thecuso interviews

Hi guys,

I guess most of you have noticed the Interviews tab on the top navbar of the blog, or at least have seen a couple of them either here or at my youtube channel.

I started this initiative because I thought our art lacked personality, i mean, we knew each other for our avatar and signatures in the forums and our perfect manicure (which i didn’t ever have) from the videos.

First I thought of trying to interview the big names only so that we could demistify themselves and put them closer to us poor average card guys, but then, after a while i thought it would be interesting to interview anyone that was in the “spotlight” or had anything interesting to say about our art.

The easier method i though of was sending them some questions in a text file that they should answer whenever they had some spare time.

This way i got a few interesting ones but then i got to ask my friend Jordan Lapping and he came up with the idea of doing the interview in front of his webcam, thus making it even more personal and impromptu.

I loved it and then I started asking many people to do that for the community.

The responses were priceless, and this was what made this blog be what it is now, so I feel like I have to thank you for building up this whole thing with your videos, articles, card gossip and constructive comments.

There are some great interviews for you to watch if you didn’t already and some other scheduled for the future, here is the list of the names that we’ve got so far so select one, sit back and enjoy and after that mind leaving a comment or asking them a question.

TheCuso interviews Kent
TheCuso interviews Chris Hestnes
TheCuso interviews Kate
TheCuso interviews Vincent Dark
TheCuso interviews Jaspas
TheCuso interviews Ineski (taken down temporary)
TheCuso interviews Mattgic and MaXim
TheCuso Interviews Adam
TheCuso interviews Pierre Tran
TheCuso interviews David Blanch
TheCuso interviews Bone Ho
TheCuso interviews Jordan Lapping
TheCuso interviews Daren Yeow
TheCuso interviews Jonas Haglund

There are some great interviews coming up like Kevin Ho’s,that he might film this weekend, Cardshark88’s (co-founder of The3C and youtube top subscribed card guru), Justflourish staff (Sebastian, Tical…), Luka, Brendan Conner, Justin Kelly, Scenacle french guys, Scott and Sean, Allan Hagen, Ling and many more.

So i would like to hear from you about what do you think about this whole initiative and how could it be improved, who would you like to be interviewed in the future or what other ideas do you have to bring the artist closer.

Leave a comment and chose your favourite interview.

- Alejandro Portela

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14 Responses to “What are your thoughts on my Interviews?”

  1. scristian Says:
    May 16th, 2008 at 1:18 pm

    I want a interview from luka , brendan and kelly realy bad!! So great .. xDXD

  2. Lee Asher Says:
    May 16th, 2008 at 1:20 pm

    I like your interviews. While some are better than others, over all – most of them are very enjoyable. To put faces to names is very important, at least for me.

    I check the CusoInfo daily! Keep ‘em coming.

    RSS baby… RSS.

    Asher

  3. TheCuso Says:
    May 16th, 2008 at 1:42 pm

    Thanks for your comment Asher, here is when I ask you for a little interview hehe. What do you think?

  4. Morten Says:
    May 16th, 2008 at 3:11 pm

    I want:

    Andrei, Dave Buck, Lee Asher, Stein Vegard, Luka, Brendan Conner, Leon Tai, Steve, Blunk, TheCuso, Bowen and ShoeMan.

    =D!

    My fav interview is Chris’.

  5. trash Says:
    May 16th, 2008 at 4:09 pm

    I also want to see an interview with de_lux, hes kind of mysterious. my favorites so far were probably babycatXDs and VD’s… why is Ineski’s taken down? i never got to see that one.

  6. dimitri Says:
    May 16th, 2008 at 4:20 pm

    trash… luka is de_lux

  7. freddy Says:
    May 16th, 2008 at 4:46 pm

    i`m still waiting for the interview with Kevin Ho…
    when will you post it?

    oh and btw.:

    i love the interviews you are doing a great job!!!

  8. Guest Says:
    May 16th, 2008 at 4:47 pm

    Would love to see an interview of Herman Cheng. Its time to bring out some of the skilled but not so popular cardists.

    What ya think Cuso?

  9. Daniël Says:
    May 16th, 2008 at 6:34 pm

    Hi Alejandro,

    I think those interviews definately gave your blog a big twist in making it more pupular and interesting! It is really nice to see the faces and hear the stories behind some “big” names when it comes to “indie”flourishers (I mean people from youtube etc.), which is very cool, but… it would be even cooler if you could also try (once again?) to interview the bigger names such as Dan and Dave, De’vo, Jerry, Lee Asher, Chris Kenner, Brian Tudor, etc. via video interviews.

    I know it’s a harder goal to reach, but you could try, Alejandro :D

    But I’m still looking forward to your upcoming “indie” interviews, because they simply ROCK! :D

    So keep up the good work, and try to get some more of ‘em and also try to contact the big names in cardisry and magic!

    Cheers,

    ~Daniël aka Morphweasel

  10. TheCuso Says:
    May 16th, 2008 at 7:01 pm

    Well i actually emailed Dan and Dave and Brian Tudor for this and got no response.

    I guess they have better things to do with our money, which was, indeed, well earned.

    The thing is that my blog is not popular enough for this people to bother but it’s in our hands to make it grow.

    Im happy with the ones i have so far. I wouldn’t ever expect Bone’s for example and there it is, one of the first ones.

    As for the SH/HL, also contacted Max (the guy from the world XCM tournament) and got no response, but this is another story. Something tells me that HLers dont like me too much :P

    But oh well, i guess i cant please everyone…

    -A

  11. Daniël Says:
    May 16th, 2008 at 7:23 pm

    @TheCuso: I see… I understand it’s hard to contact the big names in flourishing and magic, but who knows what the future will bring… ;)
    Just keep trying, and do whatever it takes to make your blog even more kick-ass than it is now. You can do this, Alejandro!
    But before we start dreaming about interviewing the Buck twins, just continue with the less greater names, like you do now in the (video) interviews. It rocks!

    ~ Dan

    PS: Hmmm.. how comes HLers don’t like you that much… HMMMMM?! :P

    Hehe, on second thought, forget the interview with De’vo. It will never work out… :(

  12. ANANA Says:
    May 17th, 2008 at 1:46 pm

    I hope that the interview by Kevin by up this week…
    can you interview Erik? =)

  13. Sean Fast Says:
    August 31st, 2008 at 7:07 am

    Interview Erik, Luka, or Brendan.

  14. NYXDuality Says:
    January 26th, 2009 at 6:08 am

    why dont the links work?

    are some of the vids out of date maybe?

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