The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
and Steiner decided to take the then-18-year-old David to Saint-Tropez to impress house guests.
In short order, David was performing for Jack Nicholson, and the streets of Brooklyn had been
replaced by playgrounds for the rich and famous.
It was just the beginning.
By 2002 he was on top of the world. Literally. Looking for challenges beyond illusion, David
stood unharnessed at the top of an 83-foot-tall, 22-inch-wide column in New York's Bryant Park
until he hallucinated. It took 35 hours for the buildings behind him to become animal heads. He
then jumped off into nothing but cardboard boxes.
David's new label: endurance artist.
He had been buried alive in April 1999, spending a week underground in a plastic co n. He
ate and drank nothing but a few tablespoons of water each day.
He had been frozen alive in November 2000, encasing himself in a block of ice for nearly 64
hours