Magician David Blain Exclusive Interview | On discoveries, AI and magic, and dangerous living in India

The brush has their metars with death. Describing death, his hobby.

They placed their breath under water for 17 minutes, were not eaten for 44 days, were buried under the earth for seven days, lived inside an ice block for 63 hours, standing above the 100-feet column for 35 hours and of course, more than one more than one. Refill the frogs, sticking rods through his arm, and kills the card from his stomach, he has some past. “Just look, don’t try,” David Blane reminds us.

‘Extreme magician’ has made his entire life dangerously alive.

And this American feat has long been a matter of passion for Millennials worldwide, which has been broadcast and marketed for greedy consumption – some can forget the moments of stress when he came out of an ice cube, trembling, completely stunning, rushed to the hospital immediately. (He will later accept that it took him more than a month to recover, and ever vowed to make some dangerous efforts as that dangerous). But it was a lie, by then, a ‘modern day’s Hudini’ was born.

Today, at the age of 51, he still lives on the shore.

David Blane on fire in Brazil. (Credit: National Geographic/Dan Winters) | Photo Credit: Dan Winters

In the last two years, David traveled to the world or better than them; People who skirt the line between magic and learned skills. Intentionally and appropriately titled in its latest National Geographic Reality-Challenge Show Don’t tryThe magician once again becomes a student, who is looking for tricks that disregard magic to travel to Brazil, South East Asia, India, Arctic, South Africa and Japan.

This is once again a number game. In two years of filming the show, he has kissed a King Cobra for three seconds, covered in 59 Scorpions, burnt his head for 53 seconds, swimming under three feet of snow, jumped at a distance of 59 feet from a bridge, while he was on fire, and meditated with six black mums.

With special interview in India HinduThe magician tests the boundaries of human endurance on its discovery through eight countries and three continents. “(Sam Dalal) Swami/ MantraA book that transformed my life into a magician, and who inspired me to the idea that you could combine magic with real tricks and make them even more reliable, all were created in India. But going to India and meeting people and looking at them that the book is not even mentioned … ”He shakes his head in mistrust.

Fire Ramesh and David Blane picked up the burning rope together to put on their heads. (Credit: National Geographic/Aditya Kapoor) | Photo Credit: Aditya Kapoor

In India, there were a lot of discoveries, they say. ‘Fire’ Ramesh, who was obsessed with David for a long time, set his head on fire. “I didn’t even know that he did not use fire protectors! He just uses kerosene and water. For me, it was one of the best acts that I have seen using fire.” Then, the lamp is the mondal that is part of a cycling circus and jumps into a broken glass mound, at least 100 times a year – “” dive into the broken glass, and then healed completely, so he was so heavy that I really stopped him at a point, “David recalls.”

An experience that was “over-the-top” and which he considers as “hard-core look” was at the Urs Festival in Ajmer. “Fakir respects Sufi Saints and shows that the soul is actually more than meat by performing impulses and at one point, even pushes his eyes out of his head. It was the most madness that I have ever seen!” He says. While he wanted to try to do it himself, his eye doctor in New York closed him over time. “I asked him, can I try this? He just said,” If you start now, you are going to reduce your vision. He has probably worked on it for many years! ” And I said, there is no problem that one, “he says laughing.

David Blain Kiss a king Cobra on his head. Photo Credit: Sirchai “Shin” Arunragstichai

David’s career is a bright will for its constant need to carry forward the limits of human endurance through magic. Certainly, it is a performance but it also demands excessive self-discipline. The curiosity of a young David was first picked up when he saw a magician performing on the metro. He shot for fame with television special in 1997, David Blain: Street MagicAired on ABC. In 2008, he tried to break the Guinness World Record to breathe. In the early 2000s, he was better than one before his most popular, each extreme stunt; Each is more severe than before.

In the career spread for decades, what is a stunt that they think they should not have risk to try?

“The one that i think was not smart was eaten glass. There are chemicals in the glass and even if you do not cut your world of rip your throat or whitever else, there so many are so many are unknown forts and I hope nobody Tries it. It is very dangerous, “Says David, Pulling Us Back to the Reason who he Called This Show, Don’t tryHe hopes to pay attention to long -term effects that some of these extreme tricks are on the human body.

With years and experiences, David’s understanding of the magic and its relationship with it, has passed through many recurrences. “Finally, the meaning of magic for me is giving people a moment of surprise, where you remove their argument and leave them in a state of amazing. The biggest gift as a magician is to be able to feel it.” Magician – such as PT Barnam and Woodville artists – historically have studied skills that are not tricks, but seem impossible, and converted them into a presentation that defines the meaning, he says.

“My concept of magic is expanded just by tricing simple cards, which was able to hide a gallon of water in his stomach to study people like Harry Hudini or Hadji Ali and brought it out like a dragon. I like to do things without great confusion. You use proposal.

David Blenn has seen as a yogi that his head is completely buried in the sand in India.

The drama around Magic has also gone through unavoidable changes in the digital age. But David believes that what is real, it is mandatory to brighten a beacon of light on it, now more than ever. “The more AI and technology keeps moving forward, the more people return to the need to experience something, defying their argument.”

Does this mean that he will never stop living in a dangerous way? David says, “I work with masters, best coaches and teachers who have put in thousands of hours (which they do).

Six-part series David Blain – Don’t try On April 6, Sunday, the National Geographic Channel is ready for premiere at 8 pm.

David with Karan Singh | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement