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Is this art?

Posted: 02 May 2007, 21:43
by Thunder Beer
So I have this friend, lets just call him A-Man. He is bald.

This is what he looks like:

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He recently had his birthday, so I came up with this great idea that me and my friends should buy him hair-transplants. I did some photoshop work to find the perfect look. We desided that he should choose which one he liked best, and then get it for him.

Here are some of the alternatives that we ended up with:

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(he looks a bit like that Mika guy)

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Many good looks, no doubt about it. However, this was the one he liked best:

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"Fine... Youll look like that before the end of the week" we said. He was really thrilled about the whole idea, and so were we. He wanted to be handsome on his 24th birthday. We all did...
It turned out that hair-transplants are really really expensive, so we bought him this similar, nice, cheap wig instead.



Here he is, waiting for his suprise:

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Look how happy he is with his new beautiful hair:

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His mind goes back to those horrible days without hair. "Never again" he thought:

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Some small adjustments...
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aaaand.... PERFECT! (That other guy is this retard i know, named Jose. More about him later).

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A-Man is ready for town:

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He hung out in the bar most of the time, looking for chicks:

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The wig looked really good in profile:

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As always, the crew split up... A-Man was left alone at the nightclub. As people around him got drunker, many tried to pull his wig off. (How they knew that it was a wig, beats me). Anyway, he later told us that he felt really stupid, and got tired of everyone making fun of him. So he ended up telling people to leave him alone, because he had cancer (he doesnt)... I imagine this to be similar to the scene from The Elephant Man where he yells out "Iam not an animal....".

On his way home... alone, this junkie told A-Man that he had beautiful hair. A-Man pulled it off, and told him the truth.. "its only a wig, but thanks".



Meanwhile, both me and Jose got layed.




Bonus:

This is the first manipulation, and its done by Jose:

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He was satisfied, and thought it was good...




This thread belongs in this section, right?

Posted: 02 May 2007, 21:48
by Rick Cave
You're great, Toby!
I think he looks best in the Elvis look but maybe that's just me.

Posted: 02 May 2007, 23:12
by Mary Hinge
Never, never leave us Toby

;-)

Posted: 03 May 2007, 05:17
by Thunder Beer
Rick Cave";p="872046 wrote:You're great, Toby!
I think he looks best in the Elvis look but maybe that's just me.
Thanks. Elvis looks nice, but personally I like the one where he is bald with the Tom Selleck moustache.
The funniest one however, is the one made by Jose...
Mary Hinge";p="872083 wrote:Never, never leave us Toby

;-)
Thanks.
At least Iam not leaving before I have payed out (or collected?) the death pool money...

Posted: 03 May 2007, 10:53
by Redundant Retard
The third one. No doubt about it.

Posted: 03 May 2007, 14:23
by Thunder Beer
He looks like the pianist from "beat for beat" in that one.

Why isnt this thread a huge success? I took forever to make...

Posted: 03 May 2007, 14:24
by Redundant Retard
It is a huge success. True genious is only recognized by a few.

If a lot of people were responding here it would be a sure sign of main stream mediocracy.

Posted: 03 May 2007, 16:28
by Thunder Beer
Word!

Thanks Rick, Rick and chick!

Posted: 08 May 2007, 16:11
by hlk
Yep. Definitely Elvis.

Posted: 08 May 2007, 17:19
by Thunder Beer
Good thing we bought a similar wig then...

Posted: 13 May 2007, 00:45
by Cottage Wonder
great photoshop work!

Posted: 13 May 2007, 17:05
by Thunder Beer
What? You think so?

Thanks :grin:

I was just fooling around, and then a friend of mine showed me some techniques...

Posted: 13 May 2007, 18:37
by Cottage Wonder
what did your friend show you? definitely doesn't look like an amature job ;) photoshop ruuuules

Posted: 14 May 2007, 00:36
by Thunder Beer
Yeah, photoshop is fun.

The original picture was black and white (the first one in this thread).
My friend showed me how add colors (like in the Time magazine cover).

I wasnt too crazy about the manipulations. The face is a bit out of focus compared to the hair, but like I said, Im no pro...

Thank you Cottage!

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