Card flourishes and mystical poetry

Here's YouTube user Scottmfreda doing delightful card-flourishes while reciting mystical poetry. He's a talented card mechanic and a pretty good poet! According to PeaceLove, he's also a fine painter and guitar and sitar player.

doing flourishes and magic to my its all in the mind poem (Thanks, PeaceLove!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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frankieboy

the lengths a guy will go to get laid!
johnofjack

I thought there was a way to flag messages as spam. Was I hallucinating?

If he’s a good poet, is this a bad reading? It sounds very coffee shop to me.
gusstraub

Huh. Maybe he should have spent less time learning card tricks, and more time figuring what side of the camera is up.
quesarah

Nice hands, I like the snap change on the faceup card near the end. The mystic poetry is good misdirection as his … wait … don’t guys use zippers anymore?
Anonymous

Scott is one of the most incredible sleight-of-hand/flourish artists in the WORLD. He is also much more. So great to see him BOINGBOING’d

Haters: you will never recognize true art. Sorry to say so.

Everyone else: spread the word “SCOTT FREDA is a beautiful and magical soul.”
Anonymous

And he does it all while sitting sideways. Yowza!