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Dan and Dave Buck have updated their myspace profile pic revealing the look of their Smoke and Mirror cards’ Joker (Doker?).

It’s the guy with the hat we already saw in their website but notice the subtle shape the wands form… It looks like a capital N to me.

What we are really looking forward to see are the backs and the ace of spades, but you know we’ll have to wait, in the Cardistry industry patience is a key factor, everyone knows that.

The image is just a cheap photoshop edit from a David Blanch’s picture of his Jerry’s Nuggets i made. It’s not like he’s into hand modeling or anything but maybe he should reconsider it.

What do you think?

-Alejandro

We saw bricks of 12 decks for $1500 and $1750 in the past but now the prices keep rising and this particular auction is listing them with a buy it now option of $2000.

At least we know that the seller, ptv, is trustful and they are real sealed Jerry’s Nugget decks.

Brick Of 12 DECKS JERRY NUGGETS CARDS

The auction starts at $1000, anyone willing to bid? …

Here is one of David Blanch’s “not-anymore” underground videos made in April 2008. A great example on how simple flourishes done with style and flow can beat any other hardcore-cutting-cutting type of video.

Admit it guys, this guy knows how to treat his cards with caress.

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

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?

“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

“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.