Magician David Blaine will attempt his first live stunt in nearly a decade in a YouTube-exclusive livestream later this month.
In the live special, Blaine will float through the air – a la Pixar’s “Up” – elevated through a forest of helium-filled balloons. The multi-hour “David Blaine Ascension” worldwide livestream event will take place on the performers’ YouTube channel on Monday, August 31st.
“This stunt is 10 years in the making,” Blaine said tweeted Wednesday. “Let us wonder in wonder and take magic to new heights.”
Blaine will attempt to float across the Hudson River, launching a cluster of balloons from New Jersey across its own New York City skyline.
“Watch in disbelief as David Blaine magically ascends above the earth, in his greatest live performance yet,” YouTube said in announcing the special. In the US, Verizon is the exclusive sponsor of “David Blaine Ascension.”
In one of his most notorious stunts, Blaine was buried seven days in New York City in 1999 in an underground plastic box under a three-ton water-filled tank. During the stunt, entitled ‘Buried Alive,’ Blaine ate no food and drank only 2-3 tablespoons of water a day. Blaine is reprimanded by CAA.
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