Live Tutoring with Brian tonight (aug 6) 8pm central [Archive]

shwooddotcom

08-06-2008, 02:31 PM

Just a reminder: we're doing a live tutoring session tonight, 8pm central time.

visit http://www.stickam.com/shwood to participate

Let's decide now what to put on the agenda... what do you guys want help with? If you have a cam, I'll be able to offer direct advice on your technique. Otherwise, it's an open forum. Ideas?

minton

08-06-2008, 04:03 PM

I don't have a cam, but I will tune in.

As I said in the other thread a few MacGyver like tricks with simple things you can find in a bar would be nice. Shot glasses, Matcher, Coasters, Pint Glasses, Straws, etc.

Hope this works out, I'll be watching

murphy1d

08-06-2008, 04:16 PM

No cam here either (but plan on getting the Logitech 9000, if anyone has any recommendations) but I was interested in seeing what "Linking Fingers" looks like POV.

Also, as mentioned any card tricks that are fun and don't need much setup, like the Keycard, and any "found object" tricks.

dezrah

08-06-2008, 04:19 PM

Gak! I'm working at my bar during the show. Unless I can do a live feed from the bar, and get notes and critique as I'm performing... hmmmmmm

Anyone in Central MA with a Qik enabled phone?

minton

08-06-2008, 04:56 PM

is there any way I can turn my Palm Treo into a webcam??? it has a viedo camera and a USB cable.

Anyone know if it can be done?

rabidbadger

08-06-2008, 10:44 PM

I'll be on cam with the iMac built in, but can't aim it at my hands, so might not try tricks. If Someone needs the Cam-space, I'll bow out, and let you other guys play. Would rather see what you folks do, anyway. Such a Voyeur...

oh, and as a time killer before the show, discuss the Brian Lecture Threads while you wait. /postpimp

guytheninja

08-06-2008, 11:29 PM

This sucks, I did have cards, matches, and coins, but I can't find the first two!!! I hate moving.

Edit, well I did find some cards at least

rabidbadger

08-07-2008, 12:15 AM

yeah. all my stuff is still packed in the attic. No cards. Don't even know if I own any.

And Brian, you owe me a trick deck. Just cause I want one. haha.

shwooddotcom

08-07-2008, 12:51 AM

Hey gang-- 10 mins to the trainwreck! see you online!

http://www.stickam.com/shwood

minton

08-07-2008, 12:55 AM

every time I try to log into the chat it freezes, this is getting old!!!

Screen Name Mitzula

minton

08-07-2008, 12:59 AM

apparently I am not intended to chat tonight, it keeps crashing!!!

minton

08-07-2008, 01:11 AM

Motion to move the next ones to a new site...stickam is lagging and I can't chat without it crashing

rabidbadger

08-07-2008, 01:17 AM

I got issues too. bummer.

minton

08-07-2008, 01:48 AM

brian you need some adarol before the next one...ADD is bad

rabidbadger

08-07-2008, 02:01 AM

rebooting helped

rabidbadger

08-07-2008, 02:02 AM

glad brian is having fun. but was expecting him one on one, even though his bud is cool.

minton

08-07-2008, 02:03 AM

so now we have homework??? come on brian!!!

minton

08-07-2008, 02:10 AM

it's not the legends pit, they're Dealertainers!!!

minton

08-07-2008, 02:26 AM

great show, eventhough I couldn't chat after you had to restart it from earlier!!!

are there other locations we can do this on??

I think you could do it without the peanut gallery and it wouldn't lag as much.

Keep up the good work, and thanks for taking my call

ps kick ass hold music

t2t2

08-07-2008, 02:32 AM

My secret on the miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiindddcontrol part (i was t2t2t on stickam):

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/825/lrn2scamxs1.th.png (http://img254.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lrn2scamxs1.png)

Anyways great show, but it's 5:32 now here so sleep sleep sleep.

nextgenxbox

08-07-2008, 02:33 AM

Awesome show. Watched the entire thing. Please do it more often!

murphy1d

08-07-2008, 02:37 AM

Great show Brian, even though the lag killed the "real-time training" it was lots of fun and you need to do another one soon. Check with Revision3 and find out what they use (ustream?).

Otherwise, I guess I'll have to wait for my beer-opening trick (you bastard!).:D

guytheninja

08-07-2008, 02:38 AM

I thought the show was hilarious.

Especially when people wouldn't stop calling. :D

travislopes

08-07-2008, 02:39 AM

That was so much greater than I expected it to be. Brian should talk to the higher ups here at Rev3 and see if they will allow him to stream through their feed. They use BitGravity who has servers all around the world. And for chat, we could just use the IRC.

guytheninja

08-07-2008, 02:41 AM

nextgenxbox

08-07-2008, 02:41 AM

The reason Brian used stickam was so people could show themselves on cam doing the tricks. -- If it was Brian then he could have used Ustream.tv which can handle a lot more people.

speed

08-07-2008, 02:41 AM

I believe that's what they do.

rabidbadger

08-07-2008, 03:26 AM

overall, great first try. Not sure Brian knew it would be so popular. Might need to find a new host, who knows? But only stickum seems to have the abilty for us to show him our tricks. Didn't happen to night. Tonight was just an experiment. But succeeded in so many ways. Taking calls, reasonable feed, goodish chat.
Hard to argue.

rabidbadger

08-07-2008, 03:27 AM

oh, not "new host" to replace Brian, hahah. New vid host site. doh!

kuiosikle

08-07-2008, 03:29 AM

Besides the usual stickam problems it was an awesome time, and you should do it again soon.

rabidbadger

08-07-2008, 04:29 AM

you guys SOOOO missed a great afterparty! Brian fugged up a card trick bad! was hilarious... Pygmies FTW!

meanbob

08-07-2008, 05:17 AM

you guys SOOOO missed a great afterparty! Brian fugged up a card trick bad! was hilarious... Pygmies FTW!

LOL yeah, I saw that!

rabidbadger

08-07-2008, 05:56 AM

he aint ever gonna live that down when he sobers up

meanbob

08-07-2008, 06:15 AM

It kinda sucked when I called because I asked about the human chimney and right in the middle while Brian and the other dude were explaining how they were able to not react to the burn, either my call got dropped or I hung up by accident. I don't know what happened, but other than that, I wanted to tell Brian thanks for showing us that trick and the puzzle (with the 4 quarters).

You're the best!

jks15

08-07-2008, 06:33 AM

That was a great show! Thanks Brian for putting it on. I hope you do more shows like this. I had a problem with stickam would either freeze or kick me out of chat or cut out all volume but that's on my end I'm assuming lol. Hopefully I can figure out by the time you do it again. Keep up the great work!

broderboy

08-07-2008, 02:00 PM

took me a while to get in but was a great show (or should I say an aaaaastastic show?)

would deff watch in the future if it was done again

mrpopular

08-07-2008, 03:40 PM

THANX so much for the show... I wish my computer worked better, it crashed early on.. But i can't wait for the next time

jpetticrew

08-07-2008, 04:55 PM

Yea, that was awesome. That should be a monthly thing we do.

mrpopular

08-07-2008, 06:09 PM

Damn, watched the whole thing on stickam but at the 1hour mark it got cut off... And if you watch it literally cuts off right when your getting into the Imperial Palace story. lolz. So sadly i never caught the actual greatness of the story, If someone would be so kind to tell me/PM me the story that would be awesome.. there was so much build up for lol

guytheninja

08-07-2008, 06:27 PM

patrickd

08-07-2008, 06:42 PM

minton

08-07-2008, 07:00 PM

All I know is the "made up" story, may or may not have involved a Dealertainer who was under the presumed identity of Roy Orbison, and some interesting player dealer interactions during a $10 game of Black Jack. I missed pieces of the story because it was laggy, but I think I got most of the details.

Are you able to use the mind control to hit that 18 and get a 21???

Oh and if you ever need a forum freak to cohost an episode, I'll drive over to austin and drink with you...that is a sacrifice I am willing to make!!!

phul9112

08-07-2008, 07:13 PM

The live tutoring wasnt that much of tutoring, but the live part was greatt, and also getting a chance to call in was awesomee!!

shwooddotcom

08-07-2008, 07:54 PM

I couldn't get the iSight working with The Stikam and was also busy packing for a 6am EDT flight, but I liked what I saw. ...and I was amused that when I called during the afterparty, Brian spent so much time talking about my podcast and my real life employer that I couldn't get a word in! :D

LOL... yeah, sorry about that. I think I got just a little bit too drunk/douchey there at the end... Anyone know who those kids were with the south park podcast? I wanted to tell 'em thanks for watching and sorry i was such a tool :-)

shwooddotcom

08-07-2008, 07:55 PM

The live tutoring wasnt that much of tutoring, but the live part was greatt, and also getting a chance to call in was awesomee!!

Yeah... I had a whole bunch of learning stuff lined up, and then once we started taking calls it was just too much fun. Next time, I'll pick something too complicated for a scam school episode and actually teach a brand new trick.

patrickd

08-07-2008, 09:15 PM

LOL... yeah, sorry about that. I think I got just a little bit too drunk/douchey there at the end...
Don't worry about it.

...and I'm still trying to figure out how to turn the martini glass optical illusion (which I mentioned way back at The 99) into a scam for a free drink.

guytheninja

08-07-2008, 10:05 PM

Yeah... I had a whole bunch of learning stuff lined up, and then once we started taking calls it was just too much fun. Next time, I'll pick something too complicated for a scam school episode and actually teach a brand new trick.

Yea yea yea....

we all know that next time, the endless calls of justice will strike again!!! HAHAHA!!! :D:D:D

rabidbadger

08-07-2008, 10:26 PM

like how ya pimped yer twitter and the live stream at the end of this weeks episode. Was that a rush job that ya just plugged in quick since the test show the other night?

hellhound

08-07-2008, 11:31 PM

Yea yea yea....

pet peeve... guess it might be a 'west coast" ADD/ADHD thing... yeah, yeah, yeah..
Watch Diggnation or Kevin's Quik video of getting his head shaved... almost any question was answered by not 1 "yeah".... but had to be 3... yeah yeah yeah...
1st yeah.. "huh?" 2nd yeah... "I didnt get ya"... 3rd yeah... "Oh ok.. dig it"
Here's the deal.. :)
Sorry I missed the live show... was out getting laid and got back too late. Trouble w/ ISP keeps alotta webpages loading.. recorded versions available for D/L?

rabidbadger

08-07-2008, 11:35 PM

...
Sorry I missed the live show... was out getting laid and got back too late....

The ultimate scam.

hellhound

08-07-2008, 11:50 PM

The ultimate scam.
LOL i dont mind... especially when it changes from "I've gotta go have dinner w/ the visiting family so will see you in a day or 2"... to... "I'm home and have changed into something more comfortable.... wanna come over?"
LOL

guytheninja

08-08-2008, 12:37 AM

pet peeve... guess it might be a 'west coast" ADD/ADHD thing... yeah, yeah, yeah..
Watch Diggnation or Kevin's Quik video of getting his head shaved... almost any question was answered by not 1 "yeah".... but had to be 3... yeah yeah yeah...
1st yeah.. "huh?" 2nd yeah... "I didnt get ya"... 3rd yeah... "Oh ok.. dig it"
Here's the deal.. :)
Sorry I missed the live show... was out getting laid and got back too late. Trouble w/ ISP keeps alotta webpages loading.. recorded versions available for D/L?

Actually I was trying to slightly aggravate the host for my own amusement.............. :D

rabidbadger

08-08-2008, 01:08 AM

oh. OT. What was Brian's fun friends name/website? He was cool. Now that I'm sober wanna check it out.

minton

08-08-2008, 01:39 AM

www.spill.com

minton

08-08-2008, 02:07 AM

Thanks for the wonderful help stickam support

here is the email I sent them

Every time I try to click into the chat on shwood's live stream it freezes and I lose connection...what's going on???

and their ever helpful response

Thank you for contacting Stickam Support. Try deleting your cookies as well as
temporary Internet files; also close and re-launch your browser, or try a
different browser. However, if this does not resolve the issue contact us
again. Thank you and we apologize for this inconvenience.

requisition

08-08-2008, 02:49 AM

Just finished watching the saved Stickycam video and loved it!

However, it cut off! We were right in the middle of the Vegas story and it stops. :(

hellhound

08-10-2008, 08:52 PM

I wanna hear about the Roy Orbison incident.. cut off for me too...
Another thing you could touch on quickly during the tutorial-cast... are exercises, techniques you might use to keep hands/fingers kool for the slight-of-hand stuff.
I've got skinny fingers (where light can shine between them) so its a bitch trying to show my palm but have a card gripped w/ the knuckle on the "backhand".. if ya know what I mean..
yeah, yeah, yeah :)
Oh... I forgot to start w/... here's the deal..
Keep up the good work shwood

shwooddotcom

08-10-2008, 11:01 PM

I've got skinny fingers (where light can shine between them) so its a bitch trying to show my palm but have a card gripped w/ the knuckle on the "backhand".. if ya know what I mean..

We call those "windows," and I've got 'em too. I'll do a session with you guys on proper palming technique, but the truth is, your misdirection can be good enough to cover even the worst windows... it really is much more about the acting and behavior of the magician more than technique.

oleg

08-11-2008, 04:36 AM

Hey Brian,

Just found out about this site and Scam School and I must there are a lot of cool tricks to be learned here.

When is the next live video?

In regards to palming, I do a fake hand swap with poker chips and can tell that it is completely terrible but fools everyone because of the misdirection. Always get caught on the second try :D