Hey all,
I was just thinking about David Blaine's last big stunt in the UK, called something like "Above the Below" or "Behind the Below", and I still can't see the point behind it. After all Tibetan monks used to do that sort of thing all the time.

Was he trying to sell the latest fad diet; you know, live on nothing but water for 44 days and do it in public so that the Mrs. can't accuse of sneaking off to the chip shop?

Or was he trying to prove something, say maybe a fact?

Like, erm let's say its not all in a mime's head.

They are actually physically bound inside a glass box and just because we can't see it doesn't mean that it is isn't actually there surounding them.

If this was the point, was he proving that because he didn't believe in the box, therefore the box wasn't there? (Mind over matter or something like that? I think therefore it's not.) This is getting way too metaphysical for me.

What I am really trying to find out is what his next big thing is going to be?
Anyone got any suggestions?

Michael A.
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BTW if anyone does know what the point of his previous illusion was please tell me. I mean if he is trying to revive Tibetan meditation techniques I think he is going about it in completely the wrong fashion.

How about a stunt showing us the magical vanishing audience interest?

The point was to get people's attention, and to keep his name out there.

Judging by the press coverage he received, it worked.

He wasn't trying to revive anything, and I've yet to hear him claim that he was trying to make any kind of point.

Yeah, but I still can't see the exact point behind it. But I suppose as they say, all publicity is good publicity.

As I heard someone suggest to me about a week ago, his next big trick will be balancing on the top of the Millenium Spike in Dublin for 72 hours before losing his balance, landing on the top of an ambulance, and being rushed off to the hospital.

Michael A.

P.S. Below are some links to Images of the Dublin Millenium Spike
http://www.archeire.com/onsite/spike_con......lge.html
http://www.irelandposters.com/dublin/dub......res.html