Actual magic community problem.

OliveroG · 07-11-2012, 08:17 PM

Hello guys, i wanted to post this topic a while back ago, but the idea wasn't solid enough, it isn't now, but it's better.

You might not know this, but i also spend a little of my time a magic forum that mostly reveals magic effects online, this place was recommended to me by a friend of mine who's starting in magic, and sometimes it is a really cool place to hang out, also, there are some fights between the members that you just want to grab popcorn.

Anyway, hanging out in that community have made me realize what is the actual problem about the magic community that's making the art sink, it was pretty obvious after a while: Patience.

Why patience? is pretty obvious when you think about it, we are in the era of the information, everything is so quick you can't believe it, with a click you're talking to someone in England, or Holand, or Vietnam, with a click you have access to tons and tons of information, everything is moving to fast that is making everyone running out of patience, which is a very important factor to work on in every kind of art.

Why patience affects magic? two main reasons, the first one is pretty obvious, since it is so easy to sell magic downloads online and get some extra bucks, people is rushing methods, rushing how? selling the first thing they get, without any sort of second though, even maybe without testing the method among other people, just the mirror, when the greatest magic classics took decades to be perfected, (An early known example is Akira Fujii's linking cigarrettes, which he said took him 10 years of working to perfect).

The second reason is about the attitude of the community itself, since there is so much magic revealed everywhere, and so much easy to get material everywhere (see direct downloads, even pirated ones), they want to get secrets and secrets and secrets non stop, this causes two things, one, they don't perfect most of the magic they have, two, they become used to the ease of getting material that fast, and that's not good, i was witness of a group of the community manipulating a member with money and psychological threatening to reveal one of his effects (this affects real life too, so it's a little more serious now).

Those are - i believe -, the main problems with the magic community today, so these are the words for you to think about, are you patient enough to spend ten, twenty, fifty years working in something to get it RIGHT? if not, you might want to check yourself as a person, and as an artist, because that's we are supposed to be, artists.

07-11-2012, 08:17 PM	#1
OliveroG Marcos Olivero Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Venezuela Posts: 103	Actual magic community problem. Hello guys, i wanted to post this topic a while back ago, but the idea wasn't solid enough, it isn't now, but it's better. You might not know this, but i also spend a little of my time a magic forum that mostly reveals magic effects online, this place was recommended to me by a friend of mine who's starting in magic, and sometimes it is a really cool place to hang out, also, there are some fights between the members that you just want to grab popcorn. Anyway, hanging out in that community have made me realize what is the actual problem about the magic community that's making the art sink, it was pretty obvious after a while: Patience. Why patience? is pretty obvious when you think about it, we are in the era of the information, everything is so quick you can't believe it, with a click you're talking to someone in England, or Holand, or Vietnam, with a click you have access to tons and tons of information, everything is moving to fast that is making everyone running out of patience, which is a very important factor to work on in every kind of art. Why patience affects magic? two main reasons, the first one is pretty obvious, since it is so easy to sell magic downloads online and get some extra bucks, people is rushing methods, rushing how? selling the first thing they get, without any sort of second though, even maybe without testing the method among other people, just the mirror, when the greatest magic classics took decades to be perfected, (An early known example is Akira Fujii's linking cigarrettes, which he said took him 10 years of working to perfect). The second reason is about the attitude of the community itself, since there is so much magic revealed everywhere, and so much easy to get material everywhere (see direct downloads, even pirated ones), they want to get secrets and secrets and secrets non stop, this causes two things, one, they don't perfect most of the magic they have, two, they become used to the ease of getting material that fast, and that's not good, i was witness of a group of the community manipulating a member with money and psychological threatening to reveal one of his effects (this affects real life too, so it's a little more serious now). Those are - i believe -, the main problems with the magic community today, so these are the words for you to think about, are you patient enough to spend ten, twenty, fifty years working in something to get it RIGHT? if not, you might want to check yourself as a person, and as an artist, because that's we are supposed to be, artists.