<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/91f13021-61ee-4d4d-86df-1455449f6e3b/08B439E1-86CB-4BAE-A201-55AAB7AD7D24/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://weburbanist.com/2009/02/09/the-uninvisible-art-of-amazing-urban-camouflage/" href="http://weburbanist.com/2009/02/09/the-uninvisible-art-of-amazing-urban-camouflage/" style="font-size: 11px;">weburbanist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/02/09/the-uninvisible-art-of-amazing-urban-camouflage/"><P class="postmetadata"> Written by Steph on February 9th, 2009 - Topics: <A rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Urban" href="http://weburbanist.com/category/urban/">Urban</A>, <A rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Urban Art" href="http://weburbanist.com/category/urban-art/">Urban Art</A> </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/02/09/the-uninvisible-art-of-amazing-urban-camouflage/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/16103BA8-4122-4B3D-8804-C02CD373F2E6" alt="urban-camo-main" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/02/09/the-uninvisible-art-of-amazing-urban-camouflage/"><P>Camouflage isn’t just for hunters and the army anymore – it’s being used to make artistic statements, beautify urban environments, make ugly cars look nicer and for shock value. These examples of unusual use of camouflage show how versatile the concept is, from making homes blend into forest environments to creating eerie optical illusion effects in photography. <SPAN id="more-8277"></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/02/09/the-uninvisible-art-of-amazing-urban-camouflage/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/3B3F0A6B-4787-4B8B-AEE9-43715A9DE976" alt="emma-hack-wallpaper-body-painting" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/02/09/the-uninvisible-art-of-amazing-urban-camouflage/"><H4>Trompe L’Oeil Body Painting</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/02/09/the-uninvisible-art-of-amazing-urban-camouflage/"><H4>Nearly-Invisible Utility Boxes</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/02/09/the-uninvisible-art-of-amazing-urban-camouflage/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/F1BEABF0-DF6C-4954-90F9-EBC42CC24883" alt="camo-utility-boxes" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/02/09/the-uninvisible-art-of-amazing-urban-camouflage/"><P>Utility boxes become far less of an eyesore when they’re painted to resemble their surroundings as artfully as these ones seen in Los Angeles. Artist Joshua Callahan employed trompe l’oeil painting techniques to help them practically disappear into the background. It’s quite a fun and beautiful use of art to minimize the ugliness of these big, gray boxes.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/02/09/the-uninvisible-art-of-amazing-urban-camouflage/"><H4>Camouflaged House</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/02/09/the-uninvisible-art-of-amazing-urban-camouflage/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/098EE4EC-E1AE-4F95-BAB4-1FE0A38B3CEF" alt="camouflage-house" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/08B439E1-86CB-4BAE-A201-55AAB7AD7D24/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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