September 7, 2011 Plasticizer
 

Another kind of optical illusion.

http://cellar.org/2011/disappearing act.jpg

Plasticizers make plastic more pliable.

This piece expresses the artist's speechlessness at the amount of plasticizer found in food.

After this picture was taken, the artist's assistants finished painting him to complete the illusion.

Artist Liu Bolin

Photograph from AP

via National Geographic

I want that collectible container.... the one that looks like a head.:)

Yes. We. CAN!

"I'd like to teach the world to cling..."

He looks Can-adian.

That's racist!

Me Chinee
Me play joke
Me put me me
In your coke.

(now THAT'S racist)

I don't want anything that comes outta his can.

no, that's FUNNY!

It's tough being a ninja these days.

This guy's art makes me think of that scene at the start of Be Kind Rewind. Maybe Liu Bolin sweded the idea from the movie?