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David Blaine

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by jared2, May 10, 2006.

  1. jared2

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    for all the big deal they made of this most recent stunt... we thought it was funny that he couldn't do it.
     
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    The funniest part is that WHEN he couldn't do it, his handler made a huge deal of his being able to walk again, comparing him to an astronaut coming back from outer space and having to re-learn to walk again...to handle gravity. WHAT AN EGO!!! :p
     
  4. jared2

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(galaxee @ May 10 2006, 11:36 AM) [snapback]252785[/snapback]</div>
    I know he would not be able to do it, because he is a talentless nobody posing as a "magician". Just goes to show, if you can't make it anywhere, you can make it in New York.
     
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    I'm really under-impressed with Blaine these days. When he was doing magic, I thought he was really cool; very low-key and doing some amazing things. Since he's moved on to stunts, I'm just sort of like, "Meh. . . "

    I was happy to see that this NY Times reviewer agreed with me. My favorite quote from the article:
    "Mr. Blaine explained that these exercises are all part of his 'journey,' that they 'make people think.' Magic, he said, 'brings people together who might not come together.' Well, so does the airport."
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Betelgeuse @ May 10 2006, 11:47 AM) [snapback]252793[/snapback]</div>
    You have to remember that people in Manhattan were also impressed with Christo's orange fabric crap clogging up Central Park. Londoners, are the other hand, threw eggs at him. Bloody right, too.
     
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    :lol: As Donald Trump once said, "There's no such thing as bad publicity..."

    As for what I think, I most certainly don't hate the guy, but I'll sure give him props just for going out, doing it, and giving it a shot. He's all right in my book! ;)
     
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    To state the obviously cruel: why couldn't he have just drowned?
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mystery Squid @ May 10 2006, 12:17 PM) [snapback]252817[/snapback]</div>

    I don't hate anyone who can make money from suckers. (That includes just about every political and religious leader in the world.) As for their followers - that's a different matter.
     
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    I honestly considered starting this very thread when the promotions started for the "just drown me" stunt.

    Glad to see that it's not just me. In my opinion, he's gone the way of Tom Green; was entertaining at first but so much any more.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mystery Squid @ May 10 2006, 12:17 PM) [snapback]252817[/snapback]</div>
    I don't hate him either; not at all. I'm just uninterested by him, at this point. And I feel like a lot of his stunts don't sound very impressive. Note that I'm not saying that they aren't difficult; just that they don't sound that impressive. As a kid, I remember watching David Copperfield (remember him?) walk through the Great Wall of China (with the requisite scantily-clad "nurse" there to monitor his vital signs). That sounded impressive and had a certain amout of showmanship. I don't know if it's Blaine's low-key manner or the way that presents it, but his stunts don't sound that fantastic. My thought process went sort of like: "David Blaine is going to be in a big fish bowl for 8 days. . . that's cool, I guess. . . What? He's going to have a breathing tube? OK. . . What? He's going to have feeding tubes and 'waste removal' tubes? OK. . . what's next?"

    For his next feat, I understand that he's going to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge in really uncomfortable shoes!!!!!
     
  12. Mystery Squid

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Betelgeuse @ May 10 2006, 01:45 PM) [snapback]252902[/snapback]</div>
    Then you expended more thought on the subject than I. :D

    Copperfield was cool. I still remember the whole making the Statue of Liberty disappear... I think he also made a jetliner disappear... Seems like he just kept going bigger and BIGGER!

    Actually, since we're all discussing it, let's examine another angle:

    The stuff he pulls sort of gives us an idea of what our bodies are capable of... I mean, would anyone care on their own to research what happens to you skin if you spend so much time in water?

    Not I....

    :ph34r:
     
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    I don't care either way... though, I do agree that it's funny he couldn't pull it off.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Betelgeuse @ May 10 2006, 01:45 PM) [snapback]252902[/snapback]</div>
    I heard that he wasn't going to wear socks!!

    I agree with some of you guys...I guess it's kind of cool and he certainly has the requisite...Um...gonads to try some of this stuff. But...Eh, who cares? It's kind of like the guy in the Hummer, roaring down the highway. You look at 'em, think to yourself ' oooookay...' and move on. Nothing to see here, folks, nothing to see.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mystery Squid @ May 10 2006, 02:38 PM) [snapback]252957[/snapback]</div>
    To be honest, it was mostly trying to figure out why everyone was making such a big deal about it.
    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mystery Squid @ May 10 2006, 02:38 PM) [snapback]252957[/snapback]</div>
    Yeah. Copperfield knew what he was doing. Although, even as a kid, I thought his "pre-illusion" stuff (i.e. acting out elaborate "scenes" with woman assistants) were sortta creepy.

    I think that David Blaine's mild-mannered, low-key nature served him well in the "street magician" role, but doesn't work well for the "big stunts" role.
     
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    Here is somthing Blaine should be able to handle, except for learning Mandarin.


    "Four Australian men will live in a glass box on a downtown mall for two weeks in June, with the public able to watch them sleeping, eating and bathing, a news report said Thursday.

    The group, known as the Urban Dream Capsule, has drawn crowds with similar displays in London, Montreal, Hong Kong and other cities.

    "They won't turn off the lights or pull down the curtains. They show their whole life, from getting up to going to bed," Karen Chang, the event's organizer, told the Shanghai Daily newspaper.

    "People like to watch them taking a shower, so they have to shower at least two times a day," Chang said. "Of course, one can't see the key parts, because there is nontransparent glass in the bathroom."

    The 650-square-foot glass capsule is to be decorated in a Shanghainese theme.

    Members of the group have been taking Chinese lessons so that they can communicate with spectators, the report said. The public can send e-mail or faxes to them, or put messages on the glass.

    "Interaction is a key element of the performance," Chang said."
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(jared2 @ May 10 2006, 11:57 AM) [snapback]252803[/snapback]</div>
    Bit off topic, but I gotta defend Christo. His work with Jean-Claude is rather amazing imho. You may dislike it, as this kind of creativity may not fit traditionally accepted perceptions what constitutes art. The genius of most great masters have been recognized posthumously anyway. Find me another contemporaries who would endeavor on such grandeur creations. Noble is also the fact that Jean-Claude & Christo pay fully for all what's rendered. Each installation is paying for the next one, in essence true artists that don't succumb to power of money.

    Granted 'the Gates' where rather unimpressive in comparison to other projects. Personally I did like it.

    Nothing will take a away the splendor of covered Riachstag and Pont Neuf, both I've been lucky to see and I'll never forget the imagery to the rest of my life as my artistic sensibilities responded to Christo's vision. I've missed 'the Umbrellas' and 'Running Fences' tough to my chagrin.

    It's all subjective in the eye of the beholder.
    What is art?

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