Magician David Blaine Update...Anti-Americanism?

Krimson Klaw · Post by **Krimson Klaw** » September 18, 2003, 11:37 am

http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/t ... index.html

He is suspended over a river from a crane in a glass/plastic box. His plan is to last 44 days with no food. What do you think of David, do you think he can do it, and do you think it's legit?

I have seen a few of his shows on tv and have been blown away, I came away thinking the guy was possessed by a demon or something his tricks were so good. Then fox aired a show that debunked every last one of his magic tricks, and I felt like I had just found my dad eating the Christmas cookies that I left out for santa. He's good.

Post by **Sylvus** » September 18, 2003, 11:45 am

Has anyone seen any live coverage of this stunt? He must have water, does he have any sort of supplements or vitamins or anything? And how big is the box, is it small like a coffin or is there room for him to move around?

Doesn't really seem like "magic" to me, but it would certainly test one's physical and mental endurance and wouldn't be an easy task.

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » September 18, 2003, 11:46 am

It's all over Fark.
Let me see what I can find.

Krimson Klaw · Post by **Krimson Klaw** » September 18, 2003, 11:54 am

Sylvus wrote:Has anyone seen any live coverage of this stunt? He must have water, does he have any sort of supplements or vitamins or anything? And how big is the box, is it small like a coffin or is there room for him to move around?

Doesn't really seem like "magic" to me, but it would certainly test one's physical and mental endurance and wouldn't be an easy task.

Yea it's live, I provided the link so you could see the live feed. He has water too. He is a magician, but also does stunts of Endurance, this is not his first. Once he stood on like a 100 foot pole for 35 hours.

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » September 18, 2003, 11:54 am

Ook.
Some shitty pictures of Farkers trying to illuminiate Blaine with laser pointers..

http://www.lindsey.jp/david/

...some guy arrested for trying to foul up Blaine's box... (with info from Blaine)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainmen ... 112430.stm

Basically, he's fucking nuts allready. Going into the box just confirms it.

Siji · Post by **Siji** » September 18, 2003, 11:55 am

If I remember correctly, he has a water line and a sewage line both running up to the box.. It looked to be about 8x5 or something in size.. I don't quite see what the point is, or what all the hooplah is about.

vn_Tanc · Post by **vn_Tanc** » September 18, 2003, 11:56 am

See my post on the Bacon thread about what we've been subjecting him to

Latest: flying a burger up there using a remote control helicopter lol.

Anyway I think it's bullshit and his self-serving publicity stunts are just old. If he went back to being an entertaining "street magician" I'd have more respect for him.

I also think it's funny that the Guinness Book of Records aren't interested as he's neither breaking records for fasting nor confinement in a small space. The vast majority of betting on this stunt in the UK expects him to fail, too.

Summary: Guy's an idiot and we should all ignore his stupid antics.

Kylere · Post by **Kylere** » September 18, 2003, 11:59 am

I think it is just silly. But the man is making money, and living large while dating plenty of hotties, so who I am to criticize.

Krimson Klaw · Post by **Krimson Klaw** » September 18, 2003, 11:59 am

yea his stunts of endurances are 'so what's' but his magic tricks freaking own all.

Skogen · Post by **Skogen** » September 18, 2003, 12:07 pm

He does some pretty cool shit, but this particular stunt is nothing more than an attention-getting activity.

"LOOK AT ME!! I AM AN ATTENTION WHORE!"

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » September 18, 2003, 12:07 pm

i would have liked to see the show 'spoiling' his magic tricks.

cause honestly they are pretty fucking good.

trapped in a box? what do i care. but yah what kylere said, the guy is rich, gets tons of ass, and doesnt have to go to work if he doesnt want.

you can call him crazy, but i call him Jesus.

Kelshara · Post by **Kelshara** » September 18, 2003, 12:25 pm

Latest: flying a burger up there using a remote control helicopter lol.

That.. owned.

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » September 18, 2003, 12:32 pm

Blaine vs. Copperfield

Fight to Death

Winner gets put in a plastic box in the Mariana Trench.

Skogen · Post by **Skogen** » September 18, 2003, 12:35 pm

Someone needs to bazooka the box he is in BF1942-style.

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » September 18, 2003, 12:43 pm

I like his card tricks more than I like his endurance tests. I remember when conan o'brien "discovered" him doing tricks on the street in new york city. Some his stuff was totally insane and never really done before.

Pilsburry · Post by **Pilsburry** » September 18, 2003, 12:51 pm

I'd rather work 40 hours a week for 6 months then spend 44 days in an 8x5 box without food.

He should have stuck to magic tricks, because that really doesn't seem interesting at all...

Burke · Post by **Burke** » September 18, 2003, 12:56 pm

Anyone remember Blaine on South Park?

"Ok, pick a card
Put it back in the deck
Ok, look at me....
Ok, look at me....
Ok, stick your hand up your ass
Is that your card?"

good stuff

Vetiria · Post by **Vetiria** » September 18, 2003, 4:08 pm

It's the levitation that baffles me. I would like to see someone run their hands underneath him when he does it.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » September 18, 2003, 4:17 pm

I can't speak for his other tricks, but this isn't a trick. It's putting himself in a box for 44 days. If he magically made a 6 foot sub appear in there with him, then I'd call it magic. Now it's just a hunger strike with no cause.

Krimson Klaw · Post by **Krimson Klaw** » September 18, 2003, 4:30 pm

Update!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dy ... ge=printer

There are even Web Sites devoted to concocting ways to annoy him, including shining laser lights in his eyes and tempting him with barbecue smells. One person was charged with criminal damage, accused of trying to cut off his water supply tube.

Anti-Americanism, this is getting good!

So far, Britons have taken great pleasure in tormenting Blaine. His cage has been whacked with golf balls fired from nearby Tower Bridge. Eggs were thrown, following by sausages and bacon. Women have shown him their breasts and men their bottoms.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » September 18, 2003, 4:34 pm

I think we'll need visual proof of the breast-showings.

Kilmoll the Sexy · Post by **Kilmoll the Sexy** » September 18, 2003, 4:55 pm

I think the most amazing thing would be to go 44 days without rubbing one out. He would have to at least be waking up with raging morning wood. Luckily the british chicks are usualy so ugly they would squash most feelings of lust. Has anyone been able to see if there are large posters of the queen within his view?

Xzion · Post by **Xzion** » September 18, 2003, 4:56 pm

I think this is a job for the Super Best Friends and Sea Man

Post by **Sylvus** » September 18, 2003, 5:04 pm

Kilmoll the Sexy wrote:I think the most amazing thing would be to go 44 days without rubbing one out.

That was one of my first thoughts as well. There's no better time to rub when out than when you're bored, and he must be bored as hell.

rhyae · Post by **rhyae** » September 18, 2003, 5:25 pm

They call us uncivilized and they are pelting him with sausages..

Kylere · Post by **Kylere** » September 18, 2003, 5:26 pm

If I remember right he is doing Fiona Apple, I bet he is happy to get the solitude from her whiny ass.

rhyae · Post by **rhyae** » September 18, 2003, 5:43 pm

he is not "doing" her anymore

Skogen · Post by **Skogen** » September 18, 2003, 5:57 pm

He's bangin' Manon von Gerkan

http://www.user8.com/gallery/vongerkan/vongerkan1.html

hawt!!

Neziroth · Post by **Neziroth** » September 18, 2003, 6:27 pm

His levitation stunt is actually really easy for anyone to do heh.

Saw it on one of those spoiler shows, and if you really want to know how then let me know, but I warnyou, once you figure out how it's done you'll want to hit yourself for missing it.

Vetiria · Post by **Vetiria** » September 18, 2003, 6:40 pm

PM me with how it's done Neziroth. It really bugged me the other night when I was watching Blaine on TLC.

Raistin · Post by **Raistin** » September 18, 2003, 6:43 pm

yea tell me also!

Krimson Klaw · Post by **Krimson Klaw** » September 18, 2003, 6:44 pm

NO! SANTA IS REAL, DON'T TELL THEM!

Spankes · Post by **Spankes** » September 18, 2003, 7:03 pm

I wanna know!

Rasspotari · Post by **Rasspotari** » September 18, 2003, 7:20 pm

uh uh , i wanna know tuuz

and i can't PM .. dun like that.

valryte · Post by **valryte** » September 18, 2003, 7:50 pm

I'll try to explain the levitiation trick. Basically stand with both feet together. You have to position yourself so that the audience is sort of at a 30% angle or so from you. All you do is completely lift the foot closest to the audience up while at the same time lift yourself on the front of your foot that is away from the audience. The front of your foot will be hidden by the foot and leg that you completely raised off the ground. When they show it on TV he actually does it twice. Once this way and the other using wires. He shows the audiences expression when he uses the wires as that has a much bigger effect because he gets a lot higher than when he does it without wires.

My favorite one has to be when he asks someone to pick a card and put it back in the deck. He then throws the entire deck at a window of a near by diner and the card the guy picked ends up stuck on the window....but on the OTHER side of the window

vn_Tanc · Post by **vn_Tanc** » September 19, 2003, 6:14 am

Anti-Americanism lol. I hope that's a joke

It's anti-pointless-idiocy-ism.

And wtf is uncivilized about throwing sausages? Don't you do that where you come from?

Tegellan · Post by **Tegellan** » September 19, 2003, 12:52 pm

Throwing sausages is the highest form of civilization, they are trying to feed the bloke after all!

Pilsburry · Post by **Pilsburry** » September 19, 2003, 1:48 pm

What kind of sausage?

vn_Tanc · Post by **vn_Tanc** » September 19, 2003, 1:51 pm

Love Sausage.

Maybe.

rhyae · Post by **rhyae** » September 19, 2003, 2:02 pm

Bangers!

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » September 19, 2003, 2:02 pm

I saw the spoiler show you are all talking about and it showed virtually every single one of David's tricks. Interesting show. It was great seeing how simple his tricks really are. He uses quite a bit of "television magic" on his TV specials with clever editing. His card tricks, while great, are just tricks. It's hard to believe that some people put him on some sort of pedistal. He's simply doing what others have been doing for centuries.

Krimson Klaw · Post by **Krimson Klaw** » September 19, 2003, 2:06 pm

They did not show how he made the card vanish from Emmet Smiths hand though. He placed a card in Emmets hand, told him to put his other hand over it. Then he waited a few seconds, then told him to remove his hand, and it was gone. How-in-the-hell-I-ax-ya.

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » September 19, 2003, 4:04 pm

Fairweather Pure wrote:I saw the spoiler show you are all talking about and it showed virtually every single one of David's tricks. Interesting show. It was great seeing how simple his tricks really are. He uses quite a bit of "television magic" on his TV specials with clever editing. His card tricks, while great, are just tricks. It's hard to believe that some people put him on some sort of pedistal. He's simply doing what others have been doing for centuries.

During the summer I worked with this guy that was a 'magician'. His mentor was the exact same guy who taught David Blaine all his tricks. Every single one of his tricks are centuries old indeed. The reason he got so popular is because he is simply the first person to televise it.

Kudo · Post by **Kudo** » September 20, 2003, 4:10 am

They did not show how he made the card vanish from Emmet Smiths hand though. He placed a card in Emmets hand, told him to put his other hand over it. Then he waited a few seconds, then told him to remove his hand, and it was gone. How-in-the-hell-I-ax-ya.

wtf, this man should be given a fuckin statue for that~