[nae]

Is there anything in particular that made you become interested in the art of Magic?

[stefe]

My boss

[nae]

Originally Posted by stefe

My boss

No way!

Mine was watching Magic Specials on tv with my Dad back in the 90's.

[thatmagicguy]

For me it was being able to show that the impossible is possible. The Linking Rings sucked me right in. I have never seen a better performance of them than my mentor.

[jng]

During my childhood, we'd go on roadtrips to Vegas, and there were always demonstrations at the hotels' magic shops. My favorite used to be the levitating/spinning cards.

[MindFreakLoyal01]

Originally Posted by jng

During my childhood, we'd go on roadtrips to Vegas, and there were always demonstrations at the hotels' magic shops. My favorite used to be the levitating/spinning cards.

Ditto on the childhood
I've only seen professional magic tricks on TV & simple tricks in real life. So I grew up in curiousity in addition I like fascinating people and at last the Criss Angel MindFreak Kit came out thus my journey begins.

[Deadwoodrose]

While living in Chicago I belonged to a puppetry group that met in back of a Magic shop. The owner had a huge collection of vintage magic posters and I got interested in magic history.

[Spingo]

Hi guys! Like most kids growing up in the UK during the 1980s I first saw magic on TV on the Paul Daniels Magic Show. Everyone was a guest on there - Lance Burton, Max Maven, Eugene Burger... However, I wasn't interested in performing magic until a few years ago (I thought being fooled was more interesting than knowing the fairly boring 'secret'). A friend of mine showed me Derren Brown's video 'The Devil's Picturebook' (revealing his early card magic repertoir) and I was blown away! The performance was amazing, but the skill and execution behind the effect was even more incredible! Since then I've been learning and practicing card magic daily. Getting better at it but still got a long way to go...!

[Kingr8]

ok i go into town the other day and there this hot chick in the store and outside the window is a container full of watermelons and above it a poster to sell watermelons that says "Sandias" and i looked at it for a second all sudden the "i" turned into an "r" and i was like wtf

[boomchank]

I recall seeing David Copperfield making the Statue of Liberty disappear on tv as my first time of really noticing a magic performance. After that, nothing really caught my eye until David Blaine's tv specials. Then, of course, Criss Angel came along and blew those performances out of the water. I have been hooked ever since.