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Blaine's at it again
American magician David Blaine, dubbed "the modern day Houdini," is to be suspended in a glass box over the River Thames in London for more than six weeks without food.
The flamboyant, 30-year-old New Yorker, famed for spectacular stunts atop poles and frozen in ice, is to be hauled into solitary confinement on September 5 in what he called "the most extreme exercise in isolation and physical deprivation ever attempted."
Against the backdrop of London's Tower Bridge, he will spend 44 days suspended by a crane in his clear plexi-glass box "with no food, no communication and no distractions of any kind."
He will have one tube to give him water and another for urinating.
"We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe," Blaine said as details were released of his endurance test that will be carried live on British television.
This is the first time that Blaine, who rose to fame with his "street magic" displays in New York, has ever attempted a major stunt outside the United States.
He has endured being entombed in a block of ice for 61 hours, has been buried for a week and spent 35 hours standing on the top of an 80-foot pillar in midtown Manhattan.
The flamboyant, 30-year-old New Yorker, famed for spectacular stunts atop poles and frozen in ice, is to be hauled into solitary confinement on September 5 in what he called "the most extreme exercise in isolation and physical deprivation ever attempted."
Against the backdrop of London's Tower Bridge, he will spend 44 days suspended by a crane in his clear plexi-glass box "with no food, no communication and no distractions of any kind."
He will have one tube to give him water and another for urinating.
"We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe," Blaine said as details were released of his endurance test that will be carried live on British television.
This is the first time that Blaine, who rose to fame with his "street magic" displays in New York, has ever attempted a major stunt outside the United States.
He has endured being entombed in a block of ice for 61 hours, has been buried for a week and spent 35 hours standing on the top of an 80-foot pillar in midtown Manhattan.
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