Whats David Blaine Playing at?

[slip2rock]

btw... regardless of what happens with Blaine Guinesses' have said it would not enter his efforts in the book of records because it was self harming....

Or loosely translated, they think he's a nutbar.

 

[milefile]

Dont they have a guy smoking something like 200 cigarettes at once in the Guiness Book?

 

[slip2rock]

Quite possibly, i saw that mentioned as well in the same article but i don't think any new "harming" records are to be entered.

 

[Atomic Wedgie]

uhhh... You might not like him, or his publicity-stunt attitude, or even his magic tricks and levitation (by the way, it is the oldest trick in the book, and he's using a different book on that one) and so on, but I'd sure like to see any one of you do what he's doing now. I couldn't, and I think I'm a pretty creative and patient guy, thank you.

I'd say it even applies double if he's found a way out without anyone knowing the difference and he's sitting in a pub somewhere watching himself on TV laughing at all the chumps who go stare at his empty box thinking they see him.

Watch his show. Half the effect of his act is derived from him trying to look and act like a dullard. It throws people off.

 

[Mike Rotch]

Originally posted by Atomic Wedgie
but I'd sure like to see any one of you do what he's doing now. I couldn't, and I think I'm a pretty creative and patient guy, thank you.

Well, maybe i should have sat in a box over the thames doing my thesis last year. He doesnt have the brains to do that, so that would make me a "performer" and "genius" that could have earned some easy money!

Please. He IS a dullard. It aint no act.

Someone should shoot him down with fireworks.

 

[Atomic Wedgie]

Originally posted by Mike Rotch
Well, maybe i should have sat in a box over the thames doing my thesis last year. He doesnt have the brains to do that, so that would make me a "performer" and "genius" that could have earned some easy money!

Please. He IS a dullard. It aint no act.

Someone should shoot him down with fireworks.

A valid argument, but it by no means takes away from either his abilities or yours, which are DIFFERENT. Nothing else. He's obviously enjoyed some measure of success in his own field, so he must be smart enough - barring luck and marketing factors - to master what, by all accounts, is a very difficult discipline. If we all know about him, and are ignorant of the hundreds of lesser - but no less dedicated - magic devotees, then that says something quite clear...

Finally, we should remember that, by definition, his "profession" requires him to be a media whore. After all, he's not much good if no one sees what he does. I fail to understand how this makes him any different or worse (or better) than Copperfield or even Houdini, in his time.

No, I don't particularly like him either, and I have wondered about how many of his tricks are actually illusions or sleight-of-hand and how many are TV tricks, but I don't think any of that detracts from what he has done, nor do his abilities detract from mine.