there's something about the motherland calls that's spooky, maybe because it's also commemorating a battle where a million people died.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 25 April 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link
if only they'd finished the palace of soviets (where ganon lives):
http://rosswolfe.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/031.jpg
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 25 April 2014 19:32 (ten years ago) link
lenin as the lonely groom on a stalinist wedding cake
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 25 April 2014 19:33 (ten years ago) link
this thread rules
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 25 April 2014 19:34 (ten years ago) link
Put 100+ hours into dark souls, about to pick this up next Wednesday (after I sit for an actuary exam which has been ruining my life the last couple months)
there's something about the motherland calls that's spooky, maybe because it's also commemorating a battle where a million people died. --christmas candy bar (al leong)
Isn't it also positioned directly on top of the mass grave of those dead? It's an amazing statue and def my vote
― building a desert (art), Friday, 25 April 2014 19:35 (ten years ago) link
the sphinx is pretty special, i like that its whole deal is Riddling, as in, what the fuck is THAT
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 25 April 2014 19:35 (ten years ago) link
Put 100+ hours into dark souls, about to pick this up next Wednesday (after I sit for an actuary exam which has been ruining my life the last couple months) _there's something about the motherland calls that's spooky, maybe because it's also commemorating a battle where a million people died. --christmas candy bar (al leong)_Isn't it also positioned directly on top of the mass grave of those dead? It's an amazing statue and def my vote --building a desert (art)
Isn't it also positioned directly on top of the mass grave of those dead? It's an amazing statue and def my vote --building a desert (art)
Hey thanks iphone app for saving a post I didn't make days ago and attaching it to the top of this one.
― building a desert (art), Friday, 25 April 2014 19:36 (ten years ago) link
http://www.pilotafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/stevejobs_statue.jpg
― It's Pablum Time with (NickB), Friday, 25 April 2014 19:42 (ten years ago) link
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/47893196.jpg
love the expression on this sheep's face
― soref, Friday, 25 April 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link
would live inside that sheep
― j., Friday, 25 April 2014 19:54 (ten years ago) link
http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090709062212/wikiality/images/c/c7/MtRushmoreRearView.png
(warning: possibly not real, haven't seen in person)
― StanM, Friday, 25 April 2014 20:10 (ten years ago) link
eddie22.jpg
― stuff n buff (anky), Friday, 25 April 2014 20:16 (ten years ago) link
great thread.
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb252/DarkGothicDoom/The%20Lord%20of%20the%20Rings/argonath.jpg
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 25 April 2014 20:23 (ten years ago) link
Big ups to Minnesota:http://family-travel.findingfun.co/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/DSC_0008.jpg
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/45951952.jpg
― That's So (Eazy), Friday, 25 April 2014 20:38 (ten years ago) link
weird in a way that so many of these are situated near pylons. seems to add another level of grotesque horror.
that ushiku daibutsu buddha seems especially jarring.
― president of the people's republic of antarctica (Arctic Mindbath), Friday, 25 April 2014 20:42 (ten years ago) link
http://alcambronne.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/giant-muskie-national-freshwater-fishing-hall-of-fame-hayward-wisconsin.jpg
― djenter the dragon? (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 25 April 2014 20:45 (ten years ago) link
nobody posted the horse at the denver airport?http://extraordinaryintelligence.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/horse500.jpg
― brimstead, Friday, 25 April 2014 21:38 (ten years ago) link
that genghis statue is CRAZY and awesome
this thread is A+
ilx monument/statue threads always deliver imo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 April 2014 21:40 (ten years ago) link
ok is that denver horse real, because holy shit that is a terrifying nightmare (geddit)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 April 2014 21:41 (ten years ago) link
feeling this airavata one
http://www.asiaexplorers.com/pics/erawan-museum_samut-prakan.jpg
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Friday, 25 April 2014 21:48 (ten years ago) link
so many great things posted that I've missed, some statues have a v intense energy about them & depending on which angle you see them from, it can change. I don't know what the airavata is but it is pretty hectic
http://www.gothic.stir.ac.uk/documents/uploaded/image/Kasia%20pictures/grotesque/Erawan.JPG
the tian tan buddha in hong kong is on top of a hill and can looks like a bit of a loomer
https://jansenism.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/dsc020851.jpg
but from above or the cable car that goes by, he's radiating peace
http://hongkong.panduanwisata.com/files/2013/08/Tian-Tan-Buddha-hongkong.jpg
― ogmor, Friday, 25 April 2014 22:09 (ten years ago) link
the cristo del otero is the creepiest statue I've seen imo, jesus looking emaciated with haunted eyes
http://fotodenuncias.elnortedecastilla.es/imagenes/DSC00125_1.jpg
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/4066/oteroc.jpg
― ogmor, Friday, 25 April 2014 22:14 (ten years ago) link
alien jesus! there has to be an episode of ancient aliens covering this
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Friday, 25 April 2014 22:17 (ten years ago) link
http://texasgaga.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/sam-houston-statue1.jpg
AMERICA!
― Bringing the mosh (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 25 April 2014 22:19 (ten years ago) link
holy shit @ that jesus
― It's Pablum Time with (NickB), Friday, 25 April 2014 22:21 (ten years ago) link
ok is that denver horse real, because holy shit that is a terrifying nightmare
I've never been there but as far as I can tell Denver airport was built to fuck with people who think the illuminati is real. There is a popular conspiracy theory that it's the HQ of the New World Order, largely because of the bizarre architecture and decor.
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Friday, 25 April 2014 22:22 (ten years ago) link
The giant hand in the Chilean desert is odd
http://cdn.tripwiremagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/image_thumb445.png
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 25 April 2014 22:23 (ten years ago) link
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