David Blaine’s dive of death is not magic: its just a silly stunt!
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By Natalie Pric
To call David Blaine a magician is a misnomer. He is actually a stuntman in the garb of an illusionist. At least this is what I could conclude after watching him perform his latest stunt, which involves him hanging upside down for 60 hours.
Blaine was taking breaks, from being hung upside down, by standing up about three times an hour – breaks lasting about 15 minutes at times. Is this Magic? I don’t think so. Wikipedia says ” Magic is a performing art that entertains an audience by creating illusions of impossible or supernatural feats, using purely natural means.” This stunt was nowhere near magic.
This is pure stunt pulled by creating a buzz and using all sorts of media to garner attention and ultimately money. When Donald Trump is involved you can be sure that he is not there without purpose.
In any case, this is not the first time David Blaine has done such a stunt and called it magic. However I feel that his previous stunts were much better than the latest one.
He has been buried alive in 1999. On April 5, 1999, Blaine was entombed in an underground plastic box underneath a 3-ton water-filled tank for seven days across from Trump Place on 68th St. and Riverside Drive. During the seven days of the endurance stunt, Blaine ate nothing and drank only two to three tablespoons of water a day. An estimated 75,000 people visited the site, including Marie Blood, Houdini’s niece, who said, “My uncle did some amazing things, but he could not have done this.” On the final day of the stunt, April 12, hundreds of news teams were stationed at the site for the coffin-opening ceremony. A team of construction workers removed a portion of the 75 square feet (7.0 m2) of gravel surrounding the six-foot deep coffin before a crane lifted the 3-ton water tank. Blaine emerged from his underground coffin and told the crowd “I saw something very prophetic … a vision of every race, every religion, every age group banding together, and that made all this worthwhile.”
He has been Frozen in Time in 2000. On November 27, 2000, Blaine stood encased in a massive block of ice located in Times Square, New York. He was lightly dressed and seen to be shivering even before the blocks of ice were sealed around him. A tube supplied him with air and water while his urine was removed with another tube. He was encased in the box of ice for 63 hours, 42 minutes and 15 seconds before being removed with chain saws. The ice was transparent and resting on an elevated platform to show that he was actually inside the ice the entire time. He was removed from the ice in an obviously dazed and disoriented state, wrapped in blankets and taken to the hospital immediately because doctors feared he might be going into shock.
In 2002, Blaine did another vertigo stunt. A crane lifted Blaine onto a 90 ft (22 m) high and 22 in (55.88 cm) wide pillar in Bryant Park, New York City. Although he was not harnessed to the pillar, there were two retractable handles on either side of him to grasp in the event of harsh weather.He remained on the pillar for exactly 35 hours. With his legs weak from standing atop the pillar for so long, he ended the feat by jumping down onto a landing platform made out of a 12 foot (3.7 m) high pile of cardboard boxes and suffered a concussion.
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