David Blaine 'electrified' by one million volts in New York

[Jazzy]

With a reported one million volts of electricity flowing around him, magician David Blaine gets his new stunt Electrified under way in front of a large crowd in New York City.

The magician was elevated to a platform above a high-voltage Tesla coil, dressed in a chain-mail suit weighing over a stone, and proceeded to shoot arcs of lightning out of his hands in unison with music.



Blaine will stand on the 20-foot-high platform for 73 hours without food amid an artificial lightning storm crackling between low-current, million-volt Tesla coils.



During a press conference earlier in the week, he described how this latest idea grew out of an image he had of himself at the centre of a giant plasma globe. Realising the idea would require him to exist in an airless vacuum – a feat beyond even Blaine's prowess – he adapted the idea to instead use Tesla coils.



Some onlookers called the event stunning, but still voiced their scepticism of how dangerous the volts are: I don't know if he's really feeling something or if it's like those volts that you can touch and nothing happenings.

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Very shocking article (pun intended).

 

[Evil Eye]

Hope he brought some food

 

[DrLeftover]

Blaine's a loser.



Dr Megavolt and his wife have been doing this act for years at the Burning Man festival.



http://drmegavolt.com/

 

[Raven]

I really can't stand this guy.

 

[Jazzy]

To be honest, I've never watched anything he's done.

 

[DrLeftover]

To be honest, I've never watched anything he's done.

All you've missed is a moderately talented publicity whore who isn't a good enough stage magician to keep a regular gig in Vegas.