Comments on: Man in the Mirror

By: Jeff Stone

Jeff Stone — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 04:28:51 +0000

In reply to OldZombie. @OZ - What about producing an 8 ball from an 8-track.

By: OldZombie

OldZombie — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:26:05 +0000

Here is a thought, many laptop computers now a days have built in webcams that can be used to record videos. You can use that to video your hands while at the same time seeing them on your monitor like a mirror. I have done this while working on my Zarrow shuffle, worked quite well.

By: Jeff Stone

Jeff Stone — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:32:58 +0000

@PEto - Thanks for the tie in to Michael Jackson. It's funny how the whole Jackson theme came out purely by accident. But man it fits or more levels than I thought it would. Speaking of Michael Jackson, if you haven't seen the Moonwalk Montage on YouTube, go check it out. It's incredible.

By: PEto

PEto — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:01:21 +0000

As I have been helping one of my son’s with some new effects that he is working on, I was reminded how easy it is to let the excitement of a new trick get the best of me and want to rush right out and do it for the “public”. Patience “young grasshopper”…Need more time to “wax on, wax off”. It is the extra “mirror” time that will allow the performer to truly perform and not be thinking about the “moves” of the trick. Just like Michael Jackson looked so natural and smooth when he was dancing. Sure some of it was pure natural talent, but part of it was the dedication to practicing his craft.

By: Jeff Stone

Jeff Stone — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:15:58 +0000

@magicmind Thanks for that. It made me smile. 🙂

@Steven I definitely a fan of RMM. I’ll second your plea to have people sign up. If you’re not a subscriber, you should be.

By: Jeff Stone

Jeff Stone — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:12:52 +0000

@Mathias. Thank you. That’s one of my major goals with this column . . . get people to really search their souls when it comes to magic. Also, the reason I wrote it is because I had forgotten as well. I needed a wake up call too!

By: Steven Dickinson

Steven Dickinson — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:50:26 +0000

Great article, and a funny read and thanks, I thought I had Michael Jackson’s songs out of my head and now I will have to wait another week for them to leave again. 🙂

This goes great with the video article “Try This At Home” by Garrett Thomas in the latest REEL Magic Magazine (issue 11). I highly recommend it. http://www.reelmagicquarterly.com/

We need to break it down to the basics.

By: magicmind

magicmind — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:46:23 +0000

I prefer practicing moves in the car….wait…let me explain.
riding in the passneger seat on a sunny day, you can see the reflection of your hands in the window on the door….great perspective for cleaning up the moves that you know look good straight on.
After practice and with some audience managemnt, to get them in the “car door view” your moves will look much smoother and invisible.

By: Mathias

Mathias — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:16:08 +0000

Thank you for this article. Recently I felt that my passion was slowly diminishing, reading this gave me somewhat of a ‘wake-up’ call.

By: Jeff Stone

Jeff Stone — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:00:45 +0000

In reply to Tony Chapparo.

Awesome. It’s funny. I almost didn’t write this post because I thought that it would be perceived as too simple, too basic, or even too weak, but as it happens, a lot of people have forgotten their roots. See what I did there… ROOT as in Roots and Branches. 🙂