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Second, watch other magicians. Often I
see something quite creative in their
hands. However, sometimes it is not
developed to its fullest. Often a new effect I
come up with is someone else's effect
done without errors. Matrix is Sympatric
Coins from Bobo's. This is not to say it
had errors. It was just "Improved".
Third, do stuff for real people. If they
don't like it, quit doing it.
Fourth, All knowledge begins with random
action. Just try stuff. Try 10, 20 or 40 ideas.
Pick the best and look for variations on
them. Pick the best of them and work on
them. At this I am rather good. I took a
class on creativity once. One of the first
drills the instructor had us do was to come
up with ideas with a pack of matches and a
golf tee. We were given five minutes to do
this task. The idea was to write down ideas
no matter how outlandish. I got about forty.
Most people got about ten. For some reason
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the instructor ignored me the rest of the
class.
Fifth, Take something good and try and
make it better. You don't need to make it
real great, just better. Once you do that; do
it again. If you do that 10 or 20 times you will
have something new. I actually work on
new ways to vanish a coin. A result was
what I call the TT Coin Vanish. I put it on
a video clip. When I watch it, it fools my
eyes. I think the technology there is way
ahead of the stuff I have done before.
Sixth, just play. The Matrix pick up move
was developed by just laying cards on my
bed and picking them up. I was studying how
my hands moved when I picked up the
cards. I noticed that when I picked a
card up a certain way, a coin could be
picked up at the same time. This is not
brilliance. It is just doing something many
ways and observing the possibilities.
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