12/6/09
An Actual Invisible Man- Chinese Artist Liu Bolin
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In a world of Photoshop and special effects,
...Look Really Closely, there's a man standing in each of these photos...artistic craft wrought by hand is getting harder to come by. But Liu Bolin doesn’t need any fancy technology to produce the jaw-dropping illusion of invisibility – his urban camouflage photography is all paint and pure talent.
The Beijing-based artist spends hours studying his chosen locations and painting himself and other subjects, while carefully taking perspective and texture into account for spectacular results that render them almost invisible.
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Look, I realize that this post lands somewhere between a post of Sasha Grey in a school girl outfit and a guido dancing like a crazy man in Cancun, but hey, China is the largest untapped Internet market in the world, so get used to it. Up next, Chinese balloon artist Wang Lei and his very, very tasteful and artistic balloon poodles.
The Nudge Staff
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