tree part 3

For my final part, I used a blue gradient on a separate layer to give the sky more color. I reduced its opacity and since some of the tree was still too light, I used the burn tool again to make better shadows. 

tree part 2

I choose to use the burn tool, dodge tool and the clone stamp.

tree warping

I choose to liquify this image for my first round of manipulation. I used the Forward Warp, Pucker and Bloat tools. The problem I am running into is distorting the tree branches in such a way that it looks too stretched out.

Weird Tree

The rules of this game are thus: Manipulate this image in any way you like.

http://www.worth1000.com/contests/27013/weird-tree

Stelarc: Cyberman

"Inverse Motion Capture system" by Stelarc pushes the conventional thought of Avatars in a whole new direction. Instead of us controlling these computer processed beings, they are the masters of reality. One could imagine this art piece as an early drawing of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator. Just like the Terminator, these beings use electron magnetic signals but instead of being trapped in a cyber human body, the sky is the limit as these "Movatars" can access any physical being and learn from every interaction. The concept art shows a graphic of a silver-ish white being with a metal fixture covering its arms. On the top right corner, their are fiver words: mode, tempo, duration, posture sling and mulation valve; and a green smaller model of the avatar to the right of the main being. This artwork represents the forward thinking of ideas that may have seemed like science fiction a decade earlier but are becoming an increasing reality today. In one performance, Stelarc allowed people to control his body by connecting his muscles to wires with the internet and on an another occasion attached a 3rd arm to himself.  This performance artist, Stelarc, is a visionary by mixing computer design, robotics, prosthetics, the internet, voluntary and involuntary computer interfaces with his own body. His style of digital media is pushing the world in the right direction by mixing science, computers and medicine with art in order to arrive at a sensible idea of how we can further use computers to our advantage.

Link: http://stelarc.org/?catID=20225