because it would be cheaper to buy it
than to build it, but then make it your
own with how you present it. What’s
your character? What surrounds the
thing, you know, all of those elements.
It’s like taking a standard card trick
and seeing ten different people do it,
and hopefully have ten different versions that inspire you, because there
are ten complete different directions,
but sometimes with magic you don’t
get that imagination. People want
the instant gratification, so they take
those ten different card tricks, you
see ten different people doing it and
they’re kind of doing it the same … it’s
all about the trick. I say, you can take
a standard illusion and do something
unique with it by how you approach
it, and how you present it. I think that’s
a real critical thing, to try and develop
your character. The most important
thing you can sell in your act, in your
show, is yourself. Otherwise, you get
into these nameless faces or acts
that anyone can be doing, and the
audience would be just as happy. You
know, if people are coming to see you,
there’s only one of you.
David:
How would you like your fans to
remember you?
Criss:
As a loving, caring, passionate performer who wanted to give everything
I could, and did, in every single show,
to give them the best experience that I
was capable of.
David:
How would you like magicians to
remember you?
Criss:
I think magicians, by a large, wont
appreciate my contribution to magic
until I’m dead, because when people
die, like Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley,
and other people that really changed
A scene from the current Mindfreak Live! show at The Luxor
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