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“This is really something to build upon…meaning do not limit yourself to what I explained… use it as you feel fits better your style of performance and have fun with it”

-Kate

Special thank you and shout out to Myra and her family for allowing us to use her land to film this video…I had a blast XD

-Jay and Kate

Here is a nice flourish i came up with a while ago. It’s a variation of Blanco, another move that i will release soon.

I know the video is too short and annoying but you get the idea of the move.

I filmed it with my nokia n95 8gb and editted it with windows movie maker portable in seven minutes so dont expect too much, it even messed the quality!

I’m uploading an alternative edit made by my friend Kate to my youtube channel so go there, watch it and subscribe (one more to hit 2600 subscribers!).

What do you think of the move? I can tell you it’s addictive and fun to do so slow it down if you can’t wait for the tutorial.

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

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…

This time i’m interviewing Kate aka BabycatXD a lovely flourisher from Canada that has improved massively in the last months. She is know for her collaboration videos with Jay, another great friend of mine that will also be interviewed soon.
Check out the video and feel free to leave a comment with any question you would like to ask her.

“What do you get when you have two people meet up. Two people with the same passion. Two people with ideas and determination. Two people who just like to have fun. Two people who are together in a place in the middle of nowhere to film this video, which we called: little duck jam. Hope you enjoy this as much as we enjoyed filming it.”
-Jay and Kate

There you have some sick XCM tutorials to get down. I know they read my blog so if you want to ask them something just leave a comment here!

Now this video rocks even more. They got my 5 stars, plus im in the credits for my nebula! :P

keep it up lovely couple.

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