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Is David Blaine Jesus?

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SlickWilly223

Time ta STEP IT UP
I was watching his show with all his magic card tricks and stuff, and I found it quite amazing. He made a quarter dissapear, then he bit a quarter in half, and magically repaired it! =-o

What's up with this guy? He even levitated. I'm sure there's an explanation for it, but how I just don't know.

O, and I find humorous the way his crowds of on-lookers will flee and run away with fright when he performs a magic trick.

*David Blaine makes the man's chosen card pertrude out of his swelling urethra*

Crowd: "O SHIT! DIDJU SEE THAT!? THIS GUY AIN'T RIGHT!!" *Run's away*

Funny.
 
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Trevelyon

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Yes, yes he is.
 
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dem

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Id like to know those tricks if only for the amount of doors it opens in the poooontang department.

Seriously... I cant even imagine what he gets..

josie%20maran%201.jpg

Oh wait..
Yes i can.
 
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bionic77

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Badabing said:
I was watching his show with all his magic card tricks and stuff, and I found it quite amazing. He made a quarter dissapear, then he bit a quarter in half, and magically repaired it! =-o

What's up with this guy? He even levitated. I'm sure there's an explanation for it, but how I just don't know.

O, and I find humorous the way his crowds of on-lookers will flee and run away with fright when he performs a magic trick.

*David Blaine makes the man's chosen card pertrude out of his swelling urethra*

Crowd: "O SHIT! DIDJU SEE THAT!? THIS GUY AIN'T RIGHT!!" *Run's away*

Funny.
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Blaine is a total joke. If you knew how he did those tricks you would be really disaspointed. That levitation trick? Haha, all that is him picking the right angle and standing up on one foot. I will admit that trick does get a good reaction from anyone you do it in front of, but it is a trick for hacks. He does some nice slight of hand stuff, but for the most part he is a joke.
 
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bionic77

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MIMIC said:
You must REALLY not like him.
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Honestly, a lot of his tricks are so simple to do you wouldn't believe it. Then again some of the most impressive tricks for the audience are some of the simplest to pull off.
 
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Eminem

goddamit, Griese!
i fucking love david blaine. i don't understand all hate. OMG HIS MAGIC ISNT REAL WTF WHAT A DICK

of course it's not real. but he is so flawless with it, and it's so fucking cool. i would murder to know how he pulls off a lot of those.

if you like him, check out his dvd. i got it for like $13, and it's so awesome.
the one trick where he transforms someone's cup of coffee into a cup of change....or the one where he throws a deck of cards at a store window and the card ends up inside the glass, stuck to the wall...or the one where he throws the deck and the card is in the guy's shoe.

i love watching his shit.


and none of his tricks are "easy"
they may be simple in how to actually pull them off, but having the dexterity to do them all so quickly takes a ton of skill.
 
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pnjtony

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no one is complaining his magis isn't real...its just he's totally overrated. Magicians have worked thier asses off for years inventing effects and never earned a dime. Blaine takes all these tricks, films them and is a celebrity.

My current hatred for him is that he doesn't even try anymore. Frozen in ice? WTF is that? Fuck that, who cares? Jump off of a platform into boxes?!?! This is something stuntmen do everyday. This is supposed to be magic?
 
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pnjtony

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and I'll tell ya another thing. I can have you pick a card and then lose it in the deck and then find it up a dogs ass if I wanted to. It's not that hard and just to spoil you I'll tell ya how to do it.

You have a duplicate card and you "force" the spec to choose it after you've already planted the other dup up the dogs ass. Forcing is very easy to do and you can do it a bunch of different ways. That's all there is to it. Everything is presentation. Replace dogs ass with a window or someones pocket and you're halfway to becoming a magician.
 
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bionic77

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Eminem said:
i fucking love david blaine. i don't understand all hate. OMG HIS MAGIC ISNT REAL WTF WHAT A DICK

of course it's not real. but he is so flawless with it, and it's so fucking cool. i would murder to know how he pulls off a lot of those.

if you like him, check out his dvd. i got it for like $13, and it's so awesome.
the one trick where he transforms someone's cup of coffee into a cup of change....or the one where he throws a deck of cards at a store window and the card ends up inside the glass, stuck to the wall...or the one where he throws the deck and the card is in the guy's shoe.

i love watching his shit.


and none of his tricks are "easy"
they may be simple in how to actually pull them off, but having the dexterity to do them all so quickly takes a ton of skill.
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I actually liked watching Blaine's earlier tv specials because they were entertaining and I loved his audience's reactions.

However, A LOT of his tricks are incredibly easy to pull off and you could probably do some of them within 5 minutes. I never said the guy had no skill, because he does, he does some slight of hand stuff that is really impressive (probably the stuff that looks the least impressive when you don't know what he is doing, but is really impressive if you do).

Just so you know, some of his tricks are also just cheap camera tricks, but that is true of a lot of magicians. I think there might be a dvd showing how he does most of his tricks. I know how he does a decent amount of his stuff because my cousin is really into magic and showed me some of those tricks before Blaine did them on tv. Though knowing how the trick is done really kills all the "magic" involved. :D
 
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bionic77

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pnjtony said:
and I'll tell ya another thing. I can have you pick a card and then lose it in the deck and then find it up a dogs ass if I wanted to. It's not that hard and just to spoil you I'll tell ya how to do it.

You have a duplicate card and you "force" the spec to choose it after you've already planted the other dup up the dogs ass. Forcing is very easy to do and you can do it a bunch of different ways. That's all there is to it. Everything is presentation. Replace dogs ass with a window or someones pocket and you're halfway to becoming a magician.
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You have to admit he has a pretty good presentation. I have seen some better magicians working in some magic shops in London, but I have to appreciate some of what Blaine does because he is much better then I am or will probably ever be.
 
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Eminem

goddamit, Griese!
pnjtony said:
and I'll tell ya another thing. I can have you pick a card and then lose it in the deck and then find it up a dogs ass if I wanted to. It's not that hard and just to spoil you I'll tell ya how to do it.

You have a duplicate card and you "force" the spec to choose it after you've already planted the other dup up the dogs ass. Forcing is very easy to do and you can do it a bunch of different ways. That's all there is to it. Everything is presentation. Replace dogs ass with a window or someones pocket and you're halfway to becoming a magician.
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uh, yeah, ok...but uh, when there's a clear window, with nothing on it, right? and then the guy puts the "forced card" back into the deck and blaine whips the deck at the glass window, where nothing was before mind you, the card appears right away, stuck INSIDE the glass. not on the outside where blaine threw the deck. on the inside of the glass, where nothing was before.

or the coffee to coins one...do you have any idea how he does something like that?(not being a smartass, seriously asking)
 
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LakeEarth

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"uh, yeah, ok...but uh, when there's a clear window, with nothing on it, right? and then the guy puts the "forced card" back into the deck and blaine whips the deck at the glass window, where nothing was before mind you, the card appears right away, stuck INSIDE the glass. not on the outside where blaine threw the deck. on the inside of the glass, where nothing was before."

Someone was inside the diner or whatever who had a duplicate of the forced card. Probably you could't see him put it there cause of all the big exploding cards everywhere... or maybe something else, I dunno.
 
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bionic77

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Eminem said:
uh, yeah, ok...but uh, when there's a clear window, with nothing on it, right? and then the guy puts the "forced card" back into the deck and blaine whips the deck at the glass window, where nothing was before mind you, the card appears right away, stuck INSIDE the glass. not on the outside where blaine threw the deck. on the inside of the glass, where nothing was before.

or the coffee to coins one...do you have any idea how he does something like that?(not being a smartass, seriously asking)
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Asking my cousin on IM he says there is definitely a vid that shows how he pulls off all of his tricks, though I really recommend you don't see it and just remain ignorant on how the tricks are pulled off. You will be really disapointed in a lot of the tricks. Even the more impressive ones you might miss the skill unless you know how the trick is done (like the card tricks).
 
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Pellham

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off topic, but the only magic trick I never understood how was possible was when I saw David Copperfield do that metamorphasis trick - i.e. he's talking to some dude hiding under a cloak, then he enters a box and vanishes, and reappears as the dude under the cloak...

... now unless he has a twin brother, how the FUCK was that possible???
 
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Kobun Heat

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Some of his tricks are not easy, but some are the easiest shit ever. Cigarette-through-the-coin and bite-the-coin are available for purchase at any halfway decent magic shop. And I could go right down the street and do the card-in-the-diner-window trick right now.

This is not to take anything away from him -- he's very good. But it's not amazingly unbelievable.
 
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VPhys

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bionic77 said:
Blaine is a total joke. If you knew how he did those tricks you would be really disaspointed. That levitation trick? Haha, all that is him picking the right angle and standing up on one foot. I will admit that trick does get a good reaction from anyone you do it in front of, but it is a trick for hacks. He does some nice slight of hand stuff, but for the most part he is a joke.
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That just doesn't make sense. How can someone "pick the right angle" stand one foot, and have it appear as levitating.


I've seen the special and all of the other tricks I can attribute to him having fast hands. But the levitation trick has me stumped, and "standing on one foot" doesn't seem like a plausible explanation.
 
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Kobun Heat

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VPhys said:
That just doesn't make sense. How can someone "pick the right angle" stand one foot, and have it appear as levitating.


I've seen the special and all of the other tricks I can attribute to him having fast hands. But the levitation trick has me stumped, and "standing on one foot" doesn't seem like a plausible explanation.
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Dude.

Read the PDF file linked above. Then go get in front of a full-length mirror, stand at a 45 degree backwards angle so you can only see the back and side of one of your feet. Then stand on tiptoes with the other, while keeping the foot you can see flat. It looks good enough to fool your own eyes.
 
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Kobun Heat

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That one I figured out as soon as I saw the special. The woman in the diner who was in on it just couldn't keep a poker face. All Blaine had to do was force a certain card, then as soon as he threw the pack at the window, the person inside took a duplicate card and stuck it to the window with double-stick tape.

EDIT: I keep a card in my wallet at all times, just for the hell of it. Then if I get my hands on somebody's pack of cards, I just force them to pick the card that's in my wallet, then take my wallet out and "their card" is stuck in with my credit cards and shit. Try it!
 
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RonaldoSan

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He's very fast and good with his hands. He can also tell wich card people thinks of.

He has nothing on Derren Brown though. That shit he do is amazing.
 
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Kobun Heat

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Actually, in his book he explains how you can tell exactly what card or number someone is thinking of. Also, on the show they don't show you all the times he totally fails at it.

For example, I want you to think of a two-digit number. Okay? Oh wait, both digits have to be odd. And they have to be different digits. Got one? Well, it's
37
.
 
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OpinionatedCyborg

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Kobun Heat said:
Actually, in his book he explains how you can tell exactly what card or number someone is thinking of. Also, on the show they don't show you all the times he totally fails at it.

For example, I want you to think of a two-digit number. Okay? Oh wait, both digits have to be odd. And they have to be different digits. Got one? Well, it's
37
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95? Dayum.
 
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Kobun Heat

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Of course it doesn't work ALL the time.
37
is what people are most likely to pick. In the same fashion, there's a list of cards that people will pick out of their minds at random. You just have to keep trying different people. And obviously, it's good if you work that into the middle of a set of tricks that work reliably. And if you're wrong, move on fast to something else.
 
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Particle Physicist

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Kobun Heat said:
For example, I want you to think of a two-digit number. Okay? Oh wait, both digits have to be odd. And they have to be different digits. Got one? Well, it's
37
.
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nope. i was thinking of
13


YOU LOSE!


:p
 
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aoi tsuki

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Kobun Heat said:
Actually, in his book he explains how you can tell exactly what card or number someone is thinking of. Also, on the show they don't show you all the times he totally fails at it.

For example, I want you to think of a two-digit number. Okay? Oh wait, both digits have to be odd. And they have to be different digits. Got one? Well, it's
37
.
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They actually did this and the card trick IIRC on a special where they exposed magic secrets. Like Kobun said and the scenes in the special showed, it's based on probability. Of course when you see the regular magic specials on tv, they edit out the times where the magician guesses wrong. It tends to break the illusion.
 
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JoshuaJSlone

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Kobun Heat said:
For example, I want you to think of a two-digit number. Okay? Oh wait, both digits have to be odd. And they have to be different digits. Got one? Well, it's
37
.
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GET OUT OF MY HEAD
 
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Mama Smurf

My penis is still intact.
Derren Brown is great to watch, though he's SO good that finding out that his stuff is either tricks or fake is kind of a blow.

Except one time he opened the show flashing faces across one part of the screen or something, and you had to pick one to remember. Some thing like that, I really can't remember the specifics of the trick. Anyway, halfway through this, this guy just walks onto the screen on the other side, then walks off again. Basically it went something like this:

Derren Brown: What you're about to see will amaze you. I want you to watch these faces flash up on screen and choose the msot distinctive to remember.

*faces start flashing up*

*guy walks on screen, guys walks off screen*

(Me thinking) Why did that guy just walk on screen?

*faces stop flashing*

DB: Did you pick this man?

Hey, that's the guy who walked on screen

DB: Most of you will have. But did you notice that this very man walked on to your screens while the faces were flashing past?

Yes

DB: Well you're not alone. You were concentrating so hard on finding the most distinctive face that you didn't notice him come on.

Ermm...

DB: Your subconcious noticed him though, leading you to pick his face from those flashing by.

I'm going to bed

DB: A simple trick that-

*turns TV off*
 
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Socreges

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dem said:
Id like to know those tricks if only for the amount of doors it opens in the poooontang department.

Seriously... I cant even imagine what he gets..

josie%20maran%201.jpg

Oh wait..
Yes i can.
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Yeah, he fucked Josie Maran. Repeatedly. He's not Jesus. He is GOD.
 
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RonaldoSan

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Mama Smurf said:
Derren Brown is great to watch, though he's SO good that finding out that his stuff is either tricks or fake is kind of a blow.
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Are you saying he is faking stuff? Like the horserace thing? The russian roulette? He has done research on all the people he "read". I mean come on. You think all those people he do mind-tricks on are actors? Like the kid who felt a punch that wasn't there?
 
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DaMan121

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His magic acts may be rehashes, but his endurance "stunts" are still impressive... A bit peeved that I found out the events surrounding the levitation trick though .. dishonest.
 
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bionic77

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DaMan121 said:
His magic acts may be rehashes, but his endurance "stunts" are still impressive... A bit peeved that I found out the events surrounding the levitation trick though .. dishonest.
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That levitation trick is really a kickass trick, but it is really hard to guess the right angle all of the time and it wouldn't look good for tv either if they had to film it from the right spot. I understand why he did it that way.

I showed my sister that trick at Epcot Center in 2000. The best reaction wasn't from my sis, but from this older black man who saw it from a little futher away who just freaked out. It was just like one of the reactions you see from his show. Funny stuff. Great trick to show people, but there is also a good chance it might not work either.
 
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