{"product_id":"on-second-thought-mentalism-meaning-and-performance-paul-draper-signed","title":"On Second Thought...Mentalism, Meaning, and Performance - Paul Draper - SIGNED","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bold\"\u003eBACK IN STOCK\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bold\"\u003eOn Second Thought... Mentalism, Meaning, and Performance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bold\"\u003eMentalism lives in moments. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHi, I'm Paul Draper, and \u003cspan class=\"text-italic\"\u003eI've built my career exploring those moments.\u003c\/span\u003e.. and learning how you can build them with your own audience. \u003cspan class=\"bold\"\u003eThis book shares my decades of experience\u003c\/span\u003e performing mentalism around the world and studying its deep, fascinating history... and \u003cspan class=\"bold\"\u003ethis is your exclusive chance to own\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"bold\"\u003ethe first edition hardcover\u003c\/span\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI have entertained audiences from the \u003cspan class=\"bold\"\u003eUnited Nations to Apple\u003c\/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"bold\"\u003eCambridge to Yale\u003c\/span\u003e, and \u003cspan class=\"bold\"\u003eHollywood to Broadway\u003c\/span\u003e. I've headlined in \u003cspan class=\"bold\"\u003eLas Vegas \u003c\/span\u003eand have appeared on TV shows on the \u003cspan class=\"bold\"\u003eHistory Channel, HBO, A\u0026amp;E, TNT, Hallmark, and HGTV.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor most of my career, I resisted the idea of writing writing a book about mentalism. Mentalism has always been about in-person moments, in whispers and glances, and in \u003cspan class=\"bold\"\u003etheatrical experiences\u003c\/span\u003e that vanish the instant they happen, but are sometimes spoken of for years to come. Writing feels permanent in a way performance is not.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut there were questions that kept returning, long after the applause faded and the props were packed away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bold\"\u003e * Why\u003c\/span\u003e does one audience lean forward while another leans back?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bold\"\u003e * Why \u003c\/span\u003edoes the same effect feel profound one night and hollow the next?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bold\"\u003e * What\u003c\/span\u003e are we really doing when we ask people to believe, even for a moment?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bold\"\u003eEight years ago,\u003c\/span\u003e I began answering those questions the only way I knew how. Slowly. Once a month, I wrote an article for \u003cspan class=\"text-italic\"\u003eM-U-M \u003c\/span\u003emagazine, the flagship publication of the \u003cspan class=\"bold\"\u003eSociety of American Magicians\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThose essays became a kind of laboratory. A place to test ideas about performance, psychology, culture, and mentalism shaped by decades on the road and thousands of conversations with audiences around the world. I certainly teach plenty of tricks and methods for stage, television, and close up mentalism. But my real focus has always been thinking. Thinking about why things work, when they work, and why sometimes they do not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWriting these essays has profoundly shaped and changed my own work. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bold\"\u003eThis book is the result.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bold\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn Second Thought...\u003c\/strong\u003e gathers eight years of acclaimed articles on mentalism and magic, revises them, expands them,\u003c\/span\u003e and places them in conversation with one another for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInside, you will find practical methods and effects designed for real world performance, alongside essays that explore confidence, presence, structure, timing, and meaning. The goal is to give you material that you can utilize to enhance your performance, moreover, it will help you feel more prepared to take the stage, whether that stage is a theater, a boardroom, a classroom, or a conversation that really matters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bold\"\u003eNEW, HC w\/dj, 308 pages\u003cbr\u003eThis book is inside of a beautiful Paul Draperized \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003esouvenir box (see photos)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSIGNED by Paul Draper (only available from Paul or Don's Magic \u0026amp; Books)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bold\"\u003eThanks to generous Kickstarter contributors, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaul has included a fold-out piece of artwork by fine artist \u003cspan class=\"bold\"\u003eAlan Firestone\u003c\/span\u003e. 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