yikes at starved bodhisattva... the chest veins!
― ulysses, Friday, 3 June 2016 16:23 (eight years ago) link
not gigantic, but there's a starved boddhisatva statue at an arts center I was at yesterday that is modeled after Kate Moss
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 3 June 2016 17:26 (eight years ago) link
Another one from the same Irish sculpture park as the boddhisattva:
http://i63.tinypic.com/atx3xe.jpg
http://i67.tinypic.com/30nhfzr.jpg
― Alan (legendary creature) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 5 June 2016 08:41 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/dh293W7.jpg
― 龜, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 14:43 (eight years ago) link
damn I love it, guan yu?
― ogmor, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 16:10 (eight years ago) link
yep
― 龜, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 16:12 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Trz1YT2.jpg
― 龜, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 16:14 (eight years ago) link
I bet they were surprised when he popped up in the middle of their construction site
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 16:26 (eight years ago) link
I feel like they're trying to entrap him like lilliputians, hence his miffed expression
― ogmor, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 16:56 (eight years ago) link
Man, that's amazing.
― Have you hugged your timeghoul today? (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 14 July 2016 08:36 (eight years ago) link
woah best statue ever
― nxd, Thursday, 14 July 2016 10:30 (eight years ago) link
love this pic https://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/god-of-war-guan-yu-statue-jingzhou-china-81.jpg?w=800&h=533
― nxd, Thursday, 14 July 2016 10:32 (eight years ago) link
Fantastic
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 14 July 2016 11:35 (eight years ago) link
Is he standing on top of a bus station?
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 14 July 2016 13:20 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/PnutIiT.jpg
― 龜, Friday, 15 July 2016 14:58 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/tO6JaMN.jpg
― 龜, Friday, 15 July 2016 15:00 (eight years ago) link
winner
― koogs, Friday, 15 July 2016 15:46 (eight years ago) link
that's a wild story.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Friday, 15 July 2016 15:51 (eight years ago) link
wow
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 July 2016 04:11 (eight years ago) link
Not quite on the same scale as some of these, but Swindon's Wish Hounds have a certain eerie presence.
http://i.imgur.com/0BDceW7.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/5pAHNy5.jpg
― Pheeel, Sunday, 17 July 2016 10:26 (eight years ago) link
they are v v cool
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 July 2016 14:22 (eight years ago) link
From a certain angle, a little human hound centipede-y
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Sunday, 17 July 2016 15:02 (eight years ago) link
http://67.media.tumblr.com/da2851a38b0c201508cea12ffebd8d54/tumblr_oavd9mulsq1qzwfgto1_1280.png
http://65.media.tumblr.com/4c1116ad2a6925377bc3b1b8c031f1ad/tumblr_oavd9mulsq1qzwfgto5_1280.png
http://66.media.tumblr.com/dc6e88f342750aee8b684c7d94bf7fcc/tumblr_oavd9mulsq1qzwfgto7_1280.png
― 龜, Friday, 12 August 2016 13:22 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/B0dWcGn.jpg
― pplains, Sunday, 14 August 2016 00:23 (eight years ago) link
where is that? it's amazing!
― new noise, Sunday, 14 August 2016 01:34 (eight years ago) link
Wat Theppitak Punnaram (White Buddha), Nakhon Ratchasima. The white big Buddha is a impressive 45 meters tall statue belonging to the Wat Theppitak Punaram temple in Thailand, located in Phaya Yen, Pak Chong district, Nakhon Ratchasima province.
― pplains, Sunday, 14 August 2016 02:41 (eight years ago) link
I wonder how they decide on the size, like one person suggests 40 meters everybody's v enthusiastic but in comes the new kid HOW ABOUT... forty FIVE!!?? endless applause
Maybe its just a matter of budget
― niels, Sunday, 14 August 2016 08:05 (eight years ago) link
ha, well actually ...
The elevation of the statue of 112 meters or 56 Thai Wa above ground level refers to the 56 goodnesses of Buddhism. The total of 1,250 steps of the two paths left and right leading uphill to the statue signify the number of disciples of the Lord Buddha who assembled on Magha Puja Day without prior notice. The height of the statue of 45 meters means the number of years Buddha spent in teaching the people after he had attained enlightenment
― pplains, Sunday, 14 August 2016 17:30 (eight years ago) link
If they were using meters as their basic unit of measure, why would 112 meters refer to the 56 goodnesses? And if they were using Thai Wa as their unit of measure, why would 22.5 Wa refer to 45 years spent teaching?
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 14 August 2016 17:58 (eight years ago) link
Some questions are not asked to be answered, but to be resolved instead.
― pplains, Sunday, 14 August 2016 19:34 (eight years ago) link
It's almost like they just built a big statue where they had property rights and then retroactively looked for significant numbers to make it seem like it was divinely inspired
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Sunday, 14 August 2016 22:45 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/vJxukGO.jpg
― 龜, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 15:09 (eight years ago) link
O_O
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 15:43 (eight years ago) link
more like O|O
― pplains, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 16:10 (eight years ago) link
attack on titan: the later years
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 17:23 (eight years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrality_Monument
is it true that this statue used to always rotate to face the sun
― 龜, Friday, 25 November 2016 16:36 (seven years ago) link
that's what everyone says. looks like a landing vessel from out of space, different sort of terrifying
― ogmor, Friday, 25 November 2016 17:42 (seven years ago) link
literal lux aeterna
― mh 😏, Friday, 25 November 2016 17:42 (seven years ago) link
...within daylight hours (weather permitting)
― ogmor, Friday, 25 November 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link
Carved from rock.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/six-massive-carved-monuments-you-need-see-believe-180960795/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia
― nickn, Thursday, 1 December 2016 04:12 (seven years ago) link
http://thumbs.media.smithsonianmag.com//filer/73/02/7302d850-dbff-43ec-b64f-0e9a4c8b0754/decebalus-rex-romania.jpg__600x0_q85_upscale.jpg
p dope imo
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 December 2016 05:09 (seven years ago) link
that's fucking Zardoz
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 1 December 2016 05:38 (seven years ago) link
"The penis is evil!"
― nickn, Thursday, 1 December 2016 06:14 (seven years ago) link
is there a set time of day when its mouth opens & a bajillion guns come flying out
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 December 2016 17:51 (seven years ago) link
[A]t an impressive 180 feet in height, with a 23-foot nose and 14-foot eyes to match, the monument to Decebalus, the king of the Dacians, is visible from a great distance. (By comparison, the presidential faces depicted on Mount Rushmore reach a mere 60 feet in height.)
I mean, sure, say it's taller than Rushmore, but c'mon, it's not like Rushmore looks like this:
http://i.imgur.com/fK5dTPY.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 1 December 2016 19:41 (seven years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/wMTvvIa.jpg
― 龜, Saturday, 11 March 2017 23:58 (seven years ago) link
https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5274/5867265311_27a8a8e089_b.jpgShowed this thread to my girlfriend and she showed me a bunch of pictures of the Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial and now I won't be able to go to sleep tonight.
― methanietanner, Sunday, 12 March 2017 01:18 (seven years ago) link
http://meaton.net/Hammy/Salty.jpgI think Salty the Seahorse deserves a place in this thread as well. Definitely the scariest statue I ever stumbled across baked to the gills at 3 in the morning.
― methanietanner, Sunday, 12 March 2017 01:23 (seven years ago) link
Whose gills, your's or Salty's?
― Moodles, Sunday, 12 March 2017 02:01 (seven years ago) link
Holy shit that Holocaust one.
― I cut this hair, I wash this hair, I mess this hair up (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 12 March 2017 12:03 (seven years ago) link