belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
sounds kinda like the attitude of my brother (who writes teenage fiction) towards that Rowling woman - 'no, she isn't any good, her plotting is terrible. No, I'm not jealous of her in any way shape or from.'
Derren Brown - how he does it *spoilers
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sounds kinda like the attitude of my brother (who writes teenage fiction) towards that Rowling woman - 'no, she isn't any good, her plotting is terrible. No, I'm not jealous of her in any way shape or from.'
Griff
Feeding the foxes
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
Two and an 'alf. Or possibly 3 and a quarter, depending on how you count 'em.
I always getting chatting to them at events, though. I love magic, me.
He's a love rat magician.
spirals
Something uber witty here.
How do you know he isn't famous?
But I did ask him that and got muttered at too
As far as I can make out his gripe is that Derren Brown is not a better magician than a lot of the ones currently on the scene, he is just far better 'packaged'. Also Derren originally was a magician (his first book on magic was recalled and is hugely valuable because of this) and then vanished (in a puff of smoke no doubt) before reappearing as a spooky super cool mind reader and this has gotten up a few old school type magician noses.*ETA* And he's jealous of course
I don't think it helped that they have met several times and Derren came across as quite arrogant. I've never met him so can't comment on that.That is what I use to win people round to him and it usually works. Dunno why I am so bothered but it annoys me that people associate him with people like Blaine etc. when is completely different.
Well, quite.
How would he know someone had just dyed their hair or that they were thinking about going to live in America?
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
This is precisely why the magicians I know like him, though. He's found a fab new way of presenting the same old rubbish. And he's made magic popular again as a consequence. Most magicians would take the view that anything that increases the appeal of the Art is, on balance, a good thing.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
corrected for you
elevendayempire
Registered Loofah
Though it's a piece of piss to find it on the torrents.
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
I like it.
(The mundane explanation is that I know four people that indulge in magic. Some of them take it seriously and some of them are proper friends, hence my flippant arithmetic)
fogbat
The Talibum
To be fair, he has a point about Rowling.
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
He's quite brilliant. The people who amuse me are the ones who say "It's just a trick, you know" Of course it's a fecking trick, but it's a good one.Well, quite.
How would he know someone had just dyed their hair or that they were thinking about going to live in America?
internetstalker
Get naked!
How do you know he isn't famous?
But I did ask him that and got muttered at too
*ETA* And he's jealous of course
The greatness with Derren is that he's not JUST a magician, but a Great showman, a hypnotist, tell reader, etc etc
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
He's also very funny.
All round one of the greatest performers in living memory, I reckon.
internetstalker
Get naked!
absolutely!
spirals
Something uber witty here.
I don't disagree with you. It was a bit like learning there is no santa claus, having the way its all done explained to you. Eye opening but my inner child cried
internetstalker
Get naked!
I always think the russian roulette thing was a great example of him being such an amazing showman.
The trick was pretty simple for him, just influance someone enough to make them choose the first barrell.
but it's the way he drew it out, the suspense, the fact he made (on purpose) the mistake of firing shot 5.
then left it for ages before quickly firing 6 against his head and 1 into the sandbag.
genius showmanship
The trick was pretty simple for him, just influance someone enough to make them choose the first barrell.
but it's the way he drew it out, the suspense, the fact he made (on purpose) the mistake of firing shot 5.
then left it for ages before quickly firing 6 against his head and 1 into the sandbag.
genius showmanship
And he balances the showman/fucking weirdo thing absolutely perfectly as well. Blaine never gets close.
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
Not even in the same breath.
internetstalker
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Blaines not fit to tie D Browns boots!
even though I'm a bit of a blaine fan there is simply no contest!
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
Blaine just seems to do the boring endurance stuff these days. Who finds that interesting? But while his actual magic was pretty good at times, he isn't likeable or engaging enough for me to care. I think think "OK. What else you got?"
Have any religious people tried to kill him yet, since his existence surely is proof that religion is all balls?
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
If you watch him closely you'll see him constantly twitching to duck tiny Holy Bullets.
Well, quite.
How would he know someone had just dyed their hair or that they were thinking about going to live in America?
I thought the bit where he had the blindfold on was when he was shouting out names and ages: "Is there a 46 year old called Andy" etc.
It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of those people booked with credit cards giving access to their personal details and the ones whose names/ages were called out had social networking sites with plenty of available information about them...
Just one theory anyway.
internetstalker
Get naked!
My religious theorum is that Jesus was actually a bloke with many of the same skills as Derren.
Yup, known as a Losander table, probably a more expensive version of this:
http://www.losander.com/News.html
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