David Blaine: Decade of Magic

Decade of Magic picks up where Blaine's last DVD--Fearless--left off, collecting all the TV specials from 2002 forward. It also features some cool bonus footage.Disc 1 features:VERTIGO - Blaine's 2002 special featuring the pillar and high-jump stunt, as well as some of his trademark unique cutting-edge magic. This is my personal favorite of Blaine's stunts as I think it had the most emotional resonance.DROWNED ALIVE - Blaine's 2006 stunt where he was submerged in a giant fishbowl, and ended it with an attempt to break the world record for breath holding. Lots of good magic on this special, a cut above Vertigo.WHAT IS MAGIC? - This is the Dive of Death special that initially aired in 2008 re-edited to focus more on the magic and the bullet catch stunt that was a part of that initial special. This was one of Blaine's best I think, right up there with Street Magic and Magic Man (both which can be found on his first DVD release, Fearless).Disc 2 features:TED TALK - Blaine at TED discussing his stunts, focusing on his world record breath hold.SOWETO - Blaine doing some card magic for some kids in South Africa.DRESSED FOR DINNER (GREAT WHITES) - Blaine free-diving with some Great White sharks wearing some different costumes. Some very cool photography here. Watch this with some friends and some conversation will definitely start up.ABOVE THE BELOW (44 DAYS) - An abridged version of the Above the Below special in which Blaine lived in a glass box hung over the River Thames for 44 days surviving on nothing but water.WORLD RECORD BREATH HOLD - A clip of Blaine beating the world record for breath holding on Oprah's show.I do wish he would have included the last two specials Discover Magic (unreleased footage from over the years) and Beautiful Struggle (documentary on his stunts) that both aired in late 2010, or some footage from his Revolution stunt or his Magic for Haiti charity performance of 72 hours of magic, but I'm sure some of those will show up on a later DVD set.The main features here are Blaine's top-billed TV specials, and as far as a magic performance DVD goes, these make up some of the best magic specials ever collected from TV. If you enjoy Blaine's work, this is something you'll want to add alongside his first DVD release, Fearless.Each special probably could have had its own DVD release, so to get all three along with the extra disc of some very cool bonus footage for just $19.99, it's a great buy. The casing is a beautiful fold-out with a slip cover. It's great to watch these specials in a high quality format and see all these again. As a magician and performance artist, Blaine has great artistic vision and execution, and as illustrated throughout these specials, he knows just how to translate his talent and vision through a televised medium.Great collection.

David Blaine is the REAL deal.

If you're like me and you collect all things Blaine; his book, decks of cards, and of course, his TV specials than this is a must have. One star off from "5" since it is pretty low on "new material" but over all this is a must buy!

I really think that this guy is for real and any tricks or illusions he does is to cover up the fact that he is the real deal. some of the stuff that he does brings me to tears. you can just see it in his eyes..this is a great mix of what he does!!!!

David Blaine is one of my Inspirations of becoming magician really pushes the envelope with endurance and has Mastery of great magician skills and slide of hand movements

I've seen this before and the extras disc won't play on my Blueray for some reason. Works on my old DVD play in the kids room but not watching it there.

I don't know for sure yet if David Blaine is human, but he definitely has an extraordinary ability to control his mind and body for periods of time that no human has ever done before. Everyone needs to see and know about this man. That is all.

this was a present for my husband. he loves anything to do with David Blaine. Thanks so much for keeping things like this for people who are looking for different magic.

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