David Blaine Is A Hack

[Marxist]

I'm sick of his downtrodden suffering act. I hope he does a Kneival and breaks something on descent. Not die. Just break a bunch of bones. Then his snivelling will be earned.

Didn't anybody tell the people of New York about an invention called the igloo? It's made of ice too.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Um.

Who is David Blaine? Or do I even want to know?

 

[DCL]

They have fires in igloos. You don't think it stays warm from body heat, do you?

 

[SleepingWarrior]

They showed how Blaine did it recently on one of those 'Magics Greatest Secrets Reevealed'. Whenever they would spray the ice with dry ice to cool it down a body double would come up through the floor and take his place until the next time dry ice had to be sprayed on the structure.

 

[Marxist]

They have fires in igloos. You don't think it stays warm from body heat, do you?

Hey magician. IT WAS A TRICK. Ice insulates. That's why the Eskimos make them out of ice. Fox even did a special on it. They love to shit on parades more than I do.

 

[Marxist]

SW outposted me.

 

[DCL]

Yeah, but it needs heat to insulate in the first place. That's why they have fires. AFter a day in a block of ice your body isn't generating enough heat to make it "warm" in there.

 

[paganangel]

post back when you can levitate.

 

[SleepingWarrior]

Yeah, but it needs heat to insulate in the first place. That's why they have fires. AFter a day in a block of ice your body isn't generating enough heat to make it "warm" in there.

Fox showed that the temperature inside the block of ice was kept at around 52 degrees. Now that isn't very cold to begin with, but it gets even less colder when you switch places with your body double every 6-12 hours.

 

[DCL]

I can levitate now.

 

[Marxist]

Yeah, but it needs heat to insulate in the first place. That's why they have fires. AFter a day in a block of ice your body isn't generating enough heat to make it "warm" in there.

You must have missed the Fox special. I loved the after-report where he talked about being treated in the hospital, excruciating this that or the other...

I believe there's a hotel in Iceland made of ice.

True, you do need a heat source but it's nowhere near as bad as Blaine lets on.

I wonder what the trick is to this standing on a pillar thing? Or does that even require a trick?

 

[freakygirl]

KM

http://abc.abcnews.go.com/primetime/specials/blaine/index.html


This will explain David Blaines latest adventure

 

[Marxist]

I can levitate now.

You're David Blaine. I knew it. Your body double is atop a pillar and you're sitting in an office posting on Lit.

 

[DCL]

These are stunts designed to create stir and garner press. They're not magic tricks. Houdini did stunts -- he escaped from the inside of a whale in Boston. It wasn't hard, but it was definitely good press. They all do stunts. I went on radio once to promote my show in Florida, and made an elephant vanish in the studio. (It was on radio, get it?) Stunts are what drive box office. Stunts are what pay for your stage show. Stunts are like trailers to get you into movie theatres. You're not a hack because you do stunts. You're just a good promoter.

 

[freakygirl]

http://magic.about.com/library/graphics/db3a.jpg


The Story

 

[Marxist]

I'm a Doug Henning man myself. You never heard him complain about a tiger scratch.

http://www.yesterdayland.com/images/features/remembers/doug_henning/henning_7.gif

 

[paganangel]

These are stunts designed to create stir and garner press. They're not magic tricks. Houdini did stunts -- he escaped from the inside of a whale in Boston. It wasn't hard, but it was definitely good press. They all do stunts. I went on radio once to promote my show in Florida, and made an elephant vanish in the studio. (It was on radio, get it?) Stunts are what drive box office. Stunts are what pay for your stage show. Stunts are like trailers to get you into movie theatres. You're not a hack because you do stunts. You're just a good promoter.

precisley...and i was talking to marxist about the levitation thing.

 

[Marxist]

precisley...and i was talking to marxist about the levitation thing.

It was a camera trick. Wow.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Someone is actually paying him money to do that? People actually care about this stuff? You know, with this crap broadcasting all over the place, it's no wonder Yoyotwat thinks he's got all of his heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees in a row.

David Blaine may be a hack but the people financing him are morons.

 

[DCL]

You're David Blaine. I knew it. Your body double is atop a pillar and you're sitting in an office posting on Lit.

I'm still on the pillar, dictating via a body mike and "Talk and Type" software. Wait...fuck...a bird...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

 

[Guest]

 

[DCL]

*sigh*

Why don't people ever LEAVE when they say they're going to LEAVE?

I hate that.

 

[InnocentAngel81]

hmm all of this is very interesting

 

[Marxist]

marxists is racist.
please david blaine is half-indian.

I agree with marxists though, that guy is an idiot.
shoddy tricks!

Blaine is half Aryan? Holy shit! I wonder if he can do that rope climbing trick?

 

[Purple Haze]

Camera tricks are really the bottom-feed of magicians.

"Look, I'm going to make the Statue of Liberty dissappear!"

LMAO!

Show me some good slight-of-hand.