So I guess most of it's already been said, and I'm not very sure about the other artists so I'll just put up what I do.
I'm a university student in Canada, so I can only practice magic a bit. Mostly during the holidays or breaks, I talk with Mark almost daily about magic and other things to come up with new ideas. I do youtube tutorials, but that's going to be stopped except for flourishes and such. I sometimes do professional acts when I get the time and my first release will be out soon by DSZ (as soon as I can get that last video done
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As a DSZ artist, I understand DSZ's main role is to show the world that magic is an art form. Undoubtedly, Mark has greatly changed how I perceive magic to be. In other words, DSZ's role is to keep the art alive, not to just expose it out into the world and tell people that magic isn't real. "We" want to make people feel like they just entered into another realm of impossibilities happening right in the their faces and make them doubt about if magic really exists or not. At least, this is how I perceive it.