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DARK LUMINESCENCE: when dark-adapted bodies emit light.

I know some of you might not like this video because most of the moves in it are basic level and the editting is just bizarre but that’s what makes this video special.

Even being a 5 minutes long what-did-you-smoke-dude video it deserves a spot in the blog for just one reason, you’ve done what nobody else did, and you somehow made me not want to pause and close.

I just wanted to keep watching it. It was hypnotizing.

-Alejandro

1st Place

Variety by Hyo

2nd Place

NaffStyle by Brendan Conner

3rd Place

Volatile by Damien Lee

Here are the prizes again:

Winner:

* 12 of David Blaine’s Split Spades ‘Lions‘ of your colour choice (Or mixed)
* 1 DVD Copy of ‘Control‘ by Wayne Houchin
* 6 Brown Wynn Decks
* 1 Wayne Houchin & Daniel Garcia Ultragaff Deck

2nd Prize:

* CoinTwo by Homer Liwag (DVD)

3rd Prize:

* Believe by Joel Paschall (DVD)

Congratulations to all participants from Matt, Tom and Alejandro.

A great seven minutes tutorial of a move that resembles Kevin Ho’s Sick and Twisted Wings of the Mockingbird. The double four of a kind production bonus at the end is pretty cool too. A must learn no doubt.

Keep it up Bao.

I was shocked when i saw this video, i like the fact that D+M still works on new flourishes and he’s got some great original concepts here.

The flick to the packet in the arm looks pretty neat! Well, i won’t spoil more, just watch it yourself.

Daniel Madison is mad.

It’s time for a PCSS since im running out of decks. So far i’ve ordered a brick red Tally-Ho fan backs but i’m searching eBay and PlayingCardCollectors.com for some good deals.

Jerry’s Nugget Playing Cards

What else can I say about these legendary cards?

5decks of jerry’s nugget playing card sealed
Jerry’s Nugget North Las Vegas Open Deck of Cards

Massa Casino Cards

These are probably the spotlight cards everybody is talking about nowadays. Although we have seen them in only a couple of flourishing videos expect them to be everywhere anytime soon because these cards have a great look and feel.

MASSA Casino Playing Cards
Massa Playing Cards
Massa playing cards black and gold deck
3 Decks of Massa Black/Gold Playing Card
Massa Premium Linen Black/Gold Casino Playing Cards!
Massa Premium Linen Black/Gold Casino Playing Cards!

Dunes Casino Playing Cards

These cards doesn’t show up quite often and are becoming more hard-to-find every day that passes.

Dunes Hotel & Country Club Vegas Open Deck of Cardsç

Golden Nugget Casino Cards

I still have to get my hands on one of those, i’m ashamed for not having any Golden Nugget deck in my card shelter, yet.

Rare Sealed Golden Nugget Casino Playing Cards Unopened
PLAYING CARDS FROM GOLDEN NUGGET, LAS VEGAS
Golden Nugget Las Vegas Vintage Open Deck of Cards
Golden Nugget maroon Playing Cards New RARE Vintage
OLDER CARD DECK,GOLDEN NUGGET,LAS VEGAS NEVADA

Arrco Tahoe Playing Cards

One of the most sought after decks by oldschool magicians and playing card collectors.

Arrco Tahoe No. 84 Playing Cards
Tahoe No.84 Club Playing Cards-Very Rare! No Reserve

Tally-Ho Playing Cards

The Tally-Ho cards are probably the best cards because they shine in every aspect. You can use them for magic and xcm, you can fan them, spread them, cut them and they hold powder pretty well. And they look so cool!

Aristocrat Playing Cards

You don’t easily see so many aristocrat decks listed at the same time at eBay. Check these oldschoolies out.

The CODE is finally released!

“We put a lot of effort to make it possible within June, and now it’s here for you. It’s only 18€ (about 28$) and as we are now in holidays we decided to be nice and make it FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE for a limited time.

Check out The CODE’s page for all the information you need.

We hope you appreciate our work and enjoy the DVD as much as we did producing it.

Have a nice summer everybody!”

-Mattgic and MaXim

Although it doesn’t have much original stuff I love the feel of this video. The moves were smooth and the music fit the editting very well plus i’ve always enjoyed watching collaboration videos.

Then i saw my name in the credits and had to rewind it to spot that shot of my Desliz flourish with the light in the background.

I felt honored.

These are the kind of videos from where new people in the art should get their inspiration to create their own. You don’t need astounding moves to entertain people as long as you do your stuff smoothly and synced with the music.

My only advice here is to try to stay away from doing moves everyone have already seen unless you aim it to be only for laymen.

Keep it up guys, you can do it.

I’ve just stumbled upon this video at youtube of a guy showing off his pimped up Tally-Ho case.
He gave it a spinning rim look, i guess due to way too many hours playing Need For Speed Underground… Anyway, i found it fun to watch so maybe you can use it in your magic or flourishing routines, somehow…

It would be nice if someone could do a video tutorial for this, i would feature it here so grab some tools.

If you want to try this out you can check Aceking or Pokerstud’s Stores and remember that if you are subscribed to my rss feed you can get up to 10% discount in your orders. Click here to read more: Discount on cards for my readers.

Here is a performance video I made right when The Trilogy by Dan and Dave came out of their magic trick Queens.

I didn’t want to make it public back then because of the clipshift in the last vanish but now that Chad Nelson is releasing his Surfaced DVD i guess this is not a problem anymore.

I hope you enoy.

-Alejandro Portela

“Today we’re rolling out a big new feature: Vimeo Groups.

So, what’s a group? It’s a way for mini-communities to share videos within Vimeo. Groups makes it easy to get a bunch of contributors together and upload directly into a group, then have conversations entirely contained within that group. You can add forums, share calendars, photos, and even music with members of the group. And, most importantly, we’ve added six really killer themes so you can take customization to a whole new level.

Some of you might have noticed Groups shares a lot of functionality with Channels. The best way to differentiate the two is that Groups is for lots of people to collaborate and contribute and Channels is for individuals to showcase a bunch of videos the way they want. If you think your Channel is better suited as a Group you can convert it to a Group by going to your Channels settings page, but be warned, there is no going back! In the coming months we’ll be building Channels 2.0, which is going to remove some features better suited for Groups (like forums and calendar) and add some Channels-only features, like tools to change the order and display style of videos.”

by Andrew Pile June 17th, 2008

The Cardistry Group

I have created the official CARDISTRY GROUP at Vimeo and i want you guys in. As you have seen, videos at Vimeo look much better in the blog since they are big and “HD ready”. Come join us and share your good quality videos in the group.

-Alejandro Portela