Friends,
Hope all's well. Got some great news the other day:
I will be attending the TED Global Conference this summer at Oxford.
At first, the idea of attending TED was a mere dream. My father proposed the idea of applying over my winter break. My dream was slowly turning in to a reality.
The application focused on passion and accomplishments. I focused about half of my application on the lessons I have derived out of cardistry and its impact on audiences and magicians worldwide. Here's one of the things I learned when filling out my application:
My Buckeye Tutorial has had hundreds of thousands of views on multiple websites over the years. If there was something that each viewer was able to take from the long tutorial video to add to their repertoire, I could directly impact the performances of thousands of magicians worldwide. Some of you may remember a poll I submitted months ago asking about how many audience members the average magician performs for every week. By applying this knowledge, I learned that my Buckeye Tutorial video alone positively impacts the lives of massive numbers (100,000? 1,000,000?) of people around the world. And this was all a result of 2hr's work. AND, I've made close to one hundred videos over the past six years...imagine the cumulative impact that an individual, like you and me, who just decided to pick up a deck of cards seriously one day, can have on the world now.
Us Cardists have always been on the forefront of the new developments of internet technologies, primarily Web 2.0. Our resources are infinite, imaginations deep and creative, and our willingness to turn the impossible in to a reality is strong. This is what characterizes the successful modern cardist.
The two weeks that I will be spending at Oxford attending the TED Global Conference will be life-changing. I certainly could not have made it there without everything you all have done to take cardistry to where it is today.
Thanks,
Jason Soll
Hope all's well. Got some great news the other day:
I will be attending the TED Global Conference this summer at Oxford.
At first, the idea of attending TED was a mere dream. My father proposed the idea of applying over my winter break. My dream was slowly turning in to a reality.
The application focused on passion and accomplishments. I focused about half of my application on the lessons I have derived out of cardistry and its impact on audiences and magicians worldwide. Here's one of the things I learned when filling out my application:
My Buckeye Tutorial has had hundreds of thousands of views on multiple websites over the years. If there was something that each viewer was able to take from the long tutorial video to add to their repertoire, I could directly impact the performances of thousands of magicians worldwide. Some of you may remember a poll I submitted months ago asking about how many audience members the average magician performs for every week. By applying this knowledge, I learned that my Buckeye Tutorial video alone positively impacts the lives of massive numbers (100,000? 1,000,000?) of people around the world. And this was all a result of 2hr's work. AND, I've made close to one hundred videos over the past six years...imagine the cumulative impact that an individual, like you and me, who just decided to pick up a deck of cards seriously one day, can have on the world now.
Us Cardists have always been on the forefront of the new developments of internet technologies, primarily Web 2.0. Our resources are infinite, imaginations deep and creative, and our willingness to turn the impossible in to a reality is strong. This is what characterizes the successful modern cardist.
The two weeks that I will be spending at Oxford attending the TED Global Conference will be life-changing. I certainly could not have made it there without everything you all have done to take cardistry to where it is today.
Thanks,
Jason Soll
