idk if anyone itt is into these statues from a religious pov, it seems alien to me but clearly lots of people flock to them. curious how something can be a focus of religious attention as well as a spectacle. found this pic of what is apparently a buddhist temple in a theme park in ho chi minh city, vietnam, seems notable
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/29959831.jpg
― ogmor, Friday, 25 April 2014 22:23 (ten years ago) link
http://www.laobserved.com/images/chickenboy.gif
chicken boy stalks the rooftops of LA
― It's Pablum Time with (NickB), Friday, 25 April 2014 22:27 (ten years ago) link
The scale of the Spring Temple Buddha is freaking me out:
http://oddstuffmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/spring+temple+buddha.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RiIzSGwtMCY/T4pxgx9vEJI/AAAAAAAACwg/ht6nC-J6DJs/s400/DSC03612.jpg
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 25 April 2014 22:33 (ten years ago) link
hanuman is a v charismatic deity, I love how he avoids monkey stereotypes & is always show as noble, devoted & heroic. also love the physiques on hindu statues in general. otoh he is armed & this statue is needlessly huge
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6uH7VsRmNXw/T_Yy6rPZWUI/AAAAAAAABUg/0N3QsYUg7Iw/s1600/paritala3.jpg http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oV1MoJWhBYI/T_Yy3733urI/AAAAAAAABUY/qnQ164BbZeI/s1600/paritala2.jpg
hopefully he is presiding over the landscape in his role as a scholar of grammar, my favourite of his attributes
― ogmor, Friday, 25 April 2014 22:34 (ten years ago) link
http://sarahandgretchen.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/giant-morales-statue.jpg
Morelos statue, Mexico
― It's Pablum Time with (NickB), Friday, 25 April 2014 22:36 (ten years ago) link
http://m6.i.pbase.com/o4/78/599778/1/102563346.K35ccwna.56133235.0000471.jpg
Morelos statue, rear view
― It's Pablum Time with (NickB), Friday, 25 April 2014 22:38 (ten years ago) link
the denver horse statue actually KILLED its sculptor (its arm fell on him): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Jim%C3%A9nez_%28sculptor%29
― brimstead, Friday, 25 April 2014 22:45 (ten years ago) link
http://lostcoastoutpost.com/media/uploads/post/6553/trees-of-mystery.jpg
― lxy, Friday, 25 April 2014 22:46 (ten years ago) link
xp murderous statues get a bonus point
― ogmor, Friday, 25 April 2014 22:46 (ten years ago) link
http://www.incolo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/375015238_fc01f528921.jpg
― lxy, Friday, 25 April 2014 22:51 (ten years ago) link
the three-sided guanyin of the south sea of china is the most excellent seaside statue imo
http://www.chinatourguide.com/china_photos/sanya/attractions/nanshan_temple_buddha.jpg
i like the idea of "the observer of all the cries in the world" - seems less authoritarian than some statues
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7056/6870505353_205869d3b1_z.jpg
ppl race boats around her
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6403/137106206.a9/0_8b971_3d88554c_orig.jpg
and she has a rad light show
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/images/attachement/jpg/site1/20120516/001aa018f83f111d52015d.jpg
full marks
― ogmor, Friday, 25 April 2014 22:52 (ten years ago) link
not sailed a boat round that but i have driven a car around dorking's inexplicable giant metal chicken...
http://www.summagallicana.it/lessico/d/Dorking%20giant.jpg
― It's Pablum Time with (NickB), Friday, 25 April 2014 22:56 (ten years ago) link
ooooh i like that one too
redwoods paul bunyan is pretty cool. everyone loves to touch babe's balls. the trees of mystery thing there remains a mystery to me b/c i do not want to spend the money
have to say though i am not very terrified by any statue on flatlands, you need some topography or a huge platform or somehting to bring the real terror
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Friday, 25 April 2014 22:56 (ten years ago) link
(meant that i liked the 3-sided guanyin)
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Friday, 25 April 2014 22:57 (ten years ago) link
these poor statues were blown up by the taliban around 2000-2001
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Taller_Buddha_of_Bamiyan_before_and_after_destruction.jpg
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 25 April 2014 22:58 (ten years ago) link
fuctionalhttp://media.trb.com/media/photo/2011-08/273455360-13124806.jpg
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 25 April 2014 22:58 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/UAdR9qr.jpg
― 龜, Friday, 25 April 2014 23:00 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/0e0DyLl.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/yU0Em1a.jpg
Classic old-school ILX thread
Good work everyone
http://i.imgur.com/9L3wUnh.png
― 龜, Friday, 25 April 2014 23:06 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Vg99G2X.jpg
lol at the marilyn monroe pic
nothing says haunting spectre of the past like ruined soviet statues. makes me think of goldeneye
http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130125140136/jamesbond/images/6/60/Goldeneye_-_Trevelyan_reveals_himself.jpg
― ogmor, Friday, 25 April 2014 23:07 (ten years ago) link
Prior to this thread I had forgotten they based the space jockey in Prometheus on Lenin
― 龜, Friday, 25 April 2014 23:07 (ten years ago) link
All hail the Cosmoplanetary Messiah (Gilbert Bourdin to his mum):
http://i.imgur.com/JhA2qtM.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ka4oxEi.jpg
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Friday, 25 April 2014 23:08 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/zhmomCF.jpg
― 龜, Friday, 25 April 2014 23:09 (ten years ago) link
xp what's going on there?
this statue of former chinese head of state & wife of sun yat sen soong ching-ling was started and then mysteriously scrapped
http://www.giganticstatues.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Soong-Ching-Ling-Statue.jpg
― ogmor, Friday, 25 April 2014 23:10 (ten years ago) link
The French authorities blew the statue up as the cult that erected it didn't have planning permission.
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Friday, 25 April 2014 23:11 (ten years ago) link
Yesssss this thread (highly recommend Boredoms 'vision creation newsun' while scrolling through) - I used love the Michigan ave Marilyn - I 2nd, Classis ILX goodness.
― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 25 April 2014 23:13 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/e6JgmfC.jpg
― 龜, Friday, 25 April 2014 23:14 (ten years ago) link
xxp amazing. none of the best statues have planning permission.
bamiyan buddhas yawning absence
http://tendtotravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Destroyed-Buddhas-in-Bamiyan-by-NRio-e1321178125666.jpg
― ogmor, Friday, 25 April 2014 23:18 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/zarFXN3.jpg
― 龜, Friday, 25 April 2014 23:18 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/s514Pbg.jpg
― 龜, Friday, 25 April 2014 23:19 (ten years ago) link
maybe you could say the islamic prohibition on idols stems from a lack of sensuality or unworldliness but I think a god who is totally trascendent, who has 99 names, is a more potent idea. idolatry (shirk) is the single unpardonable sin in islam, because it compromises the oneness of god. there's something sympathetic about that to me
― ogmor, Friday, 25 April 2014 23:27 (ten years ago) link
xp love the laozi statue
wowwww @ nanshan temple
― brimstead, Friday, 25 April 2014 23:28 (ten years ago) link
ahaha thank you 龜http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2542713/Chinese-restaurant-owner-told-pull-two-gigantic-50ft-naked-Buddhas-establishment-s-roof.html
(maybe nsfw (butts))
― brimstead, Friday, 25 April 2014 23:31 (ten years ago) link
http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/pic_2011_04_01s.jpg
― ogmor, Friday, 25 April 2014 23:32 (ten years ago) link
there's something so wonderful about this, being indoors adds to the feeling he's in the bath
― ogmor, Friday, 25 April 2014 23:33 (ten years ago) link
http://www.zhanghuan.com/images/work/sculpture/2011/pic_2011_04_05s.jpg
apparently his chest moves as if he's breathing (!)
― ogmor, Friday, 25 April 2014 23:34 (ten years ago) link
what is with these ginormous buddhist affronts to the impermanence of all existence, kinda seems like someone woulda spoken up waaaay before all the laboring on stones & such ever got close to completion
― j., Friday, 25 April 2014 23:51 (ten years ago) link
who on earth is that giant head rising above the rock face? the photo with the chinese banners? what a weird image.
― president of the people's republic of antarctica (Arctic Mindbath), Friday, 25 April 2014 23:59 (ten years ago) link
Here is a giant buddha in Sri Lanka who has people living in his head:
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/03/aa/6a/be/wewurukannala-vihara.jpg
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Saturday, 26 April 2014 02:55 (ten years ago) link
In terms of statues I have to put up with almost every working day, this one's fairly terrifying:
http://media4.troverapp.com/T/4fcbc70dfeaf5e1e5d00006b/large_2x.jpg
― imago, Saturday, 26 April 2014 03:36 (ten years ago) link
Watching "Jason And The Argonauts" ruined me for life. I have never (WILL never) visit The Statue If Liberty and walking by that big statue at Rockefeller Center still gives me the creeps. I hate these things. Cool thread, though!
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 26 April 2014 03:40 (ten years ago) link
Mind you I saw that film the first time when I was around 4 and have watched it again since but that Titan...brrrr. CGI can never go there.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 26 April 2014 03:43 (ten years ago) link
M. John Harrison's story "Settling the World" to this awesome thread.
― Choogle Plus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 April 2014 05:24 (ten years ago) link
Future contender, the 563 ft Crazy Horse memorial.
http://www.crazyhorsememorial.org/images/about-future2.jpg
― nickn, Saturday, 26 April 2014 07:33 (ten years ago) link
Brest Hero-Fortress memorial, Belarus:
http://i.imgur.com/RCwzya4.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/S1hUikp.jpg
a monument to those valiant warriors who lost their battle with scoliosis the Wehrmacht. it may not be the biggest statue in the world, but it's certainly the biggest disappointed dad ("I died defending the Motherland against the Nazis, and what have you done with your day?"), and it must be extremely demoralizing to witness his great hulking disdain in person.
― tao lin wolf (unregistered), Saturday, 26 April 2014 15:12 (ten years ago) link
(CNN came under fire a couple of months ago for including it in its "world's ugliest monuments" listicle)
― tao lin wolf (unregistered), Saturday, 26 April 2014 15:15 (ten years ago) link