Wednesday, 01 February 2012
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How to do magic
A magician's most basic job description is to consider the impossible to make it possible. When you would like to learn how to do magic, you have to first know precisely what exactly is impossible. In other words, what ordinary people think is not possible.
In most of magic, you can find only seven basic effects. Of course there are many than seven tricks on the market, but all of them is just a variation of those seven basic effects. These are:
Appearance: What the law states of conservation of matter says that you can’t make something from nothing. However, a magician says, “BOOM…flowers.”
Vanish: This is exactly the alternative of your appearance. A vanish is when you are taking something and turn it into nothing. This ought to be impossible, but magicians do everything enough time. Actually, it’s our most requested trick. People always ask me to create their mother-in-law disappear, but I don’t do this kind of thing. Instead, I send these to my Fat Uncle Tony. He’s a “magician” who focuses on making people “disappear”.
Transportation: Science tells us that nothing in the universe can go faster than the speed of light. Magicians just roll their eyes and shake their heads. A transportation effect can be a mix of both a vanish and an appearance. This is where you're making something disappear from place and INSTANTLY reappear in another place. Take that, science.
Transformation: An alchemist’s dream would be to turn lead into gold, but alas. Science says it’s a no-no. Fortunately, magicians say it’s a yes-yes. I suppose this could be considered another combination of a vanish as well as an appearance Body object disappears plus a different object instantly appears instead. For example, some magicians turn a red scarf into a blue scarf. I don’t make use of that crap; I just turn everything into beer and rigatoni.
Levitation: Gravity is relentless. However, magicians are relentless-er. We’ve found ways to provide the illusion that the object is floating with no visible means of support. Defying gravity is wicked. Under this category fall variations like “suspension” (making a physical object do a hopeless balancing act) and “animation” (making an inanimate object move alone). In order to learn how to do magic, then you’ve reached make stuff float. (Please, no jokes about how you possibly can make a root beer float.)
Penetration: This one is just described as solid passing through solid. Normally, at the atomic level, the force of electromagnetism would make this impossible. Obviously, magicians know ways around this. The favourite penetration I can think about happens when David Copperfield walked with the Great Wall of China. Oh, that product the time I put one fourth via a glass table.
Restoration: The final effect occurs when an object is destroyed and then put back together again. Magicians are notorious for smashing someone’s watch then magically repairing it (usually). David Blaine continues to be recognized to restore an inactive fly back to normal. Me? I haven’t quite got this down yet. I simply break stuff. Y’know…rules, molds, banks, ladies’ hearts…
To see an example of each one of these seven magic effects for action, check out this YouTube video called “How To Do Magic"
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