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David Blaine Likes Electricity So Much He Should Marry It

As I write this David is being blasted by bolts of electricity produced by seven giant Tesla coils situated around him on a metal trellis erected on Manhattan’s Pier 54. I’ll probably be chided by some smarmy art Nazi for saying this, but I can’t seem...

(Photos by Bryan Derballa and Mike Belleme) Last weekend I got majorly creeped out by David Blaine. That’s not to say he acted like a creep by trying to teleport his finger into my anus or anything like that; our hour-long conversation on the ground floor of his offices in Chinatown was nothing but cordial. Still, I left with a feeling of unease.