Hi, everybody! Today I’m going to talk about
magicians. Remember that the term “wizard” is not the same as “magician”. If we
remember several posts ago, I talked about the term “wizard”, who is a person
who practices magic and this term is also related to people who have a natural
gift to do extraordinary things. Now, a “magician” is a person who makes
extraordinary things that can be considered as magic but they are just tricks
or sometimes they are just playing with our minds in order to make us believe
that what we have seen is something created with magic. Why is it important to
make this difference? Because a magician is the one who searches to attract the
attention of an audience, meanwhile a wizard is a person with extraordinary
magical powers. An example of a very recognized magician is David Copperfield.
According to his official website, David Copperfield started to be a
magician since he was 12 years old when he was invited to join to the Society
of American Magicians and he became the youngest member of this association, he
also loves Broadway so he created a "Dreams and Nightmares" which
still has the record for most tickets sold in a week. One of his most important
works is vanishing the statue of liberty, if you want to see the video… here it
is:
I need to admit that magicians are very clever and
they are able to perform amazing acts, like the one that is shown above. So, if
you have an opportunity to watch a magician in action probably you will get
amazed of all their abilities. Well, that is everything for today (: I hope you
enjoyed this post and see you next week!
Works Cited
Copperfield, David.
"Biography." 2001. David Copperfield. 3 November 2011
<http://www.davidcopperfield.com/html/biography.html>.
Hi Karen(: this post is good! I watched the video and then read the information, but I guess it is not a bad way to do it, because first you get your impressions about magicians and you believe their tricks and then you learn more about them. First of all, I had always thought magicians and wizards were the same thing, like, just people that make magic. But wizards are the ones that have a special gift, the ones that make real magic, like Harry Potter he is a wizard ;). And then magicians make tricks, just like Copperfield! And it is amazing that at 12 years old he could be a really good wizard like to be in that organization. It would be interesting to know the tricks behind the magic acts and how they achieve to confuse our brain and make us believe the trick. So maybe magicians in the beginning studied human brain processes or something like that, in order to know how to make their tricks believable, or maybe other people gave them the knowledge. So magic tricks can be based on methods to confuse our perception through the sight mainly, and also through attention because some tricks rely on the fact that the audience focuses somewhere else while the trick is being made. But this is something not recommended to think about while the magic performance right? People, including me, like to think it is real (: I guess it is real while you believe it.
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