I hope people remember me as a guy who brought magic to the people. You know, pushed the boundaries of wonder.
From David Blaine
Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.
As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater for 45 minutes - how do you recover from that? It's not a miracle. Something allows us to survive.
Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.
I don't think you can say something is or isn't magic. That's what was cool about Houdini, because he was a magician who had a magic show, but he was also an escape artist, and they kind of, over time, blended together. They both kind of enhance each other, I think.
In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.
I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.
I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It's practice, it's training, and it's - It's practice, it's training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be.
It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.
I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.
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