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Geek Culture / David Blaine in glass box for 44 days

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spooky
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Posted: 29th Aug 2003 03:47
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Presumably everyone knows about David Blaine's next trick of being stuck in a glass box dangling from a crane over Tower Bridge for 44 days with no food, only water.

As most of his stunts have been proven to be illusions, including his ice cage stunt, any ideas if this one is real or is just an elaborate illusion.

I live in London and will be checking up on him from time to time!

Starts on 5th September on Channel4 / Sky.

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I wonder if you will be able to see the safety harness - like you could when he was standing on the London Eye...

Anyone could do that - even me - if I was tied to it!

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44 days with out food that more then do able you can live for about 90 days whit out food so it not that hard.

but it was good when he used the evil eye on that guy from GMTV.

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I'd appreciate links to how he pulled the illusions, he must be really good at staging him .

Personally I think it wouldn't be hard to cheat-- make the cable holding the cage up be a pipe which you can send food through!

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Posted: 29th Aug 2003 05:20 Edited at: 29th Aug 2003 05:21
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A Budist monk onced fasted for over 50 years, he only drank tea, water, and had vitamin suplements. The water will probably be full of vitamins, but what's he gonna do about going to the bathroom?


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There are proberly lots of ways to cheat.
Spray the inside of the cube with lots of coats of suger disolved in water?

Can't believe he actually makes any money from doing stuff like that.
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Who is this freak?

A David Copperfield wanna be? (I hate DC btw)
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Johnny Dark Afterlife
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Oh how does he go to the toilet? I mean that box wont be so see through and might smell bad after a while, There was a another trick that some guy did where he was buried alive for 5 days, I really dont think that it is possible (sane wise).
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Posted: 29th Aug 2003 10:57
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Quote: "I'd appreciate links to how he pulled the illusions, he must be really good at staging him "


Don't have any links but if memory serves well I think I remember the Ice Block one. Basically he was frozen in an Ice Block and stood there for a couple months with every morning having some dudes come around and keep the block cool. He basically survived by going out a trap door below him where there was a room with a TV, lots of food and a look-a-like to fill his place up in the Ice block. They'd trade places back and forth until the time was up.

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Posted: 29th Aug 2003 13:32 Edited at: 29th Aug 2003 13:36
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Quote: "A David Copperfield wanna be? (I hate DC btw)"


Yeah you can say he's a DC magician clone, he's a US street magician and does feats like standing on a 24 metre high flagpole for 35 hours etc.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/tv_film/newsid_2001000/2001087.stm

Look closely at the top picture, looks like a statue to me, it's not blaine! From what I heard, at nights the the platform he's standing on would go inside the pole and a replacement statue / double would be substituted, in the morning they would swap around. Perhaps the "Masked magician" would expose this trick
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Just the sort of thing channel 4 and sky do

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44 days with out food that more then do able you can live for about 90 days whit out food so it not that hard.



So if you only starve yourself half way to the death limit its not hard?

Personally, I feel like I'm gonna turn inside out if I miss two meals in a row.

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I usually got until about 3pm wihtout proper food, I forget and get carried away coding...

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90 Days without food is only possible if you spend most of your time in hunger anyway, not if you are like the average westerner who eats 3 large meals a day and lots of in-betweens. You try and spend 24 hours without food and see how you feel.

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Posted: 29th Aug 2003 15:48
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Quote: "You try and spend 24 hours without food and see how you feel."


1)very bad i imgen but that not the point. feel bad will not kill you if you are a average westerner you have a better chace becos you have 3 time more fat then some one that gone hunger for years.

2)his not just going to drink water it will suger water with 5 key vitamin.

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Posted: 29th Aug 2003 16:29 Edited at: 30th Aug 2003 06:13
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Rofl, look at the fact file for the 35 hour pole trick:

Quote: " Only a 55cm circular platform to stand on

He has a hooded top to keep him warm

He's starved himself for four days

He'll go to the toilet through a tube

He has only a small bit of water with him

He has small metal handles to cling on to

When he comes down he'll jump onto the boxes below

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Damn, I can't believe I missed him jump onto the boxes when he came down!

Edit: Accidentally pasted the quote too many times lol.

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Ahhh, stuntmen still use cardboard boxes today. Tis as safe as houses. In fact, when I leave the house, I often throw cardboard boxes out of my window and dive onto them to save time.

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lol

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Quote: "90 Days without food is only possible if you spend most of your time in hunger anyway, not if you are like the average westerner who eats 3 large meals a day and lots of in-betweens. You try and spend 24 hours without food and see how you feel."


He won't be jumping into it un-prepared if he is actually doing it and not cheating.

24 hours without food is easy, anybody could do it. 24 with out water isn't going to be a problem either if you arn't moveing or in heat.

Living 44 days on suger water and vitimins doesn't impress me much. The bigest problem I can see is bordem and starting to eat properly after the 44 days.

It's kinda odd he gets paid stupid ammounts of money for sitting in a box for 44 days with sugar water and vitamins while a lot of people don't eat a proper meal there entire lives and being it the situation he is in would be their idea of heaven.
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the ice bloack thing, i remember that, but david copperfield is a street magican, i've never seen him on poles.. he goes around doin magic to make people scream and hit him on the streets... i can do one of his tricks ya know .... his tricks r magic and a levatation thing, that they dont film anything but his feet on the tv, while toher people see all of him... (producers too scared to risk people will record and slow it down) , and i saw hat dude jump in the cardbord /

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I think Blane's "endurance" feats are pretty lame but if you have ever seen his slight-of-hand stuff or his illusion stuff it's pretty damned entertaining. He had a special on Discovery Channel a while back called "street magic", if you can find it anywhere give it a look.

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i was flipping through channels and i saw some guy jump into a bunch of boxes from a pole.
..i was wondering what that was all about..

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that was the one where david blaine had to stand on a pole for a number of days, but he had a urinal tube going down, but that must mean he was drinking i guess,

the one where your talking about where they spray liquid oxygen over the ice to cool it down then they swap over people from underneath, thats the masked magician, who is rubbish, david blain is a different person

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Yeah well they're both fake.

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Quote: "that was the one where david blaine had to stand on a pole for a number of days, but he had a urinal tube going down, but that must mean he was drinking i guess,"


we gathered that, lol.

anyway, i'd like to post some stuff, but unfortunately my monitor looks like it's about to blow up, so maybe later...


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