This is a video of clock builder Shinsaku Hiura constructing and demonstrating the ‘Casino Clock’ a clock thqt flips cards to tell the current time in the style of one of those mid-century analog flip clocks. Zeros are represented by jokers, aces are one, jacks are 11, and the queen
Because deception is everywhere, this is a video of professional magician Daniel Roy demonstrating ten different levels of sleight of hand card dealing tricks. They begin unbelievable, and end ultra-unbelievable, with Daniel able to deal any specific hand he wants to all players. Now that is some seriously smooth talent.
Because who doesn’t have completely unrealistic dreams of being anywhere even remotely as cool as X-Men’s Gambit, this is a video of a man throwing a playing card, then watching it sail wildly over his target. Undeterred, he then throws another card and quickly grabs a knife from his belt,
This is a video of magician/warlock David Blaine performing a card trick for Harrison Ford in Ford’s kitchen, and blowing his mind in the process. He asks Harrison to mentally pick any card from a deck, then makes the card physically disappear from the deck, and appear inside an uncut
This is a video of a man with literally nothing better to do (he looks bored!) attempting a variety of trick shots that took, what I can only assume, the entire pandemic to accomplish. Sure it’s more than I’ve accomplished in the same time, but I’m also not filming myself.
This is a video of a man throwing playing cards in an attempt to break a piece of ice being held by his lovely assistant, who’s clearly apprehensive about the endeavor, and rightfully so. She does take at least one card to the knuckles, and possibly more elsewhere, but he
This is a video of self-assured cardistry practitioner notseano smoothly boomeranging a card behind his back and returning it to the deck in his other hand. Pretty slick. For reference, the only thing I can do with playing cards is consistently lose poker hands. And speaking of poker hands *jokingly