極限花式撲克世界冠軍系列教學DVD預告片

2010年2月利用農曆年7天連假遠征美國丹佛完成了這部DVD

預告片中於在4個月後推出

預計一個月後上市

遊記代補

Steve Jobs 2005史丹佛大學演講

'You've got to find what you love'     - Jobs 

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

舒緩眼睛疲勞，保護眼睛之不負責講座

分享一下最近在網路上看到 "號稱" 可以舒緩眼睛疲勞，保護眼睛


我整理了各方說法,大家可以參考一下








在『桌面』點右鍵→選『內容』→選『外觀』→選『進階』→選『項目』，

改成『視窗』→點『色彩1（L）』→選『其它』，

將『色調』改為：85。

『濃度』改為：123。

『亮度』改為：205

接著按下『新增自訂色彩』→『確定』。

以後所有文字檔都再不是白底黑字，而是柔和的豆沙綠色


單獨對 IE 7 瀏覽器的設定方法：

工具→網際網路選項→一般→外觀→色彩→把使用Windows色彩取消→更改背景設定

這樣就只有網頁裡面會變色


FireFox 的修改方法：


工具->選項->內容->色彩

把"優先使用網頁指定的顏色"拿掉即可


另一方說法:

網路謠言不可信 

近來網路流傳電子郵件，內容說眼科專家建議可把電腦螢幕上的色調、飽和度和亮度調整至一定數值，原本螢幕上的白底變淺綠色，可減緩長時間使用電腦眼睛疲勞。 

不過眼科醫師說，未曾聽過類似研究，降低對比也會讓辨識度下降，眼睛反而要更用力才能看清楚，「常休息才是正確保養之道。」 

對此，高雄醫學大學付設醫院眼科主治醫師徐旭亮說，郵件建議調整值固然會讓對比度下降，減少強烈對比對眼睛的刺激，但同時也會讓辨識度降低，看螢幕更吃力。 

高雄澄清眼科院長吳孟憲表示：「最根本的保養做法還是使用電腦時間的調控，至多使用半小時就要休息一下！」

我是覺得亮白看久了確實容易疲勞,大家可以試試喔

SGP敗家記

買了iPhone後,二姨子成了勸敗犧牲品第一號

她看上SGP這個品牌 (說真的我也很喜歡)

二話不說馬上跟官網SGP下單,下單後隔天馬上收到寄件通知,效率滿分

她買了皮製版及超薄粉紅版,我則買了粉藍及防反光貼膜

粉藍版上身,內還加贈保護膜一張
果然如官方所說"超薄"

我喜歡它的正面銀邊可以露出,moshi包覆面積較多,但相對較厚,取下不易,容易刮傷機子本體,相對SGP較薄,露出質感銀邊,裝卸榮易,moshi可以畢業了











換上防油防眩光貼膜,跟上圖有明顯差異,手指滑動螢幕的觸感也完全不同了,SGP的膜非常容易貼(跟之前的moshi,switcheasy比較),這點必須加分

同場加映在蘋果官網買的car mount
中文怎說阿?
















最後附上SGP安全測試

Swirling Series Silicone Case,Ultra Slim Silicone Case for iPhone 3G/3GS

在使用阿鳳2星期後有感於騎車攜帶外出缺乏安全感,開始在網路上搜尋矽膠保護套(其時是敗家蟲又騷動起來)

矽膠套會降低阿鳳質感是確定的,但是外出運動考慮的還是安全為上,矽膠提供的防震保護是其它硬殼無法提供的,在比較過幾家後More-Thing.com中選,下單過後過了一星期才收到寄件通知,不過在寄出後4天就收到,而且是掛號喔,是從香港寄出的,郵資是6.34美金

阿鳳說:"我的新衣服到了!!"

上:Swirling Series Silicone Case 下:Ultra Slim Silicone Case

準備把moshi硬殼脫掉
著裝完畢,請叫我"宇智波班"
另一件,半透明薄紗
正面來一張

JBL radial micro - 給阿鳳的專屬音響

敗了阿鳳後,一直想幫她找個專屬音響 

依慣例也上網比較了不少產品,但還是JBL radial micro最得我心 

(其實最得我心的是B&W Zeppelin Mini,不過價格實在是)

接下來是iHome,

價格親民一些,可是本人同時也是外貿協會會員之一,最後還是JBL radial micro中選

除了造型外,會選JBL的最大理由是它原本就是製造喇叭的公司,其它大部分只是製造電腦零件廠商,(B&M也是專門製造喇叭的公司),畢竟買喇叭就是要買音質,就像買手錶一樣,買的是它的機芯,去買一些非手錶製造廠出產的手錶有什麼意思呢,它機芯也是跟別家廠商買來後裝個自己的外殼搭上自家品牌出售,價與值不成正比

分享一個喇叭小知識,新喇叭買來後以低音量跑一星期後,慢慢增加音量,以後比較不會產生爆音現象(蘋果店員跟我說的)

Elago M2 Mobile Stand For iPhone 開箱文

常在網路上看人家發表開箱文,自己也來發一篇試試

自從買了阿鳳後,一直想幫她找個巢,花了不少時間比對了各式各樣的基座,最後Elago M2雀屏中選

網路時代提供的便利性,在電腦上點幾下,幾天後東西就到門口了

直式橫式皆可放,放置於座上時可充電,直立放置也非常穩定,這就是我要的

I love it!!

依照開箱文慣例,要交代一下購買地,

http://www.elagodesign.com/

 

iPhone 2010年3月16日正式迎娶進門

自從發現遠傳要開賣IPHONE後心中那股想敗IPHONE的衝動再也鎮壓不住

以前一直說服自己 "還在綁約中,跳槽到中華要罰錢",結果我的約綁到3月17日,剛好遠傳又開賣,再不買就對不起自己的良心了

由於一直等遠傳正式上市,等到心煩意亂,上星期還沒拿到手機已經先敗了手機殼跟車充

http://blog.xuite.net/fatfingerz/tournament/31891568

上圖就是正式合體的樣子了,還附了一個基座,放桌上真方便,過一陣子使用上比較上手後,就可以解開殼的束縛,還原阿鳳原來的樣子(她是白的)

裝進CapsuleNeo殼之前,要先貼螢幕保護貼,這時吃足了苦頭,第一張貼到一半客人進來,之後再也調不好,忍痛再開另一張,又失敗,好幾個泡泡,可惡,難度比我想像中還高,不過一張保護貼不便宜,先將就著用,到今天實在看不下去,拿出最後一張保護貼,抱著破釜沉舟的心拼了,有了2次保貴的失敗經驗後,第3次終於完美達成任務,還她該有的質感

經過這兩天的把玩,發現我與阿鳳相見恨晚,google calendar同步,照片直接上傳FACEBOOK,voice memo,超強音樂功能..........阿鳳我愛你!!

鬼手 vs. 綜藝大哥大

昨天錄完綜藝大哥大

我終於知道為何綜藝大哥大能歷久不衰的原因,工作人員真的是花很多心血在節目上,前置作業我已經跟工作人員通過無數次電話,也在台北與他們面談過,甚至在上節目前一星期還麻煩了兩位製作單位人員到我家討論了一整個下午,無非是想真正了解什麼是極限花式撲克,如何去呈現它,我真的很感謝製作單位的用心,謝謝阿雅,海豚及製作人李慧蘭,希望我沒讓你們失望

製作人李慧蘭小姐的眼光真的是令我佩服,她只要看你一眼,便能說出你服裝造型哪邊需要改善,例如造型師第一次幫我弄完頭髮她看完後說"不對,層次太多",說真的我還真聽不懂,只覺得自己髮型怪怪的說不上來,而造型師聽她的話重新弄過後,真的變順多了.因為這次有牽扯到變裝,親眼看其他參加者由便服轉變成造型服在轉變成表演服,差異性真的很大,我真的深刻體會到'佛要金裝,人要衣裝'這句話.

這次的表演我給自己打70分,上場表演時發現牌況不好時已經來不及了,只能硬著頭皮做下去,每次的公開演出真的都是經驗的學習及累積,這應該算我的最後一個節目了,沒想到玩花式居然讓我的人生多了如此奇特的經驗,真的始料未及.

我與製作人李慧蘭

我與孔鏘老師

我與黃品源

我與陳思璇

我與善微媽媽

我與瑪格莉特

當天的表演

2007-01-24 13:45

XCM vs. 康熙來了

上星期參加康熙來了的錄影

原本一直擔心小S的犀利話語會令我無法招架,結果這次錄影反而是最有意思的一次

這次錄影找來的來賓我很喜歡,溜溜球達人Jester,魔術方塊達人康洛豪(他也有玩疊杯子),Contact Juggling胡啟志等等,大多是以manipulation為主題的人,我們這幾個遇在一起真的有種難得遇到知音的感覺,尤其跟胡啟志更是相談甚歡,我跟他一致覺得觀眾喜歡看的都是一些比較簡單的動作,一些我們練的要死難到暴的動作觀眾反應卻是普通,畢竟是表演,最後還是要對觀眾妥協,表演一些比較譁眾取寵的動作.

我在每次錄影後都覺得自己學習到很多不同的東西,這次我學到最大的一點就是流程安排,第一次錄影是我表演我的,攝影拍他的,效果不好,因為攝影師不懂哪個距離角度較好,之後我會跟攝影師溝通一下,結果發現他們跟不上,因為我動作改變太大,剛要zoom in又要zoom out,最後我發現我不該要工作人員配合我,應該是我要配合工作人員,畢竟只有我才真正懂我自己在做什麼,怎能要求工作人員在5分鐘內就了解什麼動作要什麼角度最美,而這是我在錄完康熙來了後的心得,我在快樂專賣店錄完後學到我的速度必須放慢,因為我以往拍片都是給內行人看,都會盡量作快,這樣看起來才炫,可是對一般人來說,根本來不及消化.

這次是個愉快的經驗,亦是個很棒的學習經驗

我與胡啟志

我想我是全世界第一個把紙牌spring到女主持人臉上的人

變魔術

TT Display

2007-01-09 14:05

當XCM遇到蘋果

自從在蘋果見報後,我的生活起了不小的變化,來藥局拿藥的患者會說"你就是那個玩牌的對吧"新聞那個是你對吧""可不可以秀幾招",原本頂多說個"我頭痛""我ㄧ直拉肚子"等等,撲克牌無形中拉近了彼此的距離.

當天早上八點我買了蘋果日報發現版面不小時還嚇了ㄧ跳,當我八點半載完小朋友上學後,一回到家醫組電視台記者已經在我家門口了,他們表明希望能採訪,不到九點居然陸續來了七家新聞媒體,我只記的一團亂,他問這他問那,我秀這我秀那,兩小時後已經在新聞看到自己,感覺時在是超現實,根本沒任何時間思考,當腦筋還沒轉好,中午已經開始接到電視台的邀約.

綜藝電視邀約,原本我是排斥的態度,因為我從未想過要以花式或魔術出名或維生,那單純只是我的興趣,直到我老婆說,去經歷一下也好,那應該是一段很特別的體驗,我很高興我聽了她的話,因此選了其中幾個節目參加,而我也確實經驗到許多特別的事(有好的有壞的),最重要的是,我學習到很多日常生活中無法學習到的東西,例如如何說話.

今天晚上華視八點快樂專賣店應該會播出我的片段,在電視表演跟在現實生活中有很大的差距,面前四台攝影機,兩旁站著主持人,旁邊八名特別來賓,一堆現場觀眾及工作人員,我很高興我當時沒手軟,這真的是訓練膽量的一大機會,在秀玩花式表演後,製作單位要求可否秀一些賭神裡面的換牌動作,我發現每個人看完花式撲克後,馬上會聯想到賭神這部電影,接著就是問一些相關問題,例如可以換牌嗎,牌可以殺人嗎等等,賭神電影已經深深烙印在每個人腦中,我只好臨時秀一些小魔術,我ㄧ直以為主持人發問的問題事前都會溝通好,後來我終於知道其實之前說的問題只是參考,製作單位準備的問題,主持人拿到後頂多問一題,其餘都是臨時起意,而攝影機一直沒停過(我ㄧ直以為一個問題回答不好可以CUT,重來,一個動作不完美可以CUT,重來,結果完全不是,這個明星趕時間,那個名星等等要趕通告,沒人有時間可以重來),整個過程都發生的超快,沒時間讓你思考,沒時間讓你緊張,另外再電視中表演魔術也跟現實生活中不一樣,導播一直要我慢下來,給這個機拍一下,給那個機拍一下,我後來終於知道位何我不會很緊張了,因為真的沒時間思考緊不緊張的問題.

我原本不打算公布我有上電視,因為自己知道要學習的還很多,離真正的的專業表演還有一段距離,但是這是一段非常特別的學習過程,我覺得還是可以跟大家分享.

當年比賽的精華畫面

今天在youtube閒逛

突然發現一部影片

名為"Fatfingerz highlight video"

點進去一看,奇怪,那不就是我嗎

原來是有人把我去年比賽9關的影片剪成一部短片

看完真是勾起許多美好回憶

想想也已經是快2年前的事,時間過得真快

這兩年來似乎沒有進步

2008-07-06

魔術雜誌Genii 2004年 八月號 De'vo親筆簽名

Genii是美國非常有名的一個魔術雜誌

它在2004年8月為De'vo做了一個長達12頁的專訪

這在花式圈是一項大突破

因為全球花式人口不斷增加

相關產品也陸續推出

而Superhandz當仁不讓被視為花式界龍頭老大

當時De'vo為了紀念這一刻

在他的商店進了20本雜誌,每本都簽名

圖片中的簽名是親筆簽名,不是原本印刷

我記的那時候這20本雜誌一上網頁30分內就售完

很幸運的被我搶到一本

裡面有一句話我很喜歡

"If your card flourishes diminish your magical effect,then you need a better magic trick!"

De'vo表示常有人對他說花式會不會降低魔術效果

他都會回答"如果你的花式會讓你的魔術效果降低,那麼你需要更好一點的魔術流程"

說白一點就是如果你的花式會降低魔術效果,那表示你的魔術太爛了

花式對魔術來說是兩面刃

它可以為魔術帶來更好的效果

相對的使用時機錯誤則會明顯降低你的魔術效果




例如你讓觀眾選一張牌後放回牌疊中

你如果以一堆花切手法將那張牌放回牌疊中

觀眾根本不知你到底在做什麼

心理只想"剛選的那張牌到底怎麼了,現在是什麼情況"

這時你這個魔術已經徹底失敗

這時應該以最清楚簡單的方法將那張牌插回牌疊中

清楚傳達出觀眾所選的牌已經任意的放回牌疊中

當觀眾相信那張牌已經完全迷失在牌疊中時

你以花式手法射出那張牌時

這時觀眾的嘴巴應該是張的開開的才對

對我來說魔術跟XCM(極限花式)是2門獨立的藝術

我很少將兩者合而為一表演

魔術所要呈現的是"效果"

而XCM所要呈現的是"過程"

兩者有很明顯的不同

Kickass #1

(本篇文章為2005年的舊文章)

Kickass?踢屁股?

Kickass算是個俚語,意思是"超屌"

是De'vo在看完這部影片後命名的

為何我會貼這部影片?這部影片對我來說意義非常重大.

我一直是其為我XCM生涯的最高峰

這部影片一年了,也就是說我在完成這部片後一年來無任何進展

可能不少朋友已經知道這部影片的由來,在這邊還是簡述一下

當時De'vo從會員中選出5名他認為不錯的,希望他們能合拍一部影片

如果他覺得成果不錯,他會放上http://www.superhandz.com/網頁

很幸運的我入選了,而且他希望由我來編輯整部影片

De'vo對成品相當滿意,放上網頁後2星期內創下2萬人次觀賞

影片中那2招display亦是我玩XCM以來最得意的創作

之後便江郎才盡

Kickass #2

繼2005年的kickass #1影片至今已經3年多

第2集中於出爐,由於第一集獲得相當大的迴響,這次De'vo決定由他自行編輯(第一級是由我編輯的),用專業級的硬體搭配軟體弄出來的東西果然不同凡響,屌翻天

我當然就是影片中的第2位,各位仔細看來可以看到Taiwan喔,這可是我要求要打上去的,影片中的動作都是原創,也有幾招是第一次亮相

台灣加油

AV cut

由於我有參予superhandz論壇管理,最好每周有些東西PO到論壇

這星期我發表了一招叫做AV cut

A.V.?Adult Video Cut?成人影帶切牌?

當然不是

AV代表"another variation","另一個變化"的意思

其實我主要是要諷刺現在線上太多類似的雙手切牌,每個又有各自的名稱,但是都是由Brian Tudor的WTH sybil變化而成, 乍看也都一樣,只有玩家才能分辨出不同,在一般觀眾眼裡根本都長得一樣

所以我把這招取名為another variation,僅為變化,不是原創

綜藝大哥大表演

這是2007年在綜藝大哥大的表演

當年給綜藝大哥大製作單位的DEMO片

在錄綜藝大哥大之前,製作單位希望我提供一個DEMO片

畢竟XCM對製作單位來說是個相當陌生的東西

我先把當天要表演的東西拍一次給他們看

他們會去研究鏡頭要如何處理等問題

當時沒時間後製,維持原音收錄完全沒經過剪輯

The Encyclopedia of Card Flourishes - Jerry Cestkowski

如果你問我 "影響你最深的一本書是?"

我的回答無疑是 "The Encyclopedia of Card Flourishes" by Jerry Cestkowski.

這本在國外被尊稱為the Bible,花式紙牌的聖經,545頁,超過2800張圖片重達2.3公斤

裡面共12章節 189招花式 (剛數過)

目前網路上的花式都以2手切為主,而兩手切在這本書裡只是其中的兩個章節,分別是

5. TWO-HAND SINGLE CUTS

6. TWO-HAND MULTIPLE CUTS

這裡是本書所有章節 http://www.flourishman.com/TOC.htm

當年開始練花式時不像現在資源很多,一切都靠自己摸索,當時就抱著這本書學會了各式各樣的開扇,spring,展牌,切牌等,不同時期看都能學到不同的東西,裡面還有我到現在都做不來的招式如 Six-Packet Display Cut,Juggling等

這本書花了Jerry7年的時間才完成,而他所會的東西還可以再出個3本童要大小的書沒問題,但他表示實在不想再花另一個7年完成另一本書,太辛苦了

目前這本書已經到第3刷,全書的文字圖片排版及印刷都是JERRY獨力完成,你對花式有興趣嗎,或是你想為你的魔術增添一些色彩,這本書將是你最棒的選擇

每本75美金加35美金國際運費(實在太重了),以內容來衡量,我覺得一點也不貴

另外Jerry也有出這本書的表演示範DVD共四張,每張DVD內含書中3個章節的示範表演,並針對每一章節編一套表演流程,現在的玩家真是太幸福了,還有DVD可以參考,以前沒DVD,只能自己硬練阿

每張DVD是30美金,如果跟書一起買則免運費

書的唯一購買管道就是跟JERRY本人買,他只收支票跟paypal付款

訂書管道 http://www.flourishman.com/HowtoOrder.htm

如果你真的對這本書有興趣又無法自己購買,我可以幫忙代購,不收額外手續費,算是對原創者的一種支持

Jerry's Nugget Playing Card

De'vo對這副牌的評價 " The worst ever back design is a toss up between "Barbie" and Jerry's Nugget cards."

很多人問過我這個問題,Jerry's Nugget Playing Card是什麼牌,它特殊在哪,為何那麼貴

這副牌的珍貴是在於數量有限,它是Las Vegas一家賭場Jerry's Nugget出產(上圖右),有一說法是因為印刷那副牌的油墨成本過高,賭場決定停產,另一說法是這副牌不符合賭場安全測試,因而宣布停產,當時有一部分魔術師很愛用這副牌的原因是因為它牌與牌之間的黏附性很高,這有一些優點,當你在做Double Lift時非常容易,如李阿舍的Acrobatic diving board double,縱使飛到空中還不容易分開,這樣你了解為何他愛用這副牌了吧,如當你在做切牌時(3切,4切,5切,6切......),整疊牌之間不容易分開,這樣你知道那對雙胞胎兄弟為何愛用這副牌了吧,相對的他的缺點就是展牌不易,開扇也成了不可能的任務,這樣你知道為何De'vo不喜歡這副牌了,他甚至用娘娘腔來形容這副牌的牌被設計

當那家賭場宣布停產時,一位歐洲魔術師Dominique Duvivier 帶著現金將所有庫存掃光(4萬副),不定期會釋出一些數量,這也是為何這副牌的價格一直維持在高價的原因,在國外不少魔術師不齒這種做法,現在只有牌的收藏家及那對Buck雙胞胎的忠實擁護者才會買這副牌

後來的Jerry's Nugget Playing Card長這樣

2007-04-29 11:21 發表於

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