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POI POI POI today Watch these if you like poi:

http://www.loveandfire.de/index.htm
go to the gallery, there are 3 poi videos from Hamburg.
The're Nice videos of a poi community that I think is up and coming, Not overly technical or any thing like that, just nice and smilie, good attitude and great editing, expect to see a dog digging and "oh yeah".
I think that we will see some awesome videos to be coming out of hamburg soon.

Also Strugz Sent me this video of Yuta ....
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Suibom adds a better link: if you don't want the silliness that is YouTube, then you can get the file directly here:
http://poicommunity.poke1.jp/net/bonenkai.html
It is fire6, and take a look at the rest of the community there as well:
http://poicommunity.nobody.jp/
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...on You tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kdpn72aVAs&search=poi
Some of the filming is not so good (classic overly dark filming of firespinning,) But being Yuta, the spinning is awesome mix of techinical and movement

Big thanks StrugZ and thanks to Yuta for all his videos, Always a joy to watch.

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Coleman and NYC: about Magic this is not brillaintly worded - sorry, but have a lot of work to do today, and I'm running late, so Youll have to have it like this:

With reference to camera/ editing trickery used by David Blaine

No matter what they say:
A magician is not a liar.
A magician is not a fraud.
A magician is not dishonest.
also
Never trust anything a professional magician says about their work.

Magic is deception, but its not a Lie nor is it dishonest, because in watching magician,
in esscence you, the audience, enter into a non-verbal agreement which goes something like this:
"The magician will deceive me (the audience) for the purpose of my entertainment."

This is reminicent of the debate around the movie "Fargo" by the Coen Brothers.
Fargo opens with: "This is a true story. The events depicted in this film took place in Minnesota in 1987. At the request of the survivors, the names have been changed. Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred."
Thats not true. The film is fiction dressed up as fact,
and so, in a way, is a magic performance.

With up close street magic, you stage is moved into the street, the realm of real life, but it is still a "stage".
and the magican is still a performer - for your entertainment.

I had a big discussion with a magician friend - Karl from Sweden about this:
Magic gains a lot of audience from being on telly, but magic also suffers heavilly from being able to rewind and watch it repeatedly in slow motion!!! (And magicians really don't like TV and internet exposes.)
Karl presented David Blaines arguements that, when people were interviewed after watching the levitation trick in the street, and asked what they saw, they would say,
"Maaaan it was like totally incredible he levitated like a foot* off the ground." (*30cm)
Always they would remember it much higher than he actually went (less than 10cm!)
So in the fake with wires, he is showing it to the TV audience in the way that the people who were there remember actually seeing it.

Magicians are manipulating peoples perception of reality, rather than reality.
But in the now era, Technology can create for us, better magic than a magician

Therefore to complain that David Blaine use of editing of up close magic was "cheating" is incorrect,
he is a magician, and that goes with the terratory.
That being said, I whole heartedly agree with you Mr NYC, that it sucks, in the way that is leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
And knowing that DB is (untruthful) heavilly devalues his publicity stunt tricks like the box over the thames "with only water" for 40 days.
Because of this i rarely bother watching magic on screen anymore, for anything other that the quaility of the presentation. and certainly not DB.
Its rare that i can get that excited feeling of disbelief with magic on telly.
All TV magic: I know there are wires, I know they are "cheating", I know that the audience can all be plants and I know that it is edited afterwards. where's the entertaiment in that - only in the skill of the performer to tell a story.
Smiles
Drew

Edited by Gl�ss (23/02/06 03:28 AM)