David Blaine at it again

"Brendan DJ Murphy" wrote in news:bhtk9o$jrd$1
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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.

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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.
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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....
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"Doug Ellison" wrote in message
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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 ****.

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"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?

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On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 20:55:00 GMT, (Ant)
wrote:

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.

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.

Gareth

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.