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The Holy Grail - it is always in the last place you look!

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The Holy Grail - it is always in the last place you look!

The Holy Grail - it is always in the last place you look!

Working in PropDog, I’m amazed by the constant stream of new products being launched every week, and the fanfare and hype from the producer pre-launch, followed by the mellow sense disappointment from the magician post-purchase.

It is a vicious circle. Magicians are looking for the big thing to launch them to riches and stardom or at least impress their mates in the local. The magic industry is feeding this desire with over produced, carefully edited magic porn trailers for under-developed poorly made gimmicks which shouldn’t have seen the light of day.

Now once in a while there is a WOW gimmick or Double Cross but in between is a colossal amount of effects too bad to use but too expensive to throw in the bin.

I can’t help but feel a laziness is letting the simple art and craft of magic become a world of 3D printed flap card magnet thread poop. 

Magicians should take a step back from the world of consumerism to look inside themselves and find an inner peace with not having the latest bling trick. But take the path less travelled, the harder longer path of careful study. Experience the trial and failure as you work on something personal and the reward as a unique piece of art is forged from hard graft, the holy grail you have been looking for.

Alex

2 Comments To "The Holy Grail - it is always in the last place you look!"

gary on 07.09.2020
Are shops not just as guilty for selling rubbish they really should not let rubbish be sold on their websites? I don't mean PropDog. Reply to this comment
Gary on 21.06.2020
3D printed flap card magnet thread poop! What wasn’t this the name of the article?! Totally agree with this, I’m deffo guilty of being dazzled by the glitzy lights of a new product. But I love reading through old magic books. As useful tip, I use a free app called Adobe Scan, I can photograph the pages of the book I like, and it converts the pics into nice clean PDFs. I save the PDF to my google drive (again free) that way I have my own little library of the best effects without having to claw through my bookshelf trying to find that one great trick, and can access it anywhere I have internet. Reply to this comment

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