It could only happen in New York.
Call it dedication to his art or just plain cuckoo, but magician David Blaine immersed himself in the middle of a six-ton block of ice Monday for what was the beginning of a three-day stunt in New York’s Times Square, Reuters reports.
Wearing only pants, a beanie and boots, the 26-year-old Blaine is provided with only air and water from a tube hooked up to the outside until the event ends Wednesday night.
“This is by far the most painful thing I am ever going to go through physically, much more difficult than the buried alive,” Blaine told Reuters Television.
“I have nothing to lean against. I can’t sit, I can’t move,” Blaine said. “If I have an itch I can’t scratch myself. … If I fall asleep my face presses into the ice. It is a real danger.”
For the record, this is not the first time the thrill-seeking magician has put himself in tight quarters for public display. Last year, he pulled a similar act by spending seven days buried in a glass-topped coffin.
Go figure.
