David Blane is insane. He pushes his body to incredible limits. Throughout his Ted Talk, Blane goes on to state the sequence of events that allowed him to accomplish such feats.
I have no idea how He managed to stay in that little box in London for so long. I would have been so bored and hungry. The glass box would have made me so paranoid.
Hearing him talk about holding his breath underwater for so long was riveting. Drowning is a huge fear of mine, which makes no sense at all because i was on the swim team in high school. At one point during the video i stopped and asked myself “Why? What is the purpose of all of this.” I honestly have no clue to why he does these things. But i have a feeling that its about pushing limits. whether physical or conceptual.
Blane experienced many obstacles when trying to break his record. All of these obstacles were idiotic things that he was made to do by various networks. He could have prospered easily if they had just let him do his own thing, but who wouldn’t bend over backwards for Oprah?
Conclusively, Blane does incredibly stupid things in order to find out if we as humans bear the potential to gain control over matters in which we feel we have no control. The Medium is the message. xoxo