Uglier Than the Pat Tillman Statue

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

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.

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.

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)

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

Statue of Queen Charlotte outside the Charlotte Douglas International Airport.

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

(at Solid Rock Church in Monroe, Ohio.)

um

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

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.

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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.

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

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

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

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)

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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.

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

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

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

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

In the first image, on the far right - is that Arlo Guthrie or Waddy Wachtel?

I guessed Janis.

Probably also Marley tho.

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.

Ha, and that's Mark Sanford in the blue shirt in the first pic.

https://i.imgur.com/MGXpCWy.jpg

No Quarter indeed.

https://i.imgur.com/RIPyh1U.jpg

Do gotta say that the Lynyrd Skynyrd ride was in really poor taste.

lol

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

Tulsa's Golden Driller statue painted to look like Elon Musk.

https://i.imgur.com/JdLbdbg.jpg

Good ol' Ok-lol-homa.

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."

Salut!

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!

About eight other threads I could've posted this on.

https://i.imgur.com/lUDkQRz.jpg

Very cursed images.

john bonham

https://i.ibb.co/PCGRHhw/85122143-1898544640289980-3107407644655091712-n.jpg

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

Am I the only one who thinks that drummer looks like Bill Clinton?

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How it started vs how it’s going pic.twitter.com/Y0Lwj3CHbu

— Brad Batt for TN State Sanity ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾 (@bradbatt) December 11, 2022

proud of this statue for showing it

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/14/arts.artsnews

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

I present to you on this celebrated holiday, Coretta Scott and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

https://i.imgur.com/EDA1JB0.jpg

"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.

The famous photo being depicted here:

https://i.imgur.com/9HRvJ95.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/C9eXUix.jpg https://i.imgur.com/oEad028.jpg

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

jesus christ that's horrific

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

Wow.

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

I would've guessed anyone from Steve Winwood to Terry Fox to the guy who was in The Warriors before assuming it was Mick.

ah dangit, just came to post that

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9rdc5qWcAAxBZr?format=jpg&name=large

New fountain in Vienna, apparently

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

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

Oh I always kind of liked the Blue Mustang. It's definitely right on the borderline for me though.

The locals call it "Blucifer."

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)

blucifer squashed his daddy fyi

Yeah, I know. That goes in the You Cannot Make This Shit Up file.

https://images.app.goo.gl/LKK5xZ2LkJ6hKMby9

This controversial statue in Palm Springs is being relocated.

https://live.staticflickr.com/2894/11981143274_eb52121438_3k.jpg

that's just grate

I've read that the art museum it was in front of hated it because it made them look like rubes.

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

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

the fucking hair is a war crime

And those gams. Look at them. :(

Get a load of them :(