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Thank you Krash for your literate interventions on this page. I saw your correction to the link on 'lower case ' aladin and was impressed that you followed through to the page on aladin and had made an addition there too. Meanwhile, it is a shame that Jeff Sheridan does not have a page to himself and I am also keen to get some content about street magic elsewhere. Presumably prior to the Mayflower making landfall on the Western side of the Atlantic there used to be magicians not only there but Asia and so on as I reminded readers. Lynrdandersen 21:11, 17 September 2005 (UTC)Lynrdandersen
The link to StreetMagicBlog.com i thought was relevant because it's a site I use to learn street magic, it teaches you for free and doesn't ask for any money of any kind. I'm trying to learn to use Wiki better and become a better editor. Please explain why it was a bad link so I can understand for future references.
Thanks, Joe
Look at the magic tricks section, the site clearly tells how to do street magic tricks, and the blog is about how he does street magic and what he thinks about it etc. just my 2 cents Preston
Anyone familiar with the term this article referenced: "guerilla magic"?? I've never seen it published in any reputable publication. Buddpaul 22:47, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Guerilla Magic is presently used by magicians to describe a new “venue” or method of presenting close up magic; basically by accosting strangers on the street, or inside a shopping mall. It’s a legit term, back up by much discussion among magicians. Iconicmagic ( talk) 05:26, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
I hate to "challenge" someone like this, (particularly with an article intro that's so beautiful), but this "sounds" like copyright infringement.......it's just too perfect: "The first definition of street magic refers to a traditional form of magic performance - that of busking. In this, the magician draws an audience from passers by and performs an entire act for them. In exchange, the magician seeks remuneration either by having a receptacle for tips available throughout the act or by "passing the hat" at the end of the performance.
Street magic most often consists of sleight of hand, card magic, and occasionally mentalism, though the ability to draw and hold an audience is frequently cited by practitioners as a skill of greater importance than the illusions themselves.
Anthropologists chronicle this form of street magic from approximately 3,000 years ago - and there are records of such performers across the continents, notably Europe, Asia/South Asia and the Middle East. While it is a very old performing style, its history is not particularly well documented in print. In his diary, Samuel Pepys mentions seeing magicians performing in this fashion and one can see street magicians in depictions by Hieronymous Bosch, William Hogarth, and Pieter Brueghel. Chapter XIII of Reginald Scot's "Discoverie of Witchcraft" (1584) describes magic tricks of the type performed by buskers in the 16th century."
If I'm wrong, I'll adamantly re-nig.....but this just sounds too darned perfect to've been written from the ground up for wikipedia. Buddpaul 23:01, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
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Thank you Krash for your literate interventions on this page. I saw your correction to the link on 'lower case ' aladin and was impressed that you followed through to the page on aladin and had made an addition there too. Meanwhile, it is a shame that Jeff Sheridan does not have a page to himself and I am also keen to get some content about street magic elsewhere. Presumably prior to the Mayflower making landfall on the Western side of the Atlantic there used to be magicians not only there but Asia and so on as I reminded readers. Lynrdandersen 21:11, 17 September 2005 (UTC)Lynrdandersen
The link to StreetMagicBlog.com i thought was relevant because it's a site I use to learn street magic, it teaches you for free and doesn't ask for any money of any kind. I'm trying to learn to use Wiki better and become a better editor. Please explain why it was a bad link so I can understand for future references.
Thanks, Joe
Look at the magic tricks section, the site clearly tells how to do street magic tricks, and the blog is about how he does street magic and what he thinks about it etc. just my 2 cents Preston
Anyone familiar with the term this article referenced: "guerilla magic"?? I've never seen it published in any reputable publication. Buddpaul 22:47, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Guerilla Magic is presently used by magicians to describe a new “venue” or method of presenting close up magic; basically by accosting strangers on the street, or inside a shopping mall. It’s a legit term, back up by much discussion among magicians. Iconicmagic ( talk) 05:26, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
I hate to "challenge" someone like this, (particularly with an article intro that's so beautiful), but this "sounds" like copyright infringement.......it's just too perfect: "The first definition of street magic refers to a traditional form of magic performance - that of busking. In this, the magician draws an audience from passers by and performs an entire act for them. In exchange, the magician seeks remuneration either by having a receptacle for tips available throughout the act or by "passing the hat" at the end of the performance.
Street magic most often consists of sleight of hand, card magic, and occasionally mentalism, though the ability to draw and hold an audience is frequently cited by practitioners as a skill of greater importance than the illusions themselves.
Anthropologists chronicle this form of street magic from approximately 3,000 years ago - and there are records of such performers across the continents, notably Europe, Asia/South Asia and the Middle East. While it is a very old performing style, its history is not particularly well documented in print. In his diary, Samuel Pepys mentions seeing magicians performing in this fashion and one can see street magicians in depictions by Hieronymous Bosch, William Hogarth, and Pieter Brueghel. Chapter XIII of Reginald Scot's "Discoverie of Witchcraft" (1584) describes magic tricks of the type performed by buskers in the 16th century."
If I'm wrong, I'll adamantly re-nig.....but this just sounds too darned perfect to've been written from the ground up for wikipedia. Buddpaul 23:01, 7 November 2007 (UTC)