OK....so there is a little crazy in everyone..
but THIS tops the cake. UH.. if you have to go to these extremes to experience suffering? You'd better count your blessings instead..cause you, man, got a good life! I'm sure there are a lot of people in the world willing to trade lives for him to experience REAL suffering *rolling eyes
I think all Brits should boycot this guy.. I mean.. why support suffering for PR.. when you can just to down to the local shelter and get the real thing?
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Just Blaine Crazy?
David Blaine is about to spend six weeks in a box with no food, hanging over the Thames. Is he an artist exploring pain—or a PR monger?
By B. J. Sigesmund
NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE
Aug. 28 — David Blaine wants to be alone. How else do you explain the guy’s increasingly intense exercises in isolation?
IN 1999, HE spent a week buried in a glass coffin on New York’s Upper West Side. In 2000, Blaine remained inside a giant block of ice for three days. Then last year, he stood atop an 80-foot pillar for more than a day. Now the 30-year-old’s taking on a challenge that will have him in solitary confinement for six weeks—and also turn a lot of people’s stomachs.
Next week, Blaine will lock himself in a Plexiglas box and will spend the next 44 days hanging over the Thames River in London, with no food and only a journal. He’ll subsist only on tap water and he’ll urinate through a tube. (He’ll also be armed with a backpack full of diapers.)
The big question: Why? Well, there’s the publicity, of course. Sky One and Channel 4 in London will televise him entering and exiting, the entire event will be streamed live on the Web and director Harmony Korine will shoot it for a future documentary. Other than that, well, we’re unsure—Blaine himself won’t clarify much. What meaning is there in starving yourself for a month and a half? NEWSWEEK’s B. J. Sigesmund tried to get Blaine to explain.
Excerpts: on website
http://www.msnbc.com/news/958657.asp
