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“This is just a piece of test footage. I make these 1-minute test videos all the time, and I don’t spend more than a couple of hours on each. this was in particular to test out a film stock type of look, and it is important that the emphasis is solely on the production, and not the moves. these tests all lead up to something, and there are more of them to come.”

-Allan

“Allan Hagen is my favourite video composer. His stuff is so eyecandy. Gotta love his work.”

-Alejandro

“I don’t feel comfortable in front of a camera at all. This is due to the fact that I’m so used to being the guy behind the camera no one ever sees or cares about. At least that’s how I like it. I don’t like attention, but I got a whole bunch of requests to do this interview, so I’m doing it for the ‘fans’.. ”

- Allan Hagen on doing the interview

EDIT: Comments are now open!

gah. so I was pretty bored.
merely a test of the Panasonic AG-HVX200 as mentioned in a thread in the video production forum.

Also, for your downloading pleasure,
HIGH RES DOWNLOAD (QuickTime h264 - 65mb)

I’m not too fond of it myself, but got a lot of nice comments on it after AH2008, so I’m assuming a few people wanted to learn it. ah well, I’ll teach more good stuff later on.

-Allan Hagen

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

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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***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

Time for another podcast with our lazy host Adam. In this episode he talks about what happened these last two weeks.

The HL x-files, Allan Hagen’s video, Sick and Twisted Wings of the Mockingbird Tutorial by Kevin ho and some other things that i want you to discover by watching the video.

What does the name of this episode mean? You’ll see.

Here is the download in mp4 for your ipod / iphone / mp4 player TheCuso’s Podcast: Episode 2 - Pussy and make sure you subscribe with itunes using this feed.

“Here is a little something for you all!

Nothing amazing but hopefully not bad either. Its just a small opener that I’ve been playing with for awhile and I would to share it with you.

Created and taught by me
Filmed and edited by Allan Hagen
The deck spin in the beginning is Huron Low’s “Swivel”
Music is Muse’s “Supermassive Black Hole”

Enjoy!”

-David Blanch

“I mean, come on, tea or coffee?

Anyway, I decided to film something today, after not making a proper card video since “September” from..yes.. September last year.

I’ve been busy with other things, such as..making card videos. for other people, short films, music videos, all that stuff. With that being said, in here is some semi-original material for once, that made Kevin Ho say “Damn, nice stuff”. We all also know I just mentioned Kevin here because I think the fact that Kevin liked my video makes me awesome. He also complained about how I didn’t credit him for creating the universe and founding the world.

Obscenities, Hos and card moves aside, don’t expect anything particularly awesome from this, it just has a simple and nice, relaxed feel to it.
credits are in the video, and please don’t ask what the song is, because I made it, and if you still ask, I’ll point out what a moron you are for not checking the video description first. Then you’ll read this and feel like shit.

however, I do feel like getting a cup of tea.”

-Allan Hagen

“Allan’s dad travels alot and this time he went to Denmark. Since its easter Allan had no school and went with him, to visit me!!

Surprisingly enough, he brought his cam! Only with one purpose; to make you guys a great, fun and spicy video!

At first we wanted to film outside to give the video an urban like feel. But the weather made us change plans.
We decided not to make a video called “AH presents DB” but a video called “AH meets DB”. Which means that this is more of a session video mixed with some (hopefully) good looking moves.

Please don’t take all the lame jokes to seriously, we were just trying to be as spontaneous as possible!

We filmed for two days, he edited for two days and uploaded for two hours, and here it is! We hope you will enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed making it!”

Copied what Dave wrote over at the Decknique forums, eheh..
Enjoy, you all!

PS: my card trick isn’t that impressive when you take into consideration that my jacket was there, on the ground, although out of view.

PPS: David WILL make a full video with Sofus one day.

Allan.