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David Blaine: frozen in time

 
 
Shortfatdyke
13:28 / 18.11.01
not sure at all if this is the right place for this! but i saw the doc on david blaine's 3 days in an ice block. at first i thought he was just stupid (as a claustrophobe) by the end of it i understood, sort of, why he did it. not completely convinced: as a personal test of endurance, why did he have to make it so public? (times square). is that inevitable to satisfy the ego of an 'artiste'? should he have done something like go help people in a war torn part of the world? that would've tested him to the limit no doubt, but would've got less publicity? i'm not being cynical - i've done stuff to push myself which hasn't been 'worthy', but then i haven't told the whole world, either....
 
 
Jack Fear
13:45 / 18.11.01
http://modernhumorist.com/mh/0011/unthawable/

quote:let me clear up a thing or two. David Blaine comes from the street. David Copperfield comes from the top of the escalator, near the men’s section of Macy’s. DB risks life and limb. DC risks nothing but his name. DB levitates. DC, well, I guess he levitates too. DC dated Claudia Schiffer. DB was with Fiona Apple. Good preparation for being frozen in a block of ice. In equation form, one could compare the two like so: DB = DC plus 50 million. 50 million units of street.

Street magic is more than magic. Magic is making a quarter appear behind the ear of a bewildered boy. Street magic is taking a quarter from a beggar’s cup and making it appear behind the beggar’s ear, only to drop it in his cup again, as though you’re being generous.


Funny as hell.
 
 
Ganesh
13:54 / 18.11.01
With his inflectionless, monosyllabic drawl and general lack of animation, how could they tell when Blaine had thawed again?
 
 
Shortfatdyke
13:55 / 18.11.01
and there i was thinking i was being cynical!
 
 
Mordant Carnival
16:26 / 19.11.01
Hell, if I was going to do something as dangerous, painful, scary, far-out and downright fucking stupid as freeze myself in ice for 3 days I'd want to make sure that everyone knew about it.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
09:18 / 20.11.01
If he really wants to impress people, why doesn't Blaine try out that pigeon-reanimation trick - only with a recently-deceased celeb? That'd test his mettle and get him adulation (although the newly-live celeb might have something to say about it) in a much bigger way than sticking a card inside a basketball would...

Actually, anyone got any explanations of the bird bit? I mean, short of trained pigeon, that is...
 
 
Ganesh
12:53 / 20.11.01
Well, I know he does a similar thing with dead flies - 'cept they're not actually dead, they've been shoved in the 'fridge for a set amount of time so the heat from his hands warms 'em up again. I expect the pigeon thing is similar - either that or a short-acting anaesthetic agent?
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
13:27 / 20.11.01
Good point - I thought it didn't look manky enough to be a city pigeon...
 
  
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