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Forward
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. We
all march to the beat of a different drum:
one thousand monks; one thousand
religions. What does this mean? It means
each of us have a different point of view
when we look at the same thing. This
article was spawned from a conversation
with Mark DeSouza. He has seen my coins
across routine and probably does it quite
well. I have spent 25 years developing that
routine. He feels the routine is boring and
sees a need to jazz it up. I suspect I will
offer that routine later as this magazine
continues to grow. Right now the point here
is that he sees the routine from one
perspective and I see it from another.
This article is about different
perspectives. But it is not about the
perspective of two magicians looking at a
trick. It is about how magicians and their
audiences look at a trick.
This article discusses what the magician
thinks the audience sees and what the
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audience sees. The point is that if the two
points of view are different, chances are
the magic will not be good. If, however, the
magician's point of view of what the
audience sees is the same as what the
audience sees, chances are the magic will
be good.
Al Schneider
Introduction
This article begins by attempting to clarify
what the issue is. Many magicians are not
aware of how different the points of view
can be. So, an example is offered to
demonstrate how wide the separation
between the magician's point of view and
the audience's point of view can be. Clearly
there are other issues of points of view
that differ but the one studied here is about
changing method within a routine. That is
then taken up in some detail. To complete
the discussion, the concepts are applied
to Matrix and the Ambitious Card routines.
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