hey I went to the Leshan Giant Buddha! there's nothing terrifying about it, dude is very chill. whole area had a chill vibe.
― lukas, Friday, 26 February 2021 17:37 (three years ago) link
not very gigantic but certainly terrifying
Even a 1cm statue of that guy would be way more gigantic than it ought to be.
― mirostones, Friday, 26 February 2021 22:57 (three years ago) link
hello giant statue fans, here is some shameless promotion for this similar (but probably less terrifying or impressive) giant monuments poll:
~~GIANTS OF THE PRAIRIES~~ road trip: which one do you visit first?
― salsa shark, Saturday, 27 February 2021 00:33 (three years ago) link
https://www.abandonedamerica.us/the-president-heads
http://photos.on-this.website/wm/IN4PG9bcF_v4xMFm8L7_zbk_maE%3D/wbr/1607888669/15678_12462729855e4afbbb41385.jpg
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 19:45 (three years ago) link
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/06/992149491/far-from-the-internet-these-big-benevolent-trolls-lure-humans-to-nature
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Friday, 7 May 2021 20:10 (three years ago) link
aw I like those
― lukas, Friday, 7 May 2021 20:13 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0xdtKXWEAEzk7B?format=jpg&name=medium
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Friday, 7 May 2021 20:22 (three years ago) link
I love the Kelpies, never really thing of them as belonging on this thread.
― ailsa, Friday, 7 May 2021 20:24 (three years ago) link
*think
Daniel Popper's Thrive
https://i.imgur.com/kiO9sgz.png
https://i.imgur.com/arUK8T3.png
― Shaidar Logoff (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:29 (three years ago) link
not a statue, but they do loom sohttps://www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/07/me-face-balloon-japan/
― koogs, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 08:17 (two years ago) link
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/wara-1.jpg
more here:https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/09/wara-art-festival-japan/
― koogs, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 09:02 (two years ago) link
those are awesome
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 00:31 (two years ago) link
Sultan the Pit Pony in Caerphilly
https://countrymusicnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/largest-earth-sculpture-horse.jpg
https://countrymusicnation.com/650ft-horse-largest-figurative-earth-sculpture-in-the-united-kingdom
― koogs, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 11:54 (two years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBf_c4OXMAUDDQr.jpg
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/waters-soul-massive-white-sculpture-makes-statement-new-york-harbor-2021-10-19/
― Evan, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 18:19 (two years ago) link
whoa. is this planned to be a permanent installation? the article didn't seem to say one way or the other, or maybe i missed it.
also
His pieces mostly feature women, he says, because he sees life and the world as female, while "boys are just an accident - a very nice accident, but an accident."
uh
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link
Yes, I believe permanent!
Here he is coming up with the next super deep thing that artists are supposed to say
https://cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/JD6RINENGRLMPLHDAEEORV7XJQ.jpg
― Evan, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 18:41 (two years ago) link
that's it - next one will be a woman furrowing her brow and stroking her chin in thought.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/284099251_126965739970364_481601607848288231_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=foyKCy6k2noAX8tIO7w&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=00_AT98HDG_1OiLz3FJAwWflliDdtfZZ6shoGiUJSMpHW7bSQ&oe=62954BBD
"This night photo shows the work "Foreign Body". This is an art installation of a gigantic female figure created by Varga Weisz through High Desert Test Sites, located in Wonder Valley near Joshua Tree National Park. This sculpture depicts a woman who has been pierced by a tree, representing nature and its slow mutilation by humans."
― nickn, Thursday, 26 May 2022 22:38 (two years ago) link
Don't know if this one has been on before.
https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/292866949_10229330174344675_6923457901295185740_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=26DPKrWRPZgAX9lG70R&_nc_oc=AQl5h9qF0pg2kx-eimh6F8Bzr4Zn1tQdygtThlfjjounwu3Zjgs7p7XhWGGoVYIcNp4&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=00_AT8cMZF9ipMmuDYoo3dMJlsPWoc7rVOFCeWhi3sR4eInCQ&oe=62CCC859
[Giant red coffeepot with cup]
― nickn, Friday, 8 July 2022 21:38 (one year ago) link
bump
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 8 July 2022 21:40 (one year ago) link
Not only has it been, but it was I who posted it. Oh well, that link is dead, so enjoy anew.
If you have a tea phobia..."Located in a lovely* and friendly* province of Guizhou, this is the No.1 Pot of Tea Culture Park 天下第一壶中国茶文化博览园.Apparently it is the largest physical teapot in the world. Also, my friend told me that this building has been rated as one of the ugliest buildings in China 🤣"― nickn, Monday, February 22, 2021
"Located in a lovely* and friendly* province of Guizhou, this is the No.1 Pot of Tea Culture Park 天下第一壶中国茶文化博览园.Apparently it is the largest physical teapot in the world. Also, my friend told me that this building has been rated as one of the ugliest buildings in China 🤣"― nickn, Monday, February 22, 2021
― nickn, Friday, 8 July 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link
Alas the picture from seven months ago is gone. This is what "Foreign Body" looks like:https://static.frieze.com/files/inline-images/paloma-varga-weisz-foreign-body-2022.jpg
"This sculpture depicts a woman who has been pierced by a tree, representing nature and its slow mutilation by humans" - wouldn't it make more sense to show a tree being pierced by a human being, then?
― Ashley Pomeroy, Saturday, 9 July 2022 13:38 (one year ago) link
it's like what I say to my kids when they play with bugs - imagine what would happen if a giant hand came down from the sky and picked you up?
― dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Saturday, 9 July 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link
These questions are great, but weren't the first ones I had in mind.
― pplains, Saturday, 9 July 2022 15:21 (one year ago) link
And...that's why they can't sleep!
― Grandpont Genie, Saturday, 9 July 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
I mean, why not have a sculpture of a woman punching a tree? That would "represent nature and its slow mutilation by humans". Something like this:https://image.shutterstock.com/shutterstock/photos/157857452/display_1500/stock-photo-stock-image-of-a-woman-punching-a-tree-157857452.jpg
Or a sculpture of a woman slowly strangling a tree, or putting a plastic bag over a tree's head and force-feeding it poppers, or something. While the tree is tied up. Bizarrely, there was a tiny internet buzz back in 2018 about a 10-year-old girl called Evnika Saadvakass, who can destroy very small trees with her fists. The following clip is from 2015. Maths was never my strong point, but I know that 2015 was before 2018 so she would be younger:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS_WMy4T2nU
I realise you sometimes have to break... I mean you always have to break an egg in order to... at some point in the process of making an omelette *an egg has to be broken*. But this sculpture and the shipping crates are doing more harm to the environment than whatever awareness they raise. Unless the argument is that the desert is just a pile of empty nothingness, which isn't true. It's the kind of really bad art that irritates me.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Saturday, 9 July 2022 19:43 (one year ago) link
"Ego Erectus" - Mario Mankey
https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/foot-sculpture-mario-mankey-1.jpg
https://mymodernmet.com/foot-sculpture-mario-mankey/
― nickn, Friday, 15 July 2022 23:40 (one year ago) link
gah!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 July 2022 23:58 (one year ago) link
nice white toenails
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Saturday, 16 July 2022 01:42 (one year ago) link
Arrest this artist
― Bait Kush (Eric H.), Saturday, 16 July 2022 14:57 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEPJDkZRdJU
― pplains, Sunday, 11 September 2022 02:57 (one year ago) link
now wait one god damn minute
https://i.imgur.com/7dNkHGW.png
i'm looking at this. the bronze statue of Dizang goes by, I can tell from the adjacent statues that the staff the figure carries "doesn't count". it's the top of his head. ok.
but yet, when The Motherland Calls, suddenly the top of the sword is the line of measurement. now wait one god damn minute
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 11 September 2022 03:01 (one year ago) link
this is a pretty sweet video though, thanks :D
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 11 September 2022 03:02 (one year ago) link
I'd say the pedestal might not count, but then a certain green lady shows up.
― pplains, Sunday, 11 September 2022 03:27 (one year ago) link
Yeah, it's a cool video but the measurements are weird. I was under the impression that the standard way of measuring statue height is to include staffs (staves?) etc but to not count pedestals - I get that would prob spoil the aesthetic of such a video, but not convinced that they've got things right the way they've done it.
Also, I somehow missed that Bolivia ripped off Christ the Redeemer and made a bigger one, and then (not included in that video) Poland ripped them both off and made an even bigger one again!
http://witaworld.com/assets_image/content/large/post-9_1500995399.jpg
Being built:https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HQY1n3wIOvk/TNfNZy322hI/AAAAAAAAAUo/xEt_d5DLnT8/s1600/alg_largest_jesus.jpg
― emil.y, Sunday, 11 September 2022 14:09 (one year ago) link
lol at that last image!I think the christian nations of the world should each build a really tall Jesus on this model. Then, there can be a competition and the winner can be placed on a very tall pedestal, towering above the others Jesuses
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 11 September 2022 14:36 (one year ago) link
Or put the existing ones all together and rename them "The Three Christs of Ypsilanti".
― ledge, Sunday, 11 September 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
i am working on a mockup.
this could change the future of giant statues
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 11 September 2022 15:38 (one year ago) link
nevermind, it won't
https://i.imgur.com/Ep2umhw.gif
but what a world it could be
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 11 September 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/RB5T14O.jpg
― pplains, Sunday, 11 September 2022 16:13 (one year ago) link
omg karl
― emil.y, Sunday, 11 September 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link
WORSHIP CHRIST!!!
this one's slower, probably better
https://i.imgur.com/BShVqVu.gif
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 11 September 2022 16:21 (one year ago) link
incredible
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 September 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
Not that it's worth a whole thread, but if there were one of the most terrifying gigantic buildings, the Abraj Al-bait clock tower would be on my list.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaseeK2sFTY
― Bait Kush (Eric H.), Monday, 12 September 2022 00:44 (one year ago) link
I like that they have a building in Atlanta, Georgia in there, I guess thinking it's the country of Georgia.
― nickn, Monday, 12 September 2022 01:03 (one year ago) link
Quality control on those videos is dreadful, there aren't two Turning Torsos, the one Kenya is Britam Tower.
― ledge, Monday, 12 September 2022 16:03 (one year ago) link
The height of statues from around the world.pic.twitter.com/Uggitgx6kj— Fascinating (@fasc1nate) November 1, 2022
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 21:03 (one year ago) link
Excellent - somehow missed that big lad at the end.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 1 November 2022 22:48 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ZWx7WqJ.png
― President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 21 February 2023 02:01 (one year ago) link