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Her er den nye bog fra danske Nicolaj Christensen, skrevet på engelsk, hvor han med udgangspunkt i 7 forskellige originale rutiner gennemgår og giver hans fortolkning af disse. Der er alt fra close-up til stand-up og krydret undervejs med Nicolajs egne spændende spørgsmål.
Bogen er på 218 sider med 57 flotte håndtegnet illustrationer, som gør at hvis du er den analytiske type, vil du nyde budskabet i denne bog. Går du mest efter instinkt, vil du elske denne bog endnu mere, da den giver dig nye værktøjer at være kreativ med.
De 7 rutiner, der forklares og reflekteres over er:
Start Stop
Dumbwaiter
Thumb Bending
Is This New Zealand
It’s a Twister
On Fire
Too Quiet
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Why do magicians ask people to say “stop” instead of, for example, “freeze” or “hold it”? Why do they pretend to fail a trick? Why does a routine include a magic effect at all?
Stepladders & Demon Traps advocates purpose in the creation of a magic routine. Countless choices are always made but not always consciously, so Nicolaj Christensen reminds us to identify a creative vision and actively explore and cherry-pick the most fitting ideas. In a nutshell, form follows function.
In the course of teaching seven routines – for close-up and stand-up, with and without playing cards – Nicolaj provides a case study of various choices he has made to fit the elements of each routine to its vision, trying to support what’s at the center of each premise and clean out the clutter.
Then, five essays speak more generally about a deliberate creative process:
A summary of the routines as part of a larger vision.
A reminder that changes cannot be made in isolation.
A deconstruction of brainstorming as an analytical tool.
A helpful distinction between theme and premise.
A discussion of the kinds of subject matter that come with the territory of a magician. Nicolaj suggests that if a magic trick doesn’t take into account the layers of meaning inherent to magic-as-magic, the work might be fundamentally out of touch with itself.
If you’re the analytical type, you’ll enjoy the message of Stepladders & Demon Traps. But if you mostly go by instinct, you’ll love it even more for giving you new tools to create with.
