When nailing down the Celotex, one must put a nail about every 8 inches into the frame of the wall. The walls are built lying flat on the new floor of a house and then tipped up into position. One day we were a little behind and we needed some help nailing down the Celotex (insulation nailed to the outside walls of a house). He cut every piece of wood that went into a house. I was a carpenter part time when I was in college. He did it well and for some people a little piece of wood becomes a fond possession. To this man, copying a squirrel is a technology.
However, the people that buy them see them as a piece of wood that has been magically transformed into a creature frozen in time. He thinks he just copied something that occurs naturally. People buy them because they instantly love them. He opens a stand in a mall somewhere and puts the squirrels out for sale. He strives to make the squirrel very accurate in every detail to the squirrel he saw sitting outside his window. The man makes a figure of a squirrel 2 inches tall sitting up. He merely tries to make a piece of wood look like a squirrel.
#Al schneider magic theory how to#
How about carving squirrels? A man learns how to carve squirrels. Let¡¦s look at an example outside of the magic realm that may portray this idea. To be a good or even great magician, one needs to master the basic technology of magic. All of this is fitting for I feel the same way about magic. Then there should be a way to allow the paragraph to end off and allow the next paragraph to begin in some smooth way. Paragraphs have five basic ways to develop and each paragraph should use one of them to do so. There should be one sentence in a paragraph that precisely states the topic of it. For example, one needed to master development of paragraphs. But one needed to master the basics of writing. In the beginning one need not worry about putting fire into the hearts of the reader. The point of the article was that to become a successful writer one had to master the technical skills of writing.
Thus, the subject of that article I was required to read is a fitting beginning for what I am to say here. I found the information in that article could be applied to other areas, such as magic. Fortunately, one of the assignments given to us in English class to read was about how to learn to write. This confusion is like magicians talking about doing magic artistically but never really talking about what is important. So, why did the English professors that didn¡¦t study science concern themselves so much with it. As a scientist, or a student trying to become one, I didn¡¦t think about God at all. Most of the English professors seemed to be using science to prove or disprove the existence of God. The classes seemed to have nothing to do with writing. The instructors always talked about politics or religion or artsy crafty things. However, during the course I became very confused because the course did not seem to be about writing.
Most people that go to college are required to take an English writing course. One experience is an event that occurred while going to college. To get into this discussion I would like to draw from my experience from areas other than magic. In so doing I hope you will see that the execution of a magic effect can be a technology much the same as a chemist pouring two chemicals into a beaker that creates a glowing gold light.
Thus, my goal is to address a few of these aspects in an effort to separate magic as a separate entity. Often when magicians discuss magic and entertainment they confuse these with each other. This ranges from humor, tragedy, magic and maybe even dancing and singing. As this book develops I intend to show that there are several aspects involved with magic as entertainment. The specific task of this chapter is to list the elements of this technology. That is, there are specific principles that one can know and learn.
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I believe it is something that is learned and can be accomplished by following a series of well understood steps. I do not believe magic is an art or something that you are born with. CHAPTER ONE THE TECHNOLOGY OF MAGIC ? This chapter is about magic as a technology.
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