Jorge Blass, featured on the Cover of Magic Magazine this year with a full 8 or so page spread. His show Nada X Aqui has been doing amazing in spain with amazing illusions never seen before with no camera tricks allegedly. Plus all of the charity work he has partake in.
Or Wayne Houchin, Released two effects that have received nothing but amazing response from the community. Control and Thread. Also worked extensively behind the scenes on other releases (basically anything theory11 puts out). Worked on the True Astonishments project. Does an amazing amount of charity work i here. Have you seen his christmas give away by the way....woah. And is always helping the community.
So really i dont know, im no genius but if i had a choice it would probably be Jorge Blass, or maybe maybe Wayne. But i do not think Blaine or Angel should have received it, or at least not this year.
You give a good point.
Wayne Houchin has done a lot this year.
But David Blaine and his consultants work all year to create new magic to show off around the world for people.
Yeah it might seem like one special to you, but it's a year or mores worth of work. Shooting, creating, learning, editing, practicing and I'm sure there's more verbs I'm missing. Then you have the planning out to do for the stunt. So I'd say yeah, they are constantly under the gun.
I don't see David's stunt as a failure as many others do. Did it go the way he wanted it to, no. But that doesn't mean it was a failure.
If David didn't say anything about that it wasn't suppose to go down how it did, then no one would know that anything went wrong. Maybe he wanted to plan it that way for all we knew.
Honestly when I saw how he just fell and hung like that, I thought that he hung himself or something. . . hence "Dive of Death."
So it sure as hell shocked the hell out of me. But then they zoomed in and I saw that he was ok and smiling and that's when I was relieved.
So, he did a good job at freaking me out.
Goal accomplished.
