
I go back and forth on my opinion of magician/stunt artist David Blaine, recently seen electrocuting himself in public with the help of Andrew W.K. I used to really enjoy him back when he was doing the street magic stuff, but the seemingly endless stunts — burying himself under ice, under the ground, holding his breathe for extended periods under water, electrocuting himself in public, etc. — just feel a bit tired and desperate to me at this point.
With that said, the guy is kind of fascinating and I’d love to have the skills he has and the balls to do some of the things that he does. Take, for instance, walking up to the greatest actress of our time at a swanky party and eating her wine glass.
The sometimes ice-bound illusionist was at an event hosted by the Dana and Christopher Reeve Foundation last night when he walked up to the Best Actress on Earth, grabbed a wine glass from her table (where she was seated with Harvey Weinstein), and started snacking on shards.
Vulture’s Keertana Sastry took a great camera phone shot of Streep looking horrified over what she was witnessing. Blaine later said that he only eats glass occasionally “because I get in trouble for it.”
There’s no Meryl Streep didn’t f*ck David Blaine after that, right? I mean, how could she possibly resist? The guy is a witch or something.
I dug around YouTube a bit and was able to find a clip of Blaine eating glass in one of his past specials, in addition to playing some tooth shenanigans on a bystander…
And as an added bonus, this may be my favorite Blaine trick ever…



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Those made me laugh my ass off when i was younger
“Stop putting orange soda in our mouths!”
I prefer the Illusionators
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Beat me to it, Taco
In that last video, I like how he could’ve just lifted his shirt to show the tattoo, but he had to set it on fire because MAGIC!
Or because he had other peoples girlfriends tatted all over his torso
I cannot stand this man. Blaine is the east coast male version of Kim Kardashian, just an obsessed media whore.
I want him die in one of his stunts, but there is no chance of that as all his stunts now are harmless. They’re just dressed up to look dangerous. He might as well do a stunt where he is locked in a glass box with 50 kittens and a corgi in the middle of Times Square.
The shit always has to happen in Times Square. Ugh.
Man, if these are so easy, and require no talent or inventiveness, why aren’t you doing them and making the millions upon millions he is?
Weird that you simply choose not to be a famous millionaire slaying a ton of hot ass, simply because ehh fuck it.
AB
I’d give you a triple “like” if they had those on this site. TBone may have a dislike Blaine but I have a dislike for commentors like TBone. He thinks celebrities like Blaine and his stunts take zero talent and skill but you don’t see him getting up and doing it.
Did it ever occur that maybe I don’t want to do that for my life, or to live that life style. Could I stand in a block of ice/electrical field/buried alive for 48 hours (or however long it was)? Maybe, I don’t know.
Would I WANT to in a block of ice/electrical field/buried alive for whatever amount of time? No.
I’ll give the guy credit, he can stand/stay in one place for extended periods of time, and he has milked that talent for all its worth. I just don’t get why people STILL find it news worthy.