- Yo, what's up guys, before we get into today's video,
I just want to share something really cool that happened.
This is my buddy Lee.
Lee has filmed countless amounts of videos of mine,
including my very first street magic video,
and some other street magic videos,
my early cardistry videos,.
He's always been there to help me,
he's always sort of helped me film, or edit,
or do photography.
So recently I hired Lee full time
to hold the camera, basically.
He sort of quit his job to come work for me,
and to help me out with this whole YouTube thing.
But one thing about Lee is that he is color blind.
He's an amazing photographer and videographer,
but color blindness has always sort of stopped him
from really polishing up his edits in terms of
color correction, as you can imagine.
Mind you, he's really good at guessing colors.
So I went online, and I ordered some glasses for him.
Now these glasses are basically meant to
give color blind people the ability
to see colors vividly as we do.
For his first day on the job,
I decided to surprise Lee with a pair of these glasses.
What's up, Lee?
So Lee, congratulations, you are now officially
on the team as an employee.
- Thank you very much.
- [Man] So I got you a little surprise for coming on,
can you read what the balloons say?
- Oh!
- Yeah. - No way!
- [Man] Yeah, check it out.
It's Lee, B.
- It's me!
My god, dude.
I was just talking to someone yesterday about this.
- [Man] Obviously you know that they're purple and blue.
- Yes, but they're still close - Very close?
- [Man] Let's go.
- Whoa.
Is this really how you guys see?
- [Man] I guess so.
- That's crazy, I can really tell the difference
in those two, oh wow.
- Isn't that crazy? - I gotta walk around.
These are the actually colors,
you didn't see that before.
- Way more yellow, oh my god.
I'll be able to color correct properly.
- [Man] Look at Overwatch, dude.
- Insane, dude. (chuckling)
- So there you go, go check him out on Instagram,
I'll leave his link below,
now let's get into the video.
So today, we'll be taking a look at some of the magic
that you guys have posted on the magic subreddit.
I don't know what to expect,
I don't go to this subreddit very often.
Hopefully, we got some really cool magic
for you guys to look at,
and also maybe we can learn a thing or too,
so let's get into checking it out.
"This guy has been doing magic for one month,
my attempt at the cardini change."
(soft electronic music)
Okay, I mean one thing that I could say,
is that you don't need that big motion, like whabang!
You know what I mean, you don't need that motion,
you can just subtly do it without having to
ninja strike the deck.
You wanna see a color change?
Watch the card.
(evil laughing)
You can take it easy, relax a little bit,
but all in all for one month of practice, not bad.
This guy has a ring routine.
(soft jazz music)
Ring and coin, okay.
Oh, that's nice.
Oh.
That's pretty good.
That could use a little work.
But all in all I mean, oh look at that,
nice little gryphon roll.
Not bad, my dude.
You know.
Nice.
He pulls the coin out of the ring, very cool.
So he said,
"Here's a set of moves I could never polish
enough to do in person, but I finally got it on camera,
so that's something."
I think that says a lot.
A lot of times, it's very difficult to perform something
live in person, especially something you're not
really comfortable doing.
The camera is a great place to practice,
great way to look at your footage back.
He admittedly says it's not polished.
There's something to be said about the difficulty
of stringing together all these moves
in a sequence without camera cutting.
It's easier to do these one off moves,
but to really put everything together
into a little routine is not easy, so good on you.
I believe if I'm not mistaken,
that might be Dan Hoss's routine.
I think he released that with the Illusionist.
Either way, really great, good stuff man.
"I work in a historic part of Georgia,
and do maintenance for a lot of different buildings,
one of which is the Grand Opera House,
which Harry Houdini frequented.
He cut nine different trap doors in the stage,
but only one was preserved."
That's actually really cool, nine trap doors.
Damn.
Talk about someone who was committed to doing what,
you know what I mean, like nine trap doors?
That's a lot.
I could probably make good use
out of one or two, but nine?
Harry goes the extra mile, that's for sure.
"I made a short video with a friend
for my uni's Magic Club."
Oh cool, so his university has a magic club.
Let's check it out.
(soft guitar music)
Boosh.
I love that move.
Let's give him a like, too.
Nice.
Some nice little seconds there.
Little bit of flourish action going, that's dope.
He's got some chops, definitely got some chops.
Let's see it.
Ooh.
Very nice, dude.
That's interesting.
(chuckling)
All right, four aces.
Ooh, that's pretty, eh?
Very cool, man.
Definitely enjoyed that.
It's awesome that like at your university,
you've got this magic club,
you can share your magic with people, that's really cool.
This guy, just three weeks after picking up Royal Road.
(chuckling) I know the feeling, man.
Once you go down the rabbit hole, there's no turning back.
"Incredible floating pen by Patrick Snowden."
Let's have a look.
I'm just gonna mute the music.
That's cool, put my own music, here we go, way more badass.
(soft electronic music)
Okay, so what's happening?
He's got this little piece of cardboard, he's got this ring.
Oh, it's his business card, there you go.
A little bit of self promotion.
My computer's making a lot of noise right now.
I feel like it might explode.
It's actually really cool, man.
I'm stumped.
Oh, no way!
Dude, that's awesome!
I have no idea what's happening.
Yeah dude.
I think I may have a small idea of what's happening,
but not really, nope.
He's just gonna grab the pen?
Wow.
Dude, that was honestly really great, holy cow.
Yeah, I have no idea what was happening that entire time.
Good stuff man, holy cow.
Ricky J, dude look at Ricky J.
By the way, rest in peace Ricky J, what a legend.
This guy looks like straight up,
he should be at Woodstock performing.
This guy said a simple deck change.
(soft techno music)
I mean it's cool, but like there's so much waving going on,
that like I feel like he could've just thrown
the cover off camera.
Whoa.
That is actually great,
and not for the obvious reasons.
That's really good, bottom deal.
That's not bad at all.
Camera angle might not be helping,
I think if the camera were a little bit higher,
probably help him out.
A short little routine he's been working on.
Hey, you know what?
It's simple, it's concise, he practiced it,
good for you man, I think it's great.
"Conjurers Hydraulic and Pneumatic Secrets.
Figure 141 Self Contained Unit."
Or you could use string, I'm just saying.
Interesting that someone would publish that.
"What deck should I get to get started in magic?
Hi guys, I live in Scotland, I'd like to learn card magic,
I've never done anything magic related before,
so I have no idea where to start."
What are people saying?
"Every deck will be fine.
If you want to train, the standard bicycle will be perfect
because they have a good stock, and are also cheap.
When you perform, maybe you'll prefer a more scenic
and better quality deck.
So for now, bicycles will do the job."
I mean, I'm not gonna comment on that,
I think that's the answer.
- The ability to stop time itself.
However, that's impossible.
I can't stop time,
but I can stop just a moment of it.
A small, little section of time.
Freeze.
Go.
(chuckling)
- It's great, I love that trick too man, so good.
"It's cheesy but my kiddo loves this one."
Let's see it.
(soft jazz music)
Oh, I know this.
"I'm new to magic, first time recording a trick.
I know it's not perfect, but I'm really enjoying it."
The kitten's deck.
Ta-da, that's not bad man.
So, my advice here,
would be if you're putting the card from the back,
keep putting it in from the back.
Oh I know that move too, dude.
That's great.
Oh, a little toss, so close.
Good on you for keeping that in there, by the way.
"Narcissistic magicians.
Direct quote from magicians giving a talk
in reference to showing a girl in a wheelchair a trick
with a piece of thread.
In that moment, she wasn't paralyzed, she was free.
(laughing) This is possibly the stupidest thing
and the most arrogant thing
I've heard from the community in a long time."
Yeah.
100% agree.
Magicians have often had this delusion of grandeur,
and this messiah complex,
because we can perform things that the average layperson
cannot perform, but that's not what magic is about.
If that's the reason you're doing magic,
you're probably a really sad person.
"Drank a lot of coffee and filmed this very jittery
attempt at one of my favorite sequences."
All right, let's see it.
(soft electronic music)
All right.
Damn dude, you're not going for the easy stuff.
You're are not going for the easy stuff.
A little Xavior Spade Tony Chang action going on here.
Dude, that is great.
You know how hard that move is to do?
I think he's doing the future reverse,
the Marlo future verse that Spade teaches,
which is an adaptation of it.
It is not easy, I'm gonna tell you that right now,
so he did a great job.
I've seen this before,
how does this even work?
You know what.
Here, here.
Why is the card all weirdly bent?
(whimsical orchestra music)
How does someone even figure this out?
All right folks, I mean that about wraps it up.
I think these are some of the healthiest threads
I've ever read in my life regarding magic.
There are so many good questions here,
and a great place for beginners to ask
really meaningful questions that they might not
be able to find, I.E. on YouTube and everything else.
A great place to ask a question and get response
from a lot of different people,
so you get a lot of different views and stuff,
which I think is really cool.
If you guys are interested,
check out the magic subreddit below.
It's a safe and cool place where you guys can share your
videos of performing, and I think it's really healthy
for a lot of magicians to do that.
In today's day and age,
we're living in a digital age
where people need to share things.
You get feedback, obviously don't listen to all
the feedback and trust your own instinct.
I think it's a great thing for people to use,
great tool for people to use.
Anyways, guys thanks for watching,
like this video if you enjoy it,
and we'll see you on the next one, peace.
(upbeat trumpet music)