I really have no idea how Li Wei managed to capture these photos of himself. The closest thing that comes to my mind is Johan Lorbeer.Dangling horizontally out of a skyscraper, his hovering figure looks set to fall to his doom, but this artist ‘jumper’ hasn’t just lost it all on a game of chance – this is performance art with a difference. Li Wei has previously produced series of self-portraits involving faces reflected in mirrors, and photographs of himself crashing into walls and sidewalks. His current work is a mixture of performance art and photography that creates illusions of a sometimes dangerous reality. I would really love if we could brainstorm on this “installation“, and maybe come to a decent conclusion.
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really risky and nice .Chiness people always knows for extra ordinary and adventure
Probably a steel structure supporting them from the back.. a very strong and stiff structure indeed.
so crazy
:) I like the basketball one. Very creative.
It is really brave !!!!!!
brave!!!
Not really optical illusions, but photoshop.
Yeah I can’t understand how no one of you thought of photoshop before? I mean.. wtf?
excellent piece of work..seriously i like the art
and this art means what? what is its purpose? its just some more of that tired 21st century spectacle
awsome,incredible ,amazing,how they do it .
im going to go with wire fu style rigs. China has a lot of those that are used in film making and i am sure there are professionals with enough experience to pull this off. wire are then edited out of course
To all you idiots that just blurt out “Photoshop”
Look at the pictures more carefully and appreciate the complexity in doing so even if it were done using software.
I put my thumbs up for the creative Chinese.
I love the chinese Horatio on the third pic :-)
The tree one is obviously two barbie dolls…look at the hands of the girl int he tree…and the shiny plastic looking legs on the guy…these are so fake! ugh
Chinese are really a very amazing one I am very glad to seen this one it is really a very nice for this all photos are so nice.
you can actually find Li-Wei on youtube explaining how he did it. it’s a lot of careful planning, and yes, wires—not photoshopped.
Photoshop you morons! Yes, wires are Photoshoped!
Great photoshop. Really for a moment I considered it as real stunts but some pic made me clear that those were photoshop. But nice try.
here is video
as was
http://style.in.ua/dnepr/guide/1605/
i ink tht is so much bangin its of its head into baiiz u get me baiiz comon baiiz lets go get hammered with the baiiz
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Huh ez király, very cool
he forgot to photoshop his reflection in the water, shows him standing upright
These are not photoshops. He uses wires and other steel contraptions to get the effect he wants. Do a Google on Li Wei and read it for yourself.
The planning involved to get this right must be crazy! I’ve never seen Li Wei’s work until today so thanks for making me aware of his stuff. Even though he uses wires and other setups, I’m sure he must use Photoshop to clean things up…no?