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No clue why this thread would be getting downvotes, lovely "community".

Anyway, Lacoste 2 is all about rhythm. Definitely check out my most recent performance https://www.instagram.com/p/-EkQN3rOE1/?taken-by=patch.var and try to emulate that rhythm as best you can. I've found that the majority of the Lacoste 2s that I've seen have zero understanding of the rhythm of the cut, and I'd argue that the rhythm is more important than the range of motion. Speaking of which, the energy of the cut is dictated by the range of motion. Focus on making each motion as big and as deliberate as possible. Every single twist and turn should feel calculated and purposeful, I see alot of performances that feel very directionless and flimsy. Feel free to send me a performance!

Not that I'm aware of. Closest thing might be the My Shuffles app from Cardistry Touch.

It helps you organize performance clips of all of your moves. No central database of moves. It's all self organized.

I would highly recommend that you change the color scheme. From a thematic point of view, the purple and green don't really fit in at all. However, I would still try to incorporate some gradient like you have here.

http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes should give you a good sense of what colors can go together (personally used this for my graphic design stuff).

And I would consider removing the hexagons on the borders as well because

a) the colors mismatch with the adjacent hexagons (adjacent as in horizontally adjacent)

b) it takes away from the overall hexagon-style of the design by having trapezoids

I appreciate the hard work that you've put in so far, but there's still a long way to go. Best of luck :)

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TL;DR: Looking away makes you look cool, into the camera can be weird, but practicing with your eyes closed is really good.

If you are performing to people, not looking at your hands is a plus in terms coolness. However, they will likely look at either you (if you are looking at them) or where you are looking, which might detract from the Cardistry. So a thing like the Flickershot works pretty well because it's still in their field of view.

For a video, I'm not sure how well it would work. I imagine it being very situational. In this case I made it because staring into the viewer's soul why doing a flickershot is hilarious. Generally though, I might see it as an actor looking at the camera in a movie: you are taking away the viewer from the action in the video, hence diminishing the immersion (which is bad, because that's what film is all about). It also pushes the viewer's gaze away from the cardistry.
It might be easier to make this work if you are looking away from your hands, like at someone our in the distance. Here's an example from Ryuji. Yeah it makes him look pretty cool. So for a video, I think it really depends on what you're trying to convey.

In terms of practicing, I think that not looking at your hands is really important. Once you know what the cut should look like, you can close your eyes to really focus on where your fingers are. Doing so helps with getting the cut smoother since you're optimizing your finger's trajectory. Ryuji calls this "kinesthetic awareness".
It's also a good way to make the cut become "second nature", where you don't even need to think about the finger motions.

These shelves were given to me as a gift back in 2013, and I've just decided to put them up now because they conveniently fit playing cards nicely. I'm not sure if these are the exact ones but I found these on Amazon which are the same dimensions and color.

Agreed that people should consider what it is about a performance piece that appeals to them, rather than just bandwagoning on the latest trends. Of course, this isn't something that necessarily has to be explained to someone else — so long as you understand why you do what you do, that understanding should come through in your actions alone.

On the subject of bandwagoning, Michael Feldman wrote a great article a while ago that your post reminded me of. It's also more on the magic side of things, but is equally applicable to cardistry as well.

Usually you can always find a beat to edit to. For example, after the cascade, you could have cut at "hold me back".

Also, DaVinci Resolve light (scroll al the way to the bottom) is free and has everything you'd need. It's a bit tricky to get used to, but it's a really solid option.

unfortunately they don't really work. another example of cards not good for cardistry, but you can still do packet tricks. if you keep an eye on amazon, this brick of bikes goes down to $12.50 (if you're in the states) every few months https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001AMO8A0/?coliid=IV6ELSVAAYIJ7. that's an incredible value, and these cards are perfect to get started. otherwise, i'd recommend grabbing a two-pack of bicycles either online or at walgreens or a grocery store. the price won't be as very good, but you'll want some legit cards to get started or you'll be very frustrated. don't get anything fancy because when you start with cardistry, you'll mangle your cards very quickly.

They are kinda hard to come by and are expensive cards. They are called Virtuoso SS16 Playing Cards
Amazon has some for 30$ a deck.
If you have the time I would suggest just market sniping on eBay waiting for a good price.

Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/Virtuoso-Spring-Summer-Playing-Cards/dp/B01GJZM336

You tried fanning powder? sometimes old cards loose the coating, but this helps to reduce friction and sticky card issues. a little goes a long way.

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Fanning powder Amazon

Not sure what you mean by "built-in" shelves, but I was literally just looking at these acrylic shelves today to display my decks:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QMKW79V/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=AGSRHHB4WK13L&th=1

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If you scroll down to the product description, there's actually a picture of some cards displayed on them. Hope this helps!

You’re probably right. I found this on Amazon.

A little background: The logos on the cards are for the city of Stockholm! I got the chance to be @Sweden on Twitter this week, so Birger & I filmed this at some Stockholm landmarks. The song is Kyoto by Yung Lean, a Swedish rapper too :)

Not exactly the same as what you are looking for, but these are pretty similar if the original is hard to find. Little side note though, they are plastic cards. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZY8TRFX/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_G7HB7KJR88XQY5HZQT60

The creator has similar designed decks too if this didn't fit for you :)

>they're pretty pricey for one card.

I wouldn't think of it that way. I have 4, and they're good for life. Since they're not paper, plastic, acrylic, or glass, dropping them does little to tarnish them, and I can toss them in my pocket without a box. Even though I got mine from Chase for free, the $X investment you'd make for them would be akin to getting a Porper Card Clip — instead of buying decks every week, you just need to buy this once.

I don't have any photos of them in particular, but I did use them in Portable Playground 2 and in this video as well.

Last I checked, only 17 out of the 200 are left. Cheers!

Check out this Kickstarter.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/teachbymagic/different-deck-playing-cards-reinvented

I saw it tonight and decided to pledge thinking that this would probably be good for making my fingers more nimble and dextrous. If nothing else should improve my coin handling.

Someone posted this in the comment section of that article that I found to be a pretty nice read that goes into a little bit more than just muscle memory.

http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Master-Any-Subject-and-be-an-Expert-Genius-in-Anything

I use the Bullets playing cards. Amazon Link

Like I said, fans are still a little bit harder with plastic, but you can still riffle fan them evenly and nice.

Closest I've seen are these. https://www.amazon.com/Bicycle-Brosmind-Gangs-Playing-Cards/dp/B08SMQ4FRS

Edit: Or these from an earlier post but I'm not sure what type they are or if the blocks of text take away from it. :/ https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yp-q-DUN_EY&feature=share

they seem readily available, the UK amazon store has them! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bicycle-Escape-Map-Playing-Cards/dp/B00EA1QZ22

Card case

I bought one of these and put two cards inside and left them there it helped me a lot with warping

Right now, Amazon has a brick of Bikes for $15.98 ($1.33/deck) which is a good price. Bikes are excellent for practice because they're cheap and high quality. What you want to use for show, depends on your style and what you want to accomplish with the flourish. Theory11 have excellent quality with good designs and cost $10/deck, other decks with designs better suited to Cardistry can be more. Really depends on what you're looking for in terms of visuals...

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Here's the link to the $16 brick of Bikes on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AMO8A0/ref=oh_aui_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Try Spanish amazon, postage to Portugal shouldn't be too high. Brick of bicycles 30€

https://www.amazon.es/Bicycle-Paquete-12-tarjetas-poker-est%C3%A1ndar/dp/B001AAK3BK/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?keywords=bicycle+cards&qid=1566776240&s=gateway&sprefix=Bicyc&sr=8-3

Nice! I too find that McCloud's book has affected the way I experience and appreciate other art forms.

Also, since you're in UI/UX, I think you might dig The Best Interface is No Interface. It's more of an opinionated rant than a how-to, but definitely has some strong and well-argued points about technology that are pertinent in this day and age.

I am tempted to give this a try cuz I’m in the same boat as you I need to find some sort of storage/display for mine. Either this or I’m just going to build something

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B088GQ6NQM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_aCBoFbTPEJTMC

Does it need to be pretty? I have 6 boxes of these, and they nicely fit up to 88 decks.

You can get them at any store that sells sports cards or M:TG cards or comics something like that.

Looks like it resembles the Carat X1 Case which is on Amazon HERE or their website at http://www.caratcardcases.com/

Haha, check it out. These come with two big caveats though––one of the lights is faulty and no longer works. Also, the company just doesn't respond to any problems. So if you want a super cheap option, I think these work, but caveat emptor.

i'd say these, my brother offered them to me as a gift(/joke too actually but anywho) (I think the printer is actually nintendo) but daaaamn, these are soooo soft and flexible it's impressive as fuck how premium they feel but how flexible they are. They feel soooo weird, it's disturbing to have them in the hands, their super heavy, but also so thin and soft, man these are weird. I guess if you have the occasion to test these out, I'd say take'em but yeah, they're damn awkward to use (I think the worst part is, the finish is pretty great, it's just the stock)

Sortkwik

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00006XY1N/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_PoZnzbQS2PAQQ

Pro: gives you better grip

Con: you get use to a false grip and have to have this stuff on you all the time.

Personal advice, practice without and properly breaking in the deck helps more.

In pocket or on table in a card clip. Would suggest a clip if you're not wanting them to get crushed. They're a bit weighty but work great. Here's a cheap one on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Makers-Classic-Card-Guard/dp/B000JXTT3C/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1491792953&sr=8-3-fkmr2&keywords=card+clip+playing+card

Thank you so much for your answer!

I just opened a new deck and oh my god, that is a difference to the old one! But now I am not able to do a Murphy deck flip, because one card allways shots out... With the old one no problem. Well I think that is what you mean with you use your decks to the point where they are broken in right?

With the blue Tally Ho's you mean this deck right?: https://www.amazon.de/US-Playing-Card-Company-Pokerkarten/dp/B001A1U9PE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1489484239&sr=8-1&keywords=Tally-Ho

Is there a big difference between the blue and black seal?

What do you think of these? Possible left over stock?

http://www.amazon.com/Pinochle-Playing-Cards-U-S-Decks/dp/B017V8ZFDU?ie=UTF8&keywords=stud%20playing%20cards&qid=1464635850&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1

I've been using these Bicycle Pro Peek cards. They're really nice and feel similar to the new Virts SS2015 deck. I just gave you the first link I saw but if you look around you can probably find them cheaper. I actually get them from the store. They cost around the same as regular bikes too which is cool.