April 13, 2006
David Blaine Will Stunt At Lincoln Center!
Holy manatee! David Blaine, everyone's favorite magician punchline (think of him as the 21st century Doug Henning), will live in an aquarium for a week outside of Lincoln Center. According to the AP:
The "human aquarium" in which Blaine will float is a specially built 8-foot acrylic sphere. He will receive liquid nutrition through a tube and the water will be kept at a balanced temperature to help keep his core temperature close to 98.6 degrees F.The grand finale will be him trying to break the record for holding his breath under water, but, man, Blaine is a glutton for punishment. We can't believe that people will be able to touch the aquarium, there are probably tons of people plotting how to break the tank right now! The British were ruthless when he lived in a plexiglass box over the Thames in 2003...we're sure that New Yorkers will take it up a notch. Maybe he'll have a wacky press conference pre-stunt, where he pretends to cut off his nose or something.Passers-by will be able to touch the aquarium, take pictures with Blaine and communicate with him. He will enter the sphere on May 1.
Is the human aquarium anything like the human fund? And if you need a fish fix (but not in a Troy McClure way), visit the NY Aquarium.
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Blaine, Blaine, Blaine. .. what a twit.
I might be more interested f he were living in this aquarium though...
I used to work @ Chelsea Piers and Blaine came in not long ago to use the pool and attempt the same moronic feat as the grand finale mentioned above.
SPOILER ALERT.....
He did successfully hold his breath the longest and all in all, it was rather unimpressive.
Why not attempt something really worth doing, like making the entire Bush administration disappear!
Isn't his fifteen minutes up yet? What a tool. The British were ruthless during his stunt there.... I expect no less from New Yorkers...
Cheney will shoot him in the face before that happens...
Does he actually make money this way??
Geez, Jen, what's with all the Seinfeld reference today (human fund)? Can't you write an article without referencing Seinfeld or the Simpsons?
What a GEEK!
I'd just be worried about his bathroom breaks.
Hey everybody, let's do an experiment. When you take a bath for more than half a hour and you see your palms start to shrivel like prunes, that means your body is losing the emollients to keep it supple. Imagine David Blaine staying in water for all that time and when he emerges from this stunt he should pretty much look like your palms but all over his body. Now if he doesn't, either he's the son of god or it's a sham like how they show him to be on FOx's "secrets of the street magician revealed". Remember when magician's actually did magic? David Copperfield where are you? I can't believe he got all this fame for sucking Leonardo Dicaprio's dick when he was famous for just Titanic. So basically David Blaine was a side effect of TITANIC.
i actually think the stuff david blaine does is pretty neat.
*Why not attempt something really worth doing, like making the entire Bush administration disappear!*
Eusebio,
you got the wrong guy for that stunt. You need to call David Copperfield for disappearing acts.
As for the "breaking point" of the glass aquarium...? I presume suckurity will be conducting bag searches?
jesus christ, no one's done real magic since before you turned water to wine. big deal, fox exposed david blaine's street magic - did you really think he was levitating? although the stunts are pretty stupid, he's a great performer - and that's all magic is.
, It’s a pity David Blaine forgot about his mother when she had cancer!
Its a pity David Blaine forgot about his mother when she had cancer!
I can barely hold my breath for one minute...
What's the bet they (his crew, his stunt doubles) put a clothe over the sphere when he craps or pees? I mean do we really want to see that? It would be really funny if he did pee in the water by mistake.
If he comes out of that sphere not looking like a prune then we will know he did not spend anytime in there at all.
Ha . . . .Blane's got the drop on all of you!
We're the ones that really are in the aquarium . . .
He's the one existing in the perfect state. . .
i think he can do it. he's the man.
i'm gonna poke him
The one question I have, an answer for which I have not yet been able to find, is this:
Is this freak going to pull his pants down and take a dump in that fishbowl once a day? That would amount to seven dumps, and that water will get pretty nasty by the end of the week.
Will the NYC police arrest him for indecent exposure?
Or is he allowed to leave the bowl every day to take care of this? If he is, then it's false advertising. Anyone have the answer to this?
David fasted 5 days before going into the tank to clean his body so he wouldn't have to take dumps everyday. hahaha good question ;)
Only Jesus could do such magical stunt. He's just fake who loves the media attention. A man whose deprived from his life and has nothing better to do. All I suggest he do something worth while
How can a MAN stay in the aquarium for a week and stay without SEX!! can some one explain????