Ellusionist fundraising auction bidders raise more than $1,900 for Haiti earthquake relief efforts |
| February 9, 2010 |
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The results of our Haiti fundraising auction are in. Bidders chasing after some of Ellusionist’s rare items raised $1,910.04 to help earthquake recovery efforts. As soon as the bidders pay for the items they have won, the funds will be shipped DIRECTLY to the American Red Cross Haiti Relief Fund.
Thanks so much for your efforts, gang. Your generosity, and your patience through a snafu, is awe-inspiring. Here’s a breakdown of the winning bids:
- Red Arcane Porper Clip: $320
- 1st Ed. Black Ghost Uncut Sheet No. 1: $285
- 1st Ed. Black Ghost Uncut Sheet No. 2: $275
- 1st Ed. Black Ghost Uncut Sheet No. 3: $265
- 1st Ed. Black Ghost Deck No. 1: $142.50
- 1st Ed. Black Ghost Deck No. 2: $147.50
- 1st Ed. Black Ghost Deck No. 3: $162.52
- 1st Ed. Black Ghost Deck No. 4: $162.50
- 1st Ed. Black Ghost Deck No. 5: $150.02
Gold Arcanes up for grabs in latest contest |
| February 8, 2010 |
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Gaze upon the King of Clubs fondly. Your first chance to grab a rare, never-to-be-sold Gold Arcane deck awaits in our Arcane video contest.
In the coming weeks, we’ll announce how everyone will get a chance to snare one of the 5,000 of these decks that have been printed. But in the meantime, your skill and performance could put one of these in your hands.
In a nutshell: Surely, you’ve had your chance to get a few decks of Arcane playing cards. Now, we want to see what you do with them. Hit the mall, the boardwalk, the park, anywhere there are spectators, and blow some minds with either a black or white deck. Or use both. It’s your routine. Our judges will pick the best video based on creativity, skill, presentation and audience reaction. Here’s the rules:
- Only one video per person. If there is any appearance of multiple submissions from the same person, the videos will not be judged.
- Vid must be no longer than four minutes. Handy tip: TIME YOUR ROUTINE BEFORE PERFORMING.
- Your performance must be for at least one genuine spectator.
- Your performance may include any trick or effect that utilizes playing cards, and those cards must be from a deck of Arcanes.
- Creativity is encouraged. Use the glyphs or the smoky face cards as part of your routine.
- Your video may include any kind of editing, but your trick or routine must be uncut.
- Submit your videos in the Member Videos forum with the words “Arcane Contest” somewhere in the title.
- All videos must meet our submission guidelines. Any videos that do not will not be judged. NO EXCEPTIONS. THIS IS YOUR ONLY WARNING.
- If you have any questions about the rules, ask them in this thread on the Ellusionist Forums.
Submission deadline: 12:01 a.m. Monday, March 1 (Central time zone; GMT -6). Good luck!
Fisher experiences magic with Tamariz |
| February 8, 2010 |
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Aaron Fisher, he of the incredibly smooth hands and Widespread Panic-listening ears, recently returned from a lecture tour across Spain. The highlight was watching a performance from the legend Juan Tamariz. The best part: Fisher was excited to see the performance, because it was going to be in Spanish.
How did it go? What happened? If you are racked with mystery over those last two questions, you really need to listen to the podcasts Fisher posted on his blog, which can be found on his Web site. Great stuff.
E offers four ways to post on product pages |
| February 6, 2010 |
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A few days we told you about how you can post your own video reviews to our product pages. Now, you can add your performance videos and your pictures.
If you’re a shutterbug, you can take pictures of your favorite Ellusionist cards, clips, T-shirts or whatever, then post them up for the world to see (like Arvind did with that killer bridge pic). If you took a great shot of the Ghost Ace, post it! If one of your buddies caught you in the middle of an epic flourishing session with a deck of Arcanes, post it. If you took a great, artsy, black-and-white shot of the Ringtone gimmick, FOR THE LOVE OF PETE DO NOT POST IT. Keep your shots to things that you would have no problem showing a layman. Then follow the instructions on the product page for posting. We’ll take the best of the best and post them after a couple of days. Check out these pictures of the Ghost deck as an example.
If you have some great performance videos, we want to see those as well. Maybe you dropped some jaws with Serial Biller, or you performed an incredible XCM routine to a few spectators at the mall, and your buddy filmed the whole thing. If the vids are good enough, they will make it to the product pages, where all of our customers can see how much you rock. Check the Masters page for an example video.
In all cases, your video, picture or review won’t appear instantly. They will go through our queue and we’ll post the best of the best.
To recap: There are now four ways you can make your mark on each one of our product pages. You can write a review, record a live performance, publish a video review or submit your own pictures. Let’s see whatcha got!
Auction items restored: Rare Ellusionist items to help benefit Haiti earthquake victims |
| February 2, 2010 |
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Our rare auction items have been relisted. Unfortunately, part of eBay’s solution for the restoral of these items was to eliminate all previous bids. However, the mission remains unchanged. 100 percent of the bid price of all of these items will be donated to the American Red Cross for Haiti earthquake assistance. There are also more shipping options listed, so the cost should not be as high as the previous auction.
The links below are the correct ones; if you were watching the previous auctions, you will need to clear those and use these links instead.
Everyone at Ellusionist appreciates your patience with this matter. We have been assured that it won’t happen again — Both Ellusionist and eBay want to make sure your generosity does not go to waste.
An opportunity to snag some of Ellusionist’s rare items will benefit the American Red Cross and help the people of Haiti recover from a devastating earthquake.
We’ve placed some of our more rare items up for bids in a special eBay fundraising auction. 100 percent of the proceeds will go to the American Red Cross Haiti Relief Fund. The items up for auction include five 1st ed. Black Ghost decks, three uncut sheets of the 1st ed. Black Ghost deck and the ultra-new, ultra-rare Red Arcane Porper Clip.
You already know how rare the Black Ghost decks are. Our supply of the run of 5,000 has dwindled over the years, so opportunities to snag them will decrease. The same goes for the uncut sheets: As rare as the decks are, the sheets are even more rare.
As for the red clips: There are only 50 in existence. They are exactly like the silver and gun-metal clips, only they come in a dark red color. They are every bit as durable and functional as any Porper Clip — they will keep your cards flat, crisp and ready to go. Also, even though the hole is cut to match the Arcane ace perfectly, the aces on other deck boxes aren’t too far off the mark. This auction will be the first chance that ANYONE has had to get one of the red clips.
You can find auctions for each of the items below. Your participation will go a long way toward helping Haitians recover and get back to normal lives.
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