On Monday David Blaine performed a stunt, but he is also a magician.
Magic fascinates me because I see something done right in front of my eyes and yet I have no idea how it is done. The tricks appear to be supernatural, but in reality magic is nothing more than a trick. Below are the clips from the ABC Special on Monday showing street magic tricks performed by David. Some of these tricks are so unbelievable that I think they were just staged in front of the camera. I believe them when I see them with my own eyes. I created a DVD of the show and watched frame by frame how he did some of these tricks and I could not see anything that would reveal the secret!
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David must have signed special agreement with a phone company! I think this thing has been staged. As far as shattering the card, damn that's impressive. I don't see how that could be staged. Must be some very fancy cards in that deck! |
| The prisoner never told us the card he thought of apriori. This also could have been staged. |
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They could have put a special door for the show |
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I wonder how many takes it took to shoot this video until all bets were all winning. |
| Ok, I can see him biting off a piece of the martini glass, but he definately was not chewing the glass. He had something in his mouth beforehand which made crunch sound when he chewed and then either disolved or it was made of eatable substance. |
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Of course the teeth were always there. What he had in his hands did not even look like a tooth. He held two very thin objects. He must have put something black to cover up the teeth and make them look like they are missing. I don't think her tounge actually went through the holes contradictory to what the people were saying. Then he blew that black cover up away and the teeth reappeard. |
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Very masterful trick. I bet he had another set of laces which were already tied up. As he was flicking his foot that set of laces came down from underneath the cuffs of his pants. |
No matter how unbelievable the magic tricks are, again, they are just tricks. A lot of the tricks requrie sliegh of hand and appropriate props. There is a website The Trickery where you can buy these props and see many demos of the tricks using those props. I downloaded every single one of them and will watch them on my Treo to see if I can have an idea on how the tricks are done. The total time of all clips is more than 4 hours!
I also bought my first item from them - Bottle Up Inside - a DVD explaining how to get a ring inside a glass bottle. I've seen a similar trick myself performed by a street magician. He was able to get a quater inside a glas beer bottle, and then take it out. I can't wait to find out how it's done!
