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David Blaine at it again
From Ananova:
"David Blaine is to spend six weeks without food in a clear-plexi glass box by the River Thames. The magician will be suspended from a crane in the box, just seven feet deep, seven feet long and three feet wide. He'll have no food, no communication and no distractions of any kind. He will be tube-fed water and have a waste tube to urinate. Last year Blaine stood on a 100ft high pole in New York for 35 hours and in another stunt encased himself in six tons of ice for three days. But this is the first time he's ever attempted a major stunt outside of the US. He said: "My next performance will demonstrate these ideas through the most extreme exercise in isolation and physical deprivation ever attempted. There will be no trickery and no means of escape." Sky One will be showing the event live as he enters the glass box on Friday 5th September at 8pm and live on Sunday 19th October at 9pm when he completes his challenge. Sky One will be streaming live coverage of the event continuously on its Active service, which can be accessed by Sky digital subscribers by pressing the red button. Channel 4 will be streaming the whole event live on a special website and will be filming the event for broadcast as part of their Magic Month season in October." Yeah, well done Sky. Streaming a guy sat in a box for 6 weeks, great TV ;) -- www.moviedirt.co.uk |
"...David..." wrote in news:bhtdlk$agb$1
@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk: I like to think of myself as not being too gullable, but who says it was fake and if so, what was the trickery? He was in front of the cameras all the way through it - how could he have cheated? very hour the ice was blasted with "dry ice" to "keep it cool". Actually, to allow him to swap via the trapdoor with the body double below. Z. -- Please remove my_pants when replying by email. |
very hour the ice was blasted with "dry ice" to "keep it cool". Actually,
to allow him to swap via the trapdoor with the body double below. Well bugger me...thats sly. Weren't the camera on him 24/7 though...couldn't people see it was someone else? |
very hour the ice was blasted with "dry ice" to "keep it cool". Actually, to allow him to swap via the trapdoor with the body double below. ah! , someones been watching "Worlds greatest magic tricks revealed" or whatever it's called on Sky1 ! , apparenty according to that program all these magic levitations are done with fork lift trucks! ...which instead of smootly gliding into the air, made the assistant wobble all over the place in their "reconstruction", hmm ! |
"David Blaine is to spend six weeks without food in a clear-plexi glass
box by the River Thames. Couldn't that be "in the River Thames" ? At least then we wouldn't have to look at the stupid idiot for six weeks. - Michael |
"Chris S" wrote in
: ah! , someones been watching "Worlds greatest magic tricks revealed" or whatever it's called on Sky1 ! , apparenty according to that program all these magic levitations are done with fork lift trucks! ...which instead of smootly gliding into the air, made the assistant wobble all over the place in their "reconstruction", hmm ! Er... not i. But actually, all Blaine does in his street magic is a Balducci levitation- google it for info on how it works. However, the **** does use complete camera tricks in his tv representation of this. Z. -- Please remove my_pants when replying by email. |
But actually, all Blaine does in his street magic is a Balducci levitation-
google it for info on how it works. However, the **** does use complete camera tricks in his tv representation of this. Wait, you mean he doesn't really levitate?!?!?! Seriously, the fact it's all a *trick* shouldn't surprise anyone. -- www.moviedirt.co.uk |
Dan Brusca wrote in :
Seriously, the fact it's all a *trick* shouldn't surprise anyone. Nothing wrong with doing a balducci levitation. Plenty wrong with using a camera edit to achieve levitation. Z. -- Please remove my_pants when replying by email. |
Nothing wrong with doing a balducci levitation.
Plenty wrong with using a camera edit to achieve levitation. Such as? -- www.moviedirt.co.uk |
Aren't ALL tricks fake?
Do you really believe a magician can actually saw people in half and put them back together again? It is probably nothing more than a very clever illusion. Brendan "Doug Ellison" wrote in message ... Yeah, well done Sky. Streaming a guy sat in a box for 6 weeks, great TV ;) Dont believe it for one minutes. His ice trick was a fake - this will be a fake as well Doug |
"Brendan DJ Murphy" wrote in news:bhtk9o$jrd$1
@hercules.btinternet.com: Aren't ALL tricks fake? Do you really believe a magician can actually saw people in half and put them back together again? It is probably nothing more than a very clever illusion. Brendan That is to say, Mr Blaine's "stunts" are illusions rather than feat's of endurance. Z. -- Please remove my_pants when replying by email. |
In article , says...
Channel 4 will be streaming the whole event live on a special website and will be filming the event for broadcast as part of their Magic Month season in October." Sounds mildly more exciting than the entire coverage of BB4. -- Dom Robinson Gamertag: DVDfever email: dom at dvdfever dot co dot uk /* http://DVDfever.co.uk (editor) /* 940 DVDs, 259 games, 33 videos, 67 cinema films, 69 CDs, laserdiscs & news /* star trek nemesis, bringing down the house, phone booth, human nature "Your eyes, they take me... to eternity." - Natalie Imbruglia, Identify |
In article ,
says... "David Blaine is to spend six weeks without food in a clear-plexi glass box by the River Thames. Couldn't that be "in the River Thames" ? At least then we wouldn't have to look at the stupid idiot for six weeks. You really shouldn't make such 'glub' remarks... very glub, glub, glub.... -- Dom Robinson Gamertag: DVDfever email: dom at dvdfever dot co dot uk /* http://DVDfever.co.uk (editor) /* 940 DVDs, 259 games, 33 videos, 67 cinema films, 69 CDs, laserdiscs & news /* star trek nemesis, bringing down the house, phone booth, human nature "Your eyes, they take me... to eternity." - Natalie Imbruglia, Identify |
"Doug Ellison" wrote in message ... Bit of make up, looking thru a great big slab of ice? Piece of **** Now there's an idea, get him to stand inside a great big frozen piece of ****. Col -- Well, La-di-da, All of Felicity Kendal's knickers, And they need a GOOD wash! |
"Dan Brusca" wrote
Nothing wrong with doing a balducci levitation. Plenty wrong with using a camera edit to achieve levitation. Such as? Bloody hell - even Paul Daniels would never use camera trickery; There's no skill at all (except from the editor). Do you think "The Matrix" was magic? |
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:27:37 +0100, Dan Brusca
wrote: "David Blaine is to spend six weeks without food in a clear-plexi glass box by the River Thames. Gets my vote. |
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:23:58 +0100, Dan Brusca
wrote: Plenty wrong with using a camera edit to achieve levitation. Such as? A good trick is fun to watch, even if you know how it's done. Seeing David Blaine waving his hands about and then jump-cutting to the hysterical reaction of the onlookers - while not showing any actual "trick" at all - is just crap. |
Bloody hell - even Paul Daniels would never use camera trickery; There's no
skill at all (except from the editor). Do you think "The Matrix" was magic? Do you think either are anything but entertainment? -- www.moviedirt.co.uk |
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 04:40:40 +0100, Izo Mezzo wrote:
Are you sure about Paul Daniels? IIRC he made en elephant 'disappear' once in a tent or such. I'm sure that involves camera trickery (moving the whole camera rig to a duplicate set next to the original). It was a large mirror trick. Only the mirror moved. Nick. |
"Izo Mezzo" wrote in message ... Meanwhile lurking by a stone in the mud, two eyes looked to see what I was and then Vince spoke and this is what they said to me....... "Dan Brusca" wrote Bloody hell - even Paul Daniels would never use camera trickery; There's no skill at all (except from the editor). Are you sure about Paul Daniels? IIRC he made en elephant 'disappear' once in a tent or such. I'm sure that involves camera trickery (moving the whole camera rig to a duplicate set next to the original). If that was before he teamed up with The Lovely Debbie McGee and was working with Lisa Reilly, I think I can guess where the elephant went. -- Brian "There's a lot of stuff going on that we don't understand." - MC57 |
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:28:10 +0100, "MichaelJP"
wrote: "David Blaine is to spend six weeks without food in a clear-plexi glass box by the River Thames. Couldn't that be "in the River Thames" ? At least then we wouldn't have to look at the stupid idiot for six weeks. After his tower "feat" he said his next one would be to recreate Houdini's trick where he was cuffed/chained/bagged and locked in a box and thrown in the Thames and escaped after a couple of minutes. When I heard what he was now going to do I must say I was disappointed - he must have thought this was easier or less risky. The previous two feats are easily possible by anybody with suffient fitness and willpower, yet this one seems somewhat more risky if it were done genuinely. Considering the scale of trickery involved in his "Street Magic" I think this one will be an illusion. It will be interesting to see exactly how it will be performed, how closely the cameras can examine the "cell", and how well it is lit at night. Right now I can imagine that liquid food is fed down the centre of the cable suspening the cell, and he has a port where he can eat if when instructed by a hidden radio. Where it ends up is a good question! I would probably schedule a trip to London around that time and have a look for myself! Gareth |
Dan Brusca wrote in message ...
From Ananova: snip At the end, he'll get a female assistant to release him. "Can you feel that? Can you feel the magic? It's coming. Can you feel the magic coming? Here it comes... oh there it is...." Either that, or he'll battle Jesus.... Nadia |
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:10:38 +0100, MattLB
wrote: No, they do show the levitation but apparently they ask the people to watch again and see "how it could have been done" - then shoot the scene from behind them so the camera can show a convincing shot. All the second shots I have seen are from elbow height, so it could have been re-shot with actors anyway. It *is* reshot with actors, and a big crane to hoist him up on cables. I thought it was done with real people, reacting to him doing the Balducci levitation (they are *very* carefully positioned behind him, so that he really does appear to levitate a few inches off the ground). They then film him being hoisted up by a crane, on the same street. Finally they splice the crane shot with the reaction shot from the original folks on the street. That's how I'd heard it, anyway. |
Thanatos wrote: On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:10:38 +0100, MattLB wrote: No, they do show the levitation but apparently they ask the people to watch again and see "how it could have been done" - then shoot the scene from behind them so the camera can show a convincing shot. All the second shots I have seen are from elbow height, so it could have been re-shot with actors anyway. It *is* reshot with actors, and a big crane to hoist him up on cables. I thought it was done with real people, reacting to him doing the Balducci levitation (they are *very* carefully positioned behind him, so that he really does appear to levitate a few inches off the ground). That's true, but the camera doesn't show his feet when he's doing it. They then cut to the reaction shot, but you don't see what they're reacting to - a bit like those I can't believe it's not butter ads. They then film him being hoisted up by a crane, on the same street. The key thing is that they dress someone in the same colour top as one of the original observers and shoot from behind them, but with their arm, or part of their torso in shot. This way it looks like it's the same people watching him get 3 feet off the ground (with a crane) as saw him appear to rise about 1 foot off the ground. MattLB |
"MattLB" wrote in message ... Thanatos wrote: On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:10:38 +0100, MattLB wrote: No, they do show the levitation but apparently they ask the people to watch again and see "how it could have been done" - then shoot the scene from behind them so the camera can show a convincing shot. All the second shots I have seen are from elbow height, so it could have been re-shot with actors anyway. It *is* reshot with actors, and a big crane to hoist him up on cables. I thought it was done with real people, reacting to him doing the Balducci levitation (they are *very* carefully positioned behind him, so that he really does appear to levitate a few inches off the ground). That's true, but the camera doesn't show his feet when he's doing it. They then cut to the reaction shot, but you don't see what they're reacting to - a bit like those I can't believe it's not butter ads. They then film him being hoisted up by a crane, on the same street. The key thing is that they dress someone in the same colour top as one of the original observers and shoot from behind them, but with their arm, or part of their torso in shot. This way it looks like it's the same people watching him get 3 feet off the ground (with a crane) as saw him appear to rise about 1 foot off the ground. MattLB How do you know? And don't say you read it somewhere! It's bizarre how half this newsgroup has turned into self appointed experts on the life and work of David Blaine, and the intricacies of TV shooting techniques. |
Izo Mezzo said this:
At the end, he'll get a female assistant to release him. "Can you feel that? Can you feel the magic? It's coming. Can you feel the magic coming? Here it comes... oh there it is...." Either that, or he'll battle Jesus.... Nadia Maybe his next trick will be getting hammered onto a crucifix and left there for a few days. I'd pay to see that. |
"MattLB" wrote in message ... That's true, but the camera doesn't show his feet when he's doing it. They then cut to the reaction shot, but you don't see what they're reacting to - a bit like those I can't believe it's not butter ads. They then film him being hoisted up by a crane, on the same street. The key thing is that they dress someone in the same colour top as one of the original observers and shoot from behind them, but with their arm, or part of their torso in shot. This way it looks like it's the same people watching him get 3 feet off the ground (with a crane) as saw him appear to rise about 1 foot off the ground. MattLB Apparently they just use the same people as befo "...After the Balducci levitation, the producers of the show had these same people stand by for another taping of the illusion - this time the camera would shoot from behind the audience members to get a clear view of Blaine in action. The audience members were told that this second performance was to show them how magicians could use wires to levitate. And this is exactly what happened. A small harness and rig (just out of camera view) was set up and Blaine performed a standard wire-suspension." http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/St.../balducci.html |
"Doug Ellison" wrote in message
... Yeah, well done Sky. Streaming a guy sat in a box for 6 weeks, great TV ;) Dont believe it for one minutes. His ice trick was a fake - this will be a fake as well Doug Jean Claude Shazam..... The magic's coming - it's nearly there --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.512 / Virus Database: 309 - Release Date: 19/08/2003 |
:goes back in time, deletes the name David Blaine and replaces it with
Andi Peters. I'm sure they could hammer him onto the other side. I never understood why they only had one person per crucifix, such a waste of resources. They should replace the crucifix with the same sort of design as those rotary washing lines...those aluminium christmas tree constrictions. Because of it's 3 dimensional nature I recon you could crucify perhaps 8 people at once, they'd rotate round in the wind (add chimes to their ankles) and, because of the aluminium, it would be extremely easy to carry up the hill. A cheaper option perhaps would be to hammer Anti Peters onto David Blane...it certainly has more versatility and you wouldn't have to go up a hill to do it either, unless they wanted to, in which case I recon they can go up a hill. |
grant wrote:
"MattLB" wrote in message ... That's true, but the camera doesn't show his feet when he's doing it. They then cut to the reaction shot, but you don't see what they're reacting to - a bit like those I can't believe it's not butter ads. They then film him being hoisted up by a crane, on the same street. The key thing is that they dress someone in the same colour top as one of the original observers and shoot from behind them, but with their arm, or part of their torso in shot. This way it looks like it's the same people watching him get 3 feet off the ground (with a crane) as saw him appear to rise about 1 foot off the ground. MattLB Apparently they just use the same people as befo "...After the Balducci levitation, the producers of the show had these same people stand by for another taping of the illusion - this time the camera would shoot from behind the audience members to get a clear view of Blaine in action. The audience members were told that this second performance was to show them how magicians could use wires to levitate. And this is exactly what happened. A small harness and rig (just out of camera view) was set up and Blaine performed a standard wire-suspension." http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/St.../balducci.html That's even sneakier, making the members of the public unwitting complicit. MattLB |
Can we stand out side the box eating burgers.Lets drive him in sane
"Gordon Davie" wrote in message ... Dan Brusca wrote: From Ananova: "David Blaine is to spend six weeks without food in a clear-plexi glass box by the River Thames. The magician will be suspended from a crane in the box, just seven feet deep, seven feet long and three feet wide. Can we have a phone-in poll on whether we let him out again at the end? -- Gordon Davie Edinburgh, Scotland "Slipped the surly bonds of Earth...to touch the face of God" |
"brian" wrote in message ... Can we stand out side the box eating burgers.Lets drive him in sane Alas, too late. -- Brian The last time I used my Ouija board, we actually got the thing to work, however it didn't work exactly how I had imagined: "Is anybody there...." And the planchette moved to: "No" |
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