Inaugural personal card-flourishing video of yours truly.

A Video for All and None.

From Wiki:
Katarche is an ancient Greek word meaning a “beginning” or “inception.”

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It has always been a dream of mine to present a card flourishing video with a philosophical meandering underneath it, making it more complete. Being a strong proponent of the notion of the Nietzschean Ubermensch/Overman, I personally it’s especially apt to include his idea here, as I think card flourishing is an artform where artists need to constantly overcome themselves and trends (or fads?) to reach higher skies.

The very reason I chose to release this video on an excessively-unpopular day of the week – Monday (19th May 08), it is due to the fact that a Buddhism’ major event – Vesak Day falls on the 19th May this year. I would like to burrow the idea of Buddha’s mark of final Enlightenment into this context, increasing the significance of my ideal. Don’t worry, I am no religious zealot. =)The direct polar opposite of it, actually. ^_^

- Conceptualised by LingNemesis
- Performed by LingNemesis
- Editted by LingNemesis
- Inspiration from Friedrich W. Nietzsche and all those who defied.
- Thanks to The Flourishers for The Art and igniting The Passion consistently
- Ulver for their symphony – The Future Sound of Music
- Stuart of Czaras for his help in camerawork.
- Filmed at CityLink Mall and Esplanade’s skyterrance respectively

Enjoy and go forth to search for your own flourishing nirvana.

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

Nice collaboration jam by our friends from Singapore. Did i spot a black Asus Eee there? I have a white one!

Gotta love those tornados miss Ling.

Thanks for sharing, i enjoyed watching it as much as you did performing.

Keep it up!

Anticipate for Ling Xuan’s solo video coming 19th May 2008.