De'vo vom Schattenreich is a World Record Holder, maniplation legend, director, producer, author, musician, and consultant. He has performed all over the world for celebrities and DVs, and was a special performer at the American Embassy in Brussels Belgium. De'vo co-founded the artform of card manipulation separate from magic in 2001 (XCM).
WORLD RENOWNED MANIPULATOR
2007 GUINNESS WORLD RECORD HOLDER
De'vo vom Schattenreich broke the World Record for the most coin rolls in 60 seconds in 2005, breaking the old record of 40 revolutions with 45 on his first attempt. His World Record was published in 2007 where it appeared in the Guinness Book Of World Records.
NOKIA COMMERCIALS
De'vo vom Schattenreich consulted and performed in several Nokia Television commercial in London, and Toronto Canada.
EPLUS COMMERCIALS
De'vo was flown to Berlin to consult/perform for eight Eplus Commercials. De'vo helped with casting and directing as well as other facets of these commercials which were based on his website "Superhandz".com
ARCOR COMMERCIALS
De'vo was hired by Arcor to do a special commercial in conjunction with EA sports during the World Soccer Championships. This commercial played on television and in the movie theaters in Germany. The commercial is hilarious so be sure to check it out.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PLAYING CARD FLOURISHES
De'vo was honored to have his "Flipback" published in the Encyclopedia Of Playing Card Flourishes by Jerry Cestkowski A.K.A. The Flourishman. This book is considered the "bible" of card manipulation.
GENII MAGAZINE
De'vo was called by Genii Magazine as the "Leader of the flourish movement" and asked to do a very large interview. It was in this magazine that De'vo coined the term "Extreme Card Manipulation" (XCM) making this a historic event.
POKER PRO MAGAZINE
De'vo's "4 Packet Book Cut" was chosen to be published in one of the largest poker magazine's in the world - "Poker Pro". This move appears in the October issue - 2009.
De'vo's easy variation of the classic "4 Coin/Chip Roll Down"" called the Instant 4 was published in one of the largest poker magazine's in the world - "Poker Pro". This move appears in the Feb issue - 2010.
Creator of the World's first XCM Tournament. This annual tournament brings out the world's best competing for some incredible prizes and title of the World XCM Champion.
DIRECTOR/PROUCER
CRADLE TO GRAVE DVD
This underground XCM DVD set the manipulation world on fire! This single DVD pioneered the way for card artists today in both performing and teaching styles. It remains one of the best XCM DVDs to date.
COBRA COLLECTION DVD
This DVD was released because of popular demand to learn De'vo's infamous Cobra Cut. The Cobra CD-ROM sold out in record time, so De'vo re-published the move along with his entire family of Cobras for hardcore XCMers.
EXTREME BEGINNERZ DVD
Xtreme Beginnerz is the most popular and highest selling XCM DVD in the world and for good reason. It has almost 4 hours of teaching by the world's best and is still today the standard for learning XCM.
EXTREME BEGINNERZ VOL 2 DVD
Xtreme Beginnerz Vol 2 is the highly anticipated sequel to XB1. De'vo shook things up this time teaching other manipulation arts such as pen spinning, card throwing, dice stacking with cards and much more. XB2 has more variety of pure manipulation than any other DVD of its kind.
MOTIONS DVD
This highly underground DVD was sold out minutes after release! This DVD contains De'vo's most sought after underground material. Only a very small portion of the content of this DVD went into De'vo's Secret Books, keeping much of the material within underground.
DE' RING DVD
De'vo's masterpiece was kept underground for many years, and he finally released his incredible techniques in this DVD. De' Ring continues to be a favorite of De'vo fans everywhere.
SCHATTENREICH DVD
De'vo's underground Schattenreich DVD was filmed and produced in Germany. This is the first XCM "Movie" DVD ever produced. It is very dark and graphic. De'vo kept it underground and intended to re-film it in complete HD for his fans. This project has since been put aside with its fate unknown.
SUPERHANDZ CD ROM #1
This is De'vo and Jerry's very first video project. Only 50 copies were ever made of this rare signed and numbered collectors item. The last time it appeared on ebay it sold for more than $700
SUPERHANDZ CD ROM #2
This CD-ROM is De'vo and Jerry's second video project, done in their signature no-speaking style. This like the first was limited to 50 signed/numbered copies.
SUPERHANDZ MUSIC CD
De'vo had thousands of requests to make a music CD based on the music from his popular DVDs. This royalty free CD continues to be used on television and in other media.
WRITER/AUTHOR
DE'VO'S SECRET BOOKS
DE'VO'S SECRET BOOKS VOL1 De'vo has written many underground publications over the years, and decided to release some of his favorites in a new project called "De'vo's Secret Books". The first volume contains the legendary "Demon Claw", basic "Motions" concept, the Piano Routine and the Ring Infiniti.
DE'VO'S SECRET BOOKS VOL 2 In this second volume, De'vo tells all from how he started performing at the American Embassy in Brussels Belgium to the "Swiss Heckler Magician" story. He has also published highly underground items such as the fabled "King Cobra Double Strike" as well as two of his favorite XCM concepts.
DE'VO'S SECRET BOOKS VOL 3 In this third and final "official" volume, De'vo gets into the darkness which consumed him and gave birth to "De'vo vom Schattenreich". He has also included some of his darkest ideas and concepts to include "Black Ring", and "Blood". This volume is expected to release summer 2010.
STREET MAGIC MAGAZINES ISSUES 1-5
ISSUE #1 - For this very first issue of Street Magic Magazine, De'vo has an in-depth and very controversial interview as well as teaches his coin roll with variations such as the coin over ring roll.
ISSUE #2 - In this issue, the senior editor of SM magazine flew to Ulmen and confirmed the Ulmen Trials. De'vo and Lady Dragon Fly teach a few great openers and ideas.
ISSUE #3 - De'vo continues the series with his own column, teaching his famous Cobra Cut, the Thumb Around, and his famous "Birdy Production" with kicker ending.
ISSUE #4 - Jerry and De'vo team up and teach a few great moves, both new and classic.
ISSUE #5 - De'vo invites his friends Roick Smith Jr., Ciappi, and Jrunsten to join his XCM section for this issue The moves taught in this issue are KILLER!
MAGICIAN MAGAZINE VOL #1
De'vo was given his own section of the brand new "Magician" magazine. De'vo and several of his friends teach a large variety of moves.
INNOVATOR AND ARTIST
De'vo invented the world's first "XCM" box for manipulators. These boxes are open on the sides and are highly manipulatable. These boxes were very limited and are still highly collectable.
De'vo and Jerry helped to inspire the birth of the "Viper Deck" for Ellusionist.com
This one of a kind painting depicts the battle between magicians and card manipulators to make XCM its own artform. This painting was made into a limited edition print of only 200.
WEBSITES AND COMMUNITIES
De'vo's first website brought in over 30 million downloads and has helped many manipulation artists on a large variety of television shows and commercials from around the world.
De'vo's Handlordz website has taken many changes over the years but remains as the #1 pure XCM website in the world. Handlordz has many great things in development so be sure to stay tuned.
The Handlordz community has also seen many changes. The HL community is the first and largest XCM community in the world with almost 9000 members and millions of visits! If you want the latest info regarding XCM, then be sure to join.
De'vo created the world's first pure XCM store! This store offers the best in professional XCM products as well as very rare collector items.
Europe's first pure XCM Store was the Handlordz store. This store had a 4 year run and was closed once De'vo returned to the U.S.
De'vo made "PROXCM".com as a new website for XCM. There are big plans for this website in the future.