One day I watched a David Blaine program. There a part where he asked people he met to think a number from 0 to 1000. I'm thinking a number too. Suprisingly he guessed a correct number that I thought and that person he met too. This happened twice. I never watch that series before.

What do you think?

Did he do anything before telling the spectator to pick a number?

was that number you thought 436?

Just trying it myself ,

Probably not good at it.

I think you can *generally* get responses you want when you ask things certain ways. Body language, inflection, circumstance and knowing things about people in general... you can do stuff like that if you're perceptive, and then can reproduce it in others... sometimes you get the oddball and it won't work, but in general usually... like that thing red kangaroo denmark or something like that... there's 2% that pick something else but posed a certain way you're gonna get 98% of the people almost 98% of the time... and that's good enough to make a liveing giving them goosebumps! I think...

ya i similar thing happened to me:

i was watching a david blaine program and he was like (to the camera to us watching) to try and see a card that he's guna flick thru, so i picked a card and then he said, "you saw this card hey?" and he held up the one i picked...it was so freaky...

So we can guess password .....say 50% correct.

David blane is a master illusionist. I myself have studied just a small handful of his more amazing tricks, and can assure you that it is all illusion. The "Mentalist" effects get the biggest response though. I vouche for this myself. But his are truely astounding.

"i was watching a david blaine program and he was like (to the camera to us watching) to try and see a card that he's guna flick thru, so i picked a card and then he said, "you saw this card hey?" and he held up the one i picked...it was so freaky... "

That's known as a force, a very difficult, but very VERY powerful trick if you become good at it. This is how he can get people to often pick the card he wants them to. Also, statistically, people usually think of a certain few select cards. If one asks in a certain manner, he can force the person to choose one of them.

how about he's floating. not in a studio....that's amazing

That it is./ He's one icked ass magician.

Thats done by stopping for a split second on a card or putting 2 same cards together and flicking through,your brain picks up on the card you've seen for a bit longer than the others,its easy to do.



Thats done by a method I cant really comment on as its a magic secret and too many people know how to do it anyway,its called the B****ci method which can only get you about 4 inches off the ground.The footage is later edited to make him look like he's going higher!
I think Blaine is a great entertainer who has stirred up peoples interest in magic but as a skilled magician he's actually not that good.Using gimmicks and easy ways out.
For a true mentalist and magician look out for Derron Brown,he could whp Blaines backside with his hands tied behind his back!

k to the one about the card so what he could just pick a card and since he nos lots of people watch it hes bound to get the right card for someone

I think he breaks it down to odd and even numbers,eg the first number to be an odd number-(most people think of 7,)and carries on from there.
He also uses Swami gimmicks and stooges.The shows are edited too,so a bit of trial and error is a factor.

I think the best trick I've seen him do is getting a signed card to appear in a cops shoe,- The cop even takes the shoe off himself,alone and the cards in the dudes shoe,!!!!

I saw him in his box by the Thames and was amazed!
He was in there for 44 days and nights with no munch,only water.(ok the water could of been laced with some sort of nutrition vitamin,but it was tested to be just water!) and maybe a few energy bars or something hidden under his bed, but it was cool.44 DAYS WITHOUT A DECENT MUNCH! Thats pretty hard going.
People were hooking McDonalds onto radio controlled helicopters and flying it up to him in his see through box when the dude was starving! It was funny but cruel,i think he took it all in jest.
I've never seen London Bridge so packed with people,trying to get a good view of it all,(he was on a small green below) the traffic was terrible for ages!!!!
It was like a free play that everyone wanted to see.I respect him alot more because of that,bringing a bit of suspense into the world.

Yeah dude,everyone got the same card cos he stopped longer on a certain card.
The card,say an Ace of Diamonds could be a short card,a doubled card, even a single,normal card,(just slow down the flick of cards on any card,you can look down at the cards as you do it,and catch one that stays a bit longer in the flick!)You can perform it instantly with no setup so it cool but you gotta riffle the cards properly and not too obviously.
The cards are so quick you and the spectator only pick up one card.

how about he's floating. not in a studio....that's amazing

Anyone can do it,Its called the B*****i method?
You can only get about 4 inches off the ground though! But looks cool if performed right.
Again theres no setup,special shoes and can be done instantly.I sometimes do it to my mum and it freaks her out!

Anyone can do it,Its called the B*****i method?
You can only get about 4 inches off the ground though! But looks cool if performed right.
Again theres no setup,special shoes and can be done instantly.I sometimes do it to my mum and it freaks her out!

Oops!

What we see Blaine do and what the spectators on TV saw him do is completely different.

"David Blaine
David Blaine is not the originator of this illusion. He has made the illusion popular, once again, with his recent television special, "David Blaine: Street Magic." But, we never really get to see Blaine performing the Balducci Levitation. We watch several times as Blaine performs it for others, but we never get to see the Balducci Levitation for ourselves.

For the television special, Blaine performed the Balducci levitation in front of several hundred different groups of people, and the camera was angled only to catch their reactions. The method he used for this is the Balducci method, described above. While taping all the hundreds of performances, the producers keyed in on the audience members with the most visual reaction. After the Balducci levitation, the producers of the show had these same people stand by for another taping of the illusion, this time the camera would shoot from behind the audience members to get a
clear view of Blaine in action. The audience members were told that this second performance was to show them how magicians could use wires to levitate. And this is exactly what happened. A small harness and rig (just out of camera view) was set up and Blaine performed a standard wire-suspension.

What Blaine did was a camera trick - known as a post-production edit. The audience at home watched the second (wire suspension) levitation performance, with the audience reaction of the Balducci levitation edited in. It was said, in the television special, that no strings or wires were used to perform Blaine's levitation and there are no camera tricks. This is a lie, his show is basically based on camera tricks, editing and production. DAVID BLAIN IS A LUCKY, AMATEUR MAGICIAN THAT WAS IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME! Nothing more, mabey less.

Magic is a live art, not based on TV special effects. If you want to see that, I suggest you enjoy a movie like Star Wars. Blain, can not perform 80% of his effects, on either special, live. Besides, every trick he performes is not his and has been created by someone else, which he also performs poorly as well. He was never a street magician or even a magician before these shows, just some pathetic kid. He 'DID' fool you did'nt he!"

Source: http://www.magiclearn.50megs.com/photo2.html

Cheers colorless Im lucky my mum hasn't got the internet, you woulda shattered her illusions of her son floating,u sod! I can tell your not a magician who keeps his secrets!

This trick is old now anyway! baa humbug!
I prefer the elevator,a much better levitaion,with both feet (from the front)visually rising and spinning.
Blaine would probably fall over and ruin it! He's pretty good at cards but thats about it.

In my view, david Blaine is a REAL magician, he really has got supernormal abilities, however, he cannot earn too much profit out of it. It is forbidden if he uses it in the wrong way.

This is the same with David Copperfield, but I think it is allowed for Copperfield to make a living out of it.Hah.

Blaine REALLY broke the ice with his supernatural abilities. But he is doing it 'purely' to amuse and make us audience complacent.

But what do you all think? Some say he has a jinx, or dark forces. What do you think?

Also, the levitation stunt was real with his 'abilities'. It was not pre-stunt fake.

Sorry Lotus but Blaine is an average magician with no supernatural powers.
His Levitation can be done by anyone,try it yourself,its easy.(Colorless has posted a site telling you the secret!)
All the tricks he can do,I can do and I have no supernatural abilities.
I think he's only interested in the money and has no real interest in conjuring at all,sorry.

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What site was that, MK_ULTRA?

OK I got the site.

Hah, you can explained Blaine analytically physical, but what about Copperfield 'live flying stunt above the audience' and his 'go trough the great wall of China'?

Copperfield is alot better than Blaine,but im afraid he's just a magician/illusionist too.
To make him fly he's attached to alot of complicated,specially rigged wires.
The walking through the great wall of China stunt involved alot of misdirection and then swapping places/clothes with a cameraman,and then back again on the over side,after the cameraman(Copperfield) crosses over the top of the wall. Its a very old trick thats been performed for thousands of years.

What about the card that stuck in the glass? was that a real trick or edited in later?
Also, the cigerette through the coin was quite different..... and can anyone explain biting the coin then spitting it back ( it was just so fast it blew my mind)

Blaine is on TV asking view to choose one of the cards that's in his deck as he flipped through it for viewers to see. Then he told me to hold it in my mind.

And he said the correct card I chose. See, I am living in South-east Asia.

Great.I though he used the power of hypnopsis with his eyes. (If you have not realise this, many astonishing magicians has powerfully hypnotic eyes)

The other theory was highlighted in the post and it is he used a method in which all the card he used was not very visible as he flipped thorugh except the Queen of Hearts.

Both are possible.

But I still think your 'skeptical-analytical theories' HAVE far too many flaws.

You cannot explain how he read people's mind, put a card into an intact basketball, plucked out a chicken's head , scared the freaking the HELL out of kids, and sticking it back, turning his wrist 360, reading the numbers in other's mind, and predicting what poker card another was going to pick up.

The 'theories' you provided are simply defective, waning, and extremely idealistic. Not only that, they are full of critical connotations and can't explain all his tricks. You are just explaining things blindly, really.

Yet you are 'complacent' that you claimed to be able to 'do' his levitation tricks, when all you do is just sitting in front of your com typing your critical view of your own in order to defame great magicians! How sad.

Hah.

No ,I can explain how he performed all of the above tricks,and you forgot the one where he reseals an open coke can,to open it again and drink from it,Its £8.99 from any magic store.
Im a profesional magician so I wont reveal the secrets.
I dont think im cussing him that much I just dont think he's that good,Copperfield is a great magician,Blaine isnt,as he isnt that skilled.He performs some great card flourishes,especially the 2 card monte but compared to the greats-Lennart Green,Ortiz,Tamariz etc he doesn't even come close.
If you wanna believe he has supernatural powers fair enough but its a tad gullible,its meant to fool you,Thats what magicians do and its good that your open minded about it.(You would be my ideal audience )
My advise to you is to study a bit of conjuring then you will realise you may have the "power" too!

The card through the glass is a real trick,its very impressive but like all of Blaines tricks really easy to perform.
The coins he uses for cigarette through and bitten arent what they seem?
Check out some magic sites,you can buy these tricks and they arent that expensive.