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Tools, Inventions and Applications for the Modern Card Magician.

Introducing the card magic and flourishes of Kevin Ho, Smooth Operations is a 60 page book explaining an array of new material for both the curious student and seasoned pro. Over a hundred photo illustrations in full color provides an enjoyable learning experience.

Kevin is a rising young Singapore-based magician with some serious talent. As a flourisher, he’s already earned a reputation as one of the best. His style is fresh, ultra smooth, and extremely visual. And his magic is no different. Learn 5 effects, 4 sleights, 3 productions and 2 flourishes in 1 kick ass manual on card magic.

Step into a world of visual madness and experience the unexpected.

CONTENTS:

PUNK’D:
This version of Re-Set is simple, instant, and leaves you completely clean. Imagine two four-of-a-kinds, like the four Aces and four Jacks, instantly changing places with each other, and then back again moments later.

STATIC 4:
A quick and easy four Ace production that’s perfect for getting into any of your four card routines. It’s also one of Kevin’s favorites.

INVERSE IMPULSE:
A very magical looking one-handed color change that can be continuously repeated.

LONG DIVISION:
This clever routine is fun to do and gets killer reactions.

A card is produced, equaling the value of two spectatorsí chosen cards. This single card is then visually ìstretchedî into a long card, which the spectators help split into their respective selections.

PEGASUS:
An insane production of any four-of-a-kind that will blow your audience away. (Includes an alternate version.)

FLORIDA COUNT + PCP:
I guess you could say it’s a rhythm count…on acid. Very flashy, very visual, very cool.

This is definitely one of our favorite effects. It’s fast, visual, direct, and allows you to showcase beautiful sleight of hand.

PCP:
Four Jacks are counted between your hands as they seem to visually change into the four Aces. (Note: If you’re tired of the remark, “Do that again”, this is not the trick to do.)

CHASER:
The magician offers to demonstrate different aspects of sleight of hand. What follows is a fast-paced sequence of cards appearing, teleporting, changing, and transposing with each other in a casual, yet highly visual manner.

RACCOON:
Imagine a card spinning atop the deck 540 degrees to infinity. This cool little flourish is so neat and original, it has to be seen.

COLLECTORS: REDUX:
In the process of finding three spectators’ selections, the four Queens (or any four-of-a-kind) are found in an insanely chaotic and visual way that only Kevin would think of.

VISA SWITCH:
This very cool switch is open for many, many applications, of which Kevin supplies two. However, I’m sure after a little experimenting, youíll have applied it to numerous ideas of your own. All around, itís a fun little move to play with.

FULLY LOADED:
In this effect, Kevin explains how a deck of cards can be a deadly weapon with not only the ability to shoot single cards out of the deck, but also to produce a four-of-a-kind (Okay, it’s a really cool ace production with some fun patter.).

CONSPIRACY OF FOUR:
An extremely visual and fun handling of a classic plot.

The magician offers to find a four-of-a-kind other than the four Aces. All goes well until the fourth and final production - it’s an Ace. However, within the blink of an eye, the other three cards instantly turn into the other three Aces, forming a complete four-of-a-kind after all.

BOB CHANGE:
With a light shake, a card held in the magician’s hand instantly turns into another card.

A very clever and in-your-face take on the well-known Shapeshifter change.

REPAINTED:
A blank fan of cards is seen. With a quick wave, the faces of the cards visually appear. The method is so obvious itís hard to believe no one has ever thought of this before. An instant classic in my book.

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These Dr. Leon playing cards are Hiro Sakai’s custom decks (the creator of the Duck Change and  Street Magic Professional).

He has some Split Spades Lions which are David Blaine’s New custom deck as you all know (the creator of… and yeah, another Street Magic Godfather).

But my favourite cards would be the smooth finish Aladdin that Kevin Ho uses all the time in his videos, the amazing Texan Palmetto wich are the most beautiful deck for fans, the uber famous Wynns and the #1 overall deck Tally-Ho fan back and circle back.

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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 one of the effects that is going to be taught in Kevin Ho’s new set of notes coming soon which will include 14 sweet items:

5 magic effects
4 utility moves
3 ace productions
2 flourishes

Punk’d, Collectors: redux, Pegasus, and Raccoon will all be explained in the notes in beautiful detail, alongside many of his other magic-related pet items.

Filmed in late 2004 2005 this video shows the baby steps of singaporean flourishing team The Virts. You can see an excerpt of this video in the Virtuoso video.

Directed, filmed and edited by Huron Low and featuring the old virts Huron Low, Kevin Ho, Sylvester, Elijah Cai and Daryl Ho.

These guys have been rocking the flourishing scene for a long time now. Who will ever defeat them?

Early 2007

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’s another amazing tutorial by Kev. You saw this in portable playground and the first fase in the Virtuoso video.

Now it’s your chance to learn this classy and stylish move. Big thanks to Kevin, i hope you do the same in the comments section.

Here is KevHonline’s signature move Damn Straight tutorial for you guys. Most of you already seen it but this is for the ones that dont.

Thanks Kevin for all the things you contributed to this art and for what’s to come.

One of the classic underground videos with Kevhonline and Dan Buck from mid 2005.
Awesome tcteesa/pandora there Dan. Gotta love this video. The music is still in my head since the first time i saw it.