Every time I have to sift through painful YouTube videos of people's "first attempts" at a very difficult magic trick, I am reminded of a moment from a while back. Two performers making this mistake in front of a large audience of laypeople.
I wouldn't normally be so upset, but I saw these firsthand... and became furious.
One at a convention, no big deal, the other was a Las Vegas star with her own show that seemed to sell fairly well.
Both did a floating table.
Poorly.
Like they had been tinkering with it for a couple of weeks and only had it because they had money and someone told them they should do it.
I was so upset I muttered something that I didn't recall, but my friend Daniel did.
Sitting in that audience in Vegas, when the floating table was brought out I became uncomfortable, and when it was shoddily floated, I actually said, "Imma hafta kill a bitch..."
There is nothing I despise more than bad magic being shown off to people simply because they are proud of mediocrity.
