Was it pure magic or just an illusion? Blaine isn't the first magician to master the art of levitation. What he's doing is something called Balducci levitation, which is an optical illusion.
The reason Blaine steps 10 feet away from his audience is so that when he rises up on the toes of one foot, it will appear like he's floating because of the angle the audience is viewing him from.
Wearing long pants further obstructs the view of the magician's feet, which heightens the optical illusion. Blaine can also use various camera angles and tricks to make it seem like he is levitating. When Blaine is shown hovering a few feet off the ground, there are no visible audience members, which means he most likely used props to lift him which the cameras were able to hide and only made it appear that he was levitating some two or more feet off the ground.
Showing reaction shots of an audience after the footage of him rising a few feet off the ground makes it seem like an audience was present for the entire trick. The illusion was nothing more than a camera trick. There's definitely more movie magic than real magic in his stunts. While the trick played off well on television, Blaine makes it hard for other magicians who have long performed the traditional levitation. Actively scan device characteristics for identification.
That is the trick or illusion of a floating man. David Blaine performed this trick in the middle of the street and three ladies can be seen behind him all amazed and dumbfounded by what they saw. Both of his feet slowly rise up, and remains floating for about 5 seconds so, how did he do it? Did Blaine convince you that he really levitated? I f he did, I am here to tell you that you have been lied to.
Several techniques have been used to manipulate people that he actually floated off the ground. First, two videos were shot. When we see Blaine levitating, he actually has some hidden wires attached to him that lift him off the ground. When he did this, there were no spectators. This is called Balducci levitation.
Those ladies we see are from another video that was shot separately. Click here to join our channel ieexplained and stay updated with the latest. The reason he chose this particular act is two-fold, he said. It was an image that always stayed with him, he said.
During the act, he had stood on a feet high pillar surrounded by seven Tesla coils producing an electrical discharge of one million volts or more. This time, he wanted to do something she would enjoy.
Well-known skydiver Luke Aikins, who was present during the stunt, said there were four aspects about the stunt he was worried about. Firstly, it was the low oxygen levels at high altitude or hypoxia that could lead to skewed thinking and loss of judgement.
For this, he carried oxygen in a small device that he could put in his mouth. The second fear was chilly temperatures at high altitude. The third fear, said Aikins, was affixing a parachute that was wound up to the balloons to himself mid-air.
While the initial plan was to attach the parachute right from the beginning, Blaine, however, said that it did not match up with the image he had of a person just flying up with balloons. Hence, on his request, the parachute was attached to the balloons which he was to pull out during the course of the act.
The fourth fear was the landing. He had to ensure while landing that he was away from power cables, people and came down on an empty patch.
Hence, the Arizona desert was selected as a landing spot as against the earlier plan to perform it at his home-town New York in addition to the weather there.
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