Affordances determine what actions are possible. Signifiers communicate where the action should take place. We need both.
“Good general rules for the presentation of a trick or a program of tricks follow: Gradually slow down your tempo as you approach the climax of your trick or act. During the last few moments of your final effect ritard the action more and more. Pause two or three seconds after each IMPORTANT phrase. Pause almost twice as long just before the phrase establishing a point. These are general rules for insuring clarity and adding punch through captured attention.”
― Showmanship for Magicians
― Showmanship for Magicians
“ROUTINE: A method of procedure, induced by circumstances, worked out with particularity, item by item, to be regularly followed until it becomes habitual, in the performance of entertainment.”
― Showmanship for Magicians
― Showmanship for Magicians
“Thought is provoked by any situation when our instincts and habits fail to deliver us automatically.”
― Showmanship for Magicians
― Showmanship for Magicians
“SELLING the trick is more important than doing it.”
― Showmanship for Magicians
― Showmanship for Magicians
“You have a product to sell. The product is yourself as an entertainer. It is necessary for you to develop an entertainment product that is in great demand.”
― Showmanship for Magicians
― Showmanship for Magicians
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