David Blaine
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 1:48 pm
Have any of you ever heard of him? This guy is a mind-blower. He combines incredible street magic with endurance and self-discipline acts that will curl your hair.
One thing that is so cool about his magic is that there is no fancy stage, no amazing effects, just a guy on the street, doing tricks that just boggle your mind.
I hate to describe his tricks, because it really doesn't do him justice, but I'll try. Two of my favorites:
He stops in front of a group of people hanging out by a store front. Opens a new deck of cards and hands them to one observer, telling him to shuffle them really good, and pick one card from the deck. The group does this and pulls out the 8 of spades, not showing it to David. They put the card back in the pile, and reshuffle. David then takes the deck back, throws it against the window of the store front, and there is the 8 of spades, stuck to the glass on THE INSIDE OF THE WINDOW.
My other favorite:
A man and woman are walking by and he stops them, showing them a simple card trick. The woman is holding the cards and he is positioning her hands for the trick, but what he's really doing is taking her watch. They go through the card trick, and then David takes them to the window of a jewlery store that's closed. He starts looking at the displays in the window, pointing out a particular watch. The woman looks closely at it and sees that it's hers. In the display window of the CLOSED jewlery store. If that's not weird enough for you, David picks up a piece of newspaper blowing by, holds it against the window, pushes his hand through it INTO THE DISPLAY CASE, and pulls her watch out. When he takes away the paper, obviously there's no hole in the window.
I've also seen him bite a quarter in half, levitate, and break a wine glass from 5 feet away while his hands are being held. All his tricks are done right in front of you, no props, right on the street. He's just amazing. He can be seen periodically on TLC.
His endurance stunts are pretty amazing, too. He had himself buried for 7 days and nights, living on water and air only. He encased himself in ice for 3 days. He also stood on a pillar, ten stories above the ground for 36 hours in downtown Manhattan, ending with a jump from the pillar into a pile of cardboard boxes.
He's a thousand times better than Houdini and Copperfield put together. If you have a chance, catch one of his shows.
One thing that is so cool about his magic is that there is no fancy stage, no amazing effects, just a guy on the street, doing tricks that just boggle your mind.
I hate to describe his tricks, because it really doesn't do him justice, but I'll try. Two of my favorites:
He stops in front of a group of people hanging out by a store front. Opens a new deck of cards and hands them to one observer, telling him to shuffle them really good, and pick one card from the deck. The group does this and pulls out the 8 of spades, not showing it to David. They put the card back in the pile, and reshuffle. David then takes the deck back, throws it against the window of the store front, and there is the 8 of spades, stuck to the glass on THE INSIDE OF THE WINDOW.
My other favorite:
A man and woman are walking by and he stops them, showing them a simple card trick. The woman is holding the cards and he is positioning her hands for the trick, but what he's really doing is taking her watch. They go through the card trick, and then David takes them to the window of a jewlery store that's closed. He starts looking at the displays in the window, pointing out a particular watch. The woman looks closely at it and sees that it's hers. In the display window of the CLOSED jewlery store. If that's not weird enough for you, David picks up a piece of newspaper blowing by, holds it against the window, pushes his hand through it INTO THE DISPLAY CASE, and pulls her watch out. When he takes away the paper, obviously there's no hole in the window.
I've also seen him bite a quarter in half, levitate, and break a wine glass from 5 feet away while his hands are being held. All his tricks are done right in front of you, no props, right on the street. He's just amazing. He can be seen periodically on TLC.
His endurance stunts are pretty amazing, too. He had himself buried for 7 days and nights, living on water and air only. He encased himself in ice for 3 days. He also stood on a pillar, ten stories above the ground for 36 hours in downtown Manhattan, ending with a jump from the pillar into a pile of cardboard boxes.
He's a thousand times better than Houdini and Copperfield put together. If you have a chance, catch one of his shows.