Blaine has kept the centuries-old art form of street magic alive.
Blaine casually approaches people on the road and does tricks ranging from guessing the cards in their hands to making cents vanish into thin air.
The response varies from amazement to shock to hysteria.
Speaking to USA Today, Blaine said: "Nobody believes it when someone makes the Statue of Liberty disappear. But people can believe when a trick occurs with a $2 pack of cards in front of their own eyes."
In 2002, Blaine wrote a book titled Mysterious Stranger: A Book of unique Magic that provides instructions on how to perform card tricks and illusions.
Image: Blaine performs a card trick for Israeli Arab children in the Arab village of Majdal Kroom during a solidarity visit to northern Israel.
Photograph: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images
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