My name is Ben Nemzer and I'm a magician.
One of my specialties is close up magic, which
is magic with ordinary objects, decks of cards,
ropes, rubber bands and I do that all over
New York City.
I'm going to teach you some of the basics
of magic that you guys can start performing
right away.
So, some obvious pitfalls that people have
or some big mistakes that people make when
they're trying to be a magician is to try
to be like somebody else, the only way that
you can really be good at what you're doing
is to be yourself and whatever you do, do
in a way that is really honest to who you
are.
Even whether you like them or not, people
like David Blain and Chris Angel and David
Copperfield, Doug Henning, anyone who's been
famous in magic or in almost any field is
because they're doing their thing.
And if you try and copy their thing, no one
wants to see a copy, everyone wants to see
an original.
Don't be the next so and so, be the first
you and that's I think number one.
