Check out this Chinese artist’s awesome disappearing trick [TED]

Holy heck, this awesome. Chinese artist Liu Bolin is well known for his “Hiding” series of images, in which he paints himself and others in such a way that they disappear into the background.

His latest endeavor though is probably one of the craziest. Bolin decided to go invisible on the stage at TED 2013, allowing him to demonstrate the technique on stage and provide a little insight into how he manages to go invisible so convincingly.

“For the talk, I stood up on stage with my outfit pre-painted,” he explains, “and then one of my assistants worked with the camera and stood back to instruct the other painter on what to do, where to paint, what colors to use, until from the camera I appear invisible.”

Liu Bolin timelapse at TED2013 from TED Blog on Vimeo.

Hat Tip: The Verge