Entries by Dodd Vickers (1785)
Print Article BULLET CATCHING BLAINE?
Jonathan Bayme of Theory 11 has posted a brief audio clip of David Blaine discussing a bullet catch event to take place in Orlando today. LISTEN HERE
HOMELESS, BLAINE TRAVELS ACROSS AMERICA
David Blaine's "Dive of Death" will feature more than the stunt which is so much in the news. Most of the special will feature David's travels from NYC to the Grand Canyon, a trip which he attempted to make solely with the help of strangers. According to David in an article at Scripps.com, "My goal was to go across the country to find the most interesting, the most beautiful, the most dangerous, the most eccentric cities in the country. He found that being homeless, traveling and trying to shoot a network special were too much for him to accomplish. It wasn't fun not showering and not changing clothes every day. I was gone for 37 days. This started out with me just doing magic for people as I went from city to city. I didn't want to take money from them. I just wanted to enter their lives." The experience may have something to do with changing the endurance feat from sleep deprivation to "The Upside Down Man." David said that sleeping in the open and hitchhiking was eye opening and that the lack of sleep was the hardest thing to deal with. "You really don't sleep when you're homeless," he says. "I could never really fall asleep although I was very tired. I got enough sleep so I could function. That's about it."
PODCAST :: RICHARD KAUFMAN :: GENII
Richard Kaufman, the editor and publisher or Genii Magazine joins us on this episode for our monthly "Genii Speaks" episode. Talking about the October 2008 edition of Genii, Richard talks about Tomo Maeda and the state of magic in Japan, the puzzles of Sam Loyd and what we have to look forward to in November. All this and more on this episode of the Magic Newswire podcast!
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LISTEN TO OUR CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD KAUFMAN:EXCLUSIVE! AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID BLAINE
Beginning at 8:30 am EST on Monday Morning, David Blaine will be hoisted feet first above Central Park's Wollman Rink where he will hang upside down for sixty hours. The end of this endurance stunt, the subject of which has been hinted at but not revealed, will be the finale of his latest ABC special "Dive of Death" which will air at 9PM EST on ABC. I was invited to participate in a teleconference with David today during which he and his medical consultant discussed the challenges and dangers to David as he attempts this feat. David also discussed the experience of filming this special, his inspirations and the challenges that he will face over the course of the next week. Join us now on the Magic Newswire for our conversation with David Blaine!
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MNW PODCAST :: EUGENE BURGER
Philosopher and Magician Eugene Burger is considered one of the great teachers of the magical arts. He has written fifteen best-selling books for the trade, starred in eight instructional videos, and lectured extensively to magicians' groups in over a dozen countries. His writings have been translated into several languages. Eugene’s deep understanding of the psychology and philosophy behind magic have won him international accolades, cover stories in conjuring magazines, and four awards from the famed Magic Castle in Hollywood. Montrose Pictures has recently released a documentary film with Eugene as the subject titled "A Magical Vision." We are very pleased to welcome Eugene Burger to the Magic Newswire! (Note:: Please accept our apologies for the poor sound quality of Eugene's side of the conversation.)
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THAT'S INCREDIBLE :: DON ALAN
DAVID BLAINE :: DEATH DEALER
The London Telegraph has published one of the better articles on David Blaine that I have come across in some time. "The magician, whose idea of magic encompasses natural feats of endurance less redolent of Las Vegas than of Lives of the Saints, is risking glaucoma and circulatory failure in order to prepare for his next trick.
He will spend three days and three nights (22, 23 and 24 September) living at the intersection of two tightwires, stretched between four pillars, 50ft high, in Central Park. When he sleeps, he will sleep hanging upside down - 'like a bat,' he says - at the convergence of those wires, which will be on fire, and there will also be a fire pit on the ground beneath him.
At the end of three days and nights of this, he will do... well, something, which he is keeping secret for now, called 'Dive of Death'. He took the title from a vintage daredevil poster given to him by a fan in 2003, when Blaine was fasting for 44 days, suspended in a Plexiglass box beside Tower Bridge."