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Spring Jam 2010 – Cardistry in White

Chotu — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:49:59 +0000

In the spring of 2003 we released a video called Spring Jam. To our humble surprise, it took the magic industry by storm. It started a trend and shaped a new generation of magicians. Card flourishes have since evolved into a visual art of their own with appearances in commercials, television and films from all over the world. A burgeoning community of artists are constantly pushing the limits of what can be done with a deck of cards and a few of the best in the world have been captured for the rebirth of Spring Jam, Cardistry in White.

SJ2010 was produced in collaboration with Allan Hagan, Chris Hestnes, Erik Jansson and Jordan Lapping and filmed on the set of Papercuts in Trondheim, Norway.

Source: http://www.dananddave.com/cardistry

Allan Hagen – Blackpool 2010

TheCuso — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:45:48 +0000

I didn’t really plan on making a video this year, as I’ve been extremely busy as a film student and freelance DP the last year. However, as I couldn’t resist grabbing a few shots on my Canon 7D (a stills camera that also has a decent video feature if you’re a talented DP) while I was there. When I decided I would do a video, I also decided to keep it short and sweet, so there’s none of that 10-minute-documentary-thingy I did the previous years. To see exactly what I made, you’ll just have to watch it.

As I didn’t have a lot of footage, I used every last bit of good footage that was to be found on my CF cards when I got home. The video was edited this weekend, and the music selection derived from the flight to the UK. I was listening to MA’s newest album, Heligoland, and I figured “I want to make a video to this song some day”, and I was sold.

Ah well. Thoughts, thoughts, thoughts. Please, do enjoy yourself.

Comments are appreciated as always. Full credits in the video.

-Allan Hagen

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Allan Hagen – Blackpool Magic Convention 2009

TheCuso — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:18:04 +0000

All right guys! Finally, it’s here.

First, a little credits correction. The artist “Mogwai” is mistakenly credited where “Explosions in the Sky” should have been. Don’t get me wrong, they’re both fantastic bands – but somehwere during the editing process the actual track used must have been confused with something else…

It’s been one hell of a ride – and by that, I mean it’s been both hell editing this, but it’s also been great times!
I didn’t actually watch it in all of its entirety until I had completely finished it and prepared it for upload, so I was probably just as excited to watch it as you guys!

Well. With that being said, I apologise for the amount of time spent editing such a ‘simple’ video as some of you may think – but any of you out there who have tried editing something from what you consider to be ‘insufficient and bad’ footage knows what I’m talking about. I do however think I made the very best of it, and I’m honestly really pleased with the outcome.

Well.. enjoy guys.
I’ll be starting to work on something really interesting really soon.. Until then, thanks for watching, and good-bye!

You can always reach me, somehow – for information on how to get in touch with me etc, check out my website,
allanhagen.com.

Allan Hagen
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Jordan Lapping – Didn’t hit the hole…

TheCuso — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:02:32 +0000

Old practice footage from January. You guys may get find it fun to watch me screw up, lol.

-Jordan Lapping

What are your thoughts on my Interviews?

TheCuso — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:18:29 +0000

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

Old Footage of Jordan Lapping

TheCuso — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:36:34 +0000

Something that was once uploaded by my friend Craige. Made originally for TheCuso to deomonstrate a few flourishes from the Trilogy by Dan and Dave Buck.

Jordan Lapping

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TheCuso — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:32:00 +0000

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