...How come you lowered the Stripper Deck price to $25? Hahaha.<BR/><BR/>In all seriousness, keep doing what you're doing and it'll all work out. As the back-up Miami Sound Machine singer - Jon Secada says: "Things are only as important as you want them to be."<BR/><BR/>All the best!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03260443439456536403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31238111.post-52351694235471497372008-09-18T23:23:00.000-07:002008-09-18T23:23:00.000-07:00From reading and journeying on the Magical mystery...From reading and journeying on the Magical mystery tour... I've found that the difference between an audience and a crowd is this: An audience is a listening thing, individual people listening and watching you perform. They don't bond with one another, they are seperate from the other members of the "audience." While a crowd is an audience that becomes a crowd. There is a mentally shift akin to a mob. They have invested in one another. What happens to one in the audience has now happened to everyone when they become a crowd. They have bonded into a mob mentality, for good or ill, or "have now BECOME a crowd. They now laugh together and root for each other as one single unit.<BR/>Just my thoughts.<BR/>I am listening to Michael Ammars "Making Magic Memorable" cd. Watching you perform is akin to watching T.V. or a movie. It only employs the two senses, Hearing and sight. When you bring them into the show a whole raft of other senses are involved making the magic more memorable.One of the things he mentions. is the difference we as magicians need to give our audiences is the abilty to touch the item. Touch is extremely valuable. This also helps bring the "audience" into that bonding of a crowd I mention earlier. Bringing someone up to "help" you or tobe a "volunteer" allows that person to "represent" everybody else. People think, "that could have been me" and they relate as such. Then when they are a bonded crowd, when one tips, they feel it is appropriate for themselves as well, almost a guilt not to tip.<BR/>This is at least in theory from some Gazzo or other book I read.<BR/>Love you man! Good luck in the trenches!Timmy Jimmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08912839027758799339noreply@blogger.com