Clipmarks | sitegeist's Weird Stuff collectionhttp://clipmarks.com/clipper/sitegeist/clipcast/Weird+Stuff/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/sitegeist/clipcast/Weird+Stuff/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-usCrazy Art -Picshttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/B47773D8-8CED-4054-8914-527518EF7078/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/sitegeist/">sitegeist</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> Seems rather impossible without photoshop but <br/>he is Chinese, so they some weird acrobatics sometimes. <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.hemmy.net/2008/04/19/the-impossible-art-of-li-wei/" title="http://www.hemmy.net/2008/04/19/the-impossible-art-of-li-wei/">www.hemmy.net</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV class="post"> <H2 id="post-1745" class="posttitle"><A title="Permanent link to The Impossible Art Of Li Wei" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.hemmy.net/2008/04/19/the-impossible-art-of-li-wei/">The Impossible Art Of Li Wei</A></H2> <P class="postmeta"> · Filed under <A rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Arts" href="http://www.hemmy.net/category/arts/">Arts</A>, <A rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Photography" href="http://www.hemmy.net/category/photography/">Photography</A> </P> <DIV class="postentry"> <P></P><CENTER><IMG alt="Li Wei Art 01" src="http://www.hemmy.net/images/photography/liweiart01.jpg" class="imagebd" /></CENTER> <P>Chinese artist Li Wei from Beijing started off his performance series ‘Mirroring’ and later on took off attention with his ‘Falls’ series which shows the artist with his head and chest embedded into the ground. His work is a mixture of performance art and photography that creates illusions of a sometimes dangerous reality. Li Wei states that these images are not <A href="#" class="kLink" id="KonaLink0"><FONT color="#ff0000"><SPAN class="kLink">computer</SPAN></FONT></A> montages and works with the help of props such as mirror, metal wires, <A href="#" class="kLink" id="KonaLink1"><FONT color="#ff0000"><SPAN class="kLink">scaffolding</SPAN></FONT></A> and acrobatics.</P> <P>Check out 14 more pics of Li Wei’s artwork over the various years after the jump.</P> <P><STRONG>Source:</STRONG> <A href="http://www.liweiart.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Li Wei Art</A> </P> <P><SPAN id="more-1745"></SPAN><BR /> </P><CENTER><IMG alt="Li Wei Art 02" src="http://www.hemmy.net/images/photography/liweiart02.jpg" class="imagebd" /></CENTER><BR /> <CENTER><IMG alt="Li Wei Art 03" src="http://www.hemmy.net/images/photography/liweiart03.jpg" class="imagebd" /></CENTER><BR /> <CENTER><IMG alt="Li Wei Art 04" src="http://www.hemmy.net/images/photography/liweiart04.jpg" class="imagebd" /></CENTER><BR /> <CENTER><IMG alt="Li Wei Art 05" src="http://www.hemmy.net/images/photography/liweiart05.jpg" class="imagebd" /></CENTER><BR /> <CENTER><IMG alt="Li Wei Art 06" src="http://www.hemmy.net/images/photography/liweiart06.jpg" class="imagebd" /></CENTER><BR /> <CENTER><IMG alt="Li Wei Art 07" src="http://www.hemmy.net/images/photography/liweiart07.jpg" class="imagebd" /></CENTER><BR /> <CENTER><IMG alt="Li Wei Art 08" src="http://www.hemmy.net/images/photography/liweiart08.jpg" class="imagebd" /></CENTER><BR /> <CENTER><IMG alt="Li Wei Art 09" src="http://www.hemmy.net/images/photography/liweiart09.jpg" class="imagebd" /></CENTER><BR /> <CENTER><IMG alt="Li Wei Art 10" src="http://www.hemmy.net/images/photography/liweiart10.jpg" class="imagebd" /></CENTER><BR /> <CENTER><IMG alt="Li Wei Art 11" src="http://www.hemmy.net/images/photography/liweiart11.jpg" class="imagebd" /></CENTER><BR /> <CENTER><IMG alt="Li Wei Art 12" src="http://www.hemmy.net/images/photography/liweiart12.jpg" class="imagebd" /></CENTER><BR /> <CENTER><IMG alt="Li Wei Art 13" src="http://www.hemmy.net/images/photography/liweiart13.jpg" class="imagebd" /></CENTER><BR /> <CENTER><IMG alt="Li Wei Art 14" src="http://www.hemmy.net/images/photography/liweiart14.jpg" class="imagebd" /></CENTER><BR /> <CENTER><IMG alt="Li Wei Art 15" src="http://www.hemmy.net/images/photography/liweiart15.jpg" class="imagebd" /></CENTER> <BR /> <TABLE> <TBODY><TR> <TD> </TD> </TR> </TBODY></TABLE> <BR /><BR /> <P><B>Related Posts</B></P><DIV> <LI><A title="Permanent Link: 720 Dunk By Taurian Fontenette" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.hemmy.net/2006/07/09/720-dunk-by-taurian-fontenette/">720 Dunk By Taurian Fontenette</A></LI><LI><A title="Permanent Link: Quick Change Artists on America’s Got Talent" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.hemmy.net/2006/07/21/quick-change-artists-on-americas-got-talent/">Quick Change Artists on America’s Got Talent</A></LI><LI><A title="Permanent Link: Japanese Human Tetris on TV Show" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.hemmy.net/2007/06/13/japanese-human-tetris-on-tv-show/">Japanese Human Tetris on TV Show</A></LI><LI><A title="Permanent Link: Amazing Facts" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.hemmy.net/2006/01/18/amazing-facts/">Amazing Facts</A></LI><LI><A title="Permanent Link: Snail Power" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.hemmy.net/2006/06/17/snail-power/">Snail Power</A></LI><LI><A title="Permanent Link: Zipper Imagination" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.hemmy.net/2007/07/06/zipper-imagination/">Zipper Imagination</A></LI><LI><A title="Permanent Link: Johan Lorbeer Still Life Performance" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.hemmy.net/2008/04/18/johan-lorbeer-still-life-performance/">Johan Lorbeer Still Life Performance</A></LI><LI><A title="Permanent Link: More Interesting Facts" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.hemmy.net/2006/05/07/more-interesting-facts/">More Interesting Facts</A></LI><LI><A title="Permanent Link: Hundreds Of Amazing Facts - 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Sergei Esenin [1895-1925] Russian Poet</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Cut wrists, wrote a final poem in own blood (called "Do svidania drug moi" or "Goodbye my friend") and hanged self in a hotel room in Leningrad.<BR /> "Don't waken the dream that is dying/Don't stir the aim that has failed./Life brought me too early to trial;/The loss, the defeat—what availed?"</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV class="banner">#02 - John Berryman [1914-1972] American Poet</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Jumped from a bridge over the Mississippi River; reputedly waved at passersby on way down. <BR />"We must travel in the direction of our fear."</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV class="banner">#01 - Yukio Mishima [1925-1970] Japanese Author</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Committed seppuku (hara-kiri) and was beheaded during failed attempt to overtake a Japanese garrison. <BR />"If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death? No death may be called futile."</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/literature/" rel="tag">literature</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/poets/" rel="tag">poets</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/death/" rel="tag">death</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/bizarre/" rel="tag">bizarre</a></div>http://www.alternativereel.com/includes/top-ten/display_review.php?id=00050Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:37:46 GMT