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#40 Pat Tillman honored with this statue in Arizona.

http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/818/r2186458296oz4.jpg

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/6743/l2218011sy2.jpg

Please post pictures of worse looking statues. It will make me feel better.

I will start with this one.

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/7076/nbfs2xr2.gif

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:34 (eighteen years ago)

This 9/11 monmument was offered to Jersey City. Jersey City refused it, so it went to Bayonne instead:

http://www.bayonnelra.com/memorial.jpg

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:37 (eighteen years ago)

ha its a vergina

― latebloomer: not to be confused with the dolphin from Seaquest DSV (latebloomer), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:38 (eighteen years ago)

Ugh. Looks like it was designed by those Pink Floyd album cover people.

This one is an old family favorite of mine, but still, a little creepy.

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/7585/thevulcanstatuepr7.jpg

I also drove to Alabama one summer specifically to see it, AND IT WAS GONE.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:38 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.robmacdougall.org/images/96christofozarks.jpg

Christ of the Ozarks. Crazy out of proportion. Built by an anti-Semite. Everytime someone talks about it, they have to point out how you could hang an Volkswagon from each arm, and the arms wouldn't break off.

It's always a Volkswagon they mention, too.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:40 (eighteen years ago)

morticia addams + close encounters alien (long skinny truffaut bro one) + that dude who didn't kill jonbenet

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:43 (eighteen years ago)

I think I've posted it before, but another Jersey City oddity is the Polish WWII memorial:

http://www.jerseypride.com/images/images_of_nj/monuments_and_structures/ww2_memorial.jpg

I don't think it can compete with the Tillman statue for ugliness, but it's weird and creepy (yes, that's a polish soldier with his hands tied behind his back and a bayonet going all the way through his torso)

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:46 (eighteen years ago)

Now I do have to say that I love me some Eureka Springs:

http://www.flyeureka.com/skyradio/images/christofoz.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:47 (eighteen years ago)

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3913/2454/400/quien%20a%20buen%20arbol%20se%20arrima%2015.jpg

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:47 (eighteen years ago)

1939, another number, another bummer.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:48 (eighteen years ago)

http://catcode.com/dc120/vac0997/charlotte2.jpg

Statue of Queen Charlotte outside the Charlotte Douglas International Airport.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:48 (eighteen years ago)

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/4/4c/200px-MorrisFrank.jpg

This one is in Morristown, NJ. I kind of think it looks like Christopher Walken (Walken the dog!)

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:51 (eighteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/23/25923419_cb29c4e25b.jpg?v=0
"Lord, toss me a PFD!"

(at Solid Rock Church in Monroe, Ohio.)

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.arenet.com/unique2.jpg http://static.flickr.com/45/114382992_a4bf99358e.jpg?v=0

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:57 (eighteen years ago)

http://vcnv.org/images/02mlk.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:58 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.arenet.com/unique2.jpg http://static.flickr.com/45/114382992_a4bf99358e.jpg?v=0

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:00 (eighteen years ago)

WHAT THE FUCK

I KNOW FOR DAMN SURE I DIDN'T POST LIKE THAT AND CERTAINLY NOT TWICE

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:01 (eighteen years ago)

Man, Austin is a hotbed of crappy sculpture. There's the "Nightwing" bat just south of the Congress Ave bridge

The stocky woman firing a cannon farther north on congress.

A giant Lone Star in front of the history museum.

http://static.flickr.com/66/199253448_4a749a3cf3.jpg?v=0

And of course, Steve Ray Vaughn.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/9/9c/200px-SRV.jpeg

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:01 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, WTF at Martin Luther King, cotton-pickin' field hand.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:02 (eighteen years ago)

Wait, that SRV is great though - his shadow is playing the guitar!

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:03 (eighteen years ago)

I can't find a good set of shots in situ but if you go to this page and click on each of the individual images, you'll see what was installed near the Science Library on campus a couple of years ago. In full daylight as part of a rock garden they look especially ridiculous.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:03 (eighteen years ago)

Statues that are all painted/coloured in like that man with dog one always look really weird.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:05 (eighteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure it's the work of J. Seward Johnson, who has stuff all over NJ and I think in other states too. He's kind of like George Segal meets Norman Rockwell.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:06 (eighteen years ago)

I like the Bayonnet one.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:09 (eighteen years ago)

thought this was gonna be another girlz of ilx thread

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:17 (eighteen years ago)

I have seen Giant Jesus way too many times when driving down I-75. Every time I pass that statue, I have to fight the urge to yell, "TOUCHDOWN!"

― Nathan P1p (hoyanathan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:18 (eighteen years ago)

Technically more "public sculpture" than statues, but total WTF:

[broken image links removed]

These little blob-people are scattered outside the Minneapolis Federal Courthouse, though I'm not sure they're so much "ugly" as they are bizarrely out of place. Not pictured: the arch that seems to be comprised partially of these little "Mr. Men" critters and/or boulders. It's supposed to be a sociological statement or something. Apparently the sculptor does a ton of this stuff.

― nate p. (natepatrin), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:20 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah, that guy has stuff in the Subway. It's kinda cute - never really minded it.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:21 (eighteen years ago)

martin luther king jr got a little bit ofhttp://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,1220206_1,00.jpggoing on

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:25 (eighteen years ago)

Two that are a little more conceptual, but equally ugly:

This one is in the narrow concrete of york university, the building is a perfect example of the stalinist block school of modernism, and the courtyards are filled with either concrete pads, or grey shale...here is a quebecois artist attempt at fitting in--its minimalism makes a bleak place even bleaker:

http://static.flickr.com/112/297104558_83a1967373_m.jpg

and here is a small monument to unborn children, in niagra falls:
http://static.flickr.com/107/297104555_5cd5c7cd8f.jpg

― pinkmoose (jacklove), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:44 (eighteen years ago)

unborn children: an inspiration to us all

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:49 (eighteen years ago)

reach for the major labia!

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:49 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.shipbrook.com/jeff/gimping/CosbyLiberty.jpg

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

this is supposed to be tupac
http://www.thuglifearmy.com/images/My%20Pictures/Tupac%20Shakur/Tupac_Statue.JPG

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, Tupac is a 45-year-old minister.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

shown in his characteristic suit jacket & waistcoat

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

Hey P. Plains, Vulcan is alive and well in Birmingham.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

"So what were you hoping with that statue of Tupac?"
"I always imagined him playing W. E. B. DuBois in a movie..."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

http://z.about.com/d/phoenix/1/0/0/5/Ambassador_of_the_Streets.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

http://z.about.com/d/phoenix/1/0/4/4/Keeping_Up.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.hillsborough.k12.nj.us/hms/pictures/MVC-004S.JPG

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

Relative of yours, Scott?

http://sewardjohnson.com/site/index.html

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

Someone should just start uglystatues.com

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

no! they had a lot of his stuff around philly.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.rampantscotland.com/graphics/wallace_braveheart2247a.jpg

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

i kinda like the IDEA of johnson's stuff though. but then i was a big duane hanson fan when i was a little kid.

http://www.waloszek.de/f3_kal/02-duane-hanson.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

Angry school teacher glares at Glasgow

http://www.glasgowsculpture.com/images/c0238_w.jpg

Someone knocked his glasses off

http://www.glasgowsculpture.com/images/c0306_w.jpg

(it's Donald Dewar - Scotland's First First Minister)

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

not a statue but easily my least favorite piece of public art. union sq, nyc:

[img removed]http://worldofjunimoon.com/images/NYCtrip/UnionSquareArt.jpg

i am however a big fan of those silly lil dudes to be found @ the minneapolis federal courthouse and the nyc subway. there's also some @ the metrotech center in downtown brooklyn and, most delightfully, popping out the hudson on the upper west side.

who's buddy on the horse in the question? i likes him.

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

http://catcode.com/dc120/vac0997/charlotte2.jpg

Is this a statue of Queen Charlotte taking a canon blast to the gut? WTF.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

J. Seward Johnson has these creepy 3D versions of famous paintings at Grounds for Sculpture in Trenton:

Dejuner Sur L'Herbe:
http://nary.org/Dejeuner/dejeuner_grounds.jpg

Boating Party:
http://www.wine-people.com/images/boatingpartyWEB.jpg

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

haha I meant "cannon" but that's funnier "I'm sorry ma'am but your legacy is not sound!"

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.abo.fi/~dagren/cones/posankka2.jpg http://www.abo.fi/~dagren/cones/posankka3.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

This wonderful creation is located in Turku, one of the main cities in Finland, right next to the railroad so everyone arriving to town can see it. Notice the buttocks.

http://static.flickr.com/32/101662815_38f030ecbf_m.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/posankka.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

Notice the buttocks.

KINDA HARD TO MISS.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/6/6e/The_Simpsons-Jebediah_Springfield.png

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

their destination: NEW SODOM!

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

http://blogs.families.com/media/mrpeanutz.jpg

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

Testicle dentata!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.ala.org/Images/ACRL/News/2005/March/marytmoore.jpg

Yep, that's Minneapolis' very own Mary Tyler Moore statue. Dear rest of the world...you're welcome.

― John Justen says Toonces was one of the most talented cats on televison (johnjus, Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

http://members.tripod.com/~rjdio/mj/jordan_Statue.jpg

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

Somehow, the Pat Tillman statue still creeps me out the most.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

approximate percentage of statues here that i like in some way: 90

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

i still think the bleak minimial thing is the ugliest, i mean not the most gaudy, but fuck is it bleak

― pinkmoose (jacklove), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

That crying vagina one is rather terrifying.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

Gerry's FREEDOM statue = awesome. It's everything I stand for.

The guy on the horse in the first post is none other than Nathaniel Bedford Forrest, Confederate general who later founded the KKK. It's a fitting statue for him.

Hey P. Plains, Vulcan is alive and well in Birmingham.

-- Django Blowhardt (crump...), November 14th, 2006 9:04 AM. (Rock Hardy) (later) (link)

Uh-uh. If I ever make it back, chances are he'll just hop down and hide from me again.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

Probably so, he hates your guts.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

Scorpio October 24 - November 21
Deny it all you want, but that giant robot from the Queen album cover is real and he hates you.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

Here's another statue of a Twin Cities hero: Herb Brooks

http://www.rodnsal.com/Brooksstatue%20%28WinCE%29.jpg

Not as ugly as the Mary Tyler Moore statue, but I alwas thought it looks like he's being stretched out on the rack (and really loving it).

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

Samuel Gompers does the Robot.

http://static.flickr.com/39/89671016_081cd4d118.jpg?v=1137937735

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

That dinosaur pig butt monster has completely made my day.

I agree with Anthony that the minimalist sculpture is just depressing as fuck, it makes Rothko seem all Hallmarky in comparison.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:07 (eighteen years ago)

http://209.34.82.147/media/IP3E5561_0607311812076.jpg
Because the rendering isn't enough.

― a.b. (alanbanana), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:40 (eighteen years ago)

"I also drove to Alabama one summer specifically to see it, AND IT WAS GONE."

?!?!?! It's not gone! I just visited it two months ago! I have pictures of Vulcan's gigantic ass!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:49 (eighteen years ago)

lol asscrack is hueg

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:54 (eighteen years ago)

My favorite Vulcan story is the torch which shone red when a traffic accident occurred, but that it had to be taken DOWN because it was red all the TIME and disturbing people!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:57 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry I missed a word here!

My favorite Vulcan story is the torch which shone red when a FATAL traffic accident occurred, but that it had to be taken DOWN because it was red all the TIME and disturbing people!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:57 (eighteen years ago)

In 2002, Vulcan wasn't there. I'm telling you this is a fact.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:12 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, he was down for renovation from 1999 to 2003.

Good butt-shot at Vulcan's Butt blog.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:31 (eighteen years ago)

My grandmother used to take us to visit Vulcan whenever we visited Birmingham. His pedestal has an elevator inside it that faces a window that oversees the mountain. Since it hardly ever got cleaned, my grandmother would observe how it the dirt made it appear like it was raining (with the elevator passing the stationary window on the way up.)

Of course, on the way down, it looked like the rain was going up.

There's a television station up there on that mountain that had a security guard who got mad at me while I was driving around, looking for an invisible statue.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:42 (eighteen years ago)

these are in eugene oregon. i loved it when i was a child! "frogs on pots!"

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:03 (eighteen years ago)

whoops:
http://www.hultcenter.org/_downloads/performingfrogs.jpg

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:21 (eighteen years ago)

By the way, I have no idea who Pat Tillman is... Looking at that statue, is he some sort of a Troll?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:25 (eighteen years ago)

he was a professional american football player who enlisted in the army to serve his country in afghanistan but then he was killed by friendly fire and the pentagon spun it like he was a true patriot or some bullshit but it just came out that he hated george bush and was a big noam chomsky fan. you would have got along i think.

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:35 (eighteen years ago)

oh and when that chomsky shit came out last week all the right-wing bloggers talked about how he had betrayed them...

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:36 (eighteen years ago)

That's awful nice of you. I was just going to post a link to Google.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:37 (eighteen years ago)

like jesse jackson accusing thomas jefferson of betrayal

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:37 (eighteen years ago)

I must go back a ways. Someone has to explain me this:

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/7076/nbfs2xr2.gif

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:47 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, it's kinda ugly, I guess, but it's also fucking looney tunes. Doesn't that trump ugly?

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:50 (eighteen years ago)

Is that supposed to be Pat Tillman's hair flowing a'forth? Cuz like, a crueller person might suggest it looks like brains being blown out. A heh heh.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 07:07 (eighteen years ago)

i thought it was supposed to be brains

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 07:13 (eighteen years ago)

The MLK is the only statue on this thread worse than the Pat Tillman.

― researching ur life (grady), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 08:29 (eighteen years ago)

I'm on my way to bed. I wonder which of these statues I'll have bad dreams about.

― From the Moon to Pluto Back Down to Earth (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

If he was a war martyr, why on earth portray him playing football instead of something more, you know, dignified?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 11:16 (eighteen years ago)

he was a professional american football player

Call me stupid, but I think this might have something to do with it.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 12:50 (eighteen years ago)

more dignified? like being killed by friendly fire?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

I can sorta see the idea of portraying him in a footaball outfit, but why make his mouth gape and his hair flow like he's about to rock? Surely a more dignified expression would've been better.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:10 (eighteen years ago)

Also, can someone explain what's happening with the Queen Charlotte statue?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:11 (eighteen years ago)

I can sorta see the idea of portraying him in a footaball outfit, but why make his mouth gape and his hair flow like he's about to rock? Surely a more dignified expression would've been better.

Tuomas, FFS, this thread is called "uglier than the Pat Tillmans statue", don't you think everyone on here has already asked themselves those questions?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:16 (eighteen years ago)

A simple GIS finds the picture that was used for photo reference.

Mercury News says:

Modeled after one of the better-known photos of Tillman, the statue features him in mid-stride, long hair flowing, helmet in one hand and mouthpiece in the other, and with his mouth open as if he's roaring. The sculpture's backdrop is a curved wall of black concrete that gives the memorial both an understated and reverential quality.

``I'm really pleased they decided to portray him that way,'' said Jim Kaskie, a Mesa man who also wore Tillman's No. 40 jersey. ``That's the way I'll always remember Pat.''

So, they made the statue so that people would recognise it. SEEMS KIND OF SENSIBLE.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:22 (eighteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/75/205101130_ab5f1c1f49_m.jpg http://static.flickr.com/91/205243740_01684548a5_m.jpg

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/76/205243741_03c518e343_m.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/61/205243736_c57b4bbec5_m.jpg

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

If he was a war martyr, why on earth portray him playing football instead of something more, you know, dignified?

-- Tuomas (lixnix...), November 15th, 2006.

Here, I think, is the boundary of your understanding of American culture.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

So was he better known as a footballer than as a casualty of war?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

He is known as a casualty of war because he was known as a footballer.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

put it this way, if he hadn't initially been a famous footballer he would be about as well known as most casualtys of war. i.e. not very.

xpost exactly

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

casualties argh.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

More ugly statues less disingenuous Finns plz

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

I have nothing to contribute, but thought I'd just say how much I'm enjoying this thread.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.connection.se/hem/anders/resor/lenin/bild/m.jpg

(So ugly is was chopped up then some idiot put it back together)

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

Tuomas, I wasn't being sarcastic to you either, I just meant that the people who put up the statue would probably ask "What's more dignified than football?" My alma mater has a good football team for the first time in recent memory and people are acting like it's the second coming of Christ.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

turds in the plaza:
http://static.flickr.com/29/43333210_3a8f2be6eb.jpg?v=0

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

If he was a war martyr, why on earth portray him playing football instead of something more, you know, dignified?

i believe said statue was erected by his former club and is outside their current stadium. that would be my guess as to why.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

Plus that statue is based on a fairly well known picture of him rallying his teammates to capture Porkchop Hill.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

The flayed St. Bartholomew, carrying his skin over his shoulder

http://www.thereareplaces.com/guidebook/images/pagepix/ITmil/itmlnduoint.jpg

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

Somerville, NJ's 9/11 monument - not so much ugly as conceptually creepy.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/21/SomervilleNJ.jpg/300px-SomervilleNJ.jpg

See, it's ALWAYS time to remember.

A friend of mine and I came up with the idea that every hour, on the hour, 24/7 it should broadcast loudly, to the entire town: "TIME TO REMEMBER. TIME TO REMEMBER" and then the the names of all of the 9/11 victims.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.roadtripamerica.com/roadside/Metaphor-The-Tree-of-Utah.jpg

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

tuomas: europe has art, and welfare and stuff. america has sports, money and jesus. take sides

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

Because no one in Europe likes sports. No sir.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/75/205101130_ab5f1c1f49_m.jpg

They made a statue of the villians from the a-ha video?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

Kenan, here's a little more information about the Forrest statue.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

That's amazing. Poetic, even. So the reason it looks like it was designed and built by a half-wit is because no decent sculptor in the world could be paid enough money to build a statue for THE GLORY OF THE FOUNDER OF THE KLU KLUX KLAN.

That really works. Let 'em keep it.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

Ok, that statue wins the ugliness contest.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

The flayed St. Bartholomew, carrying his skin over his shoulder

What about that is not incredibly awesome?

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

Haha most of these statues are fucking awesome!

Even the Pat Tillman one would be weirdly cool if it wasn't for the fact that Pat Tillman's story makes you wish they hadn't made a statue for him at all.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.glasgowguide.co.uk/GG-ORG/imgs0204/Fireman%20Statue.JPG

Tribute to 9/11 firefighters. It used to scare the hell out of me at night - I have a fear of gasmasks.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

It totally looks he's going to steal ET!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

It's one of those kind of statues that if you look at it out of the side of your eye on a dark night it seems to move....

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

Why does Glasgow have a tribute to 9/11 firefighters?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

Solidarity?

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

God yeah, I hate that thing, it's creepy.

I like the big clock on legs at the bus station though, and the big nappy pin where Rottenrow Maternity Hospital used to be. Can't find decent pictures though.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

(both done by the same guy, btw)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, here we are:

http://www.art-public.com/member/img/wyllg001.jpg

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/6/7051816_72ad12eca9.jpg?v=0

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh, I've not seen the nappy pin in the flesh yet. It's sweet.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3764/2040/320/MVC-004S.7.jpg

If you look closely at the notebook in the hands of this woman outside the Barnes & Noble in Naperville, Ill., it reads "Naperville has grown big and fat." WTF.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

nappy pin in the flesh

hardcore

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

Can't see yours Jay

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

My earliest memory is of my auntie accidentally jabbing me with a nappy pin while changing me.

My mum says I'm talking shite, I always wore disposables.

Maybe I've stolen someone elses memory. Or maybe my auntie just stabbed me for the hell of it.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

Nice use of the word "shite" there, in context :-D

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

The Public Purse - daft statue in the Bourke st Mall in Melb:

http://www.airninja.com/pictures/melbourne/gigantic-purse.jpg

I suppose it is meant to be some commentary on consumerism, but people just sit on it and laugh at it.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 16 November 2006 02:49 (eighteen years ago)

Oh and of course the infamous scultpure The Vault, better known by all as "the yellow peril": so hated by Melbournians that it has been moved at least 3 or 4 times in its lifetime, usually to really out of the way places by the docks and such.

http://elsewhere.polydistortion.net/lib/cache/pics/melbourne/2002/01/15-the-yellow-peril.small.jpg

(heres a pic of where it used to live hidden in a crappy riverside park no one went to).

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 16 November 2006 02:53 (eighteen years ago)

Because no one in Europe likes sports. No sir.

just like america has no welfare or art, and europe also has no money and jesus. sounds like you got it.

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 16 November 2006 02:57 (eighteen years ago)

that running clock is great

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 16 November 2006 02:59 (eighteen years ago)

i like the yellow peril!

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 November 2006 03:08 (eighteen years ago)

Is the giant safety pin a Claes Oldenburg or just a knockoff?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 16 November 2006 03:20 (eighteen years ago)

shameful knockoff.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 November 2006 03:25 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah I'm not so much a hata of the yellow peril mself Jed :) I more thought of it because it seems so hated by everyone here.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 16 November 2006 03:27 (eighteen years ago)

it looks great but i can imagine it might be a bit of a dangerous hidey-hole for unsavoury types. especially in a park.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 November 2006 03:30 (eighteen years ago)

http://p.vtourist.com/2856691-Super_Lamb_Banana_Catch_It_If_You_Can-Liverpool.jpg

The Super Lamb Banana! Some sort of comment on genetic engineering. I think it's kinda cute.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:01 (eighteen years ago)

the big nappy pin where Rottenrow Maternity Hospital used to be

Rottenrow is gone? I need to pay attention more.

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

Rottenrow is the coolest name ever. For today at least.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:35 (eighteen years ago)

You should turn right instead of left at the bottom of the hill some time on the way home from the football (xpost to Onimo)

Wow, I'd forgotten about the Lamb Banana.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

I will. I want to see that nappy pin.

The hill up to Rottenrow is like the tramellator, pregnant women be wheezing.

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:41 (eighteen years ago)

travelator, even.

? The thing from Gladiators.

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:42 (eighteen years ago)

Travelator. They'll be wheezing for nothing when they wheeze up there and find nothing but a great big nappy pin where the hospital used to be.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

Tribute to 9/11 firefighters. It used to scare the hell out of me at night - I have a fear of gasmasks.

I believe it's a memorial to Glasgow firemen that died attending a fire in Glasgow and has absolutely nothing to do with 9/11.

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:10 (eighteen years ago)

It was erected before 9/11!

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:12 (eighteen years ago)

Was it? Woops, my apologies! I thought it sprung up in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. I've never read the plaque, don't like to get too close in case it grabs me.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:15 (eighteen years ago)

The Ccitizen Firefighter: http://www.strathclydefire.org/about/citizen.asp

People left flowers and tributes on it following 9/11.

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

This was the first time I saw the statue:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1615116.stm

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.urban75.org/photos/newyork/images/ny551.jpg

I know it's ugly but it was also the first "landmark" I ever saw on my first wander around NYC, so I miss it.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:20 (eighteen years ago)

That clock on legs is one of the ugliest statues I've ever seen. Ugh.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 16 November 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

Rottenrow is the coolest name ever. For today at least.

-- Kv_nol (kn0l4n8...), November 16th, 2006 5:35 AM. (Kv_nol) (later) (link

It sounds like something Scooby-Doo would say if he was declaring his ignorance about a topic.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 16 November 2006 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rottenrow

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 November 2006 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

the bartholomew might be grotesque, but im not sure we can call it ugly...

― pinkmoose (jacklove), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

If someone decided to make a bad statue of you after you die, what would you like it to show you doing?

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

Carrying my flogged skin, no doubt.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

Hmm, defecating probably.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

It sounds like something Scooby-Doo would say if he was declaring his ignorance about a topic.

OTM!

"Is this your puppy scoob?"
"Rottenrow!"

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.roadtripamerica.com/roadside/Metaphor-The-Tree-of-Utah.jpg

I'm pretty sure this is where one of the hardest boss fights takes place in FFVII.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

They erected statues of the Little Rock Nine, the group of black students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957, on the grounds of the Arkansas State Capitol. Last month, someone thought that perhaps the statues were lacking something:

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/1383/lr9christmaswa1.jpg

Despite the benefit of the doubt being given to the sentiment behind this act, the decorations were removed by the Secretary of State's office shortly after being discovered.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 00:13 (eighteen years ago)

This is Nashville's Athena in the Parthenon (supposedly an exact replica). This picture does not do it any justice. It's terrible. The first time I saw it, I screamed, "holy shit!" right in front of the docent.

http://www.nashville.org/Parthenon/Images/AthenaGilded.jpg

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 00:36 (eighteen years ago)

We also have this:

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/0/06/220px-Dixon_Musica.jpg

It's called "Musica". Scandalous!

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 00:38 (eighteen years ago)

This pic is rather large so I'll just put a link:

http://www.agmc.org.au/22-stkilda-town-hall.jpg

This is a baffling statue out the front of St Kilda Town Hall, about 5 mins walk down the road from my place.

Maybe there is some legend story behind it, but I'm not feelin it. WTF is the PLANE there for? If I didn't know any better I'd say the snakes were a metaphor for local council getting into everyone's business and choking it up, ahaha.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 00:59 (eighteen years ago)

what a funny bunch of fotos

― friday on the porch (lfam), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 01:03 (eighteen years ago)

I love the Nashville Parthenon though. I played a show at Springwater once, and going down that street was one of the greatest "WTF?" moments of my life

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 01:06 (eighteen years ago)

The Parthenon (the building) is great. Art museum inside, not so much. But the Athena statue! It defines garish! And you're totally right - it's great to stumble out of the Springwater, and see the Parthenon. It's kind of freakish and wonderful at the same time.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 02:38 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh I have been hearing about the Springwater for years and years and I so want to go...and I have seen Teh Real Parthenon, surely I can make it to the one in TN?@@!

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 02:42 (eighteen years ago)

Laurel, OF COURSE you can come see the fake Parthenon and the real Springwater anytime you like! There's an air mattress here with your name on it! (Enticing, eh?)

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 02:49 (eighteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/50/143324629_6d39678b87_m.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

I think the snake one is great, especially because the dude seems to be enjoying himself.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah thats another reason why it is so strange! WHAT IS GOING ON IN THAT STATUE.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 18 January 2007 04:26 (eighteen years ago)

What's that city hall building that looks like a Spanish mission?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 18 January 2007 04:27 (eighteen years ago)

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/0/06/220px-Dixon_Musica.jpg

Ohhhh Jesaulenko, you beauty!

― hellsarse (hellsarse), Thursday, 18 January 2007 04:48 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/124/361251853_8beb20465a.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/162/361251858_ce259988b4.jpg

thats in baltimore

there's an uglier one near the harbor but its a polish war memorial (for the katyn forest massacre) so i give it a free pass

― am0n (am0n), Thursday, 18 January 2007 05:00 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

n/a posted this on noise board, but i feel it deserves a wider audience.

http://edition.cnn.com/US/9607/11/ashe/ashe.mem.large.jpg

ARTHUR ASHE HAS JUST ABOUT HAD IT WITH YOU KIDS!

― kenan, Monday, 21 January 2008 15:57 (seventeen years ago)

I live in Morristown with that seeing eye dog statue. I'm bummed it's so ugly. Morristown is the home of the Seeing Eye, the first training school of its kind. Walking around here, you always see dogs either being trained by the staff or being tried out by potential masters. It's great. They were trying to honor the founder with that statue, and turned out something kind of creepy.

― Bill Magill, Monday, 21 January 2008 16:59 (seventeen years ago)

lol at arthur ashe statue oh my god.

― the table is the table, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:00 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.giantbusts.co.uk/acatalog/SWMACE.png

― and what, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:01 (seventeen years ago)

I want to see the 9/11 Vadge in person.

― milo z, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:02 (seventeen years ago)

also that one in jersey city, the polish ww2 memorial. unreal-- surprised the gun hasn't been broken off in some way.

also this is the goldmine

http://www.weirdomatic.com/strange-statues.html

― the table is the table, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:06 (seventeen years ago)

what has arthur ashe got in his right hand? is he pouring beer on the children?

― J0hn D., Monday, 21 January 2008 17:07 (seventeen years ago)

(yes I know it's a can of tennis balls but I like to think it's beer)

― J0hn D., Monday, 21 January 2008 17:07 (seventeen years ago)

how did this thread go on so long without Harry Caray ouside Wrigley Field?

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/e/e2/200px-Harry_Carey.jpg

Detail of the base, or movie still from The Frighteners?

http://www.thestructuralist.com/images/harry2.jpg

― kenan, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:11 (seventeen years ago)

We could do a Bayonne Ethiopian food and 9/11 vadge FAP

― Hurting 2, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:11 (seventeen years ago)

Monuments on Monument Avenue
* Robert E. Lee – equestrian sculpture by Antonin Mercié; unveiled May 29, 1890
* J.E.B. Stuart – equestrian sculpture by Frederick Moynihan; unveiled May 30, 1907
* Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America – sculpted by Edward Valentine; unveiled June 3, 1907
* Stonewall Jackson – equestrian sculpture by Frederick William Sievers; unveiled October 11, 1919
* Matthew Fontaine Maury, oceanographer – sculpted by Frederick William Sievers; unveiled November 11, 1929
* Arthur Ashe, tennis player – sculpted by Paul Di Pasquale; unveiled July 10, 1996

which of these two are not like the others?

― n/a, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:13 (seventeen years ago)

what has arthur ashe got in his right hand?

bottle of Knob Creek. I told you kids, it's best to just stay away from Arthur Ashe when he's been drinking.

― kenan, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:13 (seventeen years ago)

http://menendez.senate.gov/images/gallery/gal_091106c.jpg

― Hurting 2, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:13 (seventeen years ago)

it's a big can of aids

― n/a, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:14 (seventeen years ago)

Good thread.

― chap, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:15 (seventeen years ago)

OMG HARRY CARAY

― Hurting 2, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:15 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/246/535641251_b9786b686e_o.jpg

White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high
AND PARK MUTHAFUCKIN SOUTH OF THE STREET

― Mackro Mackro, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:16 (seventeen years ago)

I like how clearly Hendrix's guitar power is grounded, literally.

― Mackro Mackro, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:16 (seventeen years ago)

Harry Caray and the family he ate

― Hurting 2, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:17 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.wonderlane.com/images/fremont_troll.jpg

I am, you are, they are, we are CRA-zy

― Mackro Mackro, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:19 (seventeen years ago)

i would like to see the harry caray and arthur ashe statues come to life and have an epic battle, mic vs. racket

― n/a, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:19 (seventeen years ago)

winner gets all the kids

― n/a, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:19 (seventeen years ago)

that thing is actually kind of awesome (xpost)

― Hurting 2, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:19 (seventeen years ago)

I actually like a bunch of these statues in this thread -- a LOT. but many of them are damn ugly and aren't immune to satire.

― Mackro Mackro, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:23 (seventeen years ago)

I'm trying to find the truly awful matruskasian things in that Whole Foods/Tutta Bella corner on Denny and Westlake, but I guess people knew to not take pictures of them and put them online.

― Mackro Mackro, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:26 (seventeen years ago)

For those of you who hate MLK Day, don't forget this repost:

http://vcnv.org/images/02mlk.jpg

I've read up on this, and it's meant to depict Dr. King when he was a young preacher. It's still very "um" to me.

If I remember correctly, it's located on the grounds of the Illinois State Capitol.

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:26 (seventeen years ago)

(yes I know it's a can of tennis balls but I like to think it's beer)

i think it's a stack of books

― Mr. Que, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:28 (seventeen years ago)

want to post the anatomically correct fatteys from inside the Columbus Circle Mall but I can't find a shot of em

― dmr, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:47 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.sj-r.com/News/stories/23871.asp

― kenan, Monday, 21 January 2008 18:02 (seventeen years ago)

It's true, all the other statues on the capital grounds are stately, dignified, well-rendered, but here comes MLK looking like absolute shit (it's "abstract") and whistling Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah. Way to go, guys.

― kenan, Monday, 21 January 2008 18:07 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.ilstatehouse.com/exterior_statuary.htm

― kenan, Monday, 21 January 2008 18:08 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.arenet.com/unique2.jpg

This is FANTASTIC!

― Abbott, Monday, 21 January 2008 18:43 (seventeen years ago)

consider the bat

― Hurting 2, Monday, 21 January 2008 23:13 (seventeen years ago)

five months pass...

omg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3147/2585538222_a1a377d8fd.jpg?v=0

― Hurting 2, Monday, 7 July 2008 04:42 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3045/2596013866_e91556f449.jpg?v=0
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_gW8A0b7kIlo/SBjB-mYM1rI/AAAAAAAAA-M/9-LFmujYWik/P1010893.JPG

― Hurting 2, Monday, 7 July 2008 04:43 (seventeen years ago)

melting fecal einstein

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ea/Einstein_Memorial.jpg/800px-Einstein_Memorial.jpg

― am0n, Monday, 7 July 2008 04:56 (seventeen years ago)

Melting Fecal Einstein would be a great movie title

― Hurting 2, Monday, 7 July 2008 05:05 (seventeen years ago)

want to post the anatomically correct fatteys from inside the Columbus Circle Mall but I can't find a shot of em

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/151/350426606_fa8546c028.jpg?v=0

http://www.nycarthur.com/Botero%20Sculpture/images/BoteroTimeWarner-31-IMG_5245.jpg

http://www.nycarthur.com/Botero%20Sculpture/pages/BoteroTimeWarner-28-IMG_4709.htm

― C0L1N B..., Monday, 7 July 2008 16:22 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.nycarthur.com/Botero%20Sculpture/images/BoteroTimeWarner-27-IMG_4704.jpg

― C0L1N B..., Monday, 7 July 2008 16:22 (seventeen years ago)

There's a large fiberglass figure of yoda in mongol armour near my house

― slecked, Monday, 7 July 2008 16:40 (seventeen years ago)

There's a large fiberglass figure of yoda in mongol armour ~~near~~ in my house

-- slecked, Monday, July 7, 2008 4:40 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

― n/a, Monday, 7 July 2008 16:43 (seventeen years ago)

teh fatteys are beautiful!!

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 7 July 2008 16:46 (seventeen years ago)

pix plz slecked

― am0n, Monday, 7 July 2008 18:15 (seventeen years ago)

Where are these from? I'm guessing a Blitz memorial...

http://static.flickr.com/76/205243741_03c518e343_m.jpg

Also:

They made a statue of the villians from the a-ha video?

-- Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:52

Loooooooooool

I love this thread!

― hyggeligt, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 10:15 (seventeen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/75/205101130_ab5f1c1f49_m.jpg

A-ha villains...

― hyggeligt, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 10:16 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3038/2336024789_3ef42f94df.jpg?v=0

http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/0/4/2/7/ar117394052172409.jpg

― am0n, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 15:15 (seventeen years ago)

Neilsen family status in from of King 5 studios off Dexter Ave. in Seattle... a block or so away from KEXP.

I think this is meant to be one of those cement blocks to prevent cars from wanting to ramrod the studio entrance.

― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 15:47 (seventeen years ago)

oops, sorry

http://slog.thestranger.com/files/2007/06/uglyartugh.jpg

― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 15:47 (seventeen years ago)

My favorite detail is the cat turning its back on the far left.

― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 15:48 (seventeen years ago)

Really dislike these statues that I walk by practically every day:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/56/237288961_87dfe63681.jpg

― polyphonic, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 20:14 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/56/237288961_87dfe63681.jpg

― polyphonic, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 20:14 (seventeen years ago)

Whoops, double post!

― polyphonic, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 20:15 (seventeen years ago)

yeah I kinda hate those too. not as much as I hate the bow and arrow in the ground though/

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 20:21 (seventeen years ago)

am0n otm, hate that thing.

― some dude, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 20:28 (seventeen years ago)

woah, Hurting, that silver-coated sperm swimmin up vaj alley one. Intrestin

― yungblut, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 20:38 (seventeen years ago)

Never Forget Vagine-Eleven

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 01:35 (seventeen years ago)

not as much as I hate the bow and arrow in the ground though

I really dig the spider though:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3210/2603596272_20eb20c500.jpg

― polyphonic, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 01:56 (seventeen years ago)

http://flickr.com/photos/8577178@N03/2476278953/

it's so wee!

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 02:49 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

Mr Roger's statue in Pittsburgh wins

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/2634/mr1v.jpg
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/7312/mr2s.jpg
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/1915/mr4l.jpg

― svend, Saturday, 7 November 2009 06:06 (fifteen years ago)

was there rly no mention of the Miami LOLocaust memorial?

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/04/15/holocaust_memorial_wideweb__470x325,0.jpg

http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/PICS34/MIAMI22.jpg

― Meatcat (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 7 November 2009 06:13 (fifteen years ago)

best thread

― luol deng (am0n), Saturday, 7 November 2009 06:32 (fifteen years ago)

There's a large fiberglass figure of yoda in mongol armour near my house

― slecked, Monday, July 7, 2008 4:40 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

why was a photo of this never shared?

― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 7 November 2009 07:00 (fifteen years ago)

<3 <3 <3 this thread

― Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Saturday, 7 November 2009 07:02 (fifteen years ago)

why was a photo of this never shared?

― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, November 7, 2009 2:00 AM

lol he emailed one to me a long time ago. lemme find it

― luol deng (am0n), Saturday, 7 November 2009 07:19 (fifteen years ago)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3057/2661784232_e6e89c27fd_b.jpg

― luol deng (am0n), Saturday, 7 November 2009 07:25 (fifteen years ago)

lol

― soiceybot (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 7 November 2009 07:26 (fifteen years ago)

omg losing my shit right now

― Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Saturday, 7 November 2009 08:17 (fifteen years ago)

haha came here to post about harry carey's ghosts

― heart goin ham (deej), Saturday, 7 November 2009 20:56 (fifteen years ago)

http://z.about.com/d/weirdnews/1/0/P/C/-/-/NAZI_GNOME_12.jpg

― brontosaur, Saturday, 7 November 2009 21:39 (fifteen years ago)

http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/PICS34/MIAMI22.jpg

This long shot is kind of incredible until you remember that it's a statue and not a drawing.

― Yeah~ I can flay~~~ (HI DERE), Saturday, 7 November 2009 22:14 (fifteen years ago)

That statue scared the shit out of me when I visited Miami as a child.

― maciej recognizing trill, Saturday, 7 November 2009 22:37 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.davidcerny.cz/IMAGE/piss/IMG_45280.jpg

An electric mechanism driven by a couple of microproccesors swivels the upper part of the body, while the penis goes up and down. The stream of water writes quotes from famous Prague residents.

― Deliquescing (Derelict), Sunday, 8 November 2009 01:00 (fifteen years ago)

This one of a young Abe Lincoln in downtown Indianapolis is pretty ugly. It looks like it has psoriasis.

http://thumb13.webshots.net/t/52/152/8/31/80/484583180lqPEBZ_th.jpg

― earlnash, Sunday, 8 November 2009 03:38 (fifteen years ago)

http://inlinethumb21.webshots.com/21140/1484583180069336573S425x425Q85.jpg

― earlnash, Sunday, 8 November 2009 03:39 (fifteen years ago)

if you look real hard it looks like screech from saved by the bell

― harbl, Sunday, 8 November 2009 03:42 (fifteen years ago)

Looks more like Imus.

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/493/donimus1.jpg

― svend, Sunday, 8 November 2009 03:56 (fifteen years ago)

aw man I like that Prague one of the guys peeing. that guy has a ton of weird ones all over the city

http://i2.photoblog.com/photos/4833-1179610865-1-l.jpg

― dmr, Sunday, 8 November 2009 04:05 (fifteen years ago)

dying @ yoda

― dmr, Sunday, 8 November 2009 04:05 (fifteen years ago)

Holy shit that horse one is amazing

― Yeah~ I can flay~~~ (HI DERE), Sunday, 8 November 2009 04:36 (fifteen years ago)

seven months pass...

RIP Touchdown Jesus
http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/06/15/touchdown-jesus-statue-destroyed-by-lightning/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAAj1OiH-WA

― hills like white people (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:12 (fifteen years ago)

RIP horrible thing.

― Eighteen straight. I think that's a record. (kenan), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:27 (fifteen years ago)

Would love to hear the next sermon at that church.

― hills like white people (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:29 (fifteen years ago)

Blah blah mysterious ways blah blah

― Eighteen straight. I think that's a record. (kenan), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:32 (fifteen years ago)

This statue of Luis Guzman's not bad either:

http://www.greendalecommunitycollege.com/images/alumni/alumni_luizgoodman.jpg

― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:53 (fifteen years ago)

LOL I posted about that Jesus statue on ILM earlier this morning:

Six-Story Jesus Statue That Got Struck By Lightning And Burned Down, What's On Your iPod?

― I guess for copraphiles this is gonna be awesome (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:01 (fifteen years ago)

oh the divinity!

― exuding an aroma of lolz (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:31 (fifteen years ago)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_airm5SxYQSM/SmU4GtuK1qI/AAAAAAAAAJo/nqszny7BpVw/s320/twin+pillars+-IRS+HQ+-New+Carrollton,MD.jpg

From an IRS building in New Carrollton, Maryland. I guess it's not uglier than the Tillman statue, but it gives me the creeps. Plus, according to the blog I found the picture on, it is some kind of masonic symbolism.

― kkvgz, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 16:36 (fifteen years ago)

blog gives me the creeps

― exuding an aroma of lolz (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 19:38 (fifteen years ago)

Yes, I should clarify that I found the picture on the blog through GIS, not because I was reading up on conspiracies and the occult.

― kkvgz, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 19:46 (fifteen years ago)

four months pass...

don't ever change, Texass. Don't ever change.

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g199/vazquez24/IMG_1473.jpg

http://images5a.snapfish.com/232323232%7Ffp63386%3Enu%3D47%3C3%3E%3A54%3E255%3EWSNRCG%3D334%3B485378346nu0mrj

http://images5a.snapfish.com/232323232%7Ffp633%3A9%3Enu%3D47%3C3%3E%3A54%3E255%3EWSNRCG%3D334%3B485375346nu0mrj

― http://tinyurl.com/koalalala (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 4 November 2010 20:13 (fourteen years ago)

those look classical to me!

http://io9.com/5616498/ultraviolet-light-reveals-how-ancient-greek-statues-really-looked

― Mannsplain Steamroller (goole), Thursday, 4 November 2010 21:20 (fourteen years ago)

ROGER CLEMENS

http://images5a.snapfish.com/232323232%7Ffp6339%3B%3Enu%3D47%3C3%3E%3A54%3E255%3EWSNRCG%3D334%3B47%3A783346nu0mrj

― http://tinyurl.com/koalalala (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 5 November 2010 15:10 (fourteen years ago)

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/1557/kevindurantstatue.gif

― http://tinyurl.com/koalalala (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 5 November 2010 15:10 (fourteen years ago)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__6db0wLu-YE/SElL7h5H3dI/AAAAAAAAApA/s0RCNaNVjUQ/s320/250px-Frank_Zappa_Bust.jpg

― am0n, Friday, 5 November 2010 15:27 (fourteen years ago)

Much love, but that actually looks like an awesome statue/bust.

― http://tinyurl.com/koalalala (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 5 November 2010 15:30 (fourteen years ago)

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/midnight_sun/blog/zappastatue.jpg

― am0n, Friday, 5 November 2010 15:32 (fourteen years ago)

Oh. Didn't see the party in the back.

― http://tinyurl.com/koalalala (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 5 November 2010 15:32 (fourteen years ago)

is that durant or jordan

― am0n, Friday, 5 November 2010 16:11 (fourteen years ago)

those faces look like forensic reconstructions of missing persons

― am0n, Friday, 5 November 2010 16:13 (fourteen years ago)

http://i810.photobucket.com/albums/zz30/knicabokerjs/article-1317267-0B716BF0000005DC-634_964x603-2.jpg

― am0n, Friday, 5 November 2010 16:15 (fourteen years ago)

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w118/vangyjo/Untitled-4.gif

― http://tinyurl.com/koalalala (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 5 November 2010 16:18 (fourteen years ago)

five months pass...

Why did I not find this until 5 p.m. CDT on a Friday?

http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/.element/img/4.0/global/swapper/201104/110408.04.jpg

― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 8 April 2011 21:59 (fourteen years ago)

the statue's pretty bad, too

― fat fat fat fat Usher (DJP), Friday, 8 April 2011 22:00 (fourteen years ago)

http://jeffpicard.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/rim-shot-johnny-utah.thumbnail.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 April 2011 22:02 (fourteen years ago)

please tip your servers, folks

― fat fat fat fat Usher (DJP), Friday, 8 April 2011 22:05 (fourteen years ago)

God help us all if I catch any of this on the excelsior thread.

― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 8 April 2011 22:06 (fourteen years ago)

hahahaha

― fat fat fat fat Usher (DJP), Friday, 8 April 2011 22:06 (fourteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

http://media.nj.com/springsteen/photo/9554930-large.jpg

― mizzell, Saturday, 7 May 2011 19:54 (fourteen years ago)

What in the

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 7 May 2011 20:23 (fourteen years ago)

beautiful

― markers, Saturday, 7 May 2011 20:25 (fourteen years ago)

If you're some ugly-ass alien.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 7 May 2011 20:30 (fourteen years ago)

Why does he look like Picard with a sweatband?

― corey, Saturday, 7 May 2011 20:41 (fourteen years ago)

God that is terrifying

― VegemiteGrrl, Saturday, 7 May 2011 20:46 (fourteen years ago)

have they stopped teaching sculpture class at art schools or something?

― scott seward, Saturday, 7 May 2011 20:48 (fourteen years ago)

sculpted from memory

― VegemiteGrrl, Saturday, 7 May 2011 21:08 (fourteen years ago)

I had no idea the Boss suffered from acromegaly!

― offee is for losers only, do you not c? (Abbbottt), Saturday, 7 May 2011 21:09 (fourteen years ago)

Soulful Humanitarian indeed!!

― last night a bj saved my life (absolutely clean glasses), Saturday, 7 May 2011 21:29 (fourteen years ago)

I didn't know there was more than one Bruce Springsteen.

― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 7 May 2011 22:04 (fourteen years ago)

Bruce Springstein

― VegemiteGrrl, Saturday, 7 May 2011 23:00 (fourteen years ago)

Hello, is it Brooce you're looking for?

― The man who mistook his life for a FAP (Trayce), Sunday, 8 May 2011 04:45 (fourteen years ago)

FTW

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 8 May 2011 04:45 (fourteen years ago)

And seeing as my pic upthread now seems gone, I have to repost it because I remain utterly baffled by this statue (which is located about 5 mins down the road from me at the local town hall)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_F-LyTrM0YP0/Rhrz4cHbqKI/AAAAAAAAAeY/4cOfq9AlzMo/s400/stkildastatue.jpg

The chap in the sculpture looks like he's lying back enjoying a lazy bj. With snakes. And a plane. And a temple.

Wut.

― The man who mistook his life for a FAP (Trayce), Sunday, 8 May 2011 04:47 (fourteen years ago)

two months pass...

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6150/5922115255_bc4254999d_z.jpg
as if the British Government hadn't already done enough to Alan Turing, he must now suffer this posthumous indignity

― the tune is space, Sunday, 10 July 2011 21:41 (fourteen years ago)

oh god no

;_;

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 July 2011 22:12 (fourteen years ago)

I've seen that statue of Nathaniel Bedford Forrest! Somewhere in TN amiright? I remember asking 'wtf is that' and someone explaining the KKK thing and me just thinking aaah the south.

― owenf, Sunday, 10 July 2011 22:13 (fourteen years ago)

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/50/92/1509266_180577ba.jpg

more sculpture than statue.
Nr Peterborough. Love the fact that most people think it's a pile of rubbish but kind of accept that it's there anyway.

― owenf, Sunday, 10 July 2011 22:15 (fourteen years ago)

Scrap metal yards would look so much nicer if they polished their goods...

That's just...well, bad.

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 July 2011 22:18 (fourteen years ago)

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/midnight_sun/blog/zappastatue.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ka/thumb/5/58/SimpsonsMPG_7G07.jpg/250px-SimpsonsMPG_7G07.jpg

― Kerm, Sunday, 10 July 2011 22:19 (fourteen years ago)

Anyone else think the Springsteen statue looks like Midnight Oil's Peter Garrett?

― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 10 July 2011 22:36 (fourteen years ago)

That Turing statue can't be all bad, it fooled this dog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8DiOthAKek

― ledge, Sunday, 10 July 2011 22:47 (fourteen years ago)

in fact you might say it ... passed the turing test

― ledge, Sunday, 10 July 2011 22:48 (fourteen years ago)

I'm guessing that most of the artists responsible for these monstrosities didn't have enormously glittering careers. The one obvious exception is Zurab Tereteli who, despite being one of the least talented people to ever pick up a chisel, has somehow made astronomical amounts of money and landed the position of President of the Russian Academy of the Arts.

Tear Of Grief upthread (offered to Jersey City who refused it) is the classic but he's got so many in his locker. This was originally meant to be Columbus and offered to the US who, again, rejected it so it was rebranded as Peter The Great.

http://i.imgur.com/RDsfs.jpg

His Balzac was meant to be a gift to the people of Paris who, yet again, said thank you but no thank you. It's in a small town on the south coast now.

http://i.imgur.com/CFp9I.jpg

Due to his relationship with the Luzhkovs, Moscow's littered with his appalling art.

― модный хипстер (ShariVari), Sunday, 10 July 2011 22:59 (fourteen years ago)

holy crap. they're like overdecorated christmas trees of sadness. I don't even...

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 06:42 (fourteen years ago)

This frog eyed monstrosity just off the top Of Gt Portland St in London
http://img3.photographersdirect.com/img/13725/wm/pd432137.jpg

― solfege made me schizophrenic (MaresNest), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 08:51 (fourteen years ago)

Close up
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2035/5697472022_423b5c79ff.jpg

― solfege made me schizophrenic (MaresNest), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 08:52 (fourteen years ago)

http://img3.photographersdirect.com/img/13725/wm/pd432137.jpg http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/9021/troymcclure3ec.jpg

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 14:47 (fourteen years ago)

I love how if you Google Image search "Pat Tillman Statue", ilxor.com is on the first page with this pic:

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/7076/nbfs2xr2.gif

Wonder how many people end up on this thread from that...

― phil-two, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 17:45 (fourteen years ago)

Last month, I drove through Council Bluffs and passed through this foreboding gauntlet of spires, which I can only assume is a tribute to the incarcerated men and women of Iowa who risk life and limb to remove garbage from the side of I-80.

http://www.publicartandpractice.com/images/24thstbridge_large_18.jpg

― del griffith, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:03 (fourteen years ago)

sounds correct

― mh, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:05 (fourteen years ago)

It's sort of difficult to see these statues, but they used to piss me off so bad when I worked in that part of town.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3541/3627174592_f3e474e259.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4016/4611974340_ed3a823960.jpg

― kkvgz, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:16 (fourteen years ago)

so much butts

― kkvgz, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:21 (fourteen years ago)

unintentionally homoerotic sports statutes

― relentlessly googling hipster (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:25 (fourteen years ago)

I don't think I would be erotic for these statues if I was a homo.

― kkvgz, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:30 (fourteen years ago)

That's the Federal Reserve Board in pic 2.

― kkvgz, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:32 (fourteen years ago)

a lot of these seem pretty successful to me. i mean, the pat tillman statue is obviously horrid (as are that insanely godawful 9/11 memorial, "martin luther king," hendrix & mr. rogers, lolocaust mem, texas footballers, malformed kennedy, overpass atrocities) but many of the others are far more funny, strange and/or intriguing than most public sculpture.

love the face-making mounted rider, the christ of the ozarks (amazing!), the polish WWII memorial, queen charlotte, bat-signal, astor place cube, anatomically correct fattys, prague weirdness, crazy guy with snakes & a plane. even the baseballers are okay. their worst crime is blandness.

― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 19:46 (fourteen years ago)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-zOrAL1V5Jg/THtyB9MTmwI/AAAAAAAAHEI/TJJS_DaWu5w/s1600/6.JPG

― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 20:01 (fourteen years ago)

that, otoh, is some hideous shit

― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 21:21 (fourteen years ago)

Speaking of baffling "gateway" sculputres on freeways, this is what greets visitors entering melbourne from the airport road:

http://i.pbase.com/o6/99/380799/1/33201038.P7Bxx7vU.CITYLINK.jpg

― Bloompsday (Trayce), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 23:52 (fourteen years ago)

The I AM A GIANT CHEESE STICK AND I WILL CRUSH U sculpture.

― Bloompsday (Trayce), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 23:53 (fourteen years ago)

frankly baffled

― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 23:53 (fourteen years ago)

I... like some of these

― i hate it when rats eat my bushels (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 23:54 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/RDsfs.jpg

like okay yes this is totally ridiculous and looks like something from a Terry Gilliam movie but I find that kind of endearing

― i hate it when rats eat my bushels (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 23:54 (fourteen years ago)

contenderizer: I do like the snakes/plane/man sculpture i posted btw! I just think it is a bizarre thing to have in front of a city hall. And on googling about it yesterday I found an article where the sculptor himself apparently said "thats still there? I made that as a joke".

― Bloompsday (Trayce), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 23:56 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.seattleoutdoorart.com/images/EpicenterBuildingD.jpg

less public sculpture than gaudi fail, but still atrocious

― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 14 July 2011 00:05 (fourteen years ago)

and shakey OTM about the endearing ridiculousness of tereteli's columbus (like his balzac, too)

― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 14 July 2011 00:07 (fourteen years ago)

WOuld totally live in that apartment block!

― Bloompsday (Trayce), Thursday, 14 July 2011 00:09 (fourteen years ago)

it's certainly cheerful! http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 14 July 2011 00:13 (fourteen years ago)

Jim's statue heavily influenced by Bjork in the Big Time Sensuality video I think.

― solfege made me schizophrenic (MaresNest), Thursday, 14 July 2011 08:38 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

I don't think it's uglier than the Pat Tillman statue. Hell, it ain't even the ugliest MLK statue.

But.

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/1484/bildesz.jpg

That is one angry looking peacemaker. Looks like if you piss him off, he's going to come out of that brick and whack you across the head with his rolled-up paper. His coming out of the mountain, leaving the two sides of it behind, either reminds me of one of the Buddhas that got blown up by the Taliban or some sort of weird Wile E. Coyote episode they took off the air in the early 70s.

And least his hands aren't up like Han Solo's.

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 22 August 2011 14:48 (fourteen years ago)

― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 August 2011 14:57 (fourteen years ago)

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/8.VQXSUYD7C9EvMj_GJ1qQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD02MzA7cT04NTt3PTM5MA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/9b408463c3b78212f60e6a706700e077.jpg

"Hey, HEY, Josh Turbin! You know better than to run in the halls like that."

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 22 August 2011 20:56 (fourteen years ago)

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/F4YEzCjIHJp2TfmCZwznDQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00MTM7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/64035c1fc3ba8212f60e6a706700818e.jpg

"Stay back from the gate. The band's not coming out for another 45 minutes."

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 22 August 2011 20:57 (fourteen years ago)

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/t6gusUqhe0Zf4kwaCbEzGQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00MDQ7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/963ca097d8299a12f60e6a7067001875.jpg

"Swear this train gets later every morning."

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 22 August 2011 20:57 (fourteen years ago)

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Qf4xeTy5qbuF4Z4Zken0kQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00MjE7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/0aed628cd8299a12f60e6a7067007765.jpg

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 22 August 2011 20:59 (fourteen years ago)

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/TDDZsPXtVpup6CL9JkJsCQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD02MzA7cT04NTt3PTQyMQ--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/23e0d082d7239512f60e6a706700cda3.jpg

"No! Watch the defense! SPREAD! SPREAD! Get away from that guy, Scotty. A FOUL? Godammit…"

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 22 August 2011 21:02 (fourteen years ago)

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/mTeaMQOlxNDlJejpNNuVwQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00MjA7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/gettyimages.com/media-preview-held-martin-luther-20110822-095715-486.jpg
And through the window in the wall, come streaming in on sunlight wings,
A million bright ambassadors of morning…

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 22 August 2011 21:04 (fourteen years ago)

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/.7nFf6ytKP70vWem5QC.iw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00MTA7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/513007f3c3b08212f60e6a706700652e.jpg

"Makin' fun of my statue on ILX, tsk tsk. I don't see any North Korean statues that are so goddamm funny on this thread, now do I?"

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 22 August 2011 21:06 (fourteen years ago)

That statue is actually a fine likeness, but yeah... wow.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 22 August 2011 21:24 (fourteen years ago)

this isn't ugly, it's hysterical & great but i didn't know where else to put it.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/erica/817/bunny01.jpg

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/erica/817/add02.jpg

― jed_, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 22:18 (fourteen years ago)

i love it!

― ledge, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 23:30 (fourteen years ago)

btw talking of giant stuffed rabbits...

― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 10:36 (fourteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://sports.cbsimg.net/images/visual/whatshot/shaquille-oneal-statue-1.jpg

http://image.cdnl3.xosnetwork.com/pics32/800/VM/VMVIDXANIDJDSKF.20110909004747.jpg

If I lived in Baton Rouge, I know what my Halloween costume would be this year.

― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 9 September 2011 14:11 (fourteen years ago)

That's pretty rad.

― kkvgz, Friday, 9 September 2011 14:25 (fourteen years ago)

Statues look a bit odd when they're action shots in the first place (see OP), but when you start adding little props like one-quarter of a backboard that looks like a broken piece of plywood or the hardwood opening up like bamboo sticks, I think you're taking your subject into a much more surreal place than intended.

But it's LSU, not Statuary Hall. It's not like they could feature him making a free throw.

― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 9 September 2011 14:43 (fourteen years ago)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2006/06/12/2003057156.jpg

― The Reverend, Friday, 9 September 2011 20:25 (fourteen years ago)

Not an actual statue right? One of those "guys"?

― kkvgz, Friday, 9 September 2011 22:59 (fourteen years ago)

in front of baltimore's penn station
http://www.writingcentralbaltimore.com/wcb_spring10/lib/exe/fetch.php?cache=&media=male_female_statue.jpg

― erschloraque, Saturday, 10 September 2011 01:30 (fourteen years ago)

and by night
http://uncubedmedia.com/Vision/images/20080619153822_penn_station_statue.jpg

― erschloraque, Saturday, 10 September 2011 01:31 (fourteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

Oh boy...

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/7/2011/10/111007schwarz.jpg

― Hills Like White Broncos (EDB), Saturday, 8 October 2011 09:01 (thirteen years ago)

So is that the winner for "veiniest statue ever"?

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 October 2011 17:30 (thirteen years ago)

just checking the butt is sufficiently taut, there

― honest weights, square dealings (schlump), Saturday, 8 October 2011 18:05 (thirteen years ago)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-i8pLFcO0tzI/TkTwhyEfm7I/AAAAAAAAhg4/1jRwupinA-I/s640/ENTER%252520TV-HAPPYDAYS%252520MW.jpg

― Rory's new misogynist car (Gukbe), Saturday, 8 October 2011 19:28 (thirteen years ago)

huh, kinda neat having such symmetrical posts, a pic of the arnie statue next to a picture of T-1000

― honest weights, square dealings (schlump), Saturday, 8 October 2011 19:29 (thirteen years ago)

Bronzie

― corey, Saturday, 8 October 2011 20:26 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0107/ncf_a_paterno_600.jpg

― am0n, Monday, 14 November 2011 16:38 (thirteen years ago)

six months pass...

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4a3gyQ86j1qfy8bao1_500.jpg

― mookieproof, Saturday, 19 May 2012 21:23 (thirteen years ago)

balls of wax

― pplains, Saturday, 19 May 2012 22:02 (thirteen years ago)

I know it makes me a bad Chicagoan but I hate this statute so much:

http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000EEmNBoBJjd8/s/750/600/DSC-1928-Harry-Caray-Statue-Wrigley-Field.jpg

― carl agatha, Saturday, 19 May 2012 22:42 (thirteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/118/251911874_c90185435d.jpg

RARRRRRRR IMA EATCHOOOO

― carl agatha, Saturday, 19 May 2012 22:43 (thirteen years ago)

And this by where I work, which I don't mind aesthetically as much as I object to its frequent use as an open-air public urinal:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2011-08/64292445.jpg

― carl agatha, Saturday, 19 May 2012 22:46 (thirteen years ago)

good lord what is that terrifying frank costanza monstrosity, why are there children ossified in his legs?

― the fey monster (ledge), Saturday, 19 May 2012 22:51 (thirteen years ago)

ledge, he's a former mayor of Chicago who was forced to resign after the remains of ossified children were found in his umbrella can.

http://p.twimg.com/As4BwoyCIAEsOKj.jpg

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/pBU5e2HqcrA/hqdefault.jpg

http://art.newcity.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/BS98_The_Ghost_of_Harry_Caray.jpg

Either that, or he was the longtime announcer for the Chicago Cubs. I can never remember. </cardinals_fan>

― pplains, Saturday, 19 May 2012 23:01 (thirteen years ago)

The ossified children remind me of the kids under the robe of the Spirit of Chirstmas Yet to Come. Or something from one of the Nightmare on Elm St. Sequels, though I can't place which one. It's so bad, though.

― carl agatha, Saturday, 19 May 2012 23:45 (thirteen years ago)

also they look like diarrhea children :/

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 May 2012 01:05 (thirteen years ago)

I love this thread."turds in the plaza" made me burst out laughing.

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Sunday, 20 May 2012 03:25 (thirteen years ago)

Pretty sure I'm going to have nightmares of that balloon tonight, see you all again at 4 am CDT.

― pplains, Sunday, 20 May 2012 04:35 (thirteen years ago)

http://cityofwalnutridge.com/wp-content/gallery/beatles-walnut-ridge-ar/abbey-road-night-1.jpg

― pplains, Thursday, 24 May 2012 04:07 (thirteen years ago)

Man those are some crummy ass sillouhetes.

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, 24 May 2012 04:34 (thirteen years ago)

Lennon looks like Teenwolf

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 May 2012 05:22 (thirteen years ago)

hahaha

― carl agatha, Thursday, 24 May 2012 12:33 (thirteen years ago)

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4uzpcOqHJ1qzv9mho1_500.jpg

― mizzell, Thursday, 31 May 2012 15:06 (thirteen years ago)

you see there?

― pplains, Thursday, 31 May 2012 15:08 (thirteen years ago)

Every time I see that Pat Tillman statue, I hear him saying "IS THAT ALL YOU GOT?!" as he goes out in a Scarface-like blaze.

― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Thursday, 31 May 2012 15:10 (thirteen years ago)

omg mizzell, everything about that picture is fantastic

― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Thursday, 31 May 2012 15:11 (thirteen years ago)

l-r:

B-x, 12, o_O

― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Thursday, 31 May 2012 15:13 (thirteen years ago)

that photo should be captioned "the world's greatest side-eye"

― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Thursday, 31 May 2012 15:14 (thirteen years ago)

Haha totally!

― carl agatha, Thursday, 31 May 2012 16:24 (thirteen years ago)

I complained about the stern expression given to the Man of Peace earlier, but now I think it's going to be appropriate with summer tourists milling about.

― pplains, Thursday, 31 May 2012 16:39 (thirteen years ago)

ya totally, that picture is exhibit A as to why that stern expression was totally OTM and an eerily prescient call on the part of the sculptor

― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Thursday, 31 May 2012 16:44 (thirteen years ago)

especially when we get the tourist snap of the girl with the thong hanging out the back of her jeans.
I look forward to many MLK stern appraisals

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 May 2012 16:48 (thirteen years ago)

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/usakennedyj2.jpg

― pplains, Thursday, 31 May 2012 17:08 (thirteen years ago)

I don't exactly HATE these sculptures near the Minneapolis Government Plaza, but...

http://www.emporis.com/images/show/535291-Large.jpg

― Soccer mom, hopeless and lost, in utter despair (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 31 May 2012 17:33 (thirteen years ago)

which ones? that pic is dead

― goole, Thursday, 31 May 2012 17:34 (thirteen years ago)

http://theloopny.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Paige-Bradley_Expansion-low-res-530x407.jpg

my mom made a painting a lot like this. it was a difficult weekend

― ⦧(^_^)⦦ ♫ \(' )/ ♪ \(' o ')/ ♬ ⦧( ')⦦ ♪ ⦧(- ̺-)⦦ (dsvoris), Thursday, 31 May 2012 17:40 (thirteen years ago)

http://0.tqn.com/d/themeparks/1/0/K/P/TGE6.jpg

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 May 2012 17:44 (thirteen years ago)

WHA HAPPEN

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 May 2012 17:46 (thirteen years ago)

The egg? Its from The Great Escape theme park in Lake George new Yrok - which is full of similar depressing failures

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 May 2012 17:47 (thirteen years ago)

http://images.travelpod.com/cache/tripwow/autoplay/ta-00af-47c4-82ae-aplay-ta-fb.large.jpg

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 May 2012 17:51 (thirteen years ago)

i love the egg! haha! hes adorable.

― ⦧(^_^)⦦ ♫ \(' )/ ♪ \(' o ')/ ♬ ⦧( ')⦦ ♪ ⦧(- ̺-)⦦ (dsvoris), Thursday, 31 May 2012 17:51 (thirteen years ago)

which ones? that pic is dead
― goole, Thursday, May 31, 2012 12:34 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hmm, I see them on my end. These guys:

http://www.tomostudio.com/exhibitions_rockman.html

― Soccer mom, hopeless and lost, in utter despair (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 31 May 2012 17:53 (thirteen years ago)

^^^^pretty sure Laurie Moore used to work at this theme park, as Snow White or something.

oops xpost

― quincie, Thursday, 31 May 2012 17:54 (thirteen years ago)

huh. i don't think i've ever paid those any attention

― goole, Thursday, 31 May 2012 17:55 (thirteen years ago)

fun fact: those grassy berms are not just creative landscaping, they're designed to keep cars from driving through the front door.

― goole, Thursday, 31 May 2012 17:56 (thirteen years ago)

Foiled by landscaping!

― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Thursday, 31 May 2012 17:57 (thirteen years ago)

also i believe the whole plaza has an empty chamber underneath it, and it's designed to crack under the weight of a truck. built after OKC, obv. but i don't remember where i heard this.

― goole, Thursday, 31 May 2012 17:59 (thirteen years ago)

The Great Escape also had this weird racially questionable african man in a "jungle" area that was a robot and it used to say "welcome to my jungle" from behind the bushes

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:00 (thirteen years ago)

haha, isnt that the dude that starved a dog to death for an art show?

― ⦧(^_^)⦦ ♫ \(' )/ ♪ \(' o ')/ ♬ ⦧( ')⦦ ♪ ⦧(- ̺-)⦦ (dsvoris), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:02 (thirteen years ago)

Otterness that is

― ⦧(^_^)⦦ ♫ \(' )/ ♪ \(' o ')/ ♬ ⦧( ')⦦ ♪ ⦧(- ̺-)⦦ (dsvoris), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:02 (thirteen years ago)

The Great Escape also had this weird racially questionable african man in a "jungle" area that was a robot and it used to say "welcome to my jungle" from behind the bushes

I know there's an Axl joke in there somewhere but I can't be bothered

― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:04 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.jungny.com/images.jungian.therapy.analysis/artemis.ephesus.jpg

that enough mammary mounds for ya?

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:09 (thirteen years ago)

xp he shot a dog for a film, apparently

― goole, Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:11 (thirteen years ago)

did the dog die?

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:15 (thirteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Otterness#Controversy

― goole, Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:17 (thirteen years ago)

First I've heard of that. The Rockman statues are just whimsically silly, and not to my liking, but that dog story is reprehensible. Guess what, I don't forgive you.

― Soccer mom, hopeless and lost, in utter despair (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:27 (thirteen years ago)

If he shot a chicken no one would care

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:29 (thirteen years ago)

pretty much

― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:29 (thirteen years ago)

no one cared what happened to the chicken in Pink Flamnigoes

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:38 (thirteen years ago)

In his book Shock Value Waters claims they ate the chicken afterwards, and wonders why anyone who eats meat would have an issue with that scene. Sorta agree, although I have a hard time with that scene.

― Soccer mom, hopeless and lost, in utter despair (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:44 (thirteen years ago)

that scene showed me just how deep the darkness can go

― ⦧(^_^)⦦ ♫ \(' )/ ♪ \(' o ')/ ♬ ⦧( ')⦦ ♪ ⦧(- ̺-)⦦ (dsvoris), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:45 (thirteen years ago)

sorry but birds are fucking asshole dinosaurs. we owe them nothing. dogs have been our friends for eons, we owe them.

― ⦧(^_^)⦦ ♫ \(' )/ ♪ \(' o ')/ ♬ ⦧( ')⦦ ♪ ⦧(- ̺-)⦦ (dsvoris), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:47 (thirteen years ago)

we owe them kibble. that is their payment for services.

I wish all those John Waters moveis were edited, censored, beucase the parts I like most are the dialogue, costumes, story etc - I want neuter versions

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:50 (thirteen years ago)

ya i could skip the rape-by-chicken stuff and still have a good, dirty time. the poop eating can stay tho. kinda mezmerizing @o@

― ⦧(^_^)⦦ ♫ \(' )/ ♪ \(' o ')/ ♬ ⦧( ')⦦ ♪ ⦧(- ̺-)⦦ (dsvoris), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:58 (thirteen years ago)

When the Uglier Than the Pat Tillman Statue thread gets ugly.

― pplains, Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:03 (thirteen years ago)

Pat Tillman probably never saw a John Waters movie

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:06 (thirteen years ago)

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/32/49/1324915_01ac8e53.jpg

― the fey monster (ledge), Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:08 (thirteen years ago)

And Waters hates sports, so I'm sure he never saw Tillman.

― Soccer mom, hopeless and lost, in utter despair (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:08 (thirteen years ago)

okay what the shit is that

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:09 (thirteen years ago)

it's a running clock of course.

glasgow buchanan st bus station.

― the fey monster (ledge), Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:10 (thirteen years ago)

to back up for a sec, that harry carey statue is horrible

― goole, Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:10 (thirteen years ago)

http://images.morrissey-solo.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/normal_morrisseybobbleheadsmall.jpg

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:11 (thirteen years ago)

literally would like to punch that clock

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:11 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.pressherald.com/news/panel-votes-to-move-artwork_2010-11-18.html

local news to amuse

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:15 (thirteen years ago)

i hope the terrorists take this horrible thing out of my life forever:

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/90/249864046_8448edab6b_z.jpg

― ⦧(^_^)⦦ ♫ \(' )/ ♪ \(' o ')/ ♬ ⦧( ')⦦ ♪ ⦧(- ̺-)⦦ (dsvoris), Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:16 (thirteen years ago)

I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder - in this case someone who likes parts taht are left over after you cut something out of leather

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:26 (thirteen years ago)

it looks like an abstract bird flip

― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:27 (thirteen years ago)

I wish all those John Waters moveis were edited, censored, beucase the parts I like most are the dialogue, costumes, story etc - I want neuter versions

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, May 31, 2012 2:50 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i made the mistake of renting A Dirty Shame from Blockbuster and it had definitely beed edited.

― mizzell, Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:31 (thirteen years ago)

I own that - I have not seen the non-neuter version

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:47 (thirteen years ago)

i think its supposed to be an abstracted antelope on a boat (im not kidding, im pretty sure thats the real story). its an african thing, but it's still barf-a-licious. what really kills me are the fucking black marble caskets radiating around it.

― ⦧(^_^)⦦ ♫ \(' )/ ♪ \(' o ')/ ♬ ⦧( ')⦦ ♪ ⦧(- ̺-)⦦ (dsvoris), Thursday, 31 May 2012 20:36 (thirteen years ago)

xp and that clock. i hate it so much

― ⦧(^_^)⦦ ♫ \(' )/ ♪ \(' o ')/ ♬ ⦧( ')⦦ ♪ ⦧(- ̺-)⦦ (dsvoris), Thursday, 31 May 2012 20:36 (thirteen years ago)

it looks like an abstract bird flip

I had the same thought!

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Friday, 1 June 2012 05:09 (thirteen years ago)

always considered it a hammer

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 00:46 (thirteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6jnqpM8dw1qd9bz1o1_500.jpg

― mizzell, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 05:15 (thirteen years ago)

GAH

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 05:22 (thirteen years ago)

those are bong-pulling lips.

― goat news for people who love boat news (how's life), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 11:59 (thirteen years ago)

leave unwanted babies in here

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 12:48 (thirteen years ago)

lol

― carl agatha, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 15:33 (thirteen years ago)

three months pass...

"WHERE ARE YOU?"

http://schistory.net/springsofgrace3/devotional/Moses/moseswithhornsonthecolonnadellimmacolata.jpg

*"here."*

― pplains, Thursday, 25 October 2012 14:20 (twelve years ago)

I'm not crazy about the finished Crazy Horse, I think it looks more impressive and cool unfinished. I mean, the unfinished version has a natural authority about it and the model looks too European.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/56/Crazy-horse-comparison.jpg

― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Marian, Shut Up (Mount Cleaners), Thursday, 25 October 2012 14:53 (twelve years ago)

five months pass...

Apparently, Vlad's head got smashed in by some vandals. So a sculptor was commissioned to recreate the bust which led to ...

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/185ad3hnga2u8jpg/original.jpg

― pplains, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 14:04 (twelve years ago)

four months pass...

http://patdollard.com/2013/03/americas-deadliest-sniper-chris-kyle-immortalized/

http://i.imgur.com/rGyxYOO.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/NGsPr6U.jpg

― Remember! The cormorant is a big brrd. It has got a long neck. (unregistered), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 01:08 (twelve years ago)

http://www.yousuckatcraigslist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/573.jpg

― Plasmon, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:39 (twelve years ago)

lolol

― carl agatha, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:50 (twelve years ago)

everyone needs to read the newyorker article abt that dude

― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 22:49 (twelve years ago)

Does it just focus on his solo stuff or does it go into his years with the Commodores?

― pplains, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 23:07 (twelve years ago)

Kyle and Rury had not seen each other during the decade that Kyle was in the Navy. But they picked up where they left off, pulling pranks on each other. Several times, Rury sneaked up Kyle’s driveway in the middle of the night and slapped pro-Obama bumper stickers on his truck. (Kyle was a fervent Republican.) In retaliation, Kyle pasted one on Rury’s truck that declared “I Love Black Cock.”

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 23:14 (twelve years ago)

The SEALs began telling stories, and Kyle offered a shocking one. In the days after Hurricane Katrina, he said, the law-and-order situation was dire. He and another sniper travelled to New Orleans, set up on top of the Superdome, and proceeded to shoot dozens of armed residents who were contributing to the chaos. Three people shared with me varied recollections of that evening: the first said that Kyle claimed to have shot thirty men on his own; according to the second, the story was that Kyle and the other sniper had shot thirty men between them; the third said that she couldn’t recall specific details.

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 23:20 (twelve years ago)

the Katrina story can't be true, can it? that's fucked up.

― Remember! The cormorant is a big brrd. It has got a long neck. (unregistered), Friday, 30 August 2013 04:12 (twelve years ago)

His statue appears to made of delicious milk chocolate, so at least it won't be around long.

― Domo Arigato, Demi Lovato (Phil D.), Friday, 30 August 2013 09:36 (twelve years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/BraveStatue_1200x1600.jpg

― fit and working again, Monday, 2 September 2013 21:02 (twelve years ago)

sorry it's upthread already

― fit and working again, Monday, 2 September 2013 21:03 (twelve years ago)

it's a good one though. not only is it a comically hideous statue, it's a comically hideous statue of that great scottish hero... mel gibson.

― Clyde One DJ Diane “Knoxy” Knox-Campbell (Merdeyeux), Monday, 2 September 2013 21:13 (twelve years ago)

In 1997, a 12-ton sandstone statue depicting Mel Gibson as William Wallace in Braveheart was placed in the car park of the Wallace Monument near Stirling, Scotland. The statue, which was the work of Tom Church, a monumental mason from Brechin,[20] included the word "Braveheart" on Wallace's shield. The installation became the cause of much controversy; one local resident stated that it was wrong to "desecrate the main memorial to Wallace with a lump of crap."[21] In 1998 the face on the statue was vandalised by someone wielding a hammer. After repairs were made, the statue was encased in a cage every night to prevent further vandalism. This only incited more calls for the statue to be removed as it then appeared that the Gibson/Wallace figure was imprisoned. The statue was described as "among the most loathed pieces of public art in Scotland."[22] In 2008, the statue was returned to its sculptor to make room for a new visitor centre being built at the foot of the Wallace Monument.[23]

― sleepingsignal, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 01:17 (twelve years ago)

four months pass...

I . . . don't know if this is actually uglier or not. I'd like to see the final sculpted version. It IS hilarious, though.

The Satanic church that applied for a permit to erect a monument to Satan next to the Ten Commandments monument at the Oklahoma state-capitol building has unveiled its proposed design.

The 7-ft.-tall (2.1 m) sculpture would feature Satan depicted in the form of Baphomet, a bearded, goat-headed, winged hominid with horns seated on a throne beneath a pentagram with two smiling children to either side.

Read more: Oklahoma: Satanic Temple Unveils Monument for Capitol | TIME.com http://nation.time.com/2014/01/07/satanists-unveil-statue-for-oklahoma-capitol/#ixzz2piqf5tck

http://timemilitary.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/satan-monument.jpg?w=753

― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 14:19 (eleven years ago)

Boy kinda looks like young Obama.

which .... come to think of it...

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1042840/thumbs/o-SATAN-OBAMA-570.jpg

― pplains, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 14:36 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

Kurt is crying, y'all

http://www.angelfire.com/nb/devyl/statue3.jpg

― imago draggin' (The Reverend), Friday, 21 February 2014 21:49 (eleven years ago)

http://www.angelfire.com/nb/devyl/statue1.jpg

― fit and working again, Friday, 21 February 2014 22:00 (eleven years ago)

With a mop on his head.

― nickn, Friday, 21 February 2014 22:50 (eleven years ago)

are you guys really trolling me in 2014 by trygin to link to images hosted on angelfire

― AIDS (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 21 February 2014 23:05 (eleven years ago)

they were working earlier

http://media.komonews.com/images/140220_Kurt_Cobain_Aberdeen_11.jpg

― sleepingsignal, Saturday, 22 February 2014 00:33 (eleven years ago)

Man, It's hard to believe Kurt Cobain has been dead for 20 years but Angelfire still exists.

― Tuomas, Saturday, 22 February 2014 00:36 (eleven years ago)

lol

― AIDS (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 22 February 2014 00:45 (eleven years ago)

http://deathandtaxesmag.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/statue3.jpg

― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Saturday, 22 February 2014 02:58 (eleven years ago)

less ugly than odd: the boll weevil monument
http://azweird.com/img/arts/2010/Dec/07/756/boll_thumb.jpg

― fit and working again, Saturday, 22 February 2014 03:12 (eleven years ago)

The original statue of the woman, excluding the fountain and boll weevil, was built in Italy for approximately $1,800. The boll weevil was not added until thirty years later, when Luther Baker thought the Boll Weevil Monument should have a boll weevil on it. He made the boll weevil and mounted it atop the statue.

The boll weevil, and sometimes even the entire monument, has been stolen many times throughout the years. Each time it was found and repaired by the city of Enterprise until July 11, 1998. On that day vandals ripped the boll weevil out of the statue's hands and permanently damaged the statue. City leaders were going to repair the original statue and put it back, but it proved too difficult and costly. A polymer-resin replica was erected in its place in downtown Enterprise in 1998, and the original is on display at Enterprise's Depot Museum, a few hundred feet away at 106 Railroad Street. There is a security camera nearby that monitors the monument for further vandalism.

― balls, Saturday, 22 February 2014 04:40 (eleven years ago)

got to give it up to alabama, they're not half bad at this public sculpture thing

― balls, Saturday, 22 February 2014 04:40 (eleven years ago)

had no idea bollweevils made it out of the South, much less outside the USA:

http://www.stewpig.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Mascots-and-cheerleaders-30.jpg

(not a statue, but a mascot.)

― pplains, Saturday, 22 February 2014 04:43 (eleven years ago)

four months pass...

silent but deadly immortalized in bronze

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4tSpsukkfU8/TonkUv19MoI/AAAAAAAALhk/OqpsOljaLoY/s1600/poe-statue-02.jpg

― ⓢⓗⓘⓣ (am0n), Monday, 14 July 2014 17:27 (eleven years ago)

Edgar Allen Poe-My-Finger

― Queef Latina (Phil D.), Monday, 14 July 2014 17:32 (eleven years ago)

"Dude, you're too drink. I'm not giving you the keys."

"Wait... Wait... Look... I'm fine... hold on a ."

― pplains, Monday, 14 July 2014 17:39 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

http://i.imgur.com/5g3GHYK.jpg

― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Friday, 22 August 2014 16:32 (eleven years ago)

oof

― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 22 August 2014 17:55 (eleven years ago)

I bet he would have appreciated a little help with the belly/pants fit thing. But I dunno the poorly fitting shirt may be awesome, I can't decide.

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 22 August 2014 18:09 (eleven years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/9/14/1410700429972/Amy-Winehouse-statue-005.jpg

― ledge, Sunday, 14 September 2014 16:50 (eleven years ago)

just literally said "oh no" out loud

― The Reverend, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 00:00 (eleven years ago)

laser eyes for sure

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 00:02 (eleven years ago)

Better yet

http://www.bikehugger.com/images/blog/lazer_boob_bike_safe.jpg

― carl agatha, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 03:33 (eleven years ago)

loool

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 04:45 (eleven years ago)

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/140916151034-09-selfies-0917-horizontal-large-gallery.jpg

― alanbatman (abanana), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 22:31 (eleven years ago)

on the upside, the statue looks a little better

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 23:33 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

Congratulations New Jersey

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10153776_1500490630221399_9094586965482786802_n.jpg?oh=0d44626483c9cc582de42d4389bb909b&oe=54F4AA08&__gda__=1424686897_4957a8e90a5b2ff085507600f0f89c5b

― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Friday, 24 October 2014 16:52 (ten years ago)

Like all great sculptures, it benefits from many different angles of viewing

http://media.nj.com/the-times/photo/2014/05/14843614-standard.jpg

― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Friday, 24 October 2014 16:54 (ten years ago)

Hey, I turned an iconic image into a creepshot!

http://s3-media4.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/-7Lycgte-FaZQ8uW-Nl5MQ/348s.jpg

― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Friday, 24 October 2014 16:55 (ten years ago)

http://mementopalmsprings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/marilyn-monroe-statue-palm-springs-ca.jpg

palm springs got ya beat tho

― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 24 October 2014 16:57 (ten years ago)

Yeah it is apparently visiting NJ's Grounds for Sculpture for a retrospective.

― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Friday, 24 October 2014 16:59 (ten years ago)

Oh I just realized it's the same dude who does those 3D versions of famous paintings, which are kind of awful and awesome at the same time

http://www.theartsadventurer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/manet-the-picnic.jpg

― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Friday, 24 October 2014 17:01 (ten years ago)

do they put roller skates on the statue to get it to new jersey

― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 24 October 2014 17:06 (ten years ago)

actually,
http://imgick.nj.com/home/njo-media/pgmain/img/the-times/photo/2014/04/-bd297a3369516da0.jpg

― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Friday, 24 October 2014 17:08 (ten years ago)

rong thread: RIDING GIANTESS

― pplains, Saturday, 25 October 2014 01:07 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B5YbE05CAAE6UbQ.jpg:large

― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Sunday, 21 December 2014 15:22 (ten years ago)

Well good god, guess he made an impression on the sculptor.

― pplains, Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:22 (ten years ago)

also he looks like wayne rooney

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 December 2014 00:16 (ten years ago)

but mainly what pplains said O_O

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 December 2014 00:16 (ten years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30570465 cheeky headline

― Merdeyeux, Monday, 22 December 2014 01:28 (ten years ago)

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Ronaldo+statue+erected&tbm=nws

― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Monday, 22 December 2014 01:37 (ten years ago)

three months pass...

https://www.facebook.com/pages/We-Love-Lucy-Get-Rid-of-this-Statue/337376016351514

http://i.imgur.com/oez11Vc.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/2nPIbtO.jpg

― pplains, Friday, 3 April 2015 19:55 (ten years ago)

Would not have gotten this one in 1000 tries.

http://i.imgur.com/mh22OWa.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/CJ0a3sU.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/WfwBOM5.jpg

Vaclav Havel? No, but good guess… you got the ''post- cold war politician'' part right!

― pplains, Friday, 3 April 2015 20:02 (ten years ago)

Hey man he brought home the bacon to Palm springs

― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Saturday, 4 April 2015 02:45 (ten years ago)

that lucy statue is legit terrifying

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 April 2015 03:53 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

http://i.imgur.com/CUCatjW.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/W2ktgtY.jpg

Brian Terry continues to be honored after his murder while protecting the United States border.
A statue was erected in his honor at the Brian A. Terry Border Patrol Base on Bisbee, Arizona last week.
The statue depicts Terry carrying a fellow soldier on his shoulders and is based off a photo that family members called “iconic” in nature.

― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Sunday, 17 May 2015 22:01 (ten years ago)

I think we've come around full circle.

― pplains, Sunday, 17 May 2015 23:16 (ten years ago)

Herman Munster, war hero

― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Monday, 18 May 2015 03:12 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

I have mixed feelings.

http://i.imgur.com/va0jw4K.jpg

― pplains, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 01:10 (ten years ago)

oh god

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 01:15 (ten years ago)

hahaha I wonder if my brother with paraplegia would lol if I sent this too him with txt "I FOUND UR GRAVESTONE BRO!" Pretty sure he would then post it on FB.

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 21:21 (ten years ago)

and then my mom would see it and I would catch hell

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 21:22 (ten years ago)

six months pass...

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/01/06/world/06CHINAMAO01/06CHINAMAO01-master675.jpg

― del griffith, Friday, 8 January 2016 15:41 (nine years ago)

Saw this on fb, meming is not mine. Weird/funny more than ugly.

https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/v/t1.0-9/575244_10150763841566205_529399520_n.jpg?oh=977c7b534eb66aedef4e7e30114c590c&oe=570428A6

― nickn, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 00:39 (nine years ago)

nine months pass...

Pat Tillmann lives on... in dog form.

https://asunow.asu.edu/20161109-sun-devil-life-unleashing-tillman-asus-new-police-dog

― del griffith, Thursday, 10 November 2016 15:33 (eight years ago)

five months pass...

http://i.imgur.com/805sXa5.jpg

― pplains, Friday, 14 April 2017 18:33 (eight years ago)

Cost: $35,000

― pplains, Friday, 14 April 2017 18:33 (eight years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/CE8cTDe.jpg

― pplains, Friday, 14 April 2017 18:34 (eight years ago)

Fellatio pic in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

― nickn, Friday, 14 April 2017 18:57 (eight years ago)

two months pass...

Statue of broadcaster Wogan unveiled in native Limerick https://t.co/OzmoeW0AQq pic.twitter.com/ilcE1bT1EG
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) June 24, 2017

― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 25 June 2017 09:52 (eight years ago)

https://s4.postimg.org/psz18adj1/image.png

― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 25 June 2017 10:00 (eight years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/Wcibwx9.jpg

― pplains, Sunday, 25 June 2017 23:57 (eight years ago)

Is that a statue or a dude in a costume?!

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 26 June 2017 00:09 (eight years ago)

This thread's reminded me of this statue, which I guess isnt that ugly per se, but every time we drive past it, my bf mutters darkly (in the voice of the statue) "I'm gunna fuckin kill you and everyone you care about!"

https://melbourneartcritic.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/dsc05381.jpg

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 26 June 2017 00:10 (eight years ago)

THE BROS

― the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered), Monday, 26 June 2017 00:34 (eight years ago)

Cat in the Hat resembles Terry Wogan statue.

― pplains, Monday, 26 June 2017 01:38 (eight years ago)

Or vice-versa, who tf knows, we're through the looking glass here people.

― pplains, Monday, 26 June 2017 01:38 (eight years ago)

Trayce, have you seen this monstrosity? http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/8590026-3x2-940x627.jpg
Admittedly it's more who it's commemorating that's the problem here...

― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 26 June 2017 03:48 (eight years ago)

shoulda carved back the torso & hung a set of swings off his ears

― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 June 2017 03:59 (eight years ago)

I saw Tony Abbott on the beach once, coming in from a surf - he has that stupid duck waddle walk even when there are no cameras around.

Terry Wogan statue looks a bit disconcertingly like Nick Cave

― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 26 June 2017 04:08 (eight years ago)

Ha yeah I havent in person but I gather that went up in the avenue of PMs thingy in Ballarat a while ago. Euugh.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 26 June 2017 04:33 (eight years ago)

Why is Don Revie wearing a dog collar?

― Michael Jones, Monday, 26 June 2017 21:49 (eight years ago)

one month passes...

I had heard about these awful, ugly statues, but had never bothered to look them up. GOOD LORD.

http://i.imgur.com/mPHKEvd.jpg http://i.imgur.com/OHyiKZZ.jpg

They used to sit in front of the U.S. Capitol until they were removed finally in 1958.

― pplains, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 14:39 (eight years ago)

And when I say "in front of the U.S. Capitol," I do not mean in some obscure clearing behind a tree on the lawn or somewhere. I mean

http://i.imgur.com/7Ge8iqK.png

^ Abraham Lincoln's inauguration, 1861.

― pplains, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 14:40 (eight years ago)

Not creepy at all.

http://i.imgur.com/pdnXlPC.jpg

― pplains, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 14:41 (eight years ago)

'Hey, we just got here. Did you guys find a place yet?

y. Pretty high up. Good view.

Cool. Where you guys at?

Uhhhhh

http://i.imgur.com/H3BtvSi.png

― pplains, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 14:43 (eight years ago)

"The Rescue" is the name of the frontiersman statue. It's got a neat Paul Harvey/Raiders of the Lost Ark twist:

In 1976, a crane accidentally dropped The Rescue while moving it to a new Smithsonian storage area in Maryland, thus reducing it to several fragments. Today they lie next to Discovery, also said to be in poor condition.
In an unusual collaboration between the Middlebury College Museum of Art and the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, the pioneer's dog from The Rescue was exhibited during a temporary show, “Horatio Greenough: An American Sculptor's Drawings” in late 1999.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rescue_(statue)

― pplains, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 14:48 (eight years ago)

amazing. 1958 sounds about right.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 14:55 (eight years ago)

It does, even though 1958 doesn't strike me as the most enlightened year.

Reminds me of the Confederate flag flying on the Capitol grounds in South Carolina. "What if we took it down, would that make it all better?"

― pplains, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 15:00 (eight years ago)

yeah this shit is baked into the country we'll be removing problematic statues and flags for a long time

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 15:09 (eight years ago)

On a pure artistic level, though, the statues are fine.

― nickn, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 17:06 (eight years ago)

that's amazing. i had no idea.

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 17:17 (eight years ago)

In 1939, a joint resolution submitted to—but not passed by—the U.S. House of Representatives recommended that The Rescue be "...ground into dust, and scattered to the four winds, that no more remembrance may be perpetuated of our barbaric past, and that it may not be a constant reminder to our American Indian citizens…"

sounds like they were semi-woke by 1939

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 17:19 (eight years ago)

pplains you gotta bundle that up in a nice 4-pic tweet package so i can retweet the shit out of it

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 17:21 (eight years ago)

gah

― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 17:41 (eight years ago)

I know this country was laid out on this crap. Slavery. Manifest Destiny. Suffrage.

But damn, putting these two on either side of the U.S. Capitol's front door? They couldn't find any lions instead?

Artistic level: Columbus one's the lesser of the two. Head looks out of proportion, which may be due to the angle. The "cowering native" looks cartoony. Reminds me too much of the Nathaniel Forrest statue above.

― pplains, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:47 (eight years ago)

seven months pass...

The David Bowie statue unveiled in Aylesbury yesterday is really quite hideous. pic.twitter.com/D3HK9sEZh7
— Ted Gioia (@tedgioia) March 26, 2018

sweet jesus this is hellish

― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Monday, 26 March 2018 18:49 (seven years ago)

oh my god

― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 26 March 2018 19:42 (seven years ago)

Sculptors have forgotten how to model attractively lifelike human figures. It was never easy, but now it seems to be impossible.

― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 26 March 2018 20:03 (seven years ago)

he should have stuck with a single figure. kind of looks like one of those crazy 70s movie posters with a million people on them.

then again maybe the human figure isn't the problem here. even the disk with the album covers looks like shit.

― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 26 March 2018 20:35 (seven years ago)

Sculpture has always frozen time to represent us at our best, and is a terrible medium for documenting changing characters.

There are millions of unflattering Ziggy exposures.

― #DeleteFacebook (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 01:12 (seven years ago)

Also most people have bad taste

― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 03:51 (seven years ago)

More trenchant than the pat tillman statue

https://z1035.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/bowie-statue-vandalised-1522144295.jpg

― lana del boy (ledge), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 08:21 (seven years ago)

ten months pass...

We came to buy a couch and uh..... pic.twitter.com/hxhAnJphU3
— 🇭🇹🇲🇽 (@RetiredFilth) February 24, 2019

― pplains, Sunday, 24 February 2019 03:30 (six years ago)

jfc

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 February 2019 03:46 (six years ago)

one year passes...

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/s8d6236Waf_b25hh4GOSKwlMu925W1BaJxFBQC80k36KvZYM9l1ZNwabRrZnvNdJ2MRTbaCY-hlnORcyAupbJDrJjbbtgLmt6yo6FLtrJnF4Ibd5q8XoluwFhBdT

― na (NA), Monday, 24 February 2020 22:31 (five years ago)

this appears to be a different version of the same "statue"

https://tonymorano.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/tony-morano-hard-rock-park-sand-sculpture.jpg?w=720

― na (NA), Monday, 24 February 2020 22:32 (five years ago)

is that jimi on the right in the second one? his hair makes him look like warren grog.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S9wv09c2hc

― wasdnuos (abanana), Monday, 24 February 2020 23:00 (five years ago)

In the first image, on the far right - is that Arlo Guthrie or Waddy Wachtel?

― henry s, Monday, 24 February 2020 23:12 (five years ago)

I guessed Janis.

― nickn, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 00:10 (five years ago)

Probably also Marley tho.

― nickn, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 00:12 (five years ago)

OH. MY. GOD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0gzmUsDM9I

You have led me to to THE MOST BORING AMUSEMENT PARK RIDE EVER MADE.

The sand "Rushmore" was for Hard Rock Park, a 55-acre, $400-million rock 'n' roll-themed park in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, that never offered discounts, bored children and promptly closed up for good in 2009 due to the recession.

Which is fine by me, since while I enjoy both kinds of music, rock and roll, this place sounds like Rock 'n' Roll HELL.

The level of detail was often astonishing. For example, the original version of a song, say "Purple Haze," that played along the walkways in the Rock & Roll Heaven area seamlessly morphed into a note-for-note calypso version of the tune as guests approach the Reggae River Falls attraction.

An Elvis-looking cow statue made small talk with onlookers before spraying them with his udders

It included Alice's Restaurant, the park's full-service eatery that served Thanksgiving dinner and clam chowder.

You know, there's nothing I enjoy more than walking around a 55-acre amusement park in the hot South Carolina sun for hours before sitting down to a heapin' hot helpin' of Thanksgiving dinner and clam chowder.

But.... that "Nights in White Satin" ride... From the video alone, I've ridden airport trams that were more exciting than that.

― pplains, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 02:10 (five years ago)

Ha, and that's Mark Sanford in the blue shirt in the first pic.

― pplains, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 02:14 (five years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/MGXpCWy.jpg

No Quarter indeed.

― pplains, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 02:25 (five years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/RIPyh1U.jpg

Do gotta say that the Lynyrd Skynyrd ride was in really poor taste.

― pplains, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 02:28 (five years ago)

lol

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 02:51 (five years ago)

yeah i was lead to that image by podcast: the ride, specifically their two-part episode on failed amusement parks that focuses mostly on hard rock park but also the sid & marty kroft amusement park in atlanta.

hard rock park cost $400 million to build and closed after five months of business. then it reopened as freestyle music park, and closed for good after something like six months. so it actually failed twice

― na (NA), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:15 (five years ago)

two months pass...

Tulsa's Golden Driller statue painted to look like Elon Musk.

https://i.imgur.com/JdLbdbg.jpg

Good ol' Ok-lol-homa.

― pplains, Thursday, 21 May 2020 02:51 (five years ago)

The "Before" picture:

https://i.imgur.com/OFv2NvH.jpg

Ya know, "Tulsa" is very nearly an anagram of "Tesla".

And it's 100% an anagram of "a slut."

― pplains, Thursday, 21 May 2020 02:52 (five years ago)

Salut!

― nickn, Thursday, 21 May 2020 06:19 (five years ago)

just think, the tesla factory workers could all live in the same building, walk to work in the morning, hang out together, and do all their grocery and leisure shopping, all in the same general area, monitored by the everwatching ugly elon musk statue!

― Karl Malone, Thursday, 21 May 2020 15:51 (five years ago)

About eight other threads I could've posted this on.

https://i.imgur.com/lUDkQRz.jpg

― pplains, Sunday, 31 May 2020 23:38 (five years ago)

Very cursed images.

― nickn, Monday, 1 June 2020 04:58 (five years ago)

six months pass...

john bonham

https://i.ibb.co/PCGRHhw/85122143-1898544640289980-3107407644655091712-n.jpg

― visiting, Saturday, 5 December 2020 16:29 (four years ago)

OG pics of the Pat Tillman statue have shuffled off into the great cyber beyond. Here is a huge pic, allowing one to appreciate the abundance of ugly detail incorporated by the sculptor.

https://www.rocketsports-ent.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/IOS-0219223-Copy.jpg

― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Saturday, 5 December 2020 19:44 (four years ago)

Am I the only one who thinks that drummer looks like Bill Clinton?

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 6 December 2020 02:56 (four years ago)

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/31/54332896_f42ee7da91_z.jpg

― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 6 December 2020 23:47 (four years ago)

two years pass...

How it started vs how it’s going pic.twitter.com/Y0Lwj3CHbu
— Brad Batt for TN State Sanity ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾 (@bradbatt) December 11, 2022

― pplains, Monday, 12 December 2022 04:12 (two years ago)

proud of this statue for showing it

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/14/arts.artsnews

― | (Latham Green), Monday, 12 December 2022 15:38 (two years ago)

https://www.google.com/maps/uv?pb=!1s0x8edb3fa4e9ae6331%3A0xb32d864468561a2e!3m1!7e115!4shttps%3A%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPAI7pKfEjMdIJZL5a8YaCUW_mKJk-57Xi45THa%3Dw260-h175-n-k-no!5sKingston%27s%20new%20Emancipation%20Park%20-%20Google%20Search!15sCgIgAQ&imagekey=!1e10!2sAF1QipM3HIiuVnE1TG7dXJ5O_rPgL0F8j5G2qYpS3iMh&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwikyZvvtPT7AhUiLFkFHWgcAbsQ7ZgBKAB6BAgGEAI

― | (Latham Green), Monday, 12 December 2022 15:39 (two years ago)

one month passes...

I present to you on this celebrated holiday, Coretta Scott and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

https://i.imgur.com/EDA1JB0.jpg

― pplains, Monday, 16 January 2023 14:18 (two years ago)

"Given that I am not White, I am safe from ANY charges of racism for saying the MLK embrace statue is aesthetically unpleasant. The famous photo should have been a FULL statue of the couple and their embrace. What a huge swing and miss in honoring the Dr & Mrs King. SAD!" tweeted Boston Herald columnist Rasheed Walters.
"Show me a white man that was honored with a statue of only two of his limbs," tweeted comedian Javann Jones.

― pplains, Monday, 16 January 2023 14:18 (two years ago)

The famous photo being depicted here:

https://i.imgur.com/9HRvJ95.jpg

― pplains, Monday, 16 January 2023 14:20 (two years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/C9eXUix.jpg https://i.imgur.com/oEad028.jpg

― pplains, Monday, 16 January 2023 14:26 (two years ago)

four months pass...

Lewis Capaldi presented with statue by pupils at former school. https://t.co/MZH5dAZ2k1

📷 Credit: Wattie Cheung pic.twitter.com/T9UVkjlV8t
— STV News (@STVNews) May 22, 2023

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 22 May 2023 15:12 (two years ago)

jesus christ that's horrific

― call all destroyer, Monday, 22 May 2023 15:18 (two years ago)

it's funny that no one ever gives the photographer credit for shots like that, at least not right in the tweet, and then the photographer gets credit for that one

― z_tbd, Monday, 22 May 2023 15:21 (two years ago)

Wow.

― pplains, Monday, 22 May 2023 15:58 (two years ago)

two months pass...

nothing can compete with the last entry, but the new Mick Jagger statue in Dartford is a look from certain angles

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/64d3aedf36a1e9d12cb54c0c/2:1/w_2240,c_limit/mick-jagger-statue.jpg

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 16:54 (two years ago)

I would've guessed anyone from Steve Winwood to Terry Fox to the guy who was in The Warriors before assuming it was Mick.

― pplains, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 17:14 (two years ago)

ah dangit, just came to post that

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 August 2023 03:24 (two years ago)

two months pass...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9rdc5qWcAAxBZr?format=jpg&name=large

New fountain in Vienna, apparently

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 02:12 (one year ago)

This may have been in the broken links above, and I do appreciate the spirit of this thing, but it's just butt ugly.

https://www.travel-mi.com/images/Detroit-Fist-Joe-Lewis.jpg

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 02:21 (one year ago)

Another surprising omission. I am both fascinated and repelled by this.

https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/10/191030-BLUCIFER-DIA-3-1024x680.jpg

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 02:25 (one year ago)

Oh I always kind of liked the Blue Mustang. It's definitely right on the borderline for me though.

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 02:39 (one year ago)

The locals call it "Blucifer."

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 02:41 (one year ago)

one month passes...

blucifer squashed his daddy fyi

and for a real good time you can google blucifer's veiny taint

but anyway

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/enhanced/webdr06/2013/7/2/18/enhanced-buzz-21114-1372803229-5.jpg

the more i think abt this lab mice memorial the less gruntled i get

it is inappropriately cute and has the nerve to be ugly at the same time

we have gained so much of immeasurable value, saved & improved so many human lives, at the cost of terrible acts on creatures that are utterly at our mercy -- creatures that we bred, we brought into existence, for this purpose! to suffer for us, so our dumb asses might suffer less. they deserve a way more fucked up statue imo

(not that i'm finna fight about whether medical research on animals, and animal exploitation generally, is sufficiently justified by its benefits to humanity; just that it's insulting all around to try and paper over the moral complexity with this dumb cartoon of a wise little mouse wearing glasses and busily knitting a double helix for its beloved human friends)

― objectively objectionable object to object to (cat), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 23:01 (one year ago)

blucifer squashed his daddy fyi

Yeah, I know. That goes in the You Cannot Make This Shit Up file.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 01:38 (one year ago)

seven months pass...

https://images.app.goo.gl/LKK5xZ2LkJ6hKMby9

This controversial statue in Palm Springs is being relocated.

― o. nate, Friday, 2 August 2024 19:29 (one year ago)

https://live.staticflickr.com/2894/11981143274_eb52121438_3k.jpg

― o. nate, Friday, 2 August 2024 19:30 (one year ago)

that's just grate

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 2 August 2024 19:57 (one year ago)

I've read that the art museum it was in front of hated it because it made them look like rubes.

― nickn, Friday, 2 August 2024 21:04 (one year ago)

one year passes...

The level of disrespect of this hideous Tina Turner statue

https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/de8e00b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3912x2608+0+0/resize/1198x798!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F66%2Fd1%2Ffab416e9fc50c11fa509e41ff5b9%2Faf45b44abe204d8b965b8d1db069c216

https://apnews.com/article/tina-turner-statue-tennessee-af7c9763df361992136a5150ddaf20fd

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 September 2025 18:36 (two days ago)

https://wpcdn.us-east-1.vip.tn-cloud.net/www.wbbjtv.com/content/uploads/2025/09/o/s/screen-shot-2025-09-27-at-50342-pm.png

― Kim Kimberly, Sunday, 28 September 2025 20:07 (two days ago)

the fucking hair is a war crime

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 September 2025 21:35 (two days ago)

And those gams. Look at them. :(

― z_tbd, Sunday, 28 September 2025 23:14 (two days ago)

Get a load of them :(

― z_tbd, Sunday, 28 September 2025 23:16 (two days ago)

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