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Artist Creates Freaky Facepaint Optical Illusions (Pics)

This guy kinda creeps me out. The artist describes himself as a "face paint illusionist" and he’s recently been featured in a 'Ripley’s Believe It or Not!' picture book. His particular form of artistic body painting is just for fun, though his o... ...full story at digg

from digg on Sat, Nov 07 2009

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