@sorce photo shows bad material poorly styled, but with somewhat evenly-distributed pads. Look at the base, the aerial root, the bar branches, lack of taper, and awkward curve which comprises the apex. Bjorn had to do something very similar with his material, but the execution was obviously better, forcing some taper and movement.
The problem with both is how ERC ultimately grow will destroy the styling in a couple years. ERC grows very strongly in 2 areas: crotches of branches and tips of branches. So, you end up with coarse tufts of unmanageable growth as branches split, and at the tips. If someone could figure out how to balance those tendencies (without keeping the tree in perpetual juvenile foliage), they may be able to advance the case for ERC. Then, it becomes a matter of finding specimens that aren’t phone poles.
I worked with ERC for several years when I first started in the 1990s. Here is one example. The first photo is a before and after shot from wiring. Instead of filling out, a year later, the tree had a bunch of Pom-poms, as shown in the second photo. The third photo was as tightened up as I could get it in year 3, but the foliage was still really coarse, juvenile, and Pom-poms.
Shimpakus won’t do you that way because their runners become branches with tufts of growth all along them; each of which can be trained into a fine tertiary branch with a nice tuft of foliage.
Here is another example, a rare find with an interesting trunk. Unfortunately, it did not survive the initial styling I did a year later.