Illusionist David Blaine soars above desert holding helium balloons l GMA

[@ajantha1484]

David is the type of guy to do something dangerous like this and casually go, *I want to do that again* ...

[@jameconradi8269]

More like Tony Ferguson 😉

[@noneofyourbeeswax01]

Not as dangerous at it might appear. Now had he emulated the guy that went up in a party balloon-powered deckchair with no oxygen, no parachute, no safety harness while pretending to be simply holding the balloon in his hand, no two-year training and two-way comms and huge ground crew, I'd be impressed. As it is, just looks like a rich guy indulging himself and having fun.

[@Infinite_exhilaration]

NoneOfYour Beeswax know what would be more impressive, if he just jumped off a 20 story building... the man isn’t trying to kill himself 🤦🏻‍♂️ do you think you could do better?

[@noneofyourbeeswax01]

@@Infinite_exhilaration I could certainly do as well, given the same resources. Your opening sentence is a non sequitur btw.

[@filthycasual8580]

@@noneofyourbeeswax01 Good thing nobody cares about your opinion lol

[@jpjordan90]

He isn't really an illusionist, he does everything for real!

[@magicjim1]

Not everything

[@atlas6533]

Jim Munsey What hasn’t he?

[@jayh9529]

jpjordan90 it's a big green screen

[@hashermcbudz]

@@atlas6533 there tons of evidence of all the stuff he faked. That one time he escaped threw a building before demolition, was all fake and prerecorded

[@Crazyoldman84]

Or does he?

[@jasonwong7140]

Elon Musk: I will build a rocket to reach the stars David Blaine: hold my balloons

[@Outtathedepths]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@essbee387]

Underrated comment!!

[@JayWheeels]

Lmao 😂 this is the best comment

[@DANGJOS]

I'm betting he purposely chose 52 balloons for the number of cards in a deck.

[@radicallybean]

Maybe that’s why some of them have more helium than others.

[@DANGJOS]

@@radicallybean Yeah exactly

[@BatMan-xr8gg]

Nope, to do with what they carried. The big ones carry 15 lbs and the little ones 2 lbs. So the 52 Balloons were required to lift him and all the Equipment.

[@ToneLone69]

@@BatMan-xr8gg crazy how that, plus there being 52 cards in a deck, equals David Blaine in the middle

[@BatMan-xr8gg]

@@ToneLone69 Well as a normal person, I would say coincidence. But you can think whatever you want as that is your right. Cheers

[@justinbender6281]

This isn't that impressive the guy from the movie UP did it with a house

[@noneofyourbeeswax01]

Even more impressive, some whacko without the PR machine of David Blaine tied balloons to his deckchair and went up for a ride. And he _did_ get down by shooting balloons with a rifle he'd brought along for that purpose! No oxygen, no safely harness, no years of training and no huge back-up crew. That's the real deal.

[@radicallybean]

Bruh 💀

[@radicallybean]

NoneOfYour Beeswax you did not have to add to this 💀

[@rushilori6114]

Fax

[@samt7162]

Brandon Diaz I stg😭 bra took da joke wayy too literal no one cares

[@DennisJohnsonDrummer]

I can't even climb above three steps on my 6 foot ladder without getting shaky! Our family watched this event and man what breath taker!

[@patriotprince9358]

This what it means when they say “living life to the fullest”

[@radicallybean]

Illusionist? Don’t call him that NOW. this is anything but illusion.

[@SwrveYT]

News: “he hits cruising altitude” Also news: “24,900 feet”

[@zygotepeyote]

I watched it live on KZbin and it was awesome! David was not holding the helium balloons he was tethered to them with a harness which he manually disconnected from and parachuted to ground.

[@bmichael1165]

The kid attached to the kite was more impressive.

[@mobamba5321]

@Rationality lies

[@yeetwchybaban]

Hmm

[@bigsmerdo]

@Rationality lmfao

[@noneofyourbeeswax01]

@Rationality I'm calling BS on that.

[@pattysaluti2268]

That WAs omg. LUCKY

[@jackhowald9078]

wow a stunt where he doesn’t have to go to the hospital at the end

[@radicallybean]

💀

[@ajantha1484]

This man took UP to a next *level*

[@theresadasilva7953]

No he was not. What happens to all those balloons where do they end up? In the sea to choke some poor sea mammals.

[@mykevin1122]

@@theresadasilva7953 There's no sea anywhere close to where he was. The only animals the ballons are affecting are...nobody.

[@theresadasilva7953]

Want bet

[@X-Warrior.1119]

that's a problem... he did not use a house...???!...

[@thedukeconiosantiago9180]

@@theresadasilva7953 yeah no stop acting like that

[@goaster187]

He was very securely tethered to those balloons. He would of never fell. Before he did this he was more worried about floating too high and passing out and floating even higher and freezing and dying. But he and his team did a lot of work on this.

[@purpleheadedmonster8735]

He is the baloon guy from now😂😂

[@ckaz007]

What a great stunt to honor Eric the Midget, who was originally going to "Fly with Balloons". Well done Blaine.

[@zaitraa]

technically he dedicated the event to his daughter, but i see what you’re going with.

[@tdmccreerymccreery2907]

Simply stunning!!!

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

Simply bullsh!t...

[@radicallybean]

Igor Schmidlapp how so? Did you watch the livestream? It’s pretty hard to not only fake him going up but also sky diving down.

[@neutronpixie6106]

25 years from now- "Daddy, why can't I get an MRI?" "Some asshole wasted all the helium."

[@degosiejani2774]

That ass hole was NASA

[@MATTBARNZ]

Everyone has to remember Lawn Chair Larry. He's the 1st to do this. RIP LCL 👍

[@potzysk2]

I wanted him to come down by shooting a couple of the balloons. Just enough to make him go down slowly.

[@michaelmato3706]

He has a child now! He can't just be doing crap like that anymore... People forget that he was using balloons! If they pop before he can get a good altitude then he is done for! Also, being inside a plane and looking out of the plane is one thing and then there hanging on some balloons with weather changing and oxygen deprivation! And he has a kid! C'mon that enough.

[@scottysatpanalysis]

Michael Mato are you mad at a magician?

[@AmbientWalking]

I love this image of a man floating up to the sky.

[@pippipster6767]

And I would love it even more if he just kept going up and up and up 🌒 🤣

[@radicallybean]

That’s the whole point :)

[@radicallybean]

Pip Pipster he’d eventually freeze and either pass out or something.

[@bakedmuffinman]

This guy literally said "this feat wasnt nearly as easy as just grabbing balloons and floating off into the sky"

[@zachya6490]

It wasn't lol. Did you watch the 3 hour film? I thought that too before I watched it.

[@radicallybean]

Because it really wasn’t LOL. If you saw the livestream you would’ve seen IN DETAIL just how much had to go into this to make it happen.

[@sicknificantfgc7633]

Lol I mean it is just as easy as grabbing a balloon and floating into the sky; it just turns out that is so easy after all

[@zachya6490]

@@sicknificantfgc7633 nope

[@sicknificantfgc7633]

@@zachya6490 yep

[@Sawlon]

Watched it live. So cool!

[@eopal-uk265]

FAKE ARM

[@adamfawaz8852]

I showed my two year old and she said look David Balloon 🤣🤣 cool new well earned name for him 👏🏽👍🏼😃

[@klipsfilmsmelbourne]

1:07 that was cut from the final film

[@angelabaker2649]

Happy to have David blain back in the saddle. So glad his new stunt came out safe and very cool. Great and fun for his daughter Desa.

[@TheCannabisConjuror]

He DID grab the balloons and go up without a parachute on. He put the parachute on in mid-air, after he ascended.

[@radicallybean]

Yep. He wanted to keep the illusion of a man holding balloons and just floating up into the sky for a bit.

[@ahgasans8547]

**airplane passes by** **sees him** **looks away** **looks back** WA-

[@vibe3063]

Feel like a old person watching the news lol.

[@david_ga8490]

Profile pic sauce?

[@gugunhermawan4279]

Best Magician i have ever seen

[@scubasteve7303]

Howard Stern wanted to fly Eric The Midget with balloons back in the day. “Fly me with balloons...!”

[@13lilSilencer]

that’s not very impressive he just attached himself to balloons... It would be more impressive if it was an endurance stunt where he was physically holding onto them until he got to the right height. But still David he’s amazing

[@Lola-kd9bn]

I mean, don't you think that the adrenaline could knock u out tho?

[@BurningUp99]

At a high altitude he has to worry about blacking out

[@willrussell01]

He should’ve taken that balloon flight to the edge of the moon and go fishing 🎣 😂

[@MarkUs00]

I'm trying to close the NEW THIS MORNING tag then realized it's not an ad, Am I that too irritated with pop-up ads?

[@DANGJOS]

1:16 No, he didn't go to the stratosphere.

[@dansv1]

Correct. The bottom of the stratosphere is around 10 km (6.2 miles or about 33,000 feet)

[@ALEXANDER0148]

He also didn’t hold on to the balloons really

[@coletanner5193]

So a man takes balloons real high(and makes it look like he's holding on for dear life until you see him use both hands)..then parachute glides down.. that is almost as amazing as the 1st hot air balloon ascent 237 years ago in 1783!

[@BurningUp99]

You obviously haven't been paying attention he never claimed it was the hardest thing ever done he had special reasons for wanting to do this and it's still way harder to do than you think

[@coloradobriggz]

Magician turned daredevil stunt man! Nice work david!

[@TestTheSpiritsIfTheyAreOfYAH]

Majick trickery sorcery is sin Abomination Repent

[@PRG013]

Holding on? He was attached by a cable. You can see him unlatch it before he parachuted back.

[@michaelwells4241]

Media gettig things wrong as usual

[@draeetutorCDO]

@ thats what u think lol

[@amandamate9117]

that was probably the only "illusion" in this "trick"

[@robbanks4356]

@@amandamate9117 and it really was not an illusion because you can see his brace/harness system as he was getting connected to the balloons.

[@ekids.bassment]

@@amandamate9117 If that's what you think, you probably felt for every single trick in the book. Dude has everything, even oxygen. Even when he holds his breath for x 17 minutes.. it's a trick.

[@dexterbernard2701]

Its taken from the all-time favorite childhood movie "The Red Balloon".

[@radicallybean]

Ok

[@Teag_Brohman15]

maybe David Blaine is spending his vacation at Paradise Falls

[@clarkslain3106]

Ok that landing was sick

[@pokechill3219]

Team rocket after every episode be like

[@w5monkey]

Allot of work went into that stunt, bravo!

[@fl0wbee]

Who got the chills just watching this?

[@geopioneergsxr5357]

He tried to make it look like he was just hanging on, but then had to unhook himself to fall.

[@lokivanni2500]

This man is the original DreamWorks mascot

[@jeffburnham6611]

The real illusion was he wasn't really there, he was just sitting back in the hangar sipping coffee lol.

[@kamikazekid94]

He’s aging well and I always enjoy his stunts good job David

[@adjuster57]

This would have been way more fun if someone on the ground was slowly shooting the balloons one at a time.

[@braveheartbeauty6791]

😂

[@gambinoitaintova7664]

BEST ILLUSIONIST OF ALL TIME HAND'S DOWN!!!! RESPECT TO DAVID BLAINE

[@eopal-uk265]

FAKE ARM

[@jerememe2471]

And now my hero literally flies, Fuck yeah DB

[@macmactorre1864]

Amazing

[@fathimanazana6591]

David Blaine: Flies with 50 helium balloons. MrBeast: Hold my beer

[@kyledineen1423]

Great work. Missed it I was working. Bet it was so cool!

[@carl8962]

...and thats how you get to South America!!!

[@EJAZenarosa]

Wow

[@pattysaluti2268]

AWESOME

[@petershelton]

Who came here after watching the JRE podcast

[@ChaarlieeDrake]

So you’re telling me he did a fancy skydive and everyone went crazy? I mean yeah I didn’t do it but he’s done better stuff

Yea it was meh nothing special like parachuters at least make nice formations and stuff he just went up and down he was attached why 2 years training lol

[@juniornisthal2216]

kami House because this was more so a test I believe. I know he wants to do it again but further and probably some other things as well.

[@nGUNNARp]

a freefall for a minute straight boggles my mind...also not to take away from this feat...but cmon you gotta do it again but for the descent just pop one balloon at a time until you start dropping

[@DM-kl4em]

That was actually done in the 1990s by a guy the press dubbed "Lawn Chair Larry". The trouble is that a parachute can be steered during descent, while balloons just go wherever the wind takes you. Lawn Chair Larry almost got electrocuted by power lines on the way down, and was so traumatized by the experience that he committed suicide a few years later.

[@moosestubbings1853]

When you see incoming f-22's

[@darwinfromjupiter5817]

Imagine he landed safely and suddenly theres a group of lions running towards him

[@gangapatlanagaraj8063]

That's how you can escape from jail premises

[@SIMDICK]

Nice illusion

[@jennyroderick5578]

Pretty cool

[@cooperbradford2815]

Just imagine the parachute didn’t work…

[@rafathchowdury1968]

Imagine he landed back to earth but cutting each ballon that would have been so sick

[@irantrindade79]

Grande acontecimento, poluindo a atmosfera

[@richardperry4379]

Godspeed!

[@dianavences3765]

When did it happen ?

[@mattiejackson4615]

An angel.😍😉

[@satviktandon5432]

Am I the only one who's here after Amit Mahajan Sir (PW) told us abt this guy in states of matter ?

[@kabultearoom1498]

ive had anxiety walking into Walmart and this MF flying over the desert with balloons and shit 😂

[@TheHandymanQld]

Yeah na ... I'm a sceptic ... that right arm of his looks weird in some of the shots, and he wasn't actually holding onto the balloons, he was harnessed to them ... right? ... remember, he's an "illusionist"

[@stevelayton1271]

What does performing a stunt have to do with magic? I mean, it's not like there's a "how the hell did he dop that?" to it. If he'd left the atmosphere without oxygen, now that would be impressive.

[@jeffreymason7049]

You must not know who David Blaine is, you should google him. He is inspired by Houdini, who was about concuring what we think the body can do. Can you hang out at 20,000 feet without oxygen? Or go 44 days without food under water? Or be buried for 6 days?

[@stevelayton1271]

@@jeffreymason7049 would you also describe Evel Knievel (google him if you don't know who he is) as a magician or an illusionist just because he did stunts? I'm saying ballooning is not magic. It's simple. There's nothing to argue about. He's not performing magic. It's also nothing to do with could I do it. What does that mean? I couldn't do it, so it's magic?

[@spider-man6947]

David Blaine is the man ❗❗❗ #Spidey 🕷🕸

[@TrancetasticWilza]

Where did the balloons end up? In the Ocean?!

[@michellec.4994]

This guy is awesome!!!!

[@zaiah9252]

Looks like Pixar’s up is somewhat a reality

[@chriss3842]

Amazing!!

[@coolguy9709]

Kinda scary imagine loosing you're grip and falling.

[@harveyseno2790]

He had a grapple hook attached on him

[@sailorman8668]

Did you actually think he was holding onto the strings with his hand and supporting his whole body weight just be gripping onto the strings?

[@zat3r]

It would be incredible if he pop out the balloon 1 by 1 to come down.

[@AyemGChua]

I don't see any spectacular in that performance! Better if he float without the balloons! It's very terrible one!

[@zat3r]

@@AyemGChua its true. Plus he wear a parachute.

[@mcdanjff]

How dose he pick your card by throwing a deck of cards at a window, and your card is on the other side?

[@three11creatures]

Next up on “The Golden Age of Ballooning”

[@MIKEYC]

No illusions here. This is real.

[@kcass72]

Years ago a guy flew up on balloons hook to a lawn chair, he shot balloons with shotgun to go down 👍🏻 Look it up

[@Orpheusftw]

I hate to seem negative, but this doesn't seem like anything an average skydiver couldn't do with the same preparation. 🤷‍♂️ Is it just the novelty of being taken up by balloons instead of a plane? I'm more impressed by the massive coverage this received.

[@JackEstacio]

Yrs, it is the novelty of flying with balloons. It’s his lifelong dream since childhood and he wanted something beautiful to show his daughter as opposed to his usual scary stunts. Yes average skydivers can do it, but the difference is, they didn’t. That’s why he’s the one getting credit.

[@amandamate9117]

what was the illusion?

[@trailguy]

So is the reason for having 52 balloons associated with a deck of cards?

[@catalinadiazsanchez3207]

Absolutely yes

[@trailguy]

@@catalinadiazsanchez3207 can you give more info? I’m curious!

[@brianlee84yearsago68]

Imagine he forgot the parachute...

[@chrishernandez8995]

The point is that he defines the physics of gravity

[@idkanymore6634]

??? Defines

[@Stinkflare]

So basically he did a high altitude skydive? But instead of a plane he used a bunch of balloons? Ok. Cool..

[@judwin21]

Increible...

[@mentlinc]

Add a jet pack to that thing and a human can reach space by themselves

[@hendlezberg7623]

Hes not an illusionist though, he doesnt deceive he actually does the stuff.

[@gabrielsistonamoca6963]

what happen to the balloons, it would probably land in the sea and get eaten by turtles and whales.

[@SSkySkraper]

Come on don’t tell me they just polluted the earth with those GIANT BALLOONS

[@justintime753]

I mean there was no crazy magic involved. Dude was tied to balloons floated up at disconnected and pulled the parachute. How did we come from magic tricks to this?

[@BurningUp99]

He never said it was magic he did it as a form of art for his daughter and more of a stunt or illusion. you obviously haven't been paying attention he discussed all that on the Joe Rogan show and in the actually documentary. This is just a clip not the real show.

[@cairoumezurike2863]

A turtle gon choke on one of those balloons🎈🐢

[@archismansaha7660]

He was strapped to the balloons. NOT holding it!