It has been reported that Blaine had been dating French supermodel Alizee Guinochet since , although rumors of a split have been surfacing for years. The pair have one daughter together who was born in Amazingly, when Guinocet went into labor there were no cars on the road due to a blizzard, so Blaine hailed a snowplow to take his partner to the hospital.
Before Blaine was romantically linked to the French model and mother of his child, he was dating another European catwalk dweller. David Blaine was in a relationship with Dutch model Lonneke Engel in The model began modeling at the age of 12 and worked for fashion labels such as Guess, Versace, Roberto Cavalli, and Chanel.
After hitting the catwalks for almost 20 years Engel retired from modeling in , focusing on her lifestyle site Organice Your Life. Blaine then turned his attention to one of the most famous women in the world and allegedly had a fling with pop sensation Madonna.
He was born in Brooklyn as the son of schoolteacher Patrice White and William Perez, with his father being a veteran of the Vietnam War. While living in the city, Blaine found magic. When he was just four years old he spotted a magician in the subway which inspired a lifetime of illusion and trickery.
It looks like he must have shark teeth to get through the metal, but then he somehow manages to restore the coin to its original state. In David Blaine went through one of the scariest tricks he could have ever chosen, to be electrified with one million volts. It was all made possible as Blaine wore a special suit that conducted the electricity.
That meant he was not in any real danger, so long as the suit held up under the strain of the million volts! David Blaine really commits himself to his tricks, and in he froze himself in a huge block of ice in Times Square, New York. The magician spent 63 hours encased in ice, with water and air supplied to him through a tube while he went to the toilet via another tube. Once again it was about endurance for Blaine, as he had to be cut from the ice by chainsaws and then rushed to the hospital to prevent him from going into shock.
It was a trick he performed several times while stood in front of stars like Drake, Dave Chappelle, and Steph Curry. Blaine asked them to think of and draw a small animal.
When they drew a frog, Blaine proceeded to cough the animals up one at a time. Blaine consumed the frogs but he probably first swallowed a bag for them to sit in while he coughed them up one at a time. Hanging upside down for any length of time is tricky, but 60 hours is impossible. Blaine had to take regular breaks to stretch as well as receive medical checks. Some fans reported seeing the magician standing on a platform while high. Fun emails Guest posts.
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David Blaine - Fly Resurrection. If you want to learn and perform street magic not necessarily confined to the street you'll have to plunk down at least a few dollars to pick up a book, or some magic props, or, by far the best and fastest learning tool: a DVD that teaches the art and caters directly to your experience level. The site that teaches the most people worldwide, hands down and no questions asked - is ellusionist.
According to sources the site is often recommended by David Blaine himself and his managers to those who want to learn the art of street magic. If you have never done magic before, it's recommended to start with an ellusionist video called How to Do Street Magic.. About three years ago, a man named Brad Christian, accompanied by his unknown Ellusionist Team, made a controversial debut throughout the underground magic community.
The video, How To Do Street Magic, consisting of twelve, high-impact close-up illusions, took the amateur basics of magic and made them truly astonishing again. By combining this video with several bonus effects for the younger performer, the people behind Ellusionist have succeeded in producing a quality source of instruction for highly interested amateurs. The average teaching aid in the magic community is unfortunately done with a single hand-held camcorder, taping unclear footage of a performer, struggling to explain each move and subtlety of an effect.
Brad Christian, however, has taken the time and money to actually hire a professional camera crew to film his performances and precise explanations of classic magic routines.
The footage is so clear, it appears to be an actual television program, filled with entertaining plots and forgotten images of close-up performing. Each effect is then clearly explained with the camera at all the right angles, with Brad giving precise directions to accomplish the easy-to-do miracles. Above anything else Blaine does, his levitation is the most sought after triumph of illusion.
Ironically, Blaine used a combination of techniques to rivet and amaze onlookers in his street specials. One is a crude technique called the Balducci levitation. It's easy to discover the secret to the Balducci - just search the internet and you can find the simple secret on hundreds of two-bit, cheap exposure sites put up by 12 year old kids and older "businessmen" looking to make a buck on advertising. Even the Amazing Randi now has a link to an exposure site, sadly buckling under the pressure from his readers to tell them how Blaine's levitation is performed - ugh.
But to learn the beautiful and crude Balducci, to really learn it The illusion is taught in the Street Magic Video named above. The second levitation David Blaine performed on the Street Magic Special was one where he was seen to float two feet off the ground briefly.
No one will be doing this unless they have several thousand dollars - forget it. The levitations that come closest to it are probably the "Elevator" and the "King Rising" Levitation. King Rising Levitation takes practice but only runs about 20 bucks. An advantage of King Rising is that it involves no gimmicks or secret props Grandmothers have been known to lose their dentures while watching this.
The effect is startling and can be viewed at the link provided above. Blaine is as at home with a pack of cards as Dale Carnegie is at 'winning friends and influencing people'. To watch Blaine work with a deck is a thing of beauty. The first thing you instantly know is that he's had a deck in his hands practically since childbirth.
His magic is simple and he uses simple sleights widely known by most close up artists. BUT, his choice of simple material that hits hard and his lack of focus on his own sleights are what bring his tricks to a height that make most people ask if it really IS magic - and some are completely convinced that it is. Criticism of Blaine among his own peers has reached quite a height, both among tight lipped amateurs who think they know it all and professional magicians who should know FAR better than to criticize something that has worked so well with the general public.
Instead, professionals should be holding Blaine up to the sky for infusing magic with a sadly lacking "juice"
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