It's Tricky!

October 18, 2003 4:00 PM

David Blaine has a day or so left to complete his latest stunt. While most of us can do basic cigarette tricks, it takes a special kind of person to want to hypnotize another. Even more special is one who gives up studying the art of magic to study transcendental meditation and was convinced that he could levitate.
posted by keli (16 comments total)

Someone please link to that pic of David Blaine and Leonardo di Caprio sitting around a hotel room with their dicks hanging out.

It's....for a friend.
posted by dhoyt at 4:13 PM on October 18, 2003

Also: here's how Blaine's own meditation technique is explained.
posted by dhoyt at 4:15 PM on October 18, 2003

Don't you mean levitation, not meditation?
posted by adrianhon at 4:34 PM on October 18, 2003

Oops.
posted by dhoyt at 4:36 PM on October 18, 2003

God Dammit Dhoyt. Don't do that again.
posted by dgaicun at 4:38 PM on October 18, 2003

Maguire's people seem to be more upset about it than Blain's. Strange world.

. . .Also never believe anything you learn or see on the Internet. Including this warning.
posted by dgaicun at 4:42 PM on October 18, 2003

Maguire's people should just keep quiet, if you ask me...
posted by Fofer at 4:47 PM on October 18, 2003

Maguire's people seem to be more upset about it than Blain's. Strange world.

well it would be odd if blaine or dicaprio claimed that the picture was fake.

p.s. i reckon they are spiking blaines water supply. his hunger strike is all an illusion.
posted by carfilhiot at 5:23 PM on October 18, 2003

WTF is that Blaine Caprio Dude photo anyway and what is with the matching kimonos?
posted by RubberHen at 5:58 PM on October 18, 2003

If I were Tobey, I wouldn't be that upset...
posted by WolfDaddy at 6:46 PM on October 18, 2003

i reckon they are spiking blaines water supply. his hunger strike is all an illusion.

Even if that's true, I still wouldn't be able to live in a transparent box for that long. I find the backlash against Blaine absolutely remarkable. He's by far the most entertaining magician I've seen.
posted by The God Complex at 10:04 PM on October 18, 2003

God Dammit Dhoyt. Don't do that again.


my goodness...how does that boy fit that into those Spiderman tights?
posted by dejah420 at 10:42 PM on October 18, 2003

"He's by far the most entertaining magician I've seen."

What's Blaine done recently, besides just sit around for a month and a half in a fishbowl? Anyone can pretend to starve themselves to death. Teller stopped speaking in public for several years, and Roy just got mauled by a tiger for our entertainment.
posted by ZachsMind at 10:49 PM on October 18, 2003

I found the original photo.
posted by donth at 11:54 PM on October 18, 2003

WTF is that Blaine Caprio Dude photo anyway and what is with the matching kimonos?

They're yukatas. They'll be the same as they're probably staying in a Japanese ryokan (hotel) where they issue out the same design yukatas.
posted by SpaceCadet at 2:23 AM on October 19, 2003

"I choose to not be bored." - David Blaine

Well that's easy for him to say. He obviously doesn't watch himself.
posted by ZachsMind at 8:54 PM on October 20, 2003