What's David Blaine up to? Oh, just hanging around. The magician-daredevil proclaimed, "I'm doin' all right," after starting his latest endurance challenge Monday - 60 hours hanging upside-down, without a net, above Wollman Rink in Manhattan's Central Park.
Magician David Blaine hangs upside down above Central Park's Wollman Rink in New York as he begins his latest endurance challenge 'David Blaine: Dive of Death' Monday morning Sept. 22, 2008. Blaine plans to hang upside without a net for 60 hours concluding his challenge with a plunge.Blaine - sounding nasal from sinus pressure - kept smiling while describing the "enormous push of blood" that made it feel like his head was "about to explode."
As a child, he was intrigued when Harry Houdini dangled from a crane by his ankles while escaping a straitjacket.
Said Blaine: "The legs go pin and needle very fast." Stretches - kind of an upside-down sit-up - seem to help.
Blaine, 35, is scheduled to exit from his perch at the climax of a live, two-hour ABC special, "David Blaine: Dive of Death," on Wednesday.
Both hanging upside down above Central Park's Wollman Rink in New York, Kelly Ripa, right, interviews magician David Blaine for 'Live with Regis and Kelly' as Blaine begins his latest endurance challenge 'David Blaine: Dive of Death' Monday morning Sept. 22, 2008. Blaine plans to hang upside without a net for 60 hours concluding his challenge with a plunge.
Magician David Blaine performs a stunt in Central Park in New York, September 22, 2008.
Magician David Blaine has his harness attached before performing a stunt in Central Park in New York September 22, 2008. Blaine plans to hang upside down without a safety net for 60 hours.
Members of the media watch as magician David Blaine performs a stunt in Central Park in New York September 22, 2008.
Magician David Blaine gives the 'OK' sign after submerging himself into an eight foot sphere of water at Lincoln Center in New York, May 1, 2006.
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