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Blaine's blanket

malcolmdl said:
How worried was David Blaine that his blanket was taken out the box and went with him!

I wonder why?;)

malc
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Salt, needed to keep him alive.
 
Poor old Blaine. Starves himself for 44 days and then comes out of his cunicle at just about the time that Tony Blair's heart condition is reported and so Tony steals all the news coverage!

:cool:
 
I thought the Sky One show was quite good, especially Blaine telling a lame joke to all those nude babes -- as one would:eek:

His comments on being obsessed with death, watching his mother die etc. were revealing. The implication that 'money and possessions don't matter' seemed a bit hypocritical from such a self-publicist. Also hints at a belief in reincarnation, karma, nihilism etc.

I wonder how much he made from this stunt?

For the conjurers here I thought it was a brilliant piece of misdirection for him not to walk out with that suspicious blanket.

He asked for a blanket and the paramedics gave him one of theirs. But he had to ask for HIS blanket two or three times.

I wonder how many 'energy bars' or similar could have been sewn into that blanket!

I noticed that he lost 4 stone -- which was exactly what was predicted at the beginning of the stunt. They must have had this worked out to a fine art.

The blanket was the key IMO, though, and it was dishonest to say he survived only on water.

I can see some silly teens with poor body image going on a 'David Blaine diet'. Anorexia and bulimia are bad enough.

Having said that, I wish I had his willpower just for the diet bit:th:
 
Also, I think a dietician could probably work out his real intake given weight loss of 4 st in 44 days with minimum activity.
 
Fillipo Lippi said:
1 stone = 14 pounds

He didn't look emaciated from what I saw
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Yeah, thanks. But how much is 4 stone?

... for the math challenged. ;)
 
I don't know if he cheated or not, and I don't care. He didn't claim that he was using any kind of supernatural power. Either he calculated in advance that he could survive 44 days, or he was cheating, getting nutriion somehow, defecating somehow without anyone noticing; but it doesn't matter, he's a showman and he doesn't have to tell us how he did it.

Blaine has one big advantage over Uri Geller: he can stop doing magic any time he wants. Geller is like the Pope, he can never retire, he's become trapped by the ficiton which he has created (i suspect this may be one reason why he sometimes seems to be coming unhinged).

You could meet David Blaine at a party and say "go on, do a trick" and he could say "sorry, I'm not in the mood", and you might be disappointed but you'd not lose respect for him as a professional. Whereas when you give him a nice strong unbendable spoon, Geller can only say "sorry, the aura isn't very strong today" and you'd think "uh-huh, yeah, right".
 
If what you are suggesting is correct, then Mr. Blaine must be a fan of Douglas Adams.
 
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