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How To Become Invisible in China

March 3, 2009 by admin  
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Liu Bolin, a chinese artist, uses a method that requires a huge amount of effort and attention to detail.
This series is an exploration of human nature and animal instincts which features chinese citizens painted to blend into their surroundings. the subjects are covered head to toe in paint,camouflaging themselves in front of the chinese flag, a billboard, downtown beijing and more

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Spectacular Animal Camouflage Pictures

January 1, 2009 by admin  
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A walking stick insect balances on a blade of grass over a coneflower


A goby rests on a soft coral in the Rainbow Reef in Fiji.


A boreal owl nests in a balsam fir tree.


Portrait of a snowshoe hare.


This frog is camouflaged in a frog pond in Costa Rica.


A southern stingray is cloaked in sand, possibly for camouflage.


Three-horned chameleons can change color. When angry or frightened, they tend to turn black.


The underside of this owl butterfly’s wing blends in with woody textures and features a large eyespot to startle predators.


A small shrimp hides among the stinging tentacles of a sea anemone.


Paradoxophyla palmata, a narrow-headed frog native to Madagascar. The frog’s brown and yellow coloring,­ as well as its rough texture, allow it to blend in
with the mud and tree trunks in its environment


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How To Become Invisible

February 26, 2008 by admin  
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Miss Palmen, a 44-year-old Dutch artist, uses a method that requires a huge amount of effort and attention to detail.

camouflage Clothes

Invisible camouflage

Invisible art

Invisible Clothes

invisible spray

camouflage decorative

camouflage military

Invisible Clothes

Invisible Clothes


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How To Hide An Airplane Factory [ PIC ]

January 4, 2008 by admin  
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These photographs were taken during the early 1940`s by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as they were completing the massive camouflage effort at Lockheed Aircraft in Burbank, California. They covered it with camouflage netting and trompe`oeil to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air. During these years the American people and the military were quite concerned about attacks by the Japanese on the mainland.

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After

By todays standards this camouflage effort looks primitive, however, in 1941-1945 America and the Japanese did not have the sophisticated rockets and bombing capabilities we have today. Therefore, the object of this effort was to hide the plant and confuse any enemy pilots who were looking for a large military installment. It was hoped that the camouflage would trick the eye of the pilots (trompe`oeil) and their bombs might be made ineffective. Well, it must have worked because Lockeed Aircraft was never bombed!

Lockheed was a huge military aircraft manufacturing centre, as well as an active P-38 fighter base. At this facility they manufactured the famous Lockheed P-38 Lightening, the Lockheed Hudson bomber, Lodestar bomber and the P2V Lockheed Vega.

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