By Vurdlak on October 29, 2008, with 204 Comments
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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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
Photoshop… but really well done!
in the one that shows him being kicked off a roof you can see the thin cable running from his waist through the kickers fist and continues on from there.
Very good tricks.
nice use of wires :D
I like very much its very good
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?
some looks real
nice, awesome looking stuff, and yeah Li Wei uses wire suspenders to make the effects.
Nah, its not Photoshop, but wires are probable.
Just look at the second photo, they obviously know how to use angles and lenses to create optical illusions.
If you didn’t already know, a high grade steel cable thinner than a pencil is enough to hold up an SUV. Imagine how thin it would be if you only needed to hold person. Plus Li Wei seem pretty good at ‘static’ poses.
woow…bagus, kretif sekali..
its really somethig strange
wow
umm hihihi?
I made this site in Photoshop. I wrote your answer in Photoshop. I Photoshopped your mom. And your dad. I photoshopped you.
None of you exist, I photoshopped every one of you.
I know, because photoshop creations have no imagination, and haven’t the mental cognizance to understand that there are things out there that are not photoshopped.
It’s great, you go up to one of the photoshop creations with an apple and eat it, slurping and crunching, and they scream “PHOTOSHOPPED THOSE NOISES ARE PHOTOSHOPPED!”
Facebook? I made it. In Photoshop.
outstanding
It’s called photoshop people…Its really cool though. They are very well done.
Lol.. so funny and interesting. I wonder where do these guys get such wonderful ideas.
compare in the 3rd pic his reflection with relative position of building reflected as well…that photoshop….geometrically the pic is off
In the picture with the guy kicking the other guy off the roof, you can see that the guy in the check shirt’s right arm and hand are being flexed hard. The guy is holding something tightly in his right hand, looks like a wire.
It’s at times like this where I appreciate my culture’s vast knowledge in special effects. XD
well done.
i love the first one, it really does look like he is flying away.
If you look closely you can see wood in the first one.
Excellent
wow..fantastic
photoshop or wire they are amazing, very creative
AW look.. photoshop look at the picture in the building… at the pants the guy who is kicking is holding a wire.. look
Look very closly at the man gettin kicked off the building, look at his fist and u will see a string attached to the other man, very clever
Amazing pictures !
haha i agree with donnie
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It’s just Photoshop. If you look at the guy with the white shirt and blue shorts, he is in almost all of the photos. Many of them are the exact same picture of him, but just rotated or half-buried, or whatever. Duh.
Nerd…
i like it
really it is very amazing i couldn’t imagine those people doing that stunts in reality.jejejej
nyce……….
These are all photoshoped picture, and a combination of acrobatic stunt with body harness of steel cable and dangling wires.
very nice pictures……looks like these are edited by ps,but was interesting and enjoyed them……..!!!!
while there all clearly editted photos thats not the point. the photos are all a genius description of photographies degeneration into art. given the benefits of moder tech any photo can incoroprate such feats with time and effort and there would be no one who could possibly dispute it.
moreover the photos generate an implicit desire from freedom; something we can all appreciate be it in china or the united states…
i like pictures it’s very amazing
Pictures are amazing, but pictures are made with computer help.
Way to completely miss the real point of these pictures, guy-who-over-analyzes and people-who-talk-about-photoshop… which is to just make you go “holy sh*t, that looks cool!”
freedom from life, freedom from country , freedom from stress, freedom from social roles, freedom from gender restraints, freedom from labels
Couldn’t agree more, that is the original starting point of this photographer, I think
5th pic: THIS… IS… SPARTAAA!!!