I disagree with the author.
by
alex26i
11/02/2009, 8:42 PM #
I am a magician, and I perform for kids as well as adults. Kids are great. And there are a lot of bad magicians. When it comes to Magic performance is everything. Of course Kids and adults TRY to figure it out, as a puzzle. Some people hate to be fooled others love it. It is all the degree of the personality and how they have perspective in the world. Some kids will think it is MAGIC, others will think it was a trick. If you want to know about KID magic, then lookup a magician named "Chris capehart" One of the best in the buisness. He started by doing magic on the streets of Newyork. He knows people and kids better than anyone I have ever meet out of the 1000's of magicians I have known he is the best kids magician.
One of the biggest mistakes that many of child magicians make, is they believe since they are kids they are easy to fool. Most kids are harder to fool than adults. Thier thinking is simple and many time this is the answer. They have Very strong focus and are smart. There are many magicians that go into magic because they believe it is easier to fool a kid and helps to pump thier ego with the idea they believe they won't get caught with simple magic.
The job of the magician isn't to fool the kid, it is to Make him/her feel great and to give them a good memory to grow up with. It is a way to create a crazy world where the rules seem to bend for a little while. Much like Big bird. I have been doing magic for abotu 6 years and it always delights me the different perspectives and ideas that kids and adults come up with and the way they see the world. So when you see someone like simon you must know that he is a thinker not a dreamer. Many other kids didn't try to figure anything out but saw the white of the rabbit and the silver of the pan. When they grow up they will remember the smells sounds and the egg.
I still would like to give respect to the ideas the author had, but this is so much more to this than just the KIDS love magic. They love cereal and Tv too. They crave many things.