Comments on: David Blaine breaks world record for holding breath (update: video) http://www.celebitchy.com/11307/david_blaine_breaks_world_record_for_holding_breath/ Stylish celebrity escapism Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:40:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: amerescandalavo http://www.celebitchy.com/11307/david_blaine_breaks_world_record_for_holding_breath/#comment-469573 amerescandalavo Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:27:46 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=11307#comment-469573 Born: 4 April 1973 Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York Best Known As: The magician who was buried alive in New York City Showman David Blaine's original specialty was "street magic" -- close-up magic done for small groups on New York City streets. His talent was showcased in a series of national TV specials in the late 1990s, with dramatic gasps from bystanders caught on camera. Soon Blaine was both a magician and a celebrity, known for his hipster style, uptown-casual clothes, and friendships with actors like actor Leonardo DiCaprio. Over time Blaine moved from small-scale stunts to much-publicized set pieces that were as much endurance tests as feats of legerdemain. Blaine was buried in a glass coffin for a week in a 1999 New York City stunt, and the next year he spent three days encased in a block of ice in Times Square. He stood atop a 90-foot pillar in New York's Bryant Park for two days in 2002 before falling into a cushion of cardboard boxes. In 2003 he spent 44 days suspended in a glass box near the Thames River in London. He lounged in a water-filled glass sphere outside New York's Lincoln Center for a week in May of 2006 in a stunt he called "Drowned Alive," and in September 2008 he hung upside down in New York's Central Park for 60 hours in a feat called "Dive of Death." At the end of "Drowned Alive," Blaine tried but failed to set a world record for holding one's breath, while also attempting to escape from shackles at he bottom of his sphere. Divers pulled him from the water after seven minutes. Born: 4 April 1973
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York
Best Known As: The magician who was buried alive in New York City
Showman David Blaine’s original specialty was “street magic” — close-up magic done for small groups on New York City streets. His talent was showcased in a series of national TV specials in the late 1990s, with dramatic gasps from bystanders caught on camera. Soon Blaine was both a magician and a celebrity, known for his hipster style, uptown-casual clothes, and friendships with actors like actor Leonardo DiCaprio. Over time Blaine moved from small-scale stunts to much-publicized set pieces that were as much endurance tests as feats of legerdemain. Blaine was buried in a glass coffin for a week in a 1999 New York City stunt, and the next year he spent three days encased in a block of ice in Times Square. He stood atop a 90-foot pillar in New York’s Bryant Park for two days in 2002 before falling into a cushion of cardboard boxes. In 2003 he spent 44 days suspended in a glass box near the Thames River in London. He lounged in a water-filled glass sphere outside New York’s Lincoln Center for a week in May of 2006 in a stunt he called “Drowned Alive,” and in September 2008 he hung upside down in New York’s Central Park for 60 hours in a feat called “Dive of Death.”

At the end of “Drowned Alive,” Blaine tried but failed to set a world record for holding one’s breath, while also attempting to escape from shackles at he bottom of his sphere. Divers pulled him from the water after seven minutes.

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]]> By: amber http://www.celebitchy.com/11307/david_blaine_breaks_world_record_for_holding_breath/#comment-44315 amber Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:58:55 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=11307#comment-44315 He is fine as fu@k!! :lol: He is fine as fu@k!! :lol:

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]]> By: Butch http://www.celebitchy.com/11307/david_blaine_breaks_world_record_for_holding_breath/#comment-31150 Butch Mon, 05 May 2008 15:56:04 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=11307#comment-31150 Completely fake. If you were under water for 17 minutes, wouldn't your hair be a little more wet than that? The guys is an Illusionist, and a pretty good one at that, he even has Time magazine fooled. http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1736834,00.html Completely fake. If you were under water for 17 minutes, wouldn’t your hair be a little more wet than that? The guys is an Illusionist, and a pretty good one at that, he even has Time magazine fooled.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1736834,00.html

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]]> By: Allie http://www.celebitchy.com/11307/david_blaine_breaks_world_record_for_holding_breath/#comment-11629 Allie Thu, 01 May 2008 05:14:50 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=11307#comment-11629 He has dead eyes. He has dead eyes.

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]]> By: I choose me http://www.celebitchy.com/11307/david_blaine_breaks_world_record_for_holding_breath/#comment-11612 I choose me Thu, 01 May 2008 03:30:34 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=11307#comment-11612 :lol: :lol: At Mairead's comment :lol: :lol: At Mairead’s comment

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]]> By: gg http://www.celebitchy.com/11307/david_blaine_breaks_world_record_for_holding_breath/#comment-11599 gg Thu, 01 May 2008 02:17:02 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=11307#comment-11599 As usual, he looks thrilled to pieces to be there. I never saw such a depressed magician. As usual, he looks thrilled to pieces to be there. I never saw such a depressed magician.

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]]> By: bros http://www.celebitchy.com/11307/david_blaine_breaks_world_record_for_holding_breath/#comment-11595 bros Thu, 01 May 2008 02:02:15 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=11307#comment-11595 i love this guy. he is so much cooler than mr. rapist copperfield and stupid jewelry addict taliban lookalike chris angel. david blaine is truly gifted. there is something other-worldly about him...im not into the occult or anything, but something about this guy is very believable. like the laws of gravity and matter dont apply to him. i love it. and the world needs more people like him. i love this guy. he is so much cooler than mr. rapist copperfield and stupid jewelry addict taliban lookalike chris angel. david blaine is truly gifted. there is something other-worldly about him…im not into the occult or anything, but something about this guy is very believable. like the laws of gravity and matter dont apply to him. i love it. and the world needs more people like him.

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]]> By: ADD http://www.celebitchy.com/11307/david_blaine_breaks_world_record_for_holding_breath/#comment-11587 ADD Thu, 01 May 2008 01:42:10 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=11307#comment-11587 Mairead, ROFLMAO!!! AC, his previous stunt occurred a block from my home, I wandered by to get a gander of the schmuck who believed this was important enough to risk his life for. Even though he failed that one, he made a boatload of money, so it seems the equation is adrenalin + cash = Blaine validity. I guess his mother didn't breastfeed him or something. Mairead, ROFLMAO!!!

AC, his previous stunt occurred a block from my home, I wandered by to get a gander of the schmuck who believed this was important enough to risk his life for.

Even though he failed that one, he made a boatload of money, so it seems the equation is
adrenalin + cash = Blaine validity.
I guess his mother didn’t breastfeed him or something.

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]]> By: xiaoecho http://www.celebitchy.com/11307/david_blaine_breaks_world_record_for_holding_breath/#comment-11585 xiaoecho Thu, 01 May 2008 01:34:32 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=11307#comment-11585 AC...he's pretty open about the fact that he knows people watch expecting something terrible to go wrong. He said if people weren't worried, he wouldn't be doing his job, but I know what you mean AC…he’s pretty open about the fact that he knows people watch expecting something terrible to go wrong. He said if people weren’t worried, he wouldn’t be doing his job, but I know what you mean

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]]> By: Alexis http://www.celebitchy.com/11307/david_blaine_breaks_world_record_for_holding_breath/#comment-11579 Alexis Thu, 01 May 2008 01:06:49 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=11307#comment-11579 and no one cares. Again, you forgot the rest of the headline. and no one cares. Again, you forgot the rest of the headline.

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