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 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.bayonnelra.com/memorial.jpg
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― latebloomer: not to be confused with the dolphin from Seaquest DSV (latebloomer), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:38 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:43 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.flyeureka.com/skyradio/images/christofoz.jpg
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Statue of Queen Charlotte outside the Charlotte Douglas International Airport.
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:48 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
(at Solid Rock Church in Monroe, Ohio.)
― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:57 (seventeen years ago) link
um
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:00 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Nathan P1p (hoyanathan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:18 (seventeen years ago) link
[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 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:25 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link
http://sewardjohnson.com/site/index.html
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.waloszek.de/f3_kal/02-duane-hanson.jpg
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
[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 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
We came to buy a couch and uh..... pic.twitter.com/hxhAnJphU3— ππΉπ²π½ (@RetiredFilth) February 24, 2019
― pplains, Sunday, 24 February 2019 03:30 (five years ago) link
jfc
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 February 2019 03:46 (five years ago) link
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/s8d6236Waf_b25hh4GOSKwlMu925W1BaJxFBQC80k36KvZYM9l1ZNwabRrZnvNdJ2MRTbaCY-hlnORcyAupbJDrJjbbtgLmt6yo6FLtrJnF4Ibd5q8XoluwFhBdT
― na (NA), Monday, 24 February 2020 22:31 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
In the first image, on the far right - is that Arlo Guthrie or Waddy Wachtel?
― henry s, Monday, 24 February 2020 23:12 (four years ago) link
I guessed Janis.
― nickn, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 00:10 (four years ago) link
Probably also Marley tho.
― nickn, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 00:12 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
Ha, and that's Mark Sanford in the blue shirt in the first pic.
― pplains, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 02:14 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/MGXpCWy.jpg
No Quarter indeed.
― pplains, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 02:25 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 02:51 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
Salut!
― nickn, Thursday, 21 May 2020 06:19 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
About eight other threads I could've posted this on.
https://i.imgur.com/lUDkQRz.jpg
― pplains, Sunday, 31 May 2020 23:38 (three years ago) link
Very cursed images.
― nickn, Monday, 1 June 2020 04:58 (three years ago) link
john bonham
https://i.ibb.co/PCGRHhw/85122143-1898544640289980-3107407644655091712-n.jpg
― visiting, Saturday, 5 December 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
Am I the only one who thinks that drummer looks like Bill Clinton?
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 6 December 2020 02:56 (three years ago) link
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/31/54332896_f42ee7da91_z.jpg
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 6 December 2020 23:47 (three years ago) link
How it started vs how itβs going pic.twitter.com/Y0Lwj3CHbu— Brad Batt for TN State Sanity βπΌβπ½βπΎ (@bradbatt) December 11, 2022
― pplains, Monday, 12 December 2022 04:12 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
"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.
"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
― pplains, Monday, 16 January 2023 14:20 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/C9eXUix.jpg https://i.imgur.com/oEad028.jpg
― pplains, Monday, 16 January 2023 14:26 (one year ago) link
Lewis Capaldi presented with statue by pupils at former school. https://t.co/MZH5dAZ2k1π· 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 (ten months ago) link
jesus christ that's horrific
― call all destroyer, Monday, 22 May 2023 15:18 (ten months ago) link
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 (ten months ago) link
Wow.
― pplains, Monday, 22 May 2023 15:58 (ten months ago) link
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 (seven months ago) link
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 (seven months ago) link
ah dangit, just came to post that
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 August 2023 03:24 (seven months ago) link
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 (four months ago) link
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 (four months ago) link
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 (four months ago) link
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 (four months ago) link
The locals call it "Blucifer."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 02:41 (four months ago) link
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 (three months ago) link
Yeah, I know. That goes in the You Cannot Make This Shit Up file.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 01:38 (three months ago) link