Magician David Blaine's death-defying stunts
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Magician David Blaine channels bolts of electricity from various tesla coils charged with one million volts of electricity during a stunt on Pier 54 in New York on Oct 5, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Magician David Blaine shows a computer image before a demonstration of his upcoming performance Electrified during a press briefing in New York on Oct 2, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Magician David Blaine stands near a poster promoting his upcoming performance Electrified during a press briefing in New York on Oct 2, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Magician David Blaine performs a demonstration of his upcoming performance Electrified during a press briefing in New York on Oct 2, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Magician David Blaine is interviewed by television personality Kelly Ripa while performing a stunt in Central Park in New York on Sept 22, 2008. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Illusionist David Blaine is suspended and shackled in a three-ringed gyroscope above Times Square in New York on Nov 21, 2006. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Magician David Blaine looks out from a sphere of water, after submerging himself into it, at Lincoln Center in New York on May 1, 2006. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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US illusionist and entertainer David Blaine covers himself as he goes to the toilet whilst suspended in his glass box near Tower Bridge in London on Sept 10, 2003. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Illusionist David Blaine stands over Bryant Park in New York on May 22, 2002, during his 23rd hour on top of an 80-foot pillar. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Illusionist David Blaine jumps from an 80-foot pillar above Bryant Park in New York City on May 22, 2002. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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David Blaine, a 25-year-old master magician, lies in a Plexiglas coffin on April 5 in New York at the start of an attempt to be buried alive for one week. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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David Blaine, a 25-year-old master magician, speaks on a microphone as he emerges from a Plexiglas coffin on April 12 in New York, where he spent an entire week buried alive. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Magician David Blaine channels bolts of electricity from various tesla coils charged with one million volts of electricity during a stunt on Pier 54 in New York on Oct 5, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Magician David Blaine shows a computer image before a demonstration of his upcoming performance Electrified during a press briefing in New York on Oct 2, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Magician David Blaine stands near a poster promoting his upcoming performance Electrified during a press briefing in New York on Oct 2, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Magician David Blaine performs a demonstration of his upcoming performance Electrified during a press briefing in New York on Oct 2, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Magician David Blaine is interviewed by television personality Kelly Ripa while performing a stunt in Central Park in New York on Sept 22, 2008. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Illusionist David Blaine is suspended and shackled in a three-ringed gyroscope above Times Square in New York on Nov 21, 2006. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Magician David Blaine looks out from a sphere of water, after submerging himself into it, at Lincoln Center in New York on May 1, 2006. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
US illusionist and entertainer David Blaine covers himself as he goes to the toilet whilst suspended in his glass box near Tower Bridge in London on Sept 10, 2003. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Illusionist David Blaine stands over Bryant Park in New York on May 22, 2002, during his 23rd hour on top of an 80-foot pillar. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Illusionist David Blaine jumps from an 80-foot pillar above Bryant Park in New York City on May 22, 2002. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
David Blaine, a 25-year-old master magician, lies in a Plexiglas coffin on April 5 in New York at the start of an attempt to be buried alive for one week. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
David Blaine, a 25-year-old master magician, speaks on a microphone as he emerges from a Plexiglas coffin on April 12 in New York, where he spent an entire week buried alive. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
(REUTERS) - Images of magician David Blaine, who stood on a 20-foot-high (6.1m) platform for 72 hours on Friday without food amid an artificial lighting storm crackling between low-current, million-volt Tesla coils.
Blaine was dressed in a 20-pound (9.1kg) chain-mail suit with purplish arcs of lightning shooting out of his hands and the top of his head.
Also featured are archive images of the magician’s past endurance stunts, which includes sitting in a box suspended above the River Thames in London for 44 days with only water, and standing unharnessed on a 100-foot-high (30.5m) pillar in New York City for 35
hours.
