David Blaine-Street Magician Extraordinaire
David Blaine was born in April of 1973 in Brooklyn New York. That might just have been the most ordinary part of his life. He is best known as the magician who was buried in New York, a stunt where in 1999 David Blaine
was buried in a glass coffin for a week. David Blaine
has taken his fans from one outlandish stunt to the next, but early in his career David Blaine had a knack for Street Magic
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David Blaine would perform magic up close and personal with a cluster of ordinary citizens as his audience on the streets of Anywhere, USA. There was no room for illusion, so it seemed, in this type of magical performance and David Blaine shined at his craft. He starred in a series of television specials in the late 1990's where he walked the streets of various locales and mesmerized people of all ages with his blatantly mysterious levitation illusions and skillful Sleight of Hand
tricks. In the midst of his popularity David Blaine was simultaneously well known for his cool and hip style, casual clothing, celebrity friendships and he simply endeared himself to many people just because of his ordinary, carefree style.
David Blaine became better known as the years passed as the Houdini of our times. One incredible stunt after another laced together a career choked full of headlining suspense. Entombed in a solid block of ice in Times Square, David Blaine successfully completed stunt after well planned out stunt. In may of 2002 David Blaine stood on top of a ninety foot pillar for two days before finally falling into a cushion of card board boxes.
In September of 2003 David Blaine performed one of the most outrageous feats of his career. Suspended in a glass box for forty-four days without food in London near the Thames River, David Blaine was filmed by two separate television channels as his life was sustained only by water fed to him by a tube for forty- four solid days. As his fan base grew so did the skepticism. As with any larger than life, attention grabbing performer, David Blaine manages to take the bad with the good. And he continues creating illusions and performing feats that boggle the minds of many.
