True astonishment is a thing of beauty when it is properly captured. Dean Dill is one man who has captured it. Mr. Dill’s coin magic is clean, simple, slow, deliberate and down-right majestic. As silly as this may sound, I am moved to tears often by the beauty and the purity of truly talented people. I mean, who wasn’t moved to tears by Bianca Ryan? or what about Paul Potts?
When we see performances like those, we are moved. When was the last time you were moved . . . truly moved, by a magician? Dean Dill was that magician for me. It’s been a long time since I’ve felt astonishment. As a performer, I often am not “allowed” to experience astonishment. My mind won’t let me. It’s too busy thinking about the effect from the perspective of a magician.
In my opinion, it is one of the biggest sacrifices that a performer makes when s/he becomes a magician. Once you cross over from “layperson” to magician, there’s no going back. However, there are rare cases when you can, for just a split second, feel that feeling again.
Here’s your chance to experience it. Don’t think about it. Don’t try to “solve” it. Don’t dwell on it. Just watch it and be astonished. Before you do, I would highly recommend you read my blog post call The Art of Astonishment. This is basically a guideline to how to feel astonishment. Once you’ve read that, feel free to watch Dean Dill peform this beautiful effect. It’s magic that will make you cry.
I had never heard of Bianca or Paul (or Dean for that matter), but Bianca did make me cry. Thank you for sharing these links.
Angel
August 17th, 2009
Dean Dill’s performance was beautiful indeed. I got that same feeling when I watched Michael Vincent preform the “Invisible Card”.
I hope Dean will win the battle with cancer. Here’s a post about it on the Magic Cafe
Mathias
August 19th, 2009
@Angel – Hey girlfriend. It’s good to see you visiting my blog. Hopefully I’ll see you in November.
@Mathias – Thanks for the comment. Do you have the link to “Invisible Card?” By the way, I had no idea Dill had cancer. That’s messed up.
Jeff Stone
August 19th, 2009
It certainly is messed up.
‘Invisible Card’ is the 2nd routine Mr. Vincent performs in this trailer for his 2nd DVD-set.
http://vimeo.com/4792413
Mathias
August 20th, 2009