Saturday Night Contest - Valentine's Day!
- Thread starter CaseyRudd
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I was on a holiday with my family when we stopped to watch street magician/performer. The guy was smooooth. After that I knew I wanted to practise and get to a level where I could amaze my friends and family. That was when I fell in love with magic. Cardistry came quite a bit later when I wanted to learn how to do a one-handed cut 😄 At the same time I started seriously collecting playing cards. At the moment I'm more interested in cardistry and photography than in magic but I feel like magic will always have a part in my life!
I fell in love with cards when I saw Oz Pearlman performing mentalism by predicting what someone is thinking and correctly matching it on America’s Got Talent. I also was amazed by Shin Lim when he used fire with his cards to disappear and reveal someone’s card on America’s Got Talent as well. It made me get a standard bicycle deck to begin practicing cardistry and magic on my own.
I’ve loved magic for my entire life. I started doing tricks at the age of 4 (and got video tapes to prove it!). But my love for playing cards appeared later… when I first discovered theory11. After a few weeks of browsing their catalog, I was there for the first of many release events I’d witness. And oh my god was it a good one! It proved playing cards had a beautiful future: all custom design, embossing, metallic inks and foils… Sentinels really made me feel playing card design was an art on its own. I still keep a few decks from that era!
