Wednesday, 01 February 2012
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How to do magic
A magician's most elementary job description would be to go ahead and take impossible to make it possible. When you need to learn how to do magic, you should first understand specifically what is impossible. Or in other words, what ordinary people think is impossible.
In most of magic, there are only seven basic effects. Obviously there are other than seven tricks on the market, but every single one of them is simply a variation of those seven basic effects. These are:
Appearance: The law of conservation of matter says that you can’t make something from nothing. However, a magician says, “BOOM…flowers.”
Vanish: This is often the opposite of the appearance. A vanish happens when you take something and change it into nothing. This should be impossible, but magicians do it all enough time. In fact, it’s our most requested trick. People always ask me to produce their mother-in-law disappear, however i don’t accomplish that kind of thing. Instead, I send these to my Fat Uncle Tony. He’s a “magician” who focuses on making people “disappear”.
Transportation: Science lets us know that nothing inside the universe can go faster compared to the speed of light. Magicians just roll their eyes and shake their heads. A transportation effect is really a mixture of both a vanish and an appearance. This is the time you're making something disappear from one place and INSTANTLY reappear in another place. Take that, science.
Transformation: An alchemist’s dream is usually to turn lead into gold, but alas. Science says it’s a no-no. Fortunately, magicians say it’s a yes-yes. Perhaps this could be considered another mixture of a vanish plus an appearance - one object disappears plus a different object instantly appears instead. For example, some magicians turn a red scarf right 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 approaches to give the illusion an object is floating without visible means of support. Defying gravity is wicked. Under this category fall variations like “suspension” (making a physical object do an impossible joggling act) and “animation” (making an inanimate object move by itself). If you want to learn how to do magic, then you’ve got to make stuff float. (Please, no jokes about how exactly you may make a root beer float.)
Penetration: This one is just called solid passing through solid. Normally, at the atomic level, the force of electromagnetism will make this impossible. Of course, magicians know ways for this. The favourite penetration I will think about happens when David Copperfield walked through the Great Wall of China. Oh, might time I put 25 % via a glass table.
Restoration: The last effect is when an object is destroyed and then put together again. Magicians are notorious for smashing someone’s watch then magically repairing it (usually). David Blaine may be known to restore an inactive fly back to normal. Me? I haven’t quite got this down yet. I just break stuff. Y’know…rules, molds, banks, ladies’ hearts…
To see a good example of each one of these seven magic effects doing his thing, look at this YouTube video called “How To Do Magic"
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