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have you ever seen this guys magic? ive read about him and seen him on tv a few times, i JUST finished watching his show "Street Magic" and i was great, mostly card tricks and stuff, which I have seen been done in real life before, and they always blow me away.. especially in real life. fucked up stuff.... but... he does that levitation stuff, right out on the streets and stuff, and people are amazed, now the same man who showed me all these card tricks (some street kid from montreal) could levitate too, but not as much as david blaine does,,, he could only get off the ground like an inch, but david blaine can get like 8 inches off the ground.. anyone know anything about this? if its totally real or some crazy ass scam? because when I saw it in real life it looked totally real and it was just so random and in my job, at work i mean there was no way there were strings or mirrors or anything.... crazy. |
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scam, most definitely...but he's apperantly best at it. |
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I hope you are taking the piss. Do do know how he ddoes that levitation trick right? |
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wherre you been? |
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what you talkinga bout. jazembo what you mean? how can it be a scam if I seen it with my own eyes? i dunno how. |
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I do do. but lets stop playing the blain game and talk about Paul Daniels instead he is much bette.rer |
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lol, REFLEX, there have been so many shows on about how he does his TRICKS that I am surprised that you have not come across one yet. |
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Yes, and his wife is lovely. |
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hmm, it would be better if you wouldn't belive everything you see. |
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OK OK !... but fuck, for fucks sake, explain it then, stop telling me about stuff and not explain it!! OK? how does he levitate? how does he do that "trick" how did the guy i met in real life do it? |
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OK REFLEX, Rule Number 1: Anything you 'see' on TV can never be trusted 100%. I would have trouble telling you how to do the levitation trick, it is really something that I would have to show you. When you see David Blaine levitate about 1 foot in the air, what you are actually seeing is fake. He uses strings to get this high. However he does perform the basic levitation trick (the one that you or I could do) in front of a live audience. The film crew record the response of the people watching (it is real surprise and shock because the basic trick does look really cool ) . Next they take a separate filming of him being lifted by strings/wires, they then get a false crowd of people to dress up like the original surprised onlookers and just edit the two bits of film together. (Notice you will only see their clothes, arms , legs etc, and very little of their faces in the slow motion replay) I don't know why he feels the need to go extra high by using wires or why he doesn't pay a fake audience in the first place (maybe the shock and surprise can not be faked?) |
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that guy is a twat. |
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you mean he doesn't really levitate? well bugger me sideways |
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he's hilarious for the simple fact that he provokes such a strong response from people. thats what he thrives on (that, and the money of course).. when he was here in the uk doing the 'suspended in a glass box' publicity-stunt/performance-piece (depending on your opinion of him).. EVERYONE was talking about him nonstop. some people were saying how great they all thought it was. a lot of people were getting really angry about it all though. they said it was distasteful. they said it was egocentric. they said it was fake. they said he was mad.. none of them stopped to think that this kind of furore is exactly what he wanted. because, love him or hate him, he was not out of the news the entire duration of his (actually rather boring) endurance test. thousands turned up to see the finale. i just find it funny that the majority of the hype was generated by the people that hate him. i dont know why it didnt occur to them that the best way to deal with someone like him if you dont like him is to ignore him.. like the attention seeking kid in school. but he won. he always does. people that generate such a vitriolic attack + sustain their public image based on peoples hatred of them amuse me. |
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do you know about santa already? |
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he doesn't know. it's just a theory, but he made it sound like it was a fact. |
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i think he's really good at what he does. |
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True, i can not be certain that this is how he does this. It is just one possible way that was described on tv, the logic made sense to me where as thinking that he does have magical powers does not seem very likely. I think he is great to watch, I enjoy the reactions that people give more than the actual magic but I am still glad he is on tv. Has anyone in the UK seen that MAX MAGIC on Sky1? Same sort of thing but more for a laugh. |
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dont know about all the levitation tricks , but the card/pilfering routines he does are amazing ... unless its all faked for tv of course ... the one in particular where the woman picks a card , and then its sticking to the inside of the window of a restaurant across the street .. wtf is that shit ? |
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your all missing the thing im saying though IVE seen in REAL life these sorts of card tricks, and the levitation thing, how do you do the levitation thing in real life only like 1 inch of the ground? I saw it in real life right in front of me once, well he did it twice. And ive seen these sorts of crazy card tricks in real life, quite astonishing. |
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You just position yourself correctly and stand on tiptoe with the other foot covering up shit so bbllah blah no one knows etc dsfsdf lksflds buy a horse. |
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hmmmmm Ive heard that one before.. it just seemed to be real I looked around his feet? oh well, it was years ago. the card tricks he did were fucking crazy. |
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ha |
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The levitation one is where you stand with your body at an angle to the people watching, you then lift yourself up using the foot furthest away from the people watching. From their angle it looks as though both feet are hovering, but the ball of the foot furthest away from them is firmly on the ground. There was a show David Blaine did with Leo DiCaprio where he explained it all. He said the levitation shown on TV was done using wires for "dramatic effect" but the reactions of the people shown where from when he did the ball of the foot version. He demonstrated all his tricks other than the card ones which he said he would never give the secrets away of. |
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yeah the cards |
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It's stupid, really. I bought Above the Below on DVD recently and included was a similar magic special centred around the NY Vertigo stunt. I'd never really seen Blaine perform before, but thought it wouldn't be so bad. It's incredibly odd how people believe all this. Every trick ends with the onlookers explaining the trick, "man, he just... he just, and then, he just, and then the bottle filled, oh, up, woah... how'd he do that?" Every trick ends with the onlooker saying something like that. I hate Blaine so much now, he's so stupid. I dribble, I dribble. There's one trick where he supposedly fills up an empty can and the can, you see on the DVD, appears full and like new only after it's been offscreen for a moment (camera lifts up above it, but it's not supposed to be noticable as camera was shaky whole time), the two picnicers still look on in awe though which makes me think onlookers often know. |
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i dont think ive seen any blaine tricks..but the illusions david copperfield has done have been impressive..walking thru the china wall, making the statue of liberty dissapear, flying, teleporting etc...must have been a big job to plan and stage all these big illusions. its interesting how magicians are the most sceptic when it comes to supernatural things...or then its just an act to keep the true ancient art of magic secret.... |
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its the mystery that grabs you and keeps you paying admission for the magic show, when you know how it works, you just go "oh, so thats how...well, bye"....when u think about it, magicians are really like women, you figure em out and realize they're the same as all the others, hollow talk-machines they are |
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