David Blaine - So what ya think of this guy?

UbahOne · 05-09-2003 9:54pm #1

So hes in London tonight doing his biggest stunt ever, going in a box above London for 44 days living on water...was live on Sky tonight.

So what do you make of this guy?

I personally think hes a genius...and until prooven otherwise all his stuff is fake, then im going to keep believing its real. I mean even when he did that in New York standing on top of a 30metre(or was it 50) poll for 36 hours and then jumping off into boxes...

Amazing stuff...

Spunog UIE · 05-09-2003 10:06pm

First time I watched one of his stunts I was mildly amuzed, but it tired quickly. Whether he cheats or not, well I don't really care, I think he's a boring muppet, I'd watch big brother over this and i can't stand that.

The only time I've enjoyed David Blaine was when ol Avid was ripping the piss "can you feel the magic" "lets *not* call the cops, I think i know where it is"

The only good thing I can say about him is, fair ****s for making money from being a stupid dosy boring bastid.

secret_squirrel · 05-09-2003 10:10pm

I tend to agree with gideon, how this man can hold anyones interest is beyond me. Although I must confess to being tempted to watch it either to see him plummet to a watery grave or become a dribbling loon. But Im sure they will show either on the news

Spacedog · 05-09-2003 10:23pm

They were saying on the show before he went up in the box that he may suffer psychological trauma and be driven mad by the isolation. However after talking to David himself, he seems like he's already a loonatic! He was talking like a atoner!

Maybe after 44 days he'll come out a normal human being, although I hope he dies for my amusment, I could do with the laugh!

sceptre · 05-09-2003 10:24pm

Originally posted by UbahOne
I personally think hes a genius...

Why?

(I'm honing in on this bit as even I can appreciate why people sometimes call Beckham a "genius" on the football field but I can't see how the term could be applicable here at all)

Dr. Nick · 05-09-2003 10:32pm

Sky 1 fodder.

I worry about the boxes.....were any of them hurt?

skipn_easy · 05-09-2003 10:32pm

I wouldn't call him a genius, but some of his magic tricks are very impressive even though you know its a scam.

Don't quite see the interest in the standing still on a platform for many days stunts but I admit I will probably wander down to see him over the thames at some point.

UbahOne · 05-09-2003 10:34pm

Im a big fan of his stunts. Whether they are real or not...i dont know. I like to think they are and well, no one can proove me wrong. There hugely entertaining and i like the climax thats created.

Samson · 05-09-2003 10:35pm

Originally posted by Spacedog
although I hope he dies for my amusment, I could do with the laugh!

Quote of the century.

And for what it's worth, I think he's a looper.
I have seen a few of his "street magic" shows, which were mildly entertaining. But this item is pure crap, and dangerous too boot.
Plus, the guy has a major ego problem, did anyone hear his comment when asked if he compared himself to Harry Houdini?

MrBigglesworth · 05-09-2003 10:39pm

Do a quick search on google and you quickly find sites which tell you how he does all his tricks. All of his stunts are tricks the genius is the intricate ways in pulling them off.

UbahOne · 05-09-2003 10:45pm

or you could just buy his book and he explains them on amazon. he only tells more how its done not give them away. the sites which say this is how he does it...are all assumptions. people have tried catching him out before but he doesn't give.

Steve_o · 05-09-2003 10:53pm

I think hes dangling between sheer genius and a loony but i give him the thumbs up!!

DerekD Goldfish · 05-09-2003 10:55pm

I mean even when he did that in New York standing on top of a 30metre(or was it 50) poll for 36 hours and then jumping off into boxes

If i had the money I would have flown over there to throw stuff at him altough it was pretty high so a gun with a tranquilser dart lets see the anoying b&stard stay standing then or else I could have put bricks in the boxes but alas i missed my oportunity. For his new stunt if I swiched the water in the tube with piss now that would by funny

UbahOne · 05-09-2003 10:56pm

also about the levitation thing he does...you can see both of his feet off the ground...its not hidden by his pants or some bull**** like this site says.

http://www.aboutmagictricks.com/David-Blaine-And-Levitation.html

Spacedog · 05-09-2003 10:57pm

One things for sure, Bo Selecta's gonna have a field day

Repli · 05-09-2003 11:00pm

44 days is nothing.. The guinness record for longest time without food is 382 days in the 60's

pfffff....... 44 days

wiensta · 05-09-2003 11:55pm

I am sick of this guy. This tripe goes to show the dysmally low excuse for entertainment that exists today.

I read his so called "biography" and I found it more like a bloody magazine. Its mostly just badly written drivel mixed with some nuggeted magic tricks.

David Blaine is 100% an image. A person with his evident lathargy could never possibly have in any way devised this gargantuan event, which will no doubt draw the masses of Londoners with nothing better to do. Im certain his whole career is driven by many writers/trick devisers, managers, advertisers etc. working behind the scenes, who get little or no credit.

He tries so hard to present himself as a deep guruish mystical type, but read his book.. he really is nothing more than an inflated fairground attraction.

UbahOne · 06-09-2003 12:08am

well his real name is not David Blaine. I read it somewhere. i think hes cool though.

Zukustious · 06-09-2003 12:25am

I think he sucks. Attention whore, look at me I'm standing on a pole for 36 hours. Clap clap Mr.Blain you've gone through extreme discomfort. For my next magic trick, I'm gonna go in to some hollow ice cube, and wait there for 44 hours.

I prefer his street stuff. Y'know the things when he's not just waiting around doing nothing to see how long a human can last without going nuts. It's boring. However I'd be the kind of person who desperately wants to know how the trick works. That's the best part of the trick. So I don't really like any of his work. I just hate the street magician thing less.

oneweb · 06-09-2003 12:32am

Yeah but how many celebr..., em, 'famous' people use their original name?

His smaller street tricks were good to watch. Ever since I saw the 'It'll be alright on the night' with himself and Eamonn Holmes I thought he was a right nutter with some issues.

That ice block trick was all fake.

He's just a dull bore now, crying out for press attention. C'mon Avid Merrion, do your worst

SHAZAM!

(Sure he tripped over his own feet in the ad didn't he?)

UbahOne · 06-09-2003 12:34am

until im prooved wrong...

BEAT · 06-09-2003 4:46am

Well, first of all...he is SEXY! whoa I would do him in a second...
next, he has mastered the the art of illusion...he is the david copperfiled of this generation.
I remember being amazed by copperfiled growing up, now our kids will have this guy, every generation has one.
I think its great entertainment, gets the mind working ya know.
A lot of people dont like things they cant explain, or things that make them think...I love it
Oh, and did I mention that he is drop dead sexy!

Drool.....:p

Doodee · 06-09-2003 10:01am

***, it would be more interesting if it was a box made from ice standing ontop of a pole and no food for 40days.

Mark · 06-09-2003 10:17am

He tries so hard to present himself as a deep guruish mystical type, but read his book

Resounding agreement here. I can't STAND the bastard.

What really pissed me off was during that Frozen in Ice spectacle, he was (as usual) shiteing on about "Pleh, it's art, pleh?, not magic, pleh, I'm not doing this for publicity".

THE WHY THE FUCK DID YOU DO IT IN TIMES SQUARE?!?

I remember being amazed by copperfiled growing up, now our kids will have this guy,

What Copperfield has that Blaine doesn't:

A personality.
Charm.
The ability to form whole sentences in under a minute.
Wit.
He's managed not to piss me off so much that I don't root for him to fail miserably.

I'll be cheering the box (and lending it moral support) over the next 44 days.

Message brought to you Down With David Blaine Organisation of Mark's House and some parts of the Back Garden.

Lump · 06-09-2003 12:25pm

I watched about 15 seconds of it this morning 14 hours in..... he looked like he was cracking up already. I can't stand the guy I hope he goes loony and is locked up.... without food for 6 months.... and its televised, with torture.....

John

UbahOne · 06-09-2003 12:31pm

your all a bunch of evil ****ers ya know that?

****en psychos!

Blitzkrieger · 06-09-2003 12:32pm

I hope he dies. I hope he dies and nobody's watching.

sceptre · 06-09-2003 12:40pm

Originally posted by UbahOne
well his real name is not David Blaine. I read it somewhere. i think hes cool though.

David White apparently. Blaine is his middle name. "Blaine" certainly sounds a little more newsy than "White", which sounds like the kind of surname you have if you like to kill people with lead pipes in conservatories.

Nothing wrong with changing your name. Ask Reg Dwight, Richard Starkey, Harry Webb, Ramon Estevez, Michael Douglas[1] and David Kotkin. And Keith Richards, who's put the s back since:rolleyes:. And lots of others.

[1]Not that Michael Douglas. Michael Keaton since he started in movies. Must be annoying to have another actor with your real name, particularly when his daddy's surname is Danielovitch

yossarin · 06-09-2003 1:06pm

I liked the street magic better, but I think that hes allright.

He's also setting a good example for children, what with starving himself to get attention and all.

Pigman II · 06-09-2003 1:11pm

Yep, his real name is David Blaine White so he didn't really diverge that much from his original moniker.

Also, I don't know why everyone is so annoyed with this guy? Sure his 'weirdo' schtick is getting a bit old now but I'd still rather live in a world where people like him were dominating the l.c.d. wing of the entertainment industry when the only alternative is a legion of dead-eyed 'celebrities' who's only talent is to stand in front of a camera look pretty and smiling a lot .

'How about we get a room and I'll give you your bra back. Shazam!'

Gordon · 06-09-2003 1:23pm

I'm sure he puts on his wierdo image for the strange magicalness aura he wants.

I love the guys street magic (illusions/camera trickery) but got inspired when he did the ice thing. When I found out the ice thing was faked I got fed up with him. I'd like to know if this plastic box is actually faked or not but also don't care that much either way. Either he is doing another scam for popularity or he is doing it to save face for the frauds that his buried alove or frozen in ice were. Either way he is doing it for 'art' and not the core reason being - pushing the limits to the extreme. I would be interested iin someone pushing the limits but not if the primal reason is for 'art' and popularity

fisty · 06-09-2003 1:37pm

how do you know the ice thing was faked.
bahahhahahahaha

Silvera · 06-09-2003 2:05pm

He's using starvation as a side show when millions of people are actually dying every year due to starvation.

weemcd · 06-09-2003 4:00pm

give the guy a break, noone knows 100% how he does his magic, plus you couldnt do any better.

he is great, and very strange go on DAVID!!!!!

pity he cant talk and takes forever to tell you one sentence, he musta been dropped as a kid!

Tiesto · 06-09-2003 5:10pm

i think he is the man!!!

giftgrub · 06-09-2003 5:54pm

he's a tosspot

end of story

shepthedog · 06-09-2003 8:23pm

Simply in one word : Legend

DMT · 06-09-2003 8:52pm

Originally posted by UbahOne
also about the levitation thing he does...you can see both of his feet off the ground...its not hidden by his pants or some bull**** like this site says.

http://www.aboutmagictricks.com/David-Blaine-And-Levitation.html

His leviation is bullshit - he does the Balducci leviation to everyone on the street (but you never actually see his feet while he's doing it, just the spectators reactions) and when you do eventually see the leviation, it's a careful bit of film editing inserting a wire assisted leviation in between him doing the Balducci and seeing the spectators reaction to the Balducci.

MrBigglesworth · 06-09-2003 10:43pm

Originally posted by DMT
His leviation is bullshit - he does the Balducci leviation to everyone on the street (but you never actually see his feet while he's doing it, just the spectators reactions) and when you do eventually see the leviation, it's a careful bit of film editing inserting a wire assisted leviation in between him doing the Balducci and seeing the spectators reaction to the Balducci.

Correct!

yossarin · 06-09-2003 11:12pm

how did he fake the ice thing ?

plastic ice ?

Spacedog · 06-09-2003 11:37pm

two kids threw a couple of eggs at his fishtank lastnight say sky news, lol. I guess the stunt does make a mockery of people who have died of hunger or have gone on hunger strike. If he's doing it for his 'art' then surely he'll pay due respect to these peoples families by offering them the thousands of dollors he's getting from the sponsorship and distribution deals he clearly has with both BskyB and Channel 4.

secret_squirrel · 07-09-2003 12:34am

would love to see him last 36hrs with pole up his arse...might even pay money for it

UbahOne · 07-09-2003 1:06am

Nobody knows his real name. Its not White. No one knows his real name. No one can proove he is a fake. No one at all. Until they do, which they will TRY do like they did before and then come up with their own assumptions(oh tabloids...), i am not going to not believe the stuff he does.

And all of you going on about his starvation thing and being a bad example for children, shut the hell up! If you want to make a difference, then go and do it. He is making money and its a lot better than most other ways.

Gordon · 07-09-2003 8:55am

The ice thing was faked by having a body double. Every so often someone on the outside would use dry ice or steam to clear up the ice for spectators to view David Blaine. But in doing so they created a large mist around the ice case. This enabled the two people to swap places by going through the trap door on the floor. The other person doing would do a shift in the ice case while the person coming out of the ice case could sit in a small room with food and drink etc. So the person was in the ice for some hours at a time but it was not David Blain for so many days non stop.

And the buried alive thing was similar - with a trap door on the side of the coffin and a dug out room next door.

Paddy20 · 07-09-2003 10:33am

This man is described as an *Illusionist. I have never heard him describe himself as anything other than exactly that!. For those who seem to be getting very hot under the collar. Have you bothered looking up the *[meaning] of the word in a dictionary?..

1, Illusionist:-" A person who produces illusions; a conjurer.

2, Illusion:- deception, delusion:- i.e. as in this case, = "Optical illusion!. Get it?..

Personally, I think the world would be a much duller place without people like him.

P.;)

Practical · 07-09-2003 12:04pm

Could it be possible that he is getting some sort of liquid food through this tube which has the right amount of minerals etc to keep him alive?

weemcd · 07-09-2003 12:12pm

Practical you are probably right, he might have something soluble in the water. still its pretty kewl.

UbahOne · 07-09-2003 12:31pm

Yes people but dont jump to assumptions about the tricks. I am not saying your all wrong. I am just saying, until the media try wreck him which we all know they will try and do if they have any suspicions...and succeed, then we can talk about the way the tricks are done.

oneweb · 07-09-2003 12:34pm

I'd say it's highly likely. Is it a transparent tube?

I'd be a bit worried if the other tube was see through though!

Capt'n Midnight · 07-09-2003 12:59pm

He's been allowed to have Lip Balm - so plenty of excuses to put his hands to his mouth... (wonders is the pole hollow ?)

Tiesto · 07-09-2003 1:29pm

Originally posted by Practical
Could it be possible that he is getting some sort of liquid food through this tube which has the right amount of minerals etc to keep him alive?

no i read something in the paper yesterday about the water... going thru the tube... something about the public are able to test the water to see if nutrients are in it...

David Blaine - So what ya think of this guy?

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