David Blaine

[GoreFollower]

This guy annoys me. Always doing some messed up stunt like encasing himself in ice and being buried alive for days. Click on the link to see what he's been stirring up in London.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030909/od_uk_nm/oukoe_life_blaine_2

[Razorback]

Why does a guy doing something that has no affect on your life annoy you? I don't care at all about Blaine (I have no idea how he has become famous by standing in one place for days).

RB

[Droogan_Leader]

How do you know Blaine and GoreFollower aren't related?

[Dr3vil]

Well, at least he inspired the hysterical Jesus vs. Blaine face-off in South Park.

"Okay, now turn around..."

[Omaru]

people have already started throwing stuff at the glass, and one person almost fired a pellet gun at it. I think its going to be ruined before he can finish it, then he'll disappear for good.

[EternalStrife]

For a man who made a career out of performing street magic, it just goes to show how quickly people get tired of one thing and go on to the next.

[CKYFAN6996]

Yea but still street magic from David Blaine rulez

[GoreFollower]

Who let CKYFAN6996 in?

[FanGirl]

I locked the door, but I forget to shut the window. My bad!

[code6enterprises]

Wait. How is sitting up there for 40-some days magic?

[Efexeye]

It's not magic, it's an illusion. No one can sit in a box for 45 days, or stand on a platform for 38 hours, or stay encased in ice for a weekend (whatever he did). It's an ILLUSION. He's not a magician, he's an ILLUSIONIST.

[Zens_7s]

I am glad somebody pointed that out. The platform illusion was complete lunacy. I remember reading articles from osteopathic M.D.'s explaining that a human cannot stand upright for as long as he did. It would collapse his hips, etc. because gravity would drive the heaviest parts of the body down through the legs and snap the smaller bones until collapse. This is why they used standing upright for long periods as a form of torture in many countries.

I am reading Carter the Great (damn that Ryall making me go out and spend money on a totally kick-ass book), and it made me think about David Blaine. Illusionists, escape artists, and magicians like Houdini, Thurston, etc. were pre-televison. There whole point was to entertain a naive population. In our age we know it's all an illusion, and probably assume everything is computer generated. Guys like David Blaine would have been revered the world over for his stunts. To us now they seem obviously rigged, wierd, and pointless. Sometimes it's too bad that nothing suprises us anymore.

[Razorback]

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then he'll disappear for good

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Because some limeys don't like him? Please... he will come back to NYC and they will love him. I don't know why, but they will.

RB

[EternalStrife]

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There whole point was to entertain a naive population.

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And who would they be?

[Matthew]

I think he sold his soul to Satan, and that's why he can do all those things. /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

I was watching some of his street magic, and I was like WTF! There was one, where he turned his coffee into money, and gave it all to a homeless person. That was kewl!

All in all, I appreciate his illusions, but they get a little too far fetched and attention seeking. (I guess that is the whole point, but I wonder if he went too far with this last one ?)

[Ryall]

You read Carter Beats the Devil? That's very cool--that book was so good...I loved the ending. A lot of times, books just don't seem to sustain themselves all the way through and have great endings to go with good beginnings, but this one did.

Tipton sent me the story today that some guy in England was throwing eggs at Blaine. For some reason, that made me laugh. I'm juvenile like that.

[EternalStrife]

We're are juvenile's here, Ryall. Why else would we be here? To offer constructive criticisim? Besides, I think the whole thing Blaine's doing over at London is just another publicity stunt. Frankly, I think it's because he losing it. Popularity, I mean. Whoever said the British were uptight people anyway? Throwing eggs around like that.....

By the way, who's the author?

[code6enterprises]

He was in the ice for like a week. But I saw this show where they gave away the secret to that. There was a rom under the block of ice and about every 6 hours he would switch places with a body double and go into the heated room for drinks and snacks. So fake.

[Zens_7s]

Glen David Gold is the author of Carter Beats the Devil. Sorry, I usually try to reference both when I bring up a book, but I slipped. It is very hard to put down. Good thing I am done with my projects for a few weeks! If you like Michael Chabon you will probably enjoy this.

[Razorback]

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I guess that is the whole point, but I wonder if he went too far with this last one

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What is funny is how you think that Blaine is the one who has gone too far. How about the idiots throwing things at him?

RB

[EternalStrife]

Thanks. I think I'll go check it out the next time I stop by a book store.