Pretty much anyone with Photoshop and too much time on their hands can doctor a photo any way they please these days, which makes it hard to believe a lot of what you see on the internet. (No, that wasn’t actually a banana driving that car…). At the same time it makes it that much more impressive when someone can pull off a real illusion without any camera trickery.

Liu Bolin, aka “the invisible man”, undergoes hours of paint and makeup to blend seamlessly with his surroundings, something he showcased at his latest project called “Plasticizer”.