There is no reason to believe that there is any illusion involved because the stunt is not unbelievable as it is. Guiness Book of World Records on just one of the reasons the stunt wouldn’t qualify as a record:
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We have from a reportage standpoint noted in past books various political, medical and criminal `hunger strikes’ – and all were for durations far in excess of 44 days." **
whoops.
i got this belter off of the channel 4 david blaine forum:
I’m now becoming worried that wharf rats might be able to climb the ropes and get into the box. In his weakened state, David may not be able to fight them off. Is anyone doing anything about this?
i must say, im worried about those wharf rats too. perhaps he could get harmony korine to shoo them away.
im not sure about posting links to other forums here, so ill say you can find them off of www.channel4.co.uk, which also has the live link webcam thing on it. its the home of bad spelling punctuation and writing in text message format!
cheers!
That’s how Derren Brown did something similar on his TV show.
i dont think Blaine thought through his timing either. towards the end of his stint in the box (oct 19?) fireworks will be widely available in the UK for bonfire night on the 5th november.
i will guarantee you local clowns will be firing them at him left, right + centre
also coming soon, the rat catapult!
I see exactly what you’re saying, but the problem is that he does. In the last TV I saw special talking about the trick mentioned here …
He’s shown talking about the trick aftwards to Leonardo Di Caprio and DB is asked if it’s a trick and he says “You know sometimes when the phone rings and you know who it is, it’s like that. I’ve just practiced, sometimes I just … know”. Or words to that effect.
Bollocks
It’s just a trick, and a particularly old trick (I believe) at that. I don’t believe he necessarily has lots of goes and throws away the failures – there’s other ways to do it. Watch the trick again and see what he really asks the dude on the street.
But that’s all irrelavent. He’s gone into spooky psychic superpowers mode, the way he talked about the mind-reading trick is the same as he’s talking about the sitting-in-a-box trick/stunt. So I’m not inclinded to believe him anymore. He’s getting dangerously close to Geller it’s just that he’s scamin’ the money out of Sky TV rather than Joe Public.
As for the box, I shouldn’t care. The man annoys me. But I don’t think he’s really starving himself, I don’t think we should really care if he is or not and I think the reaction of Londoners is spot on. I may go down and lob a doughnut is his direction myself.
Although there are lots better things to worry about than DB starving himself (like the percentage of the population already starving), my money says that the walls of that box are not all they appear to be – the reflections of the lights at night look … wrong.
That’s enough from me.
SD
Who’s not a DB fan.
Except, as Derren Brown’s own website says:
None of the Geller-style spooky-tooth nonsense.
Blaine, by the way, according to Geller on Sky One, is a fan, and made a “pilgrimage” to Geller’s house when he was first starting out on his career - and the weird thing is, the taxi that Blaine got from the station had been autographed by Geller 8 years previously!!! Psychic or what!?! :rolleyes:
I want one.
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*Originally posted by paulberserker *
kind of like a big fuck off crossbow, but with a wider adjustable niche for different biscuit types, all the way from mini chocalate hob nobs upto massive Millies cookies. it can be hand held or tripod mounted.
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Sounds like it’s got the distance but I’d be a little concerned with the aim. Nonetheless, a very reasonable weapon of choice. And far from a Waste of Milky Digestives . . [sub]<cough>[/sub]
Good luck!
Yep - Blaine appears to be a Geller fan, according to Randi. I’m not sure what he claims about his own tricks.
Daniel
paulberserker, I’m worried that the rapid accelleration when the elastic first starts to move might shatter the more frail biscuits - rich tea and the like - before they leave the bow. Have you made sure that this doesn’t happen? Put my mind at rest please.
** jjimm ** - I wonder if this is where the double-sided bourbon comes into its own - superior inherent stability through an arced trajectory.
certainly JJimm.
space age padding creates a sturdy cradle for our more crumbly type biscuit ammo. its only really when i need to absolutely, postively cover every motherfucker in the room in crumbs i use rich teas though. for this assignment, the 10mm ginger snap round is my preferred choice. for a bigger impact spread on the perspex, im taking 5 or 6 clips of 5.56mm jammy dodgers.
rich teas can also be turned into ‘cop killers’ by dunking them in tea immediately before firing.
heh, i made myself laugh at that one
We need to get a bunch of masks made with his mother’s face from the picture he has in the box with them.
If several dozen people were to mill around below him while wearing the masks, eating hamburgers and flasking their tits at him every time he looked down, he’d never last the full 44.
How in the world could you not say ratapult? It’s what Scooby Doo would do.
What are you doing firing Millies Cookies?! EAT the Millies Cookies, EAT them!
paulberserker: Have you considered loading that bad boy with a tuna melt sandwich? I would think the globs of tuna and mayo would not smell that great after a few days on the outside of Blaine’s Magical Box of Dumb
While dry items might make for a nice “thack” on the side of Blaine’s Magical Box of Dumb, I would think something that can stick and rot might be a better choice.
Perhaps canned dogfood? It could be made into a dogfood snoball and hand thrown at Blaine’s Magical Box of Dumb.
Also, I would think one would want to leave their mark. How about a hollowed out egg refilled with black dye or some ink that would discolour Blaine’s Box of Dumb
Just a few random thoughts.
It’s not quite that simple. Blaine and Randi are apparently friendly. In fact Blaine did one of Randi’s old tricks (the ice tomb) with the approval and advice from Randi.
At some point, however Blaine apparently signed Uri’s document saying that as far as Blaine new Uri was authentic.
Randi says facetiously I believe that “Blaine has gone over to the dark side.,”
but then goes on to suggest that Uri has hoodwinked quite a few people into signing his endorsement. Randi leaves it at Blaine making a poor choice, or a mistake.
Well, I can’t tell you for a fact that Blaine didn’t just do the trick fifty or sixty times until he got it right by random chance.
What I can tell you is that if Fox decided to do a magic special featuring the inept magical stylings of Scylla the Incompetant, I would also be able to do that trick.
It would sure be easier just to use a magical technique to get it right the first time than it would be to do it over and over until you got lucky.
If I know a way to do a trick as you describe (I’m not remembering Blaine performing the specific trick,) then I’m pretty sure Blaine know about a dozen.
Mentalist tricks make for really convincing impossible looking magic. The techniques behind it are just so cheesy it’s beyond beleif
But trust me, the trick isn’t all that amazing. If I were doing it, I would personally use the “one ahead” technique.
I think it’s a waste of perfectly good pastries, to throw them at that loser.
I say throw the tuna melts. God, those things are nasty. They smell like burnt cat food and ass.