Blaine in a box (1129 hits)
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Submitted by Jo (View user info) at 2003-09-15 10:25:02 EDT
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Its something like day 8/9 out of 44 for David Blaine who, for those of you have had your heads in space recently, is currently living in box suspended over the river Thames. He plans to stay in the box living only on water to prove man can go 44 days without food.
Previously he's sat in a giant icecube for hours and stood on a tall column for days at a time(unfortunately he forgot to fall off).
We Brits are attracting a lot of attention for the way we are treating him. They say that throwing eggs at the box (I admit fireworks are a bit bad) or setting up a burger van within fried onion smelling distance is not very nice.
Fine... free world and all.
I just want to know why? Why is he sat in a box? What the hell can he hope to achieve? Does it have any purpose what so ever??? Maybe we should just leave him in the box forever more and call it art!
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Submitted by Slovin (user info) at 2003-09-16 16:17:27 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Insanethemind (user info) at 2003-09-16 09:01:21 (#)
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Slovin, where are the sources of this stuff that you say?
That it was in fact cold in some block of ice?
Or that he did in fact jump off of a pole onto cardboard boxes.
OOOHHHHHHH wow, no no way he could fake any of that! Why on earth would he want to?
I take it you have seen him perform live? Ignorance is bliss huh?
Oh yeah and I bet you put a lof faith/stock/masturbation time into John Edwards too.
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Just about all of his stunts were shown live as he went in and came out of whatever he was doing at the time, as well as updates in between, all on national/international television.
Yes, I have seen him live, and he is completely undeserving of this kind of criticism from a bunch of jealous people like you. I'm not very much of a "fan," I'm simply not an ignorant fuck.
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Submitted by reallybored (user info) at 2003-09-16 10:10:59 (#)
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Slavin, you are one stupid bastard. Your the type who the helped make the phrase "Bread and Circuses" believable. You are an idiot who should kill themself.
I think when Blaine does his street shit, hes cool. But when you use nothing but technology to do your stunts (as in the Ice trick) you suck.
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I fail to see your point (if you had one). Are you trying to say that ice isn't cold, or are you calling the hundreds of thousands of eye witnesses liars? Dipshit.
Anyway, no matter what his motivation is, you people will assume it's greed. So there really isn't any point in arguing anymore. What you "get" out of watching him do this is a moot point (as he's said that he isn't an 'entertainer'), it's not all about you. Then again, the best thing ever to come out of Britain was America, so naturally I think he's wasting his time over there.
By the way, after spending close to a week in that box, do you really think he's prepared to just give up because you idiots throw shit at him? Morons.
And the number 1 reason for hating David Blaine is - Survey Says:
Jealousy.
Submitted by reallybored (user info) at 2003-09-16 10:10:59 EDT (#)
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"Second - Frozen in Time. He was in there for 3 days wearing nothing but a T-shirt and sweatpants. No gimmick, he did it. It was really a block of ice and it wasn't warm in there."
Slavin, you are one stupid bastard. Your the type who the helped make the phrase "Bread and Circuses" believable. You are an idiot who should kill themself.
I think when Blaine does his street shit, hes cool. But when you use nothing but technology to do your stunts (as in the Ice trick) you suck.
Submitted by Jo (user info) at 2003-09-16 09:56:51 EDT (#)
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I've just been thinking about it. Sure he's an entertainer etc but he isn't going to get a world record or anything so I went back to the basic question... Why is he doing this? Entertainment I think NOT!
I imagine he is going to (somehow) make an awful lot of money from this.... ok fine, possibly thats the why? ...and ok maybe, for some, this is entertainment (I can't quite getting the entertainment value of watching someone starve but hey each to their own and that!).
I was just wondering, after getting all that money that he is somehow bound to get, will he think about how the whole starvation thing effected him. That money would probably buy quite a few meals for the real people that live like that most of the time (obviously not in a suspended box!).
Maybe I'm too cynical but I doubt it very much. If anyone hears of him doing anything like that after please let me know... it would possibly alter the way I think of him.
Submitted by Insanethemind (user info) at 2003-09-16 09:23:43 EDT (#)
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I hate him for a few simple, yet valid reasons.
1. he is rich and most likely fucks plenty of hot young women (and boys)
2. he is famous and (see the above)
3. he is actually good at something and surely (see above)
4. i hate the way he speaks but I am sure...
5. I hate his eyes, nose, skin and hair...
The votes are in and 5-0 in favor of hating David Blaine.
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2003-09-16 09:15:13 EDT (#)
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I like his stuff, I guess it's just me but I think he's good.
Submitted by Skamp (user info) at 2003-09-16 09:09:48 EDT (#)
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Blaine is cool, and I feel shame for the people who are throwing stuff at him.
Jesus, seems like you can't win here......There was a post the other day bitching about how nobody is unique, and here's somebody who's doing something PRETTY FUCKING UNIQUE (if you ask me), and he's getting ripped to shreds.
Shame, shame, shame.
Submitted by Insanethemind (user info) at 2003-09-16 09:01:21 EDT (#)
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Slovin, where are the sources of this stuff that you say?
That it was in fact cold in some block of ice?
Or that he did in fact jump off of a pole onto cardboard boxes.
OOOHHHHHHH wow, no no way he could fake any of that! Why on earth would he want to?
I take it you have seen him perform live? Ignorance is bliss huh?
Oh yeah and I bet you put a lof faith/stock/masturbation time into John Edwards too.
Submitted by Jo (user info) at 2003-09-16 08:41:09 EDT (#)
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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-12779674,00.html
So.... come on! Who was it???
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2003-09-16 06:51:29 EDT (#)
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The best thing someone did was fly a R/C helicopter with a mcdonalds attached next to the box. Ha ha. I hate that prick.
Submitted by Hugeos (user info) at 2003-09-16 05:21:15 EDT (#)
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Why is it if we say we think that Blaine is a waste of time, all his little fans go "ignorance is bliss", or "you just don't get it". Um, we do, and guess what? *HE STILL SUCKS*.
Submitted by jo <c0rnwall> at 2003-09-16 03:51:15 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Slovin (user info) at 2003-09-15 20:14:36 EDT (#)
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Oh yeah, and he's said he would like to take a bullet to the chest. No tricks, just flat out take a bullet.
Those of you who don't like him, you can hope for the worst on that one.
Submitted by Slovin (user info) at 2003-09-15 20:11:17 EDT (#)
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Damn people, look this shit up before you post. He's a 'performer,' not a magician, an artist, or any of this shit. He adamantly denies being anything but a performer. If he's performing, then he's doing what he says he's doing.
As for the brief descriptions you gave...
First public stunt - Buried Alive. He was buried in a coffin under a tank of water for 2 days that was 2x3x7 feet, laying down, in full view of the public. No gimmick, he did it, and it's harder than it sounds.
Second - Frozen in Time. He was in there for 3 days wearing nothing but a T-shirt and sweatpants. No gimmick, he did it. It was really a block of ice and it wasn't warm in there.
Third - Vertigo. He stood on a column 90 feet in the air for a full 35 hours. Then he jumped off, after his legs had stood still for almost 2 days. Do you know what happens when you stand that long and then try to jump? And he didn't just jump into some cushy safety net - HE JUMPED INTO CARDBOARD BOXES. No gimmick, he did it.
Fourth - The Above the Below, this one. The dimensions of the glass box are 3x7x7 feet. The water tube is clear, the septic tube is black. He doesn't have some secret food supply, he's really living on just water.
He also has a shitload of incredibly impressive magic tricks to boot. He made the Balducci Levitation famous.
"Making the statue of liberty dissappear"? Camera trick. I take it you've never seen him perform live.
Ignorance must be bliss, huh?
Submitted by Murphy1844 (user info) at 2003-09-15 19:41:30 EDT (#)
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I think Blaine is really cool. I don't care if its an illusion or whatever... this man is sitting in a transparent box for over a month with presumably no food. That's pretty cool.
Submitted by Phinch (user info) at 2003-09-15 18:55:09 EDT (#)
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his last trick should be self mumification.
there are some freaky hardcore buddist monks from a few centries ago that could meditate themselves into a preserved mummy without using any chemicals.
that would be cool to watch.
Submitted by Random Joe at 2003-09-15 18:28:43 EDT (#)
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Oops, I didn't notice the banner had alredy been mentioned a couple of posts down, sorry!
Submitted by Random Joe at 2003-09-15 17:59:24 EDT (#)
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If he was trying to set some sort of record (even through it has being ignored by the record-keepers at Guinness because they don't do records on fasting), apparently some guy in South Africa spent 67 days in a barrel without food or water. Beat that.
But anyway, I think this stunt was best described on one of the banners shown on the first night by the anti-Blaine people:
"A fool chooses to starve himself and we all watch, One billion people have no choice and we ignore them"
But I'm not watching
Submitted by reallybored (user info) at 2003-09-15 16:21:03 EDT (#)
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ARE YOU PEOPLE FUCKING RETARDED?!?!?!
Why do people actually think hes starving himself?? Did any of you morons who believe this watch the magic revealed show where they showed how he did the ice trick. He had a stunt-double and they would trade between hanging out in the ice-block and sitting in a underneath shelter. In the shelter he had tv, food, a space heater, all types of shit. Then even rigged the block of ice so instead of it being cold inside, it was like 60 degrees. Im positive he has more then enough food with him. This is all bullshit illusion. Technology had stolen the show.
That was why houdini kicked ass. His shit was hard-core. He once fucked up a trick and was stuck in a ice-river for 4 minutes, until he found a break in the ice. He only survived because he found an air pocket trapped under the ice. Id like to see blaine put his ass in that river. Not a chance....
Submitted by smoothNspikey (user info) at 2003-09-15 16:07:02 EDT (#)
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David Blaine is a great illusionist.
But I have to say that I think what he's doing is a bit daft. Threre's an argument that I'm surprised nobody has brought up yet, summed up best in a placard someone made that said something like "One man starves himself deliberately and we all watch, x billion people starving in the world and we ignore them".
Having said that, I hate that people are chucking stuff at the guy, just because he's doing something a bit different/odd/pointless.
Then again, maybe that's just how things are destined to be.
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2003-09-15 14:30:20 EDT (#)
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how to build a potato gun, the internet is everything your mother warned you about:
http://www.mshamash.com/spud/spudgun1.html
Submitted by tuesdaydelay (user info) at 2003-09-15 14:26:55 EDT (#)
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When he stood on top of that pole thing in Times Square, New York, thousands of people adored him and held up "I love you David" type banners. In England, they've parked a burger van beneath his box so he will smell burgers all day long, people occasionally turn up to throw eggs, rocks and other objects at his box and the weather's getting shittier. Unlucky Dave, welcome to England.
Submitted by SoxSexSax (user info) at 2003-09-15 14:25:35 EDT (#)
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I'm only interested 'cause I really can't stand the guy and I'm hoping he doesn't survive.
Submitted by Manfre (user info) at 2003-09-15 14:12:05 EDT (#)
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Plonker? Are you calling me magnificant? Why thank you =0)
Submitted by TheReasonWhy (user info) at 2003-09-15 14:08:24 EDT (#)
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I don't know David Blaine--I have never seen him do anything...ever...and I don't care to. All I know is that Manfre's comment about driving your car over the side of the Thames almost made me crap my pants it was so funny. I had to put both hands over my mouth to keep from bursting into laughter...didn't want my boss to come in "to see what was so funny..."
G
Submitted by virgil (user info) at 2003-09-15 14:02:22 EDT (#)
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Houdini did REAL stunts. He was an escape artist, and an illusionist at times. This guy is just a damned showoff. There is no risk involved in this stunt- if he passes out, they bring him down and will revive him. Houdini put his life in danger. Don't compare the two. Today such stunts are much more controlled and thought out before hand.
And don't say "Well, you wouldn't do it would you?"
Of course I wouldn't.
Submitted by momanlad (user info) at 2003-09-15 13:02:05 EDT (#)
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am i strange for not knowing how to construct a homemade patato gun??
Submitted by momanlad (user info) at 2003-09-15 13:00:55 EDT (#)
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Manfre,
You are clearly a plonker.
Submitted by Phinch (user info) at 2003-09-15 13:00:42 EDT (#)
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nomandlad: POTATO GUN!!!!!!
you can make one for 25 bucks here in the states from parts available at the hardware store.
launch potatoes at blaine from across the river.
If I lived in england I would.
Submitted by Manfre (user info) at 2003-09-15 12:47:42 EDT (#)
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Oh. Well in that case get to the other side of the river and use a catapult or something. Im pretty sure you can find an antique one laying around.
Just drive your car as fast as possible and launch it over the side. Im sure itll hit him.
I just want the fucker to die!!!!
Submitted by momanlad (user info) at 2003-09-15 12:34:29 EDT (#)
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Manfre,
His drinking tube is not open to the public as i am sure you can imagine. I would also not piss in it if it was. Also, the police and security are around him. I am not going to risk arrest by tring to throw a fucking heavy rock at him.
I might wave. He looks pretty bored so i maight wave. Other than that i suspect i will be tired myself i wont be there till about 4am as i am not dropping my bro off until around 3.30am.
Submitted by Hugeos (user info) at 2003-09-15 12:33:10 EDT (#)
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Submitted by loki (user info) at 2003-09-15 12:01:45 (#)
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I'm just happy that British people can act like big assholes just like us. Oh don't you get all snooty at me with your footie and your fancy public school education. I bet you all throw like girls too.
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Loki, catapault and ball bearings are the only way to go on this one...
Submitted by Manfre (user info) at 2003-09-15 12:27:43 EDT (#)
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I wont pay if its a soggy piece of paper. Im talking something very big and very heavy. If you can barely lift it and toss it over so it hits Ill pay you 5 grand american.
If you piss in his drinking tube Ill give you 5 grand american.
Wont anyone do this?
Submitted by tartpumper (user info) at 2003-09-15 12:25:14 EDT (#)
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I PROMISE Manfre, I will. I dont even mind about the money. I'll get someone to take a pic while I throw a soggy piece of paper and then run like a bastard.
Submitted by Manfre (user info) at 2003-09-15 12:20:10 EDT (#)
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Momanlad. Do me a favor and throw a 50 pound (anything really fucking heavy in british conversion) at the box. Ill give you $5000. I swear if you can get some sort of proof that you either pissed in his drinking tube or hurled a rock that weight about 50 pounds Ill pay you that much.
Submitted by momanlad (user info) at 2003-09-15 12:15:59 EDT (#)
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I went to see him when i was bored the other week. I saw him and was then even more bored. He isn't avtually hanging above the Thames either, he is to the side of it. All i could see was a blob sitting in the bottom of a glass/perpsex box. Wohaaa great. I admit it takes balls to do what he is doing, and i do feel slightly ashamed of all the eggs/tomatoes/laser pens/burger vans etc being blasted at him. We should be more polite than that.
Also tart if you are going down there for christs sake don't drive. I got stuck on Mansell Steet (north end of tower bridge) for nearly an hour. Traffic on the bridge is fucking stoopid. Must say, the scene where he is, is fucking pukka. Having the tower of london there, the bridge and the london skyline at night means at least he has a room with a view.
I might go and see the daft cunt tonight actually. I am dropping my brother off at Gatwick Airport and may as well drive back through London, popping by to see Blaine on the way back. If i can get a digital camera of someone i might take a couple of shots for you. I doubt that very much though.
Submitted by MickGinny (user info) at 2003-09-15 12:15:12 EDT (#)
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i think his motivation is found in jesus's 40 days and nights in the wilderness. im unsure if it is blashemous, that depends on his personal purpose.
Submitted by tartpumper (user info) at 2003-09-15 12:06:47 EDT (#)
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I dare you to say that to an England hooligan
Submitted by Manfre (user info) at 2003-09-15 12:04:02 EDT (#)
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Dont British men resemble women?
Maybe its just me...
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2003-09-15 12:01:45 EDT (#)
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I'm just happy that British people can act like big assholes just like us. Oh don't you get all snooty at me with your footie and your fancy public school education. I bet you all throw like girls too.
Submitted by Bellebrown (user info) at 2003-09-15 11:59:02 EDT (#)
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JO! I've been saying this for days!
Its not an acheivement. (Although apparently he has been spotted elsewhere - so I can almost see the point if that is true).
Sitting in the box is pointless - its also very boring.
As for us getting a bad name for chucking eggs (and I heard someone threw a whole english breakfast at him), well, that just shows the level of bewilderment at what he's trying to do. Nobody knows why he's starving himself, nobody can see the point so they're just trying to help him have some dinner.
I see no harm in that - they're trying to be helpful.
Submitted by lucid (user info) at 2003-09-15 11:46:16 EDT (#)
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"Why is he sat in a box?"
Why is that line so damned funny to me?
Submitted by Manfre (user info) at 2003-09-15 11:37:16 EDT (#)
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Ill give 5 grand american to whoever pees in that tube.
Submitted by pilsbury (user info) at 2003-09-15 11:32:33 EDT (#)
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I reckon its fake and thats why its 'magic'. The guy is a proffesional illusionist and theres a tube going in to the box carrying water. There could be anything in that tube - glucose, vitamin suppliments, anything. Its an illusion and therefore magic. As for the performance art thing - read Kafka's 'A Hunger Artist'
www.rockswithfeet.com/kafka/aHungerArtist.htmlr
amazingly dark and brilliant.
Submitted by Manfre (user info) at 2003-09-15 11:22:42 EDT (#)
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Thats why Im gonna go in a box and eat Big Macks for 44 days with no water. So I can get paid big bucks to just sit there and eat. Not too hard I dont think. Ill get fat sure. But hes gonna get skinny.
Submitted by Gillespie (user info) at 2003-09-15 11:20:32 EDT (#)
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He's a street magician, and he get's tons of press and a lot of dough for what he's doing. The reason he's in the box is because, like him or not, people will watch it. Many professional magicians discount him as an amateur, and say his magic is common at best. There's been talk of his performance on the street taking many takes to get right on camera and a lot of video editing. Whatever they say, he's getting paid the big bucks, and they're not.
-J
Submitted by tonytoughnuts <banananipples.at.yahoo.com> at 2003-09-15 11:15:19 EDT (#)
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"making dildos fly outta your ass"
greatest line ever =)
Submitted by Manfre (user info) at 2003-09-15 11:15:18 EDT (#)
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Houdini is rolling over in his grave for comparing him to Blaine. At least Houdini kicked ass.
Submitted by Manfre (user info) at 2003-09-15 11:13:09 EDT (#)
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The guys in a box. How in the hell is that art?
He was in an ice cube. How is that art? Ice sculptures are art. Not some guy in a box of ice.
He was on a hundred foot pole. Not art. They used to split people back in the day like that. The human fly is more artistic than that.
It isnt art. Its just a guy in a box not eating.
Art is something impressive. Not something anyone can do.
Wanna know why noone else has tried it? Because its fucking stupid.
Here Im gonna get in a box and Im not gonna drink. Im just gonna eat. Nothing to drink just a million big macks.
Id be more impressed if he spent the week with porn stars naked and didnt fuck them. Thats more impressive.
Submitted by Hugeos (user info) at 2003-09-15 11:08:12 EDT (#)
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Okay, I *really* couldn't give a fuck about Blaine and his stupid publicity stunt of sitting in a box. He is starving himself deliberately - am I supposed to be impressed?
I think that people in the US are quite taken aback by the fact that Blaine-baiting has become a national sport for those stupider members of the UK public. The rest of us couldn't give a monkeys.
Submitted by Insanethemind (user info) at 2003-09-15 10:58:30 EDT (#)
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Manfre makes me laugh.
A lot.
His sheer arrogance and wanton disregard for anything 'chic' is unbridled sexuality and machismo incarnate.
David Blaine, makes me want to kick the television.
A lot.
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2003-09-15 10:55:40 EDT (#)
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It's not magic, it's performance art.
We mock what we don't understand.
Submitted by Manfre (user info) at 2003-09-15 10:53:07 EDT (#)
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Can I ask a stupid question?
How is this magic? How is standing on a 20cm platform a hundred feet in the air magic? How is being in a box of ice for a day magic?
How hard is it to stand in a box of ice for a day? I mean sure itll be cold as fuck but it cant be too hard. Just have to learn to deal with cold. Go to Alaska for a week and youd be ready.
Not eating for 40 days and just drinking? Not hard at all. I did it for 2 months. AND I did actual work. Did I get a prize for that? Nope. I lost weight and made an asshole of myself cause of how I did it. Runway models do it all the time.
Standing on a 20cm platform a hundred feet in the air is a lil harder. But all it takes is someone with endurance and a pretty good sense of balance. Nothing more.
I just want to know something. How is this magic? How? Just explain how this is magical in any sense. Its just endurance. Thats all it is.
Magic is making the Statue of Liberty disappear or making dildos fly outta your ass.
Hell stick your head in the mouth of a shark. Thats magic. Not staying in a goddamned box for 44 days and drinking water. Its just fucking stupid thats what it is.
I can make my thumb look like its cut off and Im moving it. Now thats a fucking magic trick.
I hate Blaine and anyone else that does shit like this and calls it magic.
If I lived near there Id throw rocks or something at him. Maybe Id get my pellet gun out and just start shooting in the holes.
Fucking idiot.
Submitted by Jo (user info) at 2003-09-15 10:50:30 EDT (#)
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I agree that he's a good magician.... in fact he's way better than good.
What i don't get is why is he now sat in a box? The great wall of China trick etc were amazing but I don't see what sitting in a box is meant to prove?
Submitted by El_Guapo (user info) at 2003-09-15 10:48:43 EDT (#)
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""We Brits are attracting a lot of attention for the way we are treating him. They say that throwing eggs at the box (I admit fireworks are a bit bad) or setting up a burger van within fried onion smelling distance is not very nice.
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hahahahah, that's fucking awesome! that makes me like you limeys more ;)
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2003-09-15 10:40:08 EDT (#)
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He does these things for the same reason that Houdini used to pull those elaborate escapes. He does some mad, crazy shit and he's the best street magician I've ever seen. The vertigo stunt was cooler: http://www.davidblaine.cjb.net/
Just because you don't understand him, does not make him the crazy one. He's wasting his time with you people.
I just wish I could do that trick where you walk a poker chip across your fingers.
Submitted by Jo (user info) at 2003-09-15 10:39:27 EDT (#)
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The turd could do it but I think you need to come up with something a bit better. Do you think you could slingshot a deadly creature (scorpion, spider, that kinda thing) in there???
Submitted by tartpumper (user info) at 2003-09-15 10:30:39 EDT (#)
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Im going to see him next week and Im taking a laser pen, a portable barbeque, some eggs, some tomatoes etc.
I might even see if I can stick a whole turd to the side of his box. Do you think I will be on the news for that?
Submitted by PopNFresh (user info) at 2003-09-15 10:27:50 EDT (#)
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Seriously don't care
Its not very interesting