I enjoy making videos. Something most of us have understood by now. But when I started editing the Blackpool video, something felt.. not right. After a couple of days, my Macintosh HDD decides to mess up and suddenly get a complete disaster failure. So I lost everything. Which is also incidentally the r

eason I still shoot HDV on Mini-DV tapes. Even if you do experience a disaster situation, you’ve still got your footage. Since then I’ve experienced another disk crash, but that was some super-silly error I made on my laptop, and has very little to do with the Blackpool video.

Over the last month it feels like I’ve spent all my spare time to edit this video. A little AppleScript I wrote tells me that I’ve spent about eight hours and forty-two minutes on the video. This indicates how incredibly little spare time I’ve had

Being set back by the hard drive crash was a good thing. What didn’t feel right at first, feels right now, that I’ve re-done it.

This will be the last video I make for a good while. I can say for sure that I’ll be putting out something, between August and September sometime, but wouldn’t bother going more into details about that right now.

Well, what a great chance to share this work of mine.
Most of the people in the video I’ve met on multiple occasions before. As always, some of the best moments of my teen life have been spent with you guys. Hope you can say the same.

Allan Hagen

Blackpool 2008 Video

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Stein Halvorsen at a very popular talent show in Norway.
Date: April 2007.

***COURTESY OF ALLAN HAGEN***

I promised everyone that I would post the final Blackpool video here, and so here it is. It was a shock this morning; I hadn’t expected to find it finished already — but Allan has spent much of his free time playing with the video. I feel that was very kind of him, considering the little spare time he has. Happy Birthday, mate.

So without further ado, I present to you the final instalment of the trio; “BLACKPOOL 2008″. Despite the apparent mental-retardness, I hope you do have fun watching — it was certainly a great Convention. Thank you to all that attended and made it what it was! I’d also like to thank Dan and Dave Buck for allowing me to post this Clip Shift performance; very kind of them.

Enjoy,
Jordan Lapping

New video by Brendan Conner. A video was planned with de_lux, Justinkelly and Brendan for the CCC 2008, but couldn’t be done. This is Brendan’s footage ; imagine how awesome it would be if they participated…

Here is a compilation of some of the footage I shot for my CCC vid which, due to technical difficulties and overall lack of effort/drive, never actually happened.

Credits: Dan and Dave, Jonas Haglund

-Brendan Conner

A nice molecule-looking cut by my friend Dominik. Isn’t it smooth?

Ok, finally i decided to release this move to the public.

I think it’s my best creation and though it might seem an easy and stupid cut it has a lot of potential.

Nebula is an utility move that it’s meant to be incorporated into more complex and elaborated flourishes.

As an elegant alternative to the swing cut it can also be used to divide the deck in two halves in the middle of your favourite one handed cuts routine.

I like to use it before making a smear fan in the right hand and a carnahan in the left to show a circle.

I know many people (includding my friends Jonas Haglund, Huron Low, TicaL and others) are using this move and have came up with fantastic variations and combos that might eventually be made public for you.

I had a hard time deciding if i should release this move or keep it for me and my friends but you know how i am and how i think, and for those of you that dont i’ll tell you…

I think this move has a lot of potential as i said so keeping it wouldn’t make our art progress in any way.

So here is my little gift for you to experiment.

I would like to see hundreds of video responses with your ideas upon this concept and of course i would like you to TAKE YOUR TIME to comment on what do you think about the move (what is nice and what is not…) so please stay away from saying: “nice”, “wow”, “great stuff” “thanks” “keep it up” kind of comments, PLEASE! :P

I want to thank everyone that watches my stuff, all my subscribers at youtube and specially in my blog (those of you that take me seriously :P), all my flourishing friends and the video editor who asked me to keep his name private.

Thanks a lot once again and enjoy!

This is an old video, made in Late 2005 – Early 2006 by my friend Scott, the brother of Sean. Yeah, Scott and Sean.
However, this is just Scott’s entry to a contest on 21Ace, which he won, becoming “a Card Trick Champion”. How weird that sounds lol.

Credits to Andrei Jikh, Bone ho, Dan and Dave, Jonas Haglund, Sean, De’vo and Jerry Cestkowski.

Enjoy, you better do.

I really liked this performance of “The Modern Ace Production” and it’s been a while since my last post about my friend Lee Asher.

The only thing i would change Donald is that you move your hand off the frame for a second and that kind of softens the impact. Do you agree?

Very nice job though and keep it up!

To purchase this effect in pdf format go to www.LeeAsher.com, if you want to read a review first head to this link: Lee Asher’s Thunderbird PDF Review

Here is David Blanch again showing off some Dan and Dave moves with his multi-coloured jerry’s nuggets.

Great vid, smooth moves and kickass editing.

Thanks David but… where is Sofus?

A short video that demonstrates card flourishes and manipulations, as well as the experimentation of modern day digital photography and the scenery of a desolate construction area. This isn’t about the moves, its more about the scenery and use of camera. En-Fucking-Joy!
- James Lai

Staring: James Lai, Eric Tam, Chris Tulip
Edited By: Eric Tam
Music: The Autumn Effect – 10 Years

Credits and Inspiration:
Dan and Dave
Jerry Cestkowski
Jaspas
Chris Kenner
Daren
Kevin Ho

Introducing wind elemental and a better opener.

One of my favourites. I love this casual jams. What do you like and what would you change?

Ellusionist Kent’s third ever video.

Impossible…no more.

(The formation of a square from the back of the hand, a technique that was long regarded as impossible is finally a reality.)

-Andrei Jikh, creator. (developed in 2006)

Credits: De’vo for the idea of the square (method is original and was released before De’vo’s public release of the Viereck) Editor: Daren Yeow.

Nice oldschool style moves and great fans. Congrats and good luck!

A Cardistry rendez-vous
My favourite video hands down. A must win. Congrats in advance frenchies.

Very original and smooth moves, perfect production and direction, what else can i say? you tell me, leave a comment.

CCC 2008′s biggest international competition, the Cardistry Collaboration Contest’s entry by my team is also a battle video. Hope you guys like it. The results of the battle aren’t out yet but I’ll update you guys!

-Jaspas

This one is in my top 3. Congrats Jaspas and Bowen. You rock!

In this video you can see Tical performing a variation of my Nebula flourish called nebuCUTnezar, of course, a lot more elaborated than mine.

What do you think?

This is a Theory 11′s Cardistry Collaboration Contest 2008 video entry, starring Ling Nemesis, Kate and Suzki.

I think this video is nifty because it is the first ever all-female flourishing video in history. =P

-Audio orchestrated by Dana Hocking of T11
- Filmed by Ling, Kate and Suzki at Singapore (Compass Point), Canada (Brick wall #1) and Finland (Brick wall #2) respectively.
- Editted by Kate wholesomely.

credits:
De’vo, Dan and Dave Buck, Jerry, Kevin Ho, Ling, Kate, Suzki, Sebastian… I am forgeting someone…

Just playing around. Forgot to credit Kris( for pimping me with this fabulous cards:D)
4 new moves: SDY, S shaped carnahan fan, Werm display variaton and Okrog in nazaj.

Moves in order:
Pressure fan
Instant 5 faces of sybil
SDY
7axophone(6 packets only:D)
S shaped carnahan fan
Boomerang card
Sybil
Flipback
Werm display variaton
Le Paul spread
Okrog in nazaj
Spring

Finally here it is (a bit late in this blog) , the collaboration of 5 different artists from different backgrounds:

Andreas on the qi-gong balls
Damien on the zippo lighter
Jan on the poker chips
Le0n with the pen and the ring
ShoeMan on the cards