There may be such videos out there, but I can tell you from many years of being a successful street magician that you can’t learn it that way.
You need to go out and do it. If you already have some magic skills, sharpen them a bit more and go out and give it a shot. Every street performer has to find out by doing what works best for them. No rule fits all.
Sadly there isn’t much of a profession left in street performing. The streets in modern America are kind of cruel, and people are bored and distracted. The hay day of this was back in the seventies and eighties, but folks got burned out from too many street performers all doing the same ten things… which is why I don’t think you can contribute much to the field by studying a video.
The only way you’ll ever be successful is to find your own style and then go for it, doing it over and over, tossing out what doesn’t work, building on what does.
#1 by universitymongoose on August 28th, 2009
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There may be such videos out there, but I can tell you from many years of being a successful street magician that you can’t learn it that way.
You need to go out and do it. If you already have some magic skills, sharpen them a bit more and go out and give it a shot. Every street performer has to find out by doing what works best for them. No rule fits all.
Sadly there isn’t much of a profession left in street performing. The streets in modern America are kind of cruel, and people are bored and distracted. The hay day of this was back in the seventies and eighties, but folks got burned out from too many street performers all doing the same ten things… which is why I don’t think you can contribute much to the field by studying a video.
The only way you’ll ever be successful is to find your own style and then go for it, doing it over and over, tossing out what doesn’t work, building on what does.
References :
experience: ten years in Central Park as a street magician 1974 to 1984
Five years on Mallory Pier, Key West