The Unbelievable and Impossible Photos of Li Wei

Woah! That’s crazy. Great post! These pictures are impressive. (Photoshop)

These are impossible and I don’t believe

WOW Impossible Photos

Awesome photos! Some Pretty funny stuff in there.

李伟, BeiJing Rock!!! Hope that you will shoot more of the outstanding works. Amazing photos.

Awesome photos, I can belive what I’ve seen, great artist!

quite nice photoshop

wow, these are great! Thanks for sharing!

OMG… how is this possible…

These Pictures are really great some made me laugh. Its Unbelievable.

Brilliant, witty and very very cool

wow ! This guys is realy awesome ! Thank you for these great peaks.

It’s a great post, excellent work guys.
Thanks to share it!

I’m very impressed. He’s definitely pushing the boundaries of creativity. It’s really inspiring.

really impressive and unbelievable pics, great work.

Really cool stuff, never seen photography like this before…

Woo, how amazing is that, how is that done?

That is very impressive, I have never seen anything like it before – a first for me. Very inspiring

Wow.. Are they using those rail structures? or is it plain photoshop?

I can admire the talent of thinking it through and being able to execute these shots and photoshop the cables and such, but I confess that I don’t care for the finished product. A little too disturbing.

Woo, how amazing is that

Simply stunning! I guess this is because of great photo shooting tricks + PS skills.

Much creativity and amazing stunts!

I’ve seen his work before really good.

Haha, crazy asians! Soo cool!

Very witty…but a few of these gave me a woozy, vertigo-type feeling.

I guess that is proof of the effectiveness of some of these “high” shots.

Thanks for the post!

I just wanted to give you a shoutout. You are a remarkable blogger and a role model to me! Thanks so much!
Sincerely,
Ben Lang

Very creative. amazing set.

lol this is amazing … really nice.

Would like to know how he manage to fake some

beautiful!

how he do that

some is so funny, thx

For someone so creative, WTF is up with his fluffy steering wheel and seat covers ?!? (See red car).

Marc

Amazing work!
But the claim that these are not digitally edited compositions seems a bit too far fetched to believe! Great work nevertheless. I thoroughly enjoyed going through

Impressive photo collection. I love the fact that your playing with photography and imaginary ideas, really being creative!

Incredible photo!! Fantastic man!! So terrible!..Amazing!

Really great pictures!!!
Check out his Website for some Making Of Videos
http://www.liweiart.com/english/works_video.htm

Excellent photo’s. Some seem possible, some just seem crazy! Brilliant!

lol, super photos

Kamal – They ARE digitally edited compositions, it says it in the copy at the top of the story!

And to anyone who would like to see how Li Wei actually works his magic you can watch a behind the scenes video of a shoot he did for Wallpaper* magazine (some of the shots from this spread have been used in the story above):

http://www.wallpaper.com/video/fashion/made-in-china-fashion-shoot-behind-the-scenes-beijing/23810663001

Wow!!!! some really clever work here. Truly amazed at the quality.

Cheers

Amazing shots, but i do not see how this could be done without retouching.

Wow, amazing!!!

Some are witty, while others just don’t trigger emotion in me. Nevertheless, the talent is apparently oozing…

this is amazing, who would ever think of these stunts
i laughed the whole time

OMG you are awesome!

These are so unique! Superb ideas and execution! Thanks for sharing!

My favourites were the flying ones, out of cars, in and out of buildings, and with people piled on top. Also loved the bow and arrow one, very funny =D

And I’d just like to say a big thank you to WDD, I am always impressed by your posts. Keep them coming!

Amazing creativity!

I knew some of them already, but that`s really a great collection. Stunning and inspiring. Easy concept and great execution. Just awesome!

this is one amazing artist who redefined self portrait just wait and see how artist around the world push this style (and photoshop) farther and farther

good post thanks

Wow, these are very creative and amazing finished photos!

That was just awesome! Some of these pictures are just incredibly full of imagination!

Really like the idea. Entertaining. Funny. Seriously Mad

great & creative.

The girl with the pony is so adorable! I would love to see the behind the scenes of one of these photo shoots come to life!

Very creative. Nice. ~ ML

I love seeing what crazy inventions the mind of man can create. Who would even imagine some of those poses?

Fabulous photos.

Pure awesomeness.

Even though you explained how he does it, it is still unbelievable! Great!

He is presently featured in a Montreal Exibition: http://mouvementartpublic.wordpress.com/

they are so impressive and so funny.
love them.

I like it, it is Great

Love! So creative and funny pix

Amazing, how did he do that?

It was amazing and funny also.

Hi these images are amazing and i must say that you did a great job and your images are amazing!
Nice work mate and good going!

awesome..stunning..unbelievable

Thanks for sharing

Its unbelievable.

Simply great and creative work.

Regards,
James

WOOOA.. these are freaking awesome. I ‘m loving it

Amazing and impressive photos. He’s got a great imagination and some mad skills. Thanks for sharing these. Can’t wait to see more of these photos.

Awesome post! more than real

crazy stuff. thanks a lot!

ha ha ha ha ha ha wow good photos,it’s really mood changing. fuuuuuunnnnnyyyyy

cool stuff…. crazy imagination with brilliant talents…
hatz off…..

Hehe.. that’s a great stuff. Crazy ones… thanks a lot!!

There are no wires. He is actually Ultraman.

Boy ‘o’ boy.. that was just awesome!!! Stumbled it…

Nice one LOL .. good work of psd .

LOL! Awesome in photoshop

nice greart ideas here – tcx

Some are nice. Photoshop goes a long way.

Chinese man, CAN FLYYYY!

nice liwei

unbelieveable.. how could he did that? Is he used Photoshop?

ha ha ha!!
These are really amazing picture!!
i loved them!!

awesome, funny, creative..that’s all I can say..speechless

wow!!!

Soooo cool! It really is amazing what he has done here. I would be afraid to even attempt it with wires and scaffolding.

very creative … kewl stuff!!!

Whhh… its really Amazing photo i never seen that photo before today.
thanks

Dear Li Wei,
Please buy and wear longer shorts.

kthxbai

Thank…..!

wow….how did you do that…you should show us some tricks….
promps

Strange but innovative. Thank you for it!

thank alot

Reminds me of a Fark Photohop contest.

Nice ideas – nice done!
Please more of them

I watched the behind-scene photo making from wallpapers. It is also great to know that he did that for some philosophical reasons.

These photos are great, but since I am terribly afraid of heights, some of them were really hard for me to look at!

unbelievable!!!

Brilliant!

Awesome photoshop picture. really impressive and unbelievable pics..

Incredible！！

Nice ideas but its only Photoshop montage

AmaZiNg…!!

this is one amazing artist who redefined self portrait just wait and see how artist around the world push this style (and photoshop) farther and farther

good post thanks

Great information you have here on your site!

Not too many site out there that have the kind of information you
present here. Thanks for the content.

wow this guy is great with those photos. does he have a website?

Those are amazing!

Well, I think that sucks. Don’t know what all the fuss is about.

conversation starters for sure!

Great stuff…really enjoyed the read. Sometimes it’s hard coming
across interesting info as you have on your site. Keep up the great
work!

@Rahul – Wow man you’re presenting yourself as Web Guru, but ask such a dumb question?

(Indeed great work)

Amazing work!
But the claim that these are not digitally edited compositions seems a bit too far fetched to believe! Great work nevertheless. I thoroughly enjoyed going through

Lol, gotta love that Sparta kick at the beginning.

Oh! Amazing Photo.

I like the photo of the little girl with the balloons. Who didn’t want to do that when they were a kid!

These are great pictures and excellent use of photoshop to capture ideas that aren’t just airbrushing or filtering techniques.

Are you people blind or just too stupid to read? It says in the write-up before the pictures that he takes the pictures using wires and mirrors and then edits them in Photoshop. @Emlak, why are you saying, “But the claim that these are not digitally edited compositions seems a bit too far fetched to believe!”, no one claimed that. It says up top, edited with Photoshop. Stop being ignorant smart asses and read a few lines of text please.

wires and lines

Awesome art

Love some of these pictures, they look real, some however dont but fun and interesting ,thanks

This guy is truly amazing.

Very Qool, high flyin’ stuff.

not interesting

These are really impressive! I especially like the one with the girl in the red shirt throwing you off of the top of a building.

ok i say nice but not incredible lol ……lots of ppl who work on photoshop CS4 and adobe after effects CS4 can do this…..

Awesome photos, I can belive what I’ve seen, great artist!

Oh……It’s cool!

Great skill! I love these, very creative and entertaining.

Fantastic! I’d like to see him floating above a cloud of smoke streaming from an electronic cigarette!

The pics are fantastic. Thanks for sharing.

OMG!!What creativity! Have never seen the like!!!!

I agree with most of the commenters, the photos are marvelous. I’m inspired.

Crazy pictures. Just asking myself how he achieved the ‘hangs out of the window’ pictures. I assume he masked the ropes holding the guy with photoshop ?

Hi, that’s good, and i well exprim u somme technique of somme pictures, he take double pic of same place and action of combination of the both, of course conserve some level of lighting and color, on this point is very important, finaly cut the pic with background has one color like green or blue (3d).

One can do it in Photoshop, but not easy . . .

Waoh! These are really c-o-o-o-o-o-l stuffs. I wonder how much time, imagination and skills this guy put into those great looking pictures. Crazy yet got my eyes fixed on every bit of it. Will like to learn that from you. Please keep the good job up

Ren… Why hope for “more”? There is a huge amount in this compilation. It’s not about quantity, but quality.

Hi Cuba … read the introduction, before you start complaining. It is already stated: These are NOT montages – they are made with cables and mirrors, and these are then digitally removed in photoshop. But the images are not montages, they are shot as you see them.

Read the introduction. And stop spamming forums with your bullshit user names.

Dear Blankie. It’s not a montage, it’s a physical shoot, taken like it’s shown, but with a digital removal of cables and equipment. You – or anyone else here for that matter – could NOT make these images if they wanted to. It’s the creation of a true artist – not a photoshopper.

I suggest you read the introduction, that explains this, before you start stating that this could be done by anyone.

Great stuff…really enjoyed the read. Keep up the great work!

it might be dolls, lightweight dolls.

This is photography + photomanipulation.

it might be dolls, lightweight dolls.

Hmmmm Impossible. Great use of imagination power. These are great! Thanks for sharing!

Amazing artwork!

Incredible photos.. I love the fact that your playing with photography and imaginary ideas, really being creative!

LOL!

Amazing

baloon peaple…….. Nice fun theme and with a great vision accomplished.

I am a photographer. And still feeling strange for my job. How can anyone think of this imagination??

amazing stuff!

Unthinkable snap shots…

luhar..i guess you are really very normal.
i liked your comment about the web guy!!hehehe..:D

Congra,.. excelent work !

I totally disagree.

First, you are claiming that nobody else in the world has access to cables and scaffolding. That’s a pretty ridiculous statement.

And most of these could easily be done with Photoshop, so despite the method, the end result could be the same – if not better. If I Photoshop someone into a picture, and the end user cannot tell one from a really set up scene, how is one method better than the other?

Just the fact that so many people without reading (including myself) thought these WERE done in Photoshop speaks volumes. I don’t think it’s just designers. I think if you asked the average layperson, they would think they say “Photoshoped”.

I’m not sure the extra expense and much greater effort required makes it any greater an art form.

this is amazing !!!! wow !!!

It’s very funny

Sooooo funny pics but liked the post …. The Unbelievable and Impossible Photos of Li Wei thnks for sharing

This is IMPOSSIBLE…
That is very impressive, I have never seen anything like it before.
But IMPOSSIBLE…

its awesome hey lie can you provide training also so that we can also do such rocking things but what i think it will be a animation plus knowledge plus technology plus flexibilty effect

Somebody should hand Li a copy of Photoshop to save time and extra effort put into making these seeming impossible photographs that a good work keep going welldone

li is a contemporary artist from Beijing. His work often depicts him in apparently gravity-defying situations. Wei 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

Very nice collection,you’ll find Wei hanging on in dangerous situations, or crashing head on into sidewalks and cars.

That so many people thought they were photoshopped does speak volumes -

It speaks for our lack of ability to look beyond creating things like these photos BEYOND an application. The fact that these images took a lot of time to set up and shoot says a lot about the creator.. he could easily have photoshopped it, as you would, instead chose to deal with the more technical side of actually creating art.

What would you do if photoshop did not exist?

And what´s of interest here?

Amazing!

Incredible snaps,man……i was deeply astounded when i saw these..
keep up this good work…….

breathtaking. truly amazing.

I totally agree with the heading-UNBELIEVABLE AND INCREDIBLE PHOTOS OF LI WEI ..these are truly amazing and breath-taking!!!I swear….

impossible and unbelievable pics of li wei ……………..but so funny I liked it.

Soooo cool!!!! It really is amazing what he has done here. I would be afraid to even attempt it with wires and scaffolding:)

I would like to say that this blog really convinced me, his guys is realy awesome ! Thanks you for these great peaks.you give me best information! Thanks, very good post..

I’m very impressed. He’s definitely pushing the boundaries of creativity. It’s really inspiring.

It’s really breathtaking and one should not try this unless they have got an expert training and a proper precaution should be evenly taken..

Wow so creative… what a perfection