happy birthday to you.

Madison and I decided to go tanning after school yesterday. I had a bunch of free tanning stickers so we decided to try them out. Madison's worked alot better because my skin was a little bit darker before we tried ; however you can still see mine a little bit. After that I went home because I had to do two history reports due for today and I hadnt started either of them. It took me about four hours before i was done them both.

After I finally finished them I watch some of the Vancouver Canucks game; meanwhile deciding not to watch the rest of the playoffs because Vancouver was just letting me down. I got so frustrated I decided to go for a drive with Courtney becaues she had stories for me. In the end we just ended up parking somewhere and laying across the seats while sharing stories. How cute.

When I got home at eleven my dad was watching some show where these artists are given a back drop and a model and they have to paint their model to blend into the backdrop so you cannot tell that there is a model standing there. The person who did the worst job had to leave and the person with the best got a free painting from a famous artists; everyone else just advanced to the next round. It was pretty cool.

After that show ended dad went to bed and I stayed up by myself because I couldnt sleep. This show came on where people send in videos of really scary stuff and a team of people prove wehther the video was set up or if it was real life. Last night someone sent in a survalence video of a theatre and it showed a ghost sitting in one of the chairs. The people tried many different things to see if they could catch the same footage by making it up themselves. They came very close but it never looked identical. Eventually they got fed up and waited until the middle of the night and went back into the theatre with a heat gun. They found ghosts everywhere! It was scary. Another person sent in footage of a "UFO" however they proved that it was just three skydivers practicing at night time and the sky divers even said it was them.

Today is Alexa's birthday! Happy Birthday. I had to work this morning and it was pretty busy. I love when its busy because time flies! Tonight I am going tanning and Ill probably study for my exams. We will see what the day brings I guess.

Outside Article

Invisible Man Photographs - Man Painted to Blend into Background

Summary:
Message claims that attached photographs depict a man who paints himself in such a way that he appears to blend into the background to such an extent that he is almost invisible (Full commentary below).

Status:
True

Example:(Submitted, September 2009)

Subject: Invisible man

This guy paints himself, no kidding, no trick photography he just paints himself

Commentary:
According to this forwarded email, attached photographs show a man who skillfully paints himself so that he so closely resembles his surroundings that he appears to be virtually invisible. At first glance, these amazing images may appear to be the result of digital manipulation and indeed a number of self-proclaimed experts have already dismissed them as being "photoshopped".

However, the images are in fact genuine photographs depicting the work of clever Chinese artist Liu Bolin. The Beijing based artist has exhibited his work around the world with shows in China, Paris, the United States and elsewhere. News.com.au notes that Mr Bolin is a perfectionist who can take up to ten hours to ready himself for photographs of his performances. The UK's Telegraph also reports on Mr Bolin's art, noting:

In a series of mind-boggling pictures Liu melts into any background, almost entirely invisible in front of red phone boxes, Chinese flags and even earthquake rubble.

It means people walking by while he is carrying out his performance often have no idea he is nearby until he moves away. Liu said he wanted to show how city surroundings affected people living in them and how.

He said the inspiration behind his work was a sense of not fitting in to modern society and as a silent protest against the Government's persecution of artists.

Mr Bolin generally uses assistants who help to paint him in readiness for performances