David Blaine announces 2012 magic event

David Blaine has announced plans for a new global magic event to take place in 2012.

The famed illusionist teased that fans could expect him to perform his latest 'trick' next May in a show which will also be broadcast on NBC.

Blaine also shared his desire to bring the magical concept to the masses with a tour around North America and Europe.

"This is as good as it gets," Blaine told TinyChat fans. "All magic, nothing else."

He added: "It's better than anything that's ever been done, by me at least... It's the most original concept I've ever come up with. It's taken me four years to sort out."

Blaine's previous stunts and special events have seen him frozen in a block of ice, drowned alive and suspended in a box above the Thames for 40 days.

His last event, 'The Dive Of Death', involved him hanging upside down above New York's Central Park for 60 hours in September 2008.

Blaine previously announced his intention to teach magic to his 5-month-old daughter with fiancée Alizee Guinochet.

Watch footage of David Blaine's 'Dive Of Death' stunt below: