{"id":56780,"date":"2020-08-30T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/david-blaine-reveals-why-his-next-stunt-ascension-stands-out-from-the-rest\/"},"modified":"2020-08-30T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T14:10:00","slug":"david-blaine-reveals-why-his-next-stunt-ascension-stands-out-from-the-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/david-blaine-reveals-why-his-next-stunt-ascension-stands-out-from-the-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"#David Blaine reveals why his next stunt \u2018Ascension\u2019 stands out from the rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4147cc17b2e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4147cc17b2e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/david-blaine-reveals-why-his-next-stunt-ascension-stands-out-from-the-rest\/#A_LOOK_BACK_AT_BLAINES_NYC_ENDURANCE_STUNTS\" >A LOOK BACK AT BLAINE\u2019S NYC ENDURANCE STUNTS<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#David Blaine reveals why his next stunt \u2018Ascension\u2019 stands out from the rest<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        David Blaine has seen the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen [my daughter] was 5, I noticed her taking the coldest showers,\u201d he told The Post of Dessa, 9. \u201cNow she jumps into the freezing ocean ahead of me. She\u2019s rising to challenges that go beyond what I did at her age. That makes me nervous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After all, Blaine\u2019s been encased in ice, submerged in an aquarium for a week and strung up by his feet over Wollman Rink, to name just a few of his public stunts of physical endurance. \u201cI\u2019m constantly trying to push my limits,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen it\u2019s freezing cold outside, I view the weather as a challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s not kidding. In February 2015 he was photographed swimming \u2014 for fun \u2014 in the Hudson River, surrounded by chunks of floating ice.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been eight years since he performed one of his famed outdoor stunts, but this week, the 47-year-old returns with \u201cAscension\u201d: Blaine will float some 18,000 feet, or nearly 3\u00bd miles, into the sky carried by 52 helium-filled weather balloons.<\/p>\n<p>Tethered to them with a lightweight harness running from his wrists to his shoulders, he will rise to thin air \u2014 first at 100 feet per minute, then, as oxygen becomes sparse, accelerating at five times that speed \u2014 before releasing the balloons and parachuting back to earth. It\u2019s a stunt that has been a decade in the making and required Blaine to complete 500 airplane jumps, get licensed for hot-air balloon piloting and learn to read wind patterns. The undertaking is ground-breaking enough to have been deemed a research and development project by the FAA.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16212033\"><img alt=\"Blaine shared a photo of a recent practice run of his new stunt.\" data- data- height=\"441\" width=\"661\"><\/img><figcaption><span>Blaine shared a photo of a recent practice run of his new stunt.<\/span><span>David Blaine<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite the obvious risks, including hypothermia at temperatures where \u00adexpelled air instantly freezes, Blaine sees \u201cAscension\u201d as being different from his past stunts and feats of endurance. Citing candy-colored balloons and a gravity-defying joie de vivre, he said: \u201cThis is colorful and light. Fun and magical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event will stream this week on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>, with the exact day and time to be determined due to weather (check Blaine\u2019s YouTube channel for updates). Blaine will be ascending above an Arizona desert. His original plan \u2014 to soar across the Hudson River from New Jersey (where he grew up from the age of 9) to New York City (where he was born and currently lives) \u2014 was scrubbed due to expected winds that would make the flight too unpredictable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe won\u2019t be doing this in my hometown,\u201d said Blaine. \u201cBut we\u2019ll be doing it against one of the most beautiful backdrops I\u2019ve ever seen \u2014 and the views will be spectacular.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAscension\u201d has been percolating in Blaine\u2019s brain since he was a kid.<\/p>\n<p>As a grade-schooler, he went with his mother to see the movie \u201cThe Red Balloon\u201d (\u201cLe Ballon Rouge\u201d), a French fantasy about a bullied boy rescued by a flotilla of balloons that carry him across Paris. It stuck with young Blaine. \u201cThen, around 12 years ago, I had a friend draw sketches of me floating away,\u201d he \u00adrecalled. \u201cIt\u2019s my dream: Grabbing a bunch of balloons and just lifting off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, he saw the animated Pixar film \u201cUp\u201d \u2014 another story about being carried away by balloons \u2014 only \u201ca couple weeks ago and thought it was really great.\u201d (James Corden did his own \u201cUp\u201d meets \u201cAscension\u201d skit recently, with Blaine playing along.)<\/p>\n<p>His daredevil ambitions are nothing new. Blaine was \u201cborn with my feet turned in; so I couldn\u2019t run fast.\u201d While other kids excelled at sports, he proved his mettle by walking through Brooklyn snow barefoot and winning breath-holding bets as a teenager. He was able to stay submerged in water for 3\u00bd minutes at a time, a record originally set by Harry Houdini.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16215799\"><img alt=\"David Blaine\" data- data- height=\"441\" width=\"662\"><\/img><figcaption><span>David Blaine<\/span><span>WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDoing something that seems impossible is great for a kid who loves magic and loves Houdini,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I don\u2019t \u00adadvise that anybody try this stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the sidewalks of New York, Blaine made a name for himself as a street magician, so much so that ABC aired his first magic special in 1997, when he was just 23 years old. He pulled off his first big public stunt in 1999 when he buried himself near the West Side Highway.<\/p>\n<p>It was a nod to his childhood hero, Houdini, who himself had plans for just such a challenge. \u201cIt would have been Houdini\u2019s last stunt, but he died before he could do it. He planned on escaping within minutes,\u201d Blaine said. I didn\u2019t want to copy him, so I stayed down there for a week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Houdini\u2019s niece, Marie, greeted Blaine as he emerged. \u201cCongratulations,\u201d she said. \u201cMy great-uncle would be proud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That went off without a hitch, but future endurance efforts weren\u2019t always perfect \u2014 and Blaine is his own toughest critic.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_LOOK_BACK_AT_BLAINES_NYC_ENDURANCE_STUNTS\"><\/span>A LOOK BACK AT BLAINE\u2019S NYC ENDURANCE STUNTS<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<div id=\"slideshow-16206603-1\">\n<div>\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Master magician David Blaine is watched by workers\"  src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/david-blaine-8.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" ><\/img><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n                            In 1999, David Blaine was entombed underground for a week at 68th Street and Riverside Drive. Harry Houdini had planned a similar stunt before his 1926 death.                                                          <\/p>\n<p>Getty Images\n                                                    <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Magician David Blaine's \"Frozen In Time\"\"  src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/david-blaine-6.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" ><\/img><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n                            Blaine was encased in a block of ice in Times Square for more than 63 hours in 2000. It took him a month to recover.                                                            <\/p>\n<p>WireImage\n                                                    <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Blaine's Vertigo\"  src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/david-blaine-3.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" ><\/img><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n                            He has  said he experienced halluci-nations while standing &#8212; for 35 hours &#8212; on a 100-foot-high pillar in Bryant Park in 2002.                                                         <\/p>\n<p>WireImage\n                                                    <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"International performance artist and mag\"  src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/david-blaine-7.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" ><\/img><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n                            Blaine was submerged in a globe of saline for seven days outside Lincoln Center in May 2006. He suffered kidney and liver damage.                                                           <\/p>\n<p>AFP via Getty Images\n                                                    <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Blaine Continues the Target Thanksgiving Challenge High Above New York City's Times Square - Day 2\"  src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/david-blaine-4.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" ><\/img><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n                            Shackled into a rotating gyroscope in Times Square in November 2006, Blaine hoped to escape in 16 hours. It ended up taking 52.                                                         <\/p>\n<p>WireImage\n                                                    <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Blaine Begins Suspension Stunt At Wollman Rink In Central Park\"  src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/david-blaine-5.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" ><\/img><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n                            Blaine dangled upside down over Central Park&#8217;s Wollman Rink for 60 hours in 2008 but critics taunted him for taking hourly upright breaks.                                                          <\/p>\n<p>Getty Images\n                                                    <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Blaine\"  src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/david-blaine-9.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" ><\/img><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n                            In 2012, Blaine stood atop a 22-foot-high pillar at Pier 54, surrounded by seven Tesla coils producing continuous electricity. It lasted 72 hours.                                                          <\/p>\n<p>AP\n                                                    <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                Up Next\n                <\/p>\n<article target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/08\/30\/cardinals-vs-indians-prediction-runs-will-be-at-a-premium\/\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n                    <picture><source data- data- media=\"(min-width: 640px)\"  ><source data- data- media=\"(max-width: 639px)\"  ><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\"><\/img><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                        <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/08\/30\/cardinals-vs-indians-prediction-runs-will-be-at-a-premium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                The Cardinals find themselves in an unprecedented stretch in which&#8230;<br \/>\n                    <\/article>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 2000, for \u201cFrozen In Time,\u201d Blaine had himself blocked into ice for 72 hours in Times Square. The conditions were so debilitating, he recalled, \u201cthat I hallucinated for the last eight [hours]. It was terrifying. I saw faces made out of ice screaming at me. When they chainsawed me out, I started grabbing for the blades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Six years later, outside Lincoln Center, \u201cDrowned Alive\u201d began with Blaine spending seven days underwater, breathing air through a tube. It ended with the fatigued magician releasing the tube and holding his breath. After seven minutes and eight seconds, Blaine\u2019s advisers saw him blacking out. They dived in and saved his life ahead of the record \u2014 nine minutes, eight seconds \u2014 he was going for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTunnel vision kicked in and everything began to fade,\u201d he remembered. \u201cBut I think I could have gone for another 40 seconds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thinking back to his last public showing, 2012\u2019s \u201cElectrified\u201d \u2014 standing 22 feet above Pier 54, he had 1 million volts of electricity swirling around him constantly \u2014 Blaine has nothing good to recall about the 73-hour challenge. Not \u00adcoincidentally, it was his last public display to date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got z<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed at the start and the show almost ended. My feet were swelling. My Faraday suit [a metal garment designed to block the voltage] got stretched open and I was exposed to electricity,\u201d Blaine said. \u201cWorst of all, my 1-year-old daughter watched. After \u2018Electrified\u2019 ended, I announced that I would never again do anything that makes Dessa worry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though Blaine has spent a year practicing each element that goes into the hour-or-so-long \u201cAscension,\u201d he acknowledges that he\u2019s never before done a complete run-through. With cameras strategically placed on his body and among the balloons, along with a helicopter streaming live video from alongside him, YouTube viewers will see things as Blaine sees them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2018Tunnel vision kicked in and everything began to fade. But I think I could\u2019ve gone for another 40 seconds\u2019<\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0David Blaine, looking back on his 2006 Lincoln Center stunt, \u2018Drowned Alive\u2019<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He got up to speed through low-profile practice and strategizing sessions in California and Washington. For months, his crew of pilots, skydivers, meteorologists and balloon specialists were the only ones who knew what he was working on. But nobody could guarantee that it would come to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never know if these things will work. There are always variables,\u201d said Blaine, recalling that, in one of his early skydives for the project, he slammed into a fence, leaving a serious indentation in the metal barrier, along with impressive scarring on his shins. \u201cBecause of where I collided, I was able to flip over the top of the fence. A few inches lower, and my body would have taken the full impact of a high-speed hit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While \u201cAscension\u201d is dedicated to his daughter and seems lighter than the endurance stunts that made Blaine famous \u2014 \u201cAdults see balloons and turn into kids,\u201d he said \u2014 it does not come without potential for peril.<\/p>\n<p>Looming largest is the possibility of hypoxia: a lack of oxygen to the brain due to increasingly thin air. The higher he goes, the more susceptible he becomes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHypoxia feels like being really drunk,\u201d Blaine said. \u201cYou lose your sense of judgment and might want to keep going higher. The good <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> is that my crew can bring me down if they think they need to. Otherwise, I let go of the balloons and start flying back to earth before I pull my parachute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Necessary as the descent may be, down is not where Blaine\u2019s head is at right now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to go where the airplanes fly,\u201d he said. \u201cI want to go up and become a tiny dot in the sky.\u201d\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Living News articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/08\/30\/david-blaine-reveals-why-next-stunt-ascension-stands-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#David Blaine reveals why his next stunt \u2018Ascension\u2019 stands out from the rest&#8221; David Blaine has seen the future. \u201cWhen [my daughter] was 5, I noticed her taking the coldest showers,\u201d he told The Post of Dessa, 9. \u201cNow she jumps into the freezing ocean ahead of me. 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