"Magic 101: The Ethic
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.
Ethics in any art form especially in magic
are very important and it's kind of the dos
and the don'ts of what's respected within
the community.
I think first and foremost is creative property
is probably the biggest issue in magic and
basically if you come up with an idea, it's
yours.
A lot of people like to steal other people's
material.
And something to think about especially if
you're trying to become a magician or learn
magic through these how cast videos is if
you see something just cause you see something
that somebody else performs doesn't mean that
now you can perform it the same way that their
doing it.
A lot of time maybe somebody created an effect
or an illusion or a trick and they're the
only ones doing it because they created it
and you should respect that.
Another big important thing is exposing magic.
And I know it almost sounds redundant why
am I teaching magic with how casts if you're
not supposed to expose magic but there's a
huge difference between showing somebody how
a trick is done and teaching them a trick
that is appropriate for their level of magic
at the time.
And now everything I'm teaching you here is
very rudimentary, beginner magic and it's
a great way to get started as to learn some
really cool beginner magic.
You can even go to the library and pick out
some books 793.8 is the call number.
But you don't want to just give away tricks.
There's a huge difference between teaching
tricks and teaching how a trick is done.
Exposure is number 2.
It's a very big thing.
There's a very important rule in magic that
you know that can be broken if it's done correctly
but it's you don't do the same magic trick
twice for the same group of people.
And when you do magic you want to instill
wonder.
You want someone to be surprised.
You want them to not know how it was done.
You want it to be magic.
You don't want it to be a puzzle.
You don't want it to be the spectator against
the magician.
You want everyone to be on the same side.
And if you do a trick for somebody once, they
don't know what's going to happen, they're
blown away, their having fun, it's exciting.
And then as soon as somebody says do it again
they know what's going to happen and now all
of a sudden it's not a situation where you're
going to experience magic it's a puzzle and
someone watching it with a different mind
set and their watching it to figure "
