The Invisible Man of China
This is actually one of his more visible appearances. In some images of him, at the resolution we use on this site, you’d never see him (you should definitely check them all out, though).
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| Galerie Paris-Beijing |
It’s no special effect, nor is it a new cloaking device inspired by Predator and the Red Dawn remake. It’s old-fashioned hard work and dedication: Liu Bolin stays very still for hours while his assistants paint him to match the background.
Given Chinese safety standards, I hope they use a better class of paint than has shown up on some children’s toys from there. Because I want this guy to keep doing stuff like this for a long time without being poisoned through his skin.
via Twisted Sifter
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist