Lingering values
Have my opinion and thoughts changed between the last day of the course and now? If so, how?
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No
I lernt how to construct gimmicks for myself. Maybe it’s not a value, but very helpful. But it makes me more ‘independent’ in magic, I mean I’m not depending on dealers etc. I appreciate more the misdirection and cancelling, and I have a better understandig on these theorys.
I don’t think so. (I’m not sure if I understand the question or not.)
No, the feeling is similar: Pity.
First, because it was over. Secondly, because it didn’t happen next year.
However I still keep the motivation that I brought home when I left DOCH.
My thoughts / philosophy of Magic have evolved and moved toward some other thinkers / movements (Ben Earl / Derek DelGaudio / Yann Frisch).
I have only continued walking on the path that the course showed me. I am not sure what is the question asking to be honest.
No, I don’t think so. I valued this as much then as I do now.
No
Its kind of hard to put words on what my thoughts exactly were at the end of the course. But I now more want to set up my own creative show then I did at the time. Im still really happy performing at corporate events, but the idea of who my character is and what I want to give my audience is now more clear than ever. I can definitely say that after the course, what we went through there has helped my shape and define this.
Not really, just the time help to deepen the learnings from the course.
I think I’ve become more open, actually! The teachers did provoke me in some aspects, and it was a great thing to be challenged. I thought of myself as relatively dogma-free, but I realised during the course (and afterwards) that I did, as I guess we all do, have a few preconceptions which needed to be challenged and tackled. I think the most important is that even though I’ve always at an intellectual level have thought that magic is in itself enough, I’ve still felt the need to have effects and routines that are really presentation driven. This is probably in part because we often hear that the presentation is the most important. This course taught me, and gave me confidence in, that if the magic and inherent story (i.e., subtext) is strong enough, any extra “fluff” on top will actually often do more harm in good. Even though I’ve always loved magic for magic, I’ve never thought my audience would, and when the course ended I probably didn’t think so either (it takes time to teach an old dog new tricks…). However, the course inspired me to focus more on the audience and their magical experience rather than the presentational fluff, and hey–seems they enjoy it more! Experiencing this for myself has really made an impact on the way I now think about magic and what I want to do.