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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Wow! Amazing!
Great lol!
way coool and far out amazing keep it up
i want to know how do they do that?o_0
3rd here =] – and these are cool! wonder how they did em
Perhaps photoshop?
Maybe there are hidden nets somewhere, and/or hidden cords.
The artist stands that are no computer effcets applied, the photos are made using mirrors, wires, things like these…
I have one thing to say that I think summarizes everyone’s first reaction: HO-LY CRAP.
I read his interview during an art exhibition where his work is at display and he said that he uses mostly metal wires that are digitally removed afterwards. I guess he uses this method in most of his work.
OMG GUYS.
COME ON UR NOT THAT THICK ARE YOU.
PHOTOSHOPPED?? i hope your referring to the fact that cables were removed from the pics.. right..
have your guys even heard of a blue screen..
the big hand is a model, not photoshopped. the guy was actually there when these pictures were taken.. he was suspended by cables..
thats what u call art.. not some superimposed photoshop picture..
WOW these are real freaky, but did someone really get kicked off of the roof of a building?????????????
Photoshop would seem a reasonable explication, but as some people may have said before, THESE PICTURES ARE NOT PHOTOSHOPPED. And that’s the cool thing about this Chinese artist: he manages to create seemingly impossible set-ups, using only (invisible) wires and stuff. But still, even if they WERE Photoshopped, the images would still be very cool.
Well, the artist claims the photos are not edited or photoshopped in any way, that they are obtained by using mirrors, wires, hidden platforms and acrobatics. Lighting and edges seem nice in the pictures, also. The only one bugging me is of course the arm one, which really seems fake. If it is real, maybe it could simply be a metal bar inside a hard plastic cover in the shape of a giant arm. Fantastic work.
Nice work… good shots of Hong Kong.
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It’s definitely just a green screen like they use in movies. You stand on chairs or hang from the cieling or whatever and put your surroundings in later
THIRD!!! Yas finally i got third.
Wow! It could be three things:
1. He has some awesome Photoshop skills.
2. He’s a good illutionist.
3. He’s a very, very brave person!
Those pics are cool!
I’m just curios why people who are like the 60th person to post put: “Hooray! I’m the 3rd person to post on here!!” Whats the point of even posting if your going to do that.
Anywho, I really like these, they’re really cool. I agree that these are probably done using a blue screen in the back ground. My fav is the one where he looks like he’s stuck in the ground :D. The shorts need to be longer though…
IN the picture with the young man booting the other over the side of the building the kid with glasses is smiling/laughing.
MORBID
But… ho..oo…w.w..w…..XP
nothing special with those pictures.
all of stupid comments !
These photos are of Li Wei, a Chinese photographic artist. He uses rope to hang himself and others in the positions seen (then I’m assuming photoshops them out).
You can check out a description from a recent exhibit at the UBC Art Gallery here http://www.belkin.ubc.ca/past/action-camera or his website here http://www.liweiart.com/
Pretty neat!
What’s so amazing about it? Anyone with a photo shop program can do it on computer. It’s nothing special and it’s definitely not art.
The 5th should be called :
“This is SPARTA!”
its not possible for this guy to actually no tphotoshop the image ….
coz like for eg. the pic where the man kicking him off the building ….
i mean come on ..! how can he be doing that
oh gosh especially the one where he looks like hes flying …
-pahlease-
its obviouslt photoshopped
It’s all forced perspective and camera angles. This person, as you can see, has mastered the art.
ha ha ha!
they may be on cables, but some of them look photoshopped
awesome
great effort
ok! haha
cool bat hi makes does pictures fake
im so happy you dont have to sing in to comment
fale but cool
hahaha 1.fake 2.cool 3.funny
sorry aim luka and aim a srbian i dont write so gud and aim marko
cool
You westerners don’t understand the Chinese way. We line up people on the death row and kick them off the roof one by one untill we get a decent picture.
i like the kicking off the roof one
it’s easy they’re jumping or the owner of this pictures took this pictures to the photo shop i think !!!!!!!!!!!!! but i dont get it
please tell us please
please
I have never seen any thing like this,
but ART.. I dont think så,, Its like Chinees
Muvie Stund.
Ooooh, performance art! Neat!
second to last was photoshopped