"I saw something very prophetic ... a vision of every race, every religion, every age group banding together, and that made all this worthwhile."
- David Blaine
“David Blaine is the greatest magician who ever lived.” Howard Stern made that on-air proclamation, a sentiment echoed by Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller, who referred to David’s Street Magic as “the best TV magic special ever done.”
He was just twenty- three when Street Magic first aired on ABC, transforming televised magic by turning the camera on the audience. Spectators at home could feel the visceral reaction of people being astonished.
The New York Times went on to declare that David had “taken a craft that’s been around for hundreds of years and done something unique and fresh with it,” while The New Yorker prominently stated “he saved magic.”
Oh well who doesn’t know a man who was “Buried Alive,” Blaine’s first live stunt, (April 5, 1999) was a feat even Houdini was unable to do in his lifetime. Entombed in an underground plastic box beneath a three ton water tank for seven days with no food and little water, Blaine would draw strength from the 75,000 visitors who came to the event beside the Hudson River, topping foot traffic at both the Empire State Building and Statue of Liberty combined.
David Blaine is not just a magician and illusionist , he is also an endurance artist , was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and when he is 17, he moved to Manhattan. It was May 19, 1997, when Blaine's first television special, “David Blaine: Street Magic” was aired on NBC television.
He is best known for his high-profile feats of endurance, and has set and broken several world records. A new era of magic. Believe it or not!
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My reaction
David Blaine is truly a great magician for me because as I watch some magic tricks or stunts he performed it really gives me a gasp and a shocking reaction. There is no flaw on his performance and he is very great magician but for me magic is only a tricks hidden on it. "A great magician never tells a secret".
Here is the magic performace of David Blaine.
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