David Blaine

Post by **saturn** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 3:52 pm

but but, his levitation illusion is totally fake!

Post by **plained** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 3:57 pm

i too was impressed with his slight of hand when i speced it on tv

Post by **bitWISE** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 3:57 pm

tnf wrote:Again, I don't care about the big illusion stuff - impressive as it is - I am talking about how good David Blaine is with sleight of hand tricks right in front of folks. You've got to have some serious skills to pull off what he does with a deck of cards.

I'm sorry I started all this tnf. I agree that some of the tricks are amazing but I think magic has been losing popularity lately.

Post by **StormShadow** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 4:38 pm

CrinklyArse wrote:
StormShadow wrote: Yeah, he was ostrecized. Depite being masked, every magician instantly recognized him by his style and his body language.
on the one i watched he revealed himself. kinda helped them work out who he was.

I think it was actually a series that was on 4 or 5 sundays in a row, and in the final one he unmasked. But they figured him out from day 1.

And yes, David Blaine is very good with the slight(sleight?) of hand. But I would be more impressed if he did it with a live audience. Its easy to make a trick look good if you can do it over and over untill you get it right

Speaking of magic specials, this wierdo has one coming up on TLC:
http://www.yourdailymedia.com/media/1120631073
^^ now thats a freaky-ass trick, although its pretty obvious how he does it. Ads on the site are NSFW.

Post by **Ryoki** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 4:41 pm

Magic tricks annoy me.

Post by **Chupacabra** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:01 pm

riddla wrote:Haha, more amazement over David Blaine :lol:

Just google - every single one of his tricks are exposed somewhere on the net

LOL so you mean he's not doing real real magic?!!?!??!?!?!?!??!?! Thats fucking nuts!

like tnf keeps trying to say, its the speed of his tricks/illusions that make it interesting. who cares if you know how to do it. that is only a small part of the thing. being able to do it is the tough part.

julios: the difference is if i ask you pick a number between 50 and 100, you might say 68. but if i give you cards numbered 50-100 face down and you cant see what is what, then who cares about the educated guessing game? face down or whatever is what most magicians do.

Post by **plained** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:15 pm

whatever with how.

anybody can know how to "slight of hand"

but not anybody can do it .

its not magic, its skill

Post by **plained** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:23 pm

for a quick diddlen by his "magic fingers" hehe

Post by **Chupacabra** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:24 pm

how is that relevant at all here? who here is that amazed to do that? tnf?

sorry, your previous statement just came off as really pretentious.

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:25 pm

I suspect that part of the ire towards blaine fans is that some of them might actually think he's doing real magic.

But from what I've read, his stuff in real life isn't as impressive as that on video.

Not sure what Riddla means by blaintologists - are they fans who believe that he's really doing magic, or fans that think that the stuff he does is as impressive in real life as it is on video.

Post by **tnf** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:49 pm

riddla wrote:Haha, more amazement over David Blaine :lol:

Just google - every single one of his tricks are exposed somewhere on the net

Ok champ. Since you obviously can't figure out *what* it is that I was actually amazed about, why don't you put up a video of you pulling off the tricks for us...they are all, of course, on the net...

Post by **tnf** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:51 pm

Riddla, this is two threads that you have really missed the point of....the scientific merits of ID vs. Evolution....and this one. Before making your pretentious posts, why not try and get the jist of what the thread is about...

Post by **tnf** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:53 pm

riddla wrote:Haha, more amazement over David Blaine :lol:

Just google - every single one of his tricks are exposed somewhere on the net

And that's the post I'm talking about...before you say you are referencing south park or whatever...

Post by **tnf** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 10:26 pm

riddla wrote:why do my points have to support the thread starter? Oh yeah, they dont.

They don't...but here you came in and mocked everyone in the thread for their 'amazement over David Blaine' - without any qualification. So you're comment, without any prequalification, really doesn't support anything.

Post by **tnf** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 11:27 pm

At least you've admitted it.