Magician to freeze himself in ice block for 65 hrs

A man is going to freeze himself in front of the Deutsches Museum Thursday evening. He plans to stay in the ice for 65 hours.

Can we read about this somewhere?

do we get to pick which man / person has to do this?
(man, these germans sure do have some weird traditions...)

is this even possible? that is just suicide!!!

What a prick. There's enough people freezing for fucking real just a few bridges further up the river.

David Blaine did this a few years ago.

Munich is rather slow with these things; look at all those lions everywhere...

Tosspot David Blaine froze himself in a block of ice although unfortunately it didn't kill him. Stupid fucker. Waste of (bad) skin if you ask me.

His name is Vincent Vega. He is a magician and of course he wants to be in the Guinness book. He gets something to drink through little pipes. A bigger problem is going to be to use the toilet. He is going to wear some diapers. Actually I don`t know how much fun it will be to watch...

Vincent Vega - isn't that John Travolta's character in Pulp Fiction?

David Blaine creeps me out.
David Copperfield on the other hand... now that's a magician.

And this new dude's name is Vincent Vega? Did he yank that name from Pulp Fiction??

Süddeutsche article

Why, why, why... have no understanding why anyone would want to do this... what a waste of time :-)

it's art, man.

Why yes it is...

Tim Roth ... Pumpkin (Ringo)
Amanda Plummer ... Honey Bunny (Yolanda)
John Travolta ... Vincent Vega
Samuel L. Jackson ... Jules Winnfield
Phil LaMarr ... Marvin

pulp fiction

yep. Vincent Vega belongs to Travolta.

Perhaps I will check this guy out, just because.

Why does this bloke call himself a magician? He's not a fucking magician. If anything, it's a feat of endurance. What happened to the old days where magicians actually performed magic tricks like pulling rabbits out of hats or being seemingly skewered by a dozen swords while being locked in a box, or being cut in half by their beautiful assistant??

There's nothing at all magical about getting in between 2 big blocks of ice, getting them sealed and then waiting there for 65 hours before getting someone to break open the ice and the 'magician' to take a quick bow before getting whisked off to the local hospital. It's like David Blain, who's idea of magic was to 'magically' walk into a glass box which was then 'magically' suspended over the Thames by a 'magical' crane. WHERE'S THE FUCKING MAGIC???

If he really was a magician, he'd start off standing next to the block of ice and invite unwitting members of the audience to check the ice for anything suspicious. Then he'd cover himself and the block with a large sheet, which when removed would reveal him suddenly trapped in the ice block. After his 65 hours, his lovely assistant (all magicians should have one) would cover the ice with a sheet for several seconds and upon removing it, he would have disappeared to gasps of the crowd - only for an old man standing in the front row to remove his coat, his hat and his false beard to reveal that he is in fact Vincent Vega.

Now that would be magic...

Rant over

That's how David Copperfield would do it.

Vacant Veggie not Vincent Vega I reckon

Somebody go tonight and please take pictures of this great event and post them on this thread.
I could use something interesting for Friday morning.
Thanks.

Has this actually happened or in the process of happening ?

It is supposed to start tonight at 8pm.

How will he be able to smoke. Or is there a smoking ban in the ice?

Its OK because his ice tomb is not open to the public.

lmao

Did anybody see this last night? I'm going to Museum Lichtspiele tonight, may drop by to see. Where in the Deutsche Museum exactly?

Oh wait, it's Travolta. Now I understand, that's guy been suicidal ever since he did that Battlefield Earth movie. Dreadlocks, man, dreadlocks!!! arrrrgghhh... is he wearing the dreadlocks for the ice? Or is he gonna be in his Pulp fiction persona - with shorts and untanned legs and all?

Yep, looks like a tosser to me.



Reckon it could be good fun to check him out all drunk and stoopid late tonight...

Anyone else wanna come along to hackle him?

"So if you're a magician, why aren't you doing any magic, then?"

Unless of course he's in a block of ice with a pack of cards and 3 bits of rope of different lengths - Grinner style, amusing the folks walking by...

I am going tomorrow afternoon.

I heard on the radio that he gave up early this morning.

Hey! Grinner does ropes only. I'm the one with the cards. Get your styles right...

Sorry - I phrased that wrong.

Memo is indeed the card man!!

darnit! I was looking forward to this!

Does he remind anyone of this guy?



Gob Bluth

Perhaps, but recently every time I see a Bluth I always think of Bob Loblaw and get a good chuckle. Great name, Great show, it will be missed...

Has he really given up already? DANG! I thought I might get an autograph.

Maybe the dogs were sniffing and creating yellow ice, and he couldn't take it?!

apparently he gave up after 8 hours

Yup, seems he got cold !

I second that. It's a crying shame that the series was axed.

I don't know about this guy, haven't really seen anything he does, but the fact that he attempts things like this, doesn't make him any less of a magician (silly you!)...David Blaine, for example, is an amazing magician, if you've seen any of his street magic you would see that. He's an incredible showman and is obviously very skilled at performing magic tricks. He just does these other stunts in addition, which make him no less of a magician as playing ping pong would make a monkey less of a monkey (GOOD ANALOGY, I KNOW). I'm pretty sure that Blaine and Vega never claimed these acts were "magic", despite that they are in fact magicians. These stunts just demonstrate a different amazing side of him, which includes his determination and ability to control mind over body. And clearly some people are entertained by these types of things. I prefer Blaine's street magic but he really does amaze me with how he pushes himself to the absolute limits...craaazzzzyyy man.

And to the idiot who criticized this guy because he's doing this while people are actually freezing..are you stupid?? I'm sorry but that's ridonkulous. By you NOT putting yourself into a block of ice, are you helping the homeless? No...and by him putting himself into a block of ice, is he hurting anyone? No...therefore your point makes no sense. OMG don't eat ever again because there are people starving!!! Don't ever read again because some people can't!!! Don't ever walk again because some people have no legs!! Some people are stuuuuuuupiiiiiiiiid!!! JUST KIDDING! You're not dumb you're just ignorant. JUST KIDDING!!! You're cute.

ermmm 8 hours, what did he prove again exactly ?

that being encased in ice is a little bit chilly? I suppose a few of the brighter sparks amongst us could have guessed that though...

I thought he proved that Monkeys can play ping-pong.

After watching his street magic several times, it no longer seemed magical as it was easy to work out what he was doing. To me, an amazing magician is someone who can do tricks that you cannot for the life of you work out how they possibly do it. I just don't get that with DB.