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by **Kharhaz** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 2:17 am

As a kid growing up I was always interested in magicians. Paul Daniels, David Copperfield. But the latest one of today many of us underestimate. David Blaine. Nowadays, he tests his body limits, but when it comes to illusion he is one of the best. This clip shows him at his very best.

David Blaine.

Im sure you will agree, a genius !

by **Number 9** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 2:19 am

He was better back then than all his weird shi,t he does now!

Im a magician I cant make a 12 pack of Carlsberg disappear!

by **account deleted by request** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 2:39 am

I thought Blaine was a good magician till I watched that program that showed a lot of his tricks were just camera tricks rather than him. Maybe they are all using camera tricks now ?

by **Kharhaz** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 2:46 am

Ok, I will give a hint. Watch the bloody clip I posted !

by **Number 9** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 2:48 am

I think those two guys were actors like.But i seen some of his stuff when he makes cards appear inside a locked car and that...freaky sh'it!

by **bigmick** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 3:30 am

I like doing little tricks for the kids and that, it's great when you see their little faces light up. I've always done the one where you pretend to pass the coin from one hand to another but don't, then make it disappear. Then you pull it from behind one of their lugholes and they love it. You can show a little kid the same trick five times in a row and they still won't get it. Like all sleight of hand the key is in making sure your eyes follow the path of where you want them to think the coin is. Look at the hand that you've pretended to put the coin into, and they'll believe it every time.

David Blaines tricks are often of the same principle, but he's simply fantastically good at it. Very simple, but just brillinatly done. He does one on this DVD I had (lent it to somebody, never seen it since) where he gets someone off the street to write on a card, puts it on the top of the deck face down, takes it off the top and slips it into the middle, flicks the deck and boom! the card travels through the pack and comes back to the top (member of public was called "noodles" as I recall. It's such a simple trick, but very hard to do. Put simply, he performs a technique called the two card grab (or something like that) where instead of originally taking the one card off the top for Noodles to write on, he takes two pushed together to look like one. Noodles writes on his card, but when it's put back on top it's not actually on top, it's second if you get me. The top one gets put in the middle of the deck, and bingo, noodles card travels through.

You can also do that levitational thing if you google it. You kind of stand on one toptoe. Really works too (or appears to obviously). Feck me the kids love that one lol.

by **andy_g** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 11:09 am

mick's right. magic, illusion, call it what you will is all about making people look where you want them to look. blaine now just exploits the camera to do the very same thing. not magic for the purist i'd agree but he still does it very, very well.

paul daniels might be a bit of a plonker but he's excellent at what he does.

by **bigmick** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 11:39 am

Kharhaz wrote:As a kid growing up I was always interested in magicians. Paul Daniels, David Copperfield. But the latest one of today many of us underestimate. David Blaine. Nowadays, he tests his body limits, but when it comes to illusion he is one of the best. This clip shows him at his very best.

David Blaine.

Im sure you will agree, a genius !

Kharaz i've just watched the clip. It's very funny, but you do realise it's not him and a send up don't you?

Be honest now

by **bigmick** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 11:45 am

Number 9 wrote:I think those two guys were actors like.

You reckon Baz

by **taff** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 3:28 pm

Great clip :laugh:

Love the way the guy looks at the camera a la Blaine.

Bigmick, me and my brother wre putting a card on my parents kitchen window to do the throw the pack at the window trick to impress my brothers kids, we sneaked out to put the card on the window and his Mrs looked at us and went what are you two up to and ruined the trick, but we did it the next night and it worked a treat. Kids eh

Easy trick just get two packs of cards chose any card from one pack and put it on the outside of a window then with the other pack do a trick so you give them the card to remember although you obviously know what it is then do the trick. I have also done this by putting a card in someones back pocket then doing the trick later on.

by **Kharhaz** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 5:20 pm

bigmick wrote:
Kharhaz wrote:As a kid growing up I was always interested in magicians. Paul Daniels, David Copperfield. But the latest one of today many of us underestimate. David Blaine. Nowadays, he tests his body limits, but when it comes to illusion he is one of the best. This clip shows him at his very best.

David Blaine.

Im sure you will agree, a genius !

Kharaz i've just watched the clip. It's very funny, but you do realise it's not him and a send up don't you? Be honest now

I was looking for a clip of him were he ties his laces without touching them and he teaches a kid to do it as well then came across this clip which made me laugh so I thought id pop that one up there ! I mean what I say though, he is good at stuff like that.

by **andy_g** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 9:03 pm

just seen the clip. pmsl
blaine at his very best.

:laugh:

by **metalhead** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 9:22 pm

I posted this video ages ago!

still hilarious :laugh:

by **metalhead** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 9:23 pm

Number 9 wrote:I think those two guys were actors like.But i seen some of his stuff when he makes cards appear inside a locked car and that...freaky sh'it!

the idea of the clip is making fun of david blaine

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