vote for the most terrifying gigantic statue of all time

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Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Thursday, 13 April 2017 14:56 (seven years ago) link

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龜, where is that slope-covering statue you posted a month ago? I like it.

breastcrawl, Thursday, 13 April 2017 16:44 (seven years ago) link

idk tbh

, Thursday, 13 April 2017 17:34 (seven years ago) link

fengdu ghost city

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/fengdhu-ghost-city

i n f i n i t y (∞), Thursday, 13 April 2017 17:49 (seven years ago) link

Ok that is cool as hell

Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 14 April 2017 01:34 (seven years ago) link

I love the Kelpies. Even more so when they're lit up at night.

ailsa, Friday, 14 April 2017 13:55 (seven years ago) link

Think there's another shot of this upthread from further away. Sendai Daikannon.

http://tailsofwonders.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Sendai_Daikannon.jpg

nashwan, Sunday, 23 April 2017 15:08 (six years ago) link

i love both of these

Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 23 April 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link

one month passes...

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

http://i.imgur.com/iOF4f8o.jpg?1

http://i.imgur.com/f5O7Znb.jpg

Маска скорби "Mask of Sorrow" - a memorial in Magadan, dedicated to the memory of victims of political repression. The central monument is 15 meters high

Authors: sculptor - Ernst Neizvestny , architect - Kamil Kazayev.

The central sculpture of the memorial is a person's stylized face, from whose left eye tears flow in the form of small masks. The right eye is represented in the form of a window with a lattice. On the reverse side is a bronze sculpture of a weeping woman under a non-canonical crucifixion [1] . Inside the monument is a copy of a typical prison cell.

the evening redness at the injection site (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 07:58 (six years ago) link

terrifying but i also kinda like it

Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 14:13 (six years ago) link

too sad and haunting to be straight up terrifying imo

ogmor, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 14:14 (six years ago) link

Yeah I rather like that one. It has shades of Zladislaw Beksinski

ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 14:16 (six years ago) link

man that is cool as hell

Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 15:50 (six years ago) link

Don't get me wrong, I love the fucking thing. But it freaks me out a little.

the evening redness at the injection site (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 22:05 (six years ago) link

Ernst Neizvestny's art is well worth GISing btw

the evening redness at the injection site (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 22:06 (six years ago) link

Is he holding a fire hose in his left hand

the evening redness at the injection site (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 18 June 2017 09:29 (six years ago) link

three weeks pass...

when they're not terrifying gigantic statues can be very relaxing

ogmor, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 08:04 (six years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Dignity is a sculpture on a bluff overlooking the Missouri River near Chamberlain, South Dakota. The 50-foot high stainless steel statue, by South Dakota artist laureate Dale Lamphere, depicts an Indigenous woman in Plains-style dress receiving a star quilt. According to Lamphere, the sculpture honors the culture of the Lakota and Dakota peoples who are indigenous to South Dakota.

https://scontent-dft4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20228454_10209724558890550_4362344120271813478_n.jpg?oh=5c998e30095da7facf38641d7378c142&oe=5A077A52

nickn, Saturday, 29 July 2017 05:18 (six years ago) link

Almost looks like some Soviet era thing with the flattened planes and sharp angles but I kind of like it.

The Man Who Saw The Midwife (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 30 July 2017 08:05 (six years ago) link

https://japantoday-asset.scdn3.secure.raxcdn.com/img/store/d6/13/497fa78322007c04b80e30b00292b30c0dbf/ofunamain/_w1700.jpgp

saw this one earlier this week, didn't know it was there until we turned a corner and it took my breath away

droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 30 July 2017 08:22 (six years ago) link

Prepare to be perplexed by the "spomenik," dozens of Brutalist/alien WWII monuments built from the '60s to the '80s all over Yugoslavia.

https://espionart.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/spomenik1.jpg?w=800

Check out the Spomenik Database for tons of pix.

Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 03:59 (six years ago) link

Those look like fragments left behind by the Elder Gods.

Also, did anyone else on here get a little bit of a Dr. Doom vibe from the Dignity statue?

Moodles, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 05:51 (six years ago) link

top right is like the evil stained glass sculptures in The Last Guardian

André Ryu (Neil S), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 06:45 (six years ago) link

Oh well, pics at the link.

nickn, Thursday, 3 August 2017 06:40 (six years ago) link

have we had this one yet?

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/08/a-gigantic-buddha-sculptures-emerges-from-the-top-of-a-hill-in-japan/

koogs, Thursday, 3 August 2017 14:06 (six years ago) link

that is beautiful

mh, Thursday, 3 August 2017 14:08 (six years ago) link

the buddha silo

ogmor, Thursday, 3 August 2017 14:08 (six years ago) link

whoa that's amazing!

new noise, Thursday, 3 August 2017 14:36 (six years ago) link

or you can go to his studio in Houston xp

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/david-adickes-sculpture-gallery

ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 3 August 2017 14:48 (six years ago) link

two weeks pass...

The replies to this tweet are well worth checking out for awesome statue action, even though plenty of them are neither terrifying nor gigantic:

What are your favorite public statues?

— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) August 17, 2017

Moodles, Thursday, 17 August 2017 17:24 (six years ago) link

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Lucky that her statue is small and humble

The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 28 September 2017 23:31 (six years ago) link

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A 17-Story Dragon Climbs Thailand’s Pink 80-Meter Buddhist Temple

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/12/17-story-dragon-temple/

koogs, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link

we have a winner

holy shit that is awesome

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 02:35 (six years ago) link

Not unless it has a water slide inside the entire length of the body

Evan, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 04:38 (six years ago) link

Terrifying.

pplains, Friday, 29 December 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link

don't step on DEL noooooooooo

Karl Malone, Friday, 29 December 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link

three horseman of the ctrl alt delocalypse

Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 29 December 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link

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