Juan Tamariz - cardtoon with a twist

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Juan Tamariz - cardtoon with a twist

Postby Mats Kjellstrom » July 10th, 2009, 5:48 pm

Tamariz version of the great Cardtoon & Unshuffled....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79KPoAUeYU8

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Re: Juan Tamariz - cardtoon with a twist

Postby Richard Hatch » July 10th, 2009, 6:58 pm

Wow, thanks Mats. That is really inspirational! How many of us do either (or both) of those tricks as originally described? Tamariz doesn't just combine them but gets much more out of either than anyone I've ever seen. He is the Master! He never stops thinking! Thanks!

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Re: Juan Tamariz - cardtoon with a twist

Postby Travis » July 10th, 2009, 8:16 pm

Phenomenal, Maestro.

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Postby greg manwaring » July 11th, 2009, 3:38 am

wow, 8 minutes of entertainment with one effect (well, with subplots along the way). A true lesson in how much entertainment you can get from a single effect, when you embrace the performer in you. That in comparison to someone who simply slams out a ton of tricks in one sitting, where they simply rely on the mystification of the clever trick itself.

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Re: Juan Tamariz - cardtoon with a twist

Postby Matthew Field » July 11th, 2009, 5:25 am

This is a good example of why Tamariz is worthy of study. He shows the top card of the Cardtoon deck, then shows half the card beneath, concealing the animation and demonstrating it's just a deck with a picture on the backs (presumably identical stick figures). He shuffles the set-up deck. He uses the first Faro to show Two of Clubs written on the side of the deck four times -- the 8 of Clubs (a selected card)! He shows another side with Ace of Spades written on it, another selection. It seems impossible for all these messages to appear on two sides of a deck.

Watch how he demonstrates the animation effect. Not once, as most people would do it, but flipping through it partially several times to the point where the stick figure reaches into the hat. Eventually, he flips through the deck at least half a dozen times showing the card revelation. And there's not just one card in play -- there are three.

But he's not done. He uses half the deck to show another message on the side of the deck. Then, after the Faro, he shows the cards in new deck order.

Not finished yet. He spreads the cards to show "The End" ("Fin") written in blue on the edges of the cards. He personalizes the stick figure as "Juanito".

Good lord. All this from a piece of "slum" magic (no disrespect to Dan Harlan for his great trick). This man is a genius.

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Postby greg manwaring » July 11th, 2009, 6:43 am

Yes Matt, a great lesson in personalizing an effect to suit 'you' and how you perform!

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Postby Darryl Harris » July 11th, 2009, 7:22 am

Oh Yeah... Sr. Tamariz is the best example of a man who does not stop thinking too soon, and settling. Damn... That was effin' brilliant.
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Re: Juan Tamariz - cardtoon with a twist

Postby Jim Martin » July 11th, 2009, 11:17 am

Thanks for that post, Mats. His comibnation of the two effects is only the beginning.

Foremost in my thoughts is admiration for Tamariz's construction of the piece - very organic, with beginning-middle(extensive)-end, then a great coda (the 'Fin').

We are very lucky to be here with Maestro Tamariz - bravo bravo bravo.

Viva Tamariz! (... y Juanito)
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Re: Juan Tamariz - cardtoon with a twist

Postby Mats Kjellstrom » July 11th, 2009, 2:31 pm

HE speaks very good spanish, too.

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Re: Juan Tamariz - cardtoon with a twist

Postby shakuni » July 19th, 2023, 10:55 am

The video is down, anyone have an alternate link? Thanks.

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Re: Juan Tamariz - cardtoon with a twist

Postby Philippe Billot » July 19th, 2023, 1:22 pm

It's the tragedy of the internet, everything is bound to disappear...

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Re: Juan Tamariz - cardtoon with a twist

Postby MagicbyAlfred » July 19th, 2023, 1:33 pm

Philippe Billot wrote:It's the tragedy of the internet, everything is bound to disappear...


Then that would include the exposure "tutorials." That would not be a tragedy. Maybe there is hope...

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Postby Richard Kaufman » July 19th, 2023, 2:40 pm

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Re: Juan Tamariz - cardtoon with a twist

Postby Denis Behr » July 19th, 2023, 3:28 pm

shakuni wrote:The video is down, anyone have an alternate link? Thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXkK7Hb0ftE

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Re: Juan Tamariz - cardtoon with a twist

Postby Philippe Billot » July 19th, 2023, 3:45 pm

Richard Kaufman wrote:Books don't disappear.


Except in Farenheit 451...

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Re: Juan Tamariz - cardtoon with a twist

Postby Philippe Billot » July 19th, 2023, 3:46 pm

MagicbyAlfred wrote:
Philippe Billot wrote:It's the tragedy of the internet, everything is bound to disappear...


Then that would include the exposure "tutorials." That would not be a tragedy. Maybe there is hope...


A quelque chose, malheur est bon... (sometime misfortune is good)

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Re: Juan Tamariz - cardtoon with a twist

Postby shakuni » July 20th, 2023, 12:06 pm

@Denis Behr

Thank you so much!

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Re: Juan Tamariz - cardtoon with a twist

Postby Joe Lyons » July 22nd, 2023, 6:00 pm

Richard Kaufman wrote:Books don't disappear.

But websites do.

Which is a real shame because there are some seriously good sites out there, and when their creators die what will happen to them?
Take Magicpedia for example. Cortini, Philippe and others are doing yeoman's work but unless I'm mistaken it's had the same featured articles since Joe Pecore passed away.
One can use The Wayback Machine to view dead sites but it's patchy at best.
Much of Magic's knowledge and history is captive to this ephemeral media we call the web.
I only hope those that have spent much of their life's blood documenting and archiving our thing have plans to provide for the sites continuance after their inevitable demise.

I have selfish reasons, of course, but I also just hate to see such waste.

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Postby Richard Kaufman » July 22nd, 2023, 7:44 pm

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Re: Juan Tamariz - cardtoon with a twist

Postby Philippe Billot » July 23rd, 2023, 1:23 am

I discover this word : yeoman

It's funny because it signifies : assistant (same word in french)

but also Beefeater or royal guard

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Re: Juan Tamariz - cardtoon with a twist

Postby Joe Lyons » July 23rd, 2023, 8:26 am

Richard Kaufman wrote:MagicPedia is owned by Genii, not Joe. Randy Pitchford fully intends to keep all of Genii's websites functioning long into the future.

The older I get, the more I admire someone's positive choices more than any wealth they've been able to amass. Mr. Pitchford appears to have an abundance of both and has already assured himself a spot in Magic's history.

The reason I mentioned Magicpedia, along with the homepage being unchanged for years, is from something you said earlier this year:
Richard Kaufman wrote:Unfortunately I don't know his login info, or much else about MagicPedia. I've been hoping someone else would come along and take up the job where Joe left off. He did an amazing amount and the site is really a tribute to his work.

I am unsure if anyone else is capable of being an administrator now that Mr. Pecore is gone.

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Re: Juan Tamariz - cardtoon with a twist

Postby Joe Lyons » July 23rd, 2023, 8:29 am

Philippe Billot wrote:I discover this word : yeoman

It's funny because it signifies : assistant (same word in french)

but also Beefeater or royal guard

I assure you, Philippe, it was complimentary.

Merriam-Webster wrote: Yeoman's work : idiom. US. : very good, hard, and valuable work that someone does especially to support a cause, to help a team, etc. They've done yeoman's work in raising money for the organization.

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Re: Juan Tamariz - cardtoon with a twist

Postby Philippe Billot » July 23rd, 2023, 9:40 am

Yes, I understood. It's the word used that amused me.

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Re: Juan Tamariz - cardtoon with a twist

Postby Dave Le Fevre » July 23rd, 2023, 2:09 pm

The usage sounds quite normal to an English-speaking ear

Perhaps it's one of those words that falls in the faux amis category?

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Re: Juan Tamariz - cardtoon with a twist

Postby Philippe Billot » July 23rd, 2023, 3:30 pm

It's simpler. As I'm not an English native, I learn a lot of new words on this forum and I consult the dictionary to understand them.

I like (and I approve) the word "yeoman" as well as "nit-picker" (thank again Mark Lewis)

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Re: Juan Tamariz - cardtoon with a twist

Postby Q. Kumber » July 23rd, 2023, 5:02 pm

Here's a song, The Yoemen of England from the comic opera Merrie England by Edward German.
The recording is from 1929 https://youtu.be/OFWAZ7SYAdI

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Re: Juan Tamariz - cardtoon with a twist

Postby Tarotist » July 23rd, 2023, 9:50 pm

Philippe Billot wrote:It's simpler. As I'm not an English native, I learn a lot of new words on this forum and I consult the dictionary to understand them.

I like (and I approve) the word "yeoman" as well as "nit-picker" (thank again Mark Lewis)


There is another language that I doubt anyone here speaks except me. It is called "Grafters Language". It is the secret language British market and exhibition pitchmen use among themselves. I did hear Ken Brooke speak it once but of course he was a market grafter once.
It consists of cockney rhyming slang, Yiddish and words spelled backwards, this latter being nothing to do with Erdnase whatsoever. I may give a few works at some point for the purposes of education.


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