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This is how we featured material from Banachek, Michael Ammar, Diamond Jim Tyler, Dan Martin, Danny Garcia, Rich Ferguson, Robert Strong, Andrew Mayne, Robert Neale, and Martin Gardner (who I got to meet and discuss Scam School with before his passing). This episode was all about giving proper credit where it was due, and I feel really good about it.Īnytime we teach a trick, if there's a single living person who owns the rights, we get permission directly from them. Unfortunately I can't control other people, but I can control what we do on Scam School. This sense that it's okay to buy a DVD from Theory11 and then post your own tutorial of someone else's revenue-generating work has got to go. Magic desperately needs to reward our best creators, and they deserve to get paid for their works. What's NOT great, and what I'm trying to fix with this episode, is the culture of magic piracy that's running rampant on YouTube. Personally, I think learning magic on YouTube is great. Scam School is minting the next generation of magicians and hopefully teaching them respect for the craft and good presentational skills. Scam School is not a television show, and there's not a single person who watches an episode by accident. Notice they didn't say "you have to join a club to be a magician." They didn't say "you need to pay me 20 bucks to be a magician." They essentially said "You need to take a conscious and deliberate action to show that you are willing to give up tasting sugar, so that you can be sugar." And I think that's a pretty great way to handle it.
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YouTube is where we go to learn how to change a tire, apply makeup, dance, snowboard, give CPR, and (yes), learn a really good magic trick.īoth the IBM and SAM have addressed the distinction between "teaching" and "exposure," and their conclusion was that the difference was a deliberate, intentional act on the part of the prospect that indicates their desire to become a student of the art. I understand these are crazy times for magic, but YouTube is the greatest educational library of tutorials in the history of mankind. The magic was "too good," the format "cheapened the art", and they were far too easily available to non magicians. If it makes you feel any better, these are the exact complaints I heard about Michael Ammar's "Easy to Master Card Miracles" VHS tapes 20 years ago. (for those who need context, Michael Ammar gave me permission to teach the Crazy Man's Handcuffs, and one viewer thought it was "too good", the effect available "too cheap" and that the net effect was "ruining magic.") Here's what I wrote in response.
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(I'd like very much to hear what you find wrong with my logic below.) The full exchange can be found here: (Though I did make sure that no living person ownded the rights to the method).Īt this point, Scam School students have studied magic longer than most people have gone to college.Īs for the discussion of YouTube being a library, here's the letter I wrote that explains such. If it was good enough for Fulves to sell to cub scouts, it seemed good enough for the 6-year, 300-session veterans of Scam School. The effect presented came from Karl Fulves's mass-marketed paperback "Self Working Mental Magic," (it was effect #28). But this recent outburst of exposure of yours is no better than the Masked Magician.īit of misinformation to clear up here. You spoilt nothing, yet you managed to entertain. I saw a long stage show of yours on frauds and fakes. But you are not doing magic a favour by doing what you do. And I think it is one of those cool little gems that is so great, because it is so great on going around the intuitive solution. I'm going ape shit here, because I do have this particular trick in my act. I really have no idea how you justify this! I really would like to know. A craft you seem to love, then you have gone too far. But if it forces you to fuck magic in the ass. I really don't know how much pressure is really is to come up with new material for a regular show. But do not, DO NOT, reveal it for the sake of revealing it. If it builds of the the creativity and genuis of others so be it.
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You are free to spoil any magic you created. That fucktard didn't even change a bloody thing about it. He has no permission to reveal it to the masses. HE REVEALS STUFF HE DIDN'T COME UP WITH!. "We have come to accept that this little turd reveals magic principles that he didn't come up with." I tell you this: So he exposed the Grands "Million Dollar"-bill mystery from the Tarbell books. "Okay, what's he done now" you're asking! Well Scam School of course.