The Black Widow
Right off the bat let me say I don't have one of these nor would I consider buying one even though some of the stuff in the video demo looks ok.
If you don't know what I'm talking about then check out this link to Darryl Hamburgervans Black Widow.
As always the ad copy makes some big claims and in this instance some really fucking stupid ones. The opening line of the sales pitch is:
If you don't know what I'm talking about then check out this link to Darryl Hamburgervans Black Widow.
As always the ad copy makes some big claims and in this instance some really fucking stupid ones. The opening line of the sales pitch is:
"Sadly, the Black Widow will make large chunks of sleight of hand obsolete."
Surely that should read "Sadly, the Black Widow will make lazy magicians with $250 in their pocket even more lazy than they are now".
If you need a $250 gizmo to vanish and change objects, which are fundamentals of our art then you really shouldn't call yourself a magician.
Also notice that most of the advert bangs on about how it impressed magicians. And that's a key here. To a lay person the black widow user just made something vanish/change, it's the same trick to them as if he'd done it with sleight of hand, the only difference is the black widow guy had LONG SLEEVES and most decent sleight of hand workers roll em back and mind fuck their audience.
MW.
posted by Mr Whack at
2:09 AM
2 Comments:
Amen to BlackWidow being a waste of money and time.
Advert is bullshit. Sleight of hand makes the blackwidow obsolete, and doesn't cost so much money. I can perfectly emulate the blackwidow and raven without any gimmicks.
If you want to do blackwidow style effects, then learn Catapult, it's in Bobo's, then you have a practical way of doing them, and your audience can credit you and your skill, not that you happen to have spent a lot of money on some secret gizmo to do it for you. That and you have a free range of movement.
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wiseman, at 11:22 AM
I agree about black widow being a waste of money, but I challenge anyone to do with sleight, everything that can be done with a raven or a black widow, it can't be done, BUT, obvious restrictions in using either of them for a couple of specific effects seems to outway the advantage. Atleast a raven is easy to have in place(not "loaded") all the time if you want, and remove your coat, Black Widow however is just to cumbersome.
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Trickster, at 12:58 AM
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