Talent is often thought of as the kind of ability that comes without training—something that you’re born with. It is often contrasted with Skill, which is an ability acquired and developed through practice. Is magic an ability or just something we train to do? Or both? I found myself questioning this
As I buried my head in the arms of a master magician, I cried "Why can't I be the performer I wish to be?" Let me begin at the beginning... I did an interview with a very dear friend of mine. I'll not reveal who until the interview goes live.
Studies have discovered that the human brain cannot effectively handle two complex, related activities at once. You either can't do both. Or when you perform two things at the same time, you perform them badly. The word multitasking was originally developed to describe computers - not people. The phrase is
Something I have learnt as a performer and creator of magic is that two heads are far better than one. To explain this better let's begin with the idea process for which I've found this rather colourful sphere of wonder! In the magic world, some of us tend to skip
"It's only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve."John Cleese The word 'precipice' has been haunting my thoughts. It's a feeling that has somehow taken over my gut. I feel more and more that I'm at the stage now where
Welcome friends old and new to the Arkane Magic Blog! In November 2019 I decided to write a weekly blog with the goal to improve my writing skills - some would argue that perhaps I still need to work on them! However, after achieving this goal (writing once weekly for
Although I have decided to give my blog a little break until the new year. I couldn't help wanting to write up my thoughts on what a real working day was for me in 2020. It took me to December to get one and it was a massive learning curve
Here are the results from the card size survey in my last post.
A personal rant about playing card sizes, and a survey for you to fill in.
Since my blog is now complete I will not be posting up events anymore. Before it vanishes with a FizzWizzPop! I wanted to do one final blog post to let you know about this project. It's a hidden section on this website so in order to find it you need
This last week has been an introspective one. I have used this week to rest and think a lot about 2020. All that I have done this year and all that I wanted to do but could not. Upon reading about the life of one of my hero's Doug Henning;
Greeks philosophers considered the number three to be the perfect number. The number of harmony, wisdom and understanding. Words grouped into threes are more appealing and easier to remember. And three is the smallest number we need to create a pattern with. Perhaps why it works so well with magic. *
