Uglier Than the Pat Tillman Statue

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#40 Pat Tillman honored with this statue in Arizona.

Please post pictures of worse looking statues. It will make me feel better.

I will start with this one.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:34 (6 years ago) Permalink

This 9/11 monmument was offered to Jersey City. Jersey City refused it, so it went to Bayonne instead:

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

ha its a vergina

― latebloomer: not to be confused with the dolphin from Seaquest DSV (latebloomer), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:38 (6 years ago) Permalink

Ugh. Looks like it was designed by those Pink Floyd album cover people.

This one is an old family favorite of mine, but still, a little creepy.

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

morticia addams + close encounters alien (long skinny truffaut bro one) + that dude who didn't kill jonbenet

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:43 (6 years ago) Permalink

I think I've posted it before, but another Jersey City oddity is the Polish WWII memorial:

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

Now I do have to say that I love me some Eureka Springs:

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:47 (6 years ago) Permalink

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:47 (6 years ago) Permalink

1939, another number, another bummer.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:48 (6 years ago) Permalink

Statue of Queen Charlotte outside the Charlotte Douglas International Airport.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:48 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

"Lord, toss me a PFD!"

(at Solid Rock Church in Monroe, Ohio.)

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:56 (6 years ago) Permalink

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:58 (6 years ago) Permalink

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:00 (6 years ago) Permalink

WHAT THE FUCK

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

Man, Austin is a hotbed of crappy sculpture. There's the "Nightwing" bat just south of the Congress Ave bridge

The stocky woman firing a cannon farther north on congress.

A giant Lone Star in front of the history museum.

And of course, Steve Ray Vaughn.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:01 (6 years ago) Permalink

Haha, WTF at Martin Luther King, cotton-pickin' field hand.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:02 (6 years ago) Permalink

Wait, that SRV is great though - his shadow is playing the guitar!

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:03 (6 years ago) Permalink

I can't find a good set of shots in situ but if you go to this page and click on each of the individual images, you'll see what was installed near the Science Library on campus a couple of years ago. In full daylight as part of a rock garden they look especially ridiculous.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:03 (6 years ago) Permalink

Statues that are all painted/coloured in like that man with dog one always look really weird.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:05 (6 years ago) Permalink

I'm pretty sure it's the work of J. Seward Johnson, who has stuff all over NJ and I think in other states too. He's kind of like George Segal meets Norman Rockwell.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

I like the Bayonnet one.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

thought this was gonna be another girlz of ilx thread

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

I have seen Giant Jesus way too many times when driving down I-75. Every time I pass that statue, I have to fight the urge to yell, "TOUCHDOWN!"

― Nathan P1p (hoyanathan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

Technically more "public sculpture" than statues, but total WTF:

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

Oh yeah, that guy has stuff in the Subway. It's kinda cute - never really minded it.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

martin luther king jr got a little bit of

going on

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

Two that are a little more conceptual, but equally ugly:

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:

and here is a small monument to unborn children, in niagra falls:

― pinkmoose (jacklove), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

unborn children: an inspiration to us all

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

reach for the major labia!

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:31 (6 years ago) Permalink

this is supposed to be tupac

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

Haha, Tupac is a 45-year-old minister.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:41 (6 years ago) Permalink

shown in his characteristic suit jacket & waistcoat

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

Hey P. Plains, Vulcan is alive and well in Birmingham.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:04 (6 years ago) Permalink

"So what were you hoping with that statue of Tupac?"
"I always imagined him playing W. E. B. DuBois in a movie..."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:08 (6 years ago) Permalink

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

Relative of yours, Scott?

http://sewardjohnson.com/site/index.html

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

Someone should just start uglystatues.com

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

no! they had a lot of his stuff around philly.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:15 (6 years ago) Permalink

i kinda like the IDEA of johnson's stuff though. but then i was a big duane hanson fan when i was a little kid.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

Angry school teacher glares at Glasgow

Someone knocked his glasses off

(it's Donald Dewar - Scotland's First First Minister)

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

not a statue but easily my least favorite piece of public art. union sq, nyc:

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

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 (6 years ago) Permalink

J. Seward Johnson has these creepy 3D versions of famous paintings at Grounds for Sculpture in Trenton:

Dejuner Sur L'Herbe:

Boating Party:

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:19 (6 years ago) Permalink

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which ones? that pic is dead
― goole, Thursday, May 31, 2012 12:34 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hmm, I see them on my end. These guys:

http://www.tomostudio.com/exhibitions_rockman.html

― Soccer mom, hopeless and lost, in utter despair (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 31 May 2012 17:53 (11 months ago) Permalink

^^^^pretty sure Laurie Moore used to work at this theme park, as Snow White or something.

oops xpost

― quincie, Thursday, 31 May 2012 17:54 (11 months ago) Permalink

huh. i don't think i've ever paid those any attention

― goole, Thursday, 31 May 2012 17:55 (11 months ago) Permalink

fun fact: those grassy berms are not just creative landscaping, they're designed to keep cars from driving through the front door.

― goole, Thursday, 31 May 2012 17:56 (11 months ago) Permalink

Foiled by landscaping!

― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Thursday, 31 May 2012 17:57 (11 months ago) Permalink

also i believe the whole plaza has an empty chamber underneath it, and it's designed to crack under the weight of a truck. built after OKC, obv. but i don't remember where i heard this.

― goole, Thursday, 31 May 2012 17:59 (11 months ago) Permalink

The Great Escape also had this weird racially questionable african man in a "jungle" area that was a robot and it used to say "welcome to my jungle" from behind the bushes

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:00 (11 months ago) Permalink

haha, isnt that the dude that starved a dog to death for an art show?

― ⦧(^_^)⦦ ♫ \(' )/ ♪ \(' o ')/ ♬ ⦧( ')⦦ ♪ ⦧(- ̺-)⦦ (dsvoris), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:02 (11 months ago) Permalink

Otterness that is

― ⦧(^_^)⦦ ♫ \(' )/ ♪ \(' o ')/ ♬ ⦧( ')⦦ ♪ ⦧(- ̺-)⦦ (dsvoris), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:02 (11 months ago) Permalink

The Great Escape also had this weird racially questionable african man in a "jungle" area that was a robot and it used to say "welcome to my jungle" from behind the bushes

I know there's an Axl joke in there somewhere but I can't be bothered

― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:04 (11 months ago) Permalink

that enough mammary mounds for ya?

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:09 (11 months ago) Permalink

xp he shot a dog for a film, apparently

― goole, Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:11 (11 months ago) Permalink

did the dog die?

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:15 (11 months ago) Permalink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Otterness#Controversy

― goole, Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:17 (11 months ago) Permalink

First I've heard of that. The Rockman statues are just whimsically silly, and not to my liking, but that dog story is reprehensible. Guess what, I don't forgive you.

― Soccer mom, hopeless and lost, in utter despair (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:27 (11 months ago) Permalink

If he shot a chicken no one would care

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:29 (11 months ago) Permalink

pretty much

― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:29 (11 months ago) Permalink

no one cared what happened to the chicken in Pink Flamnigoes

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:38 (11 months ago) Permalink

In his book Shock Value Waters claims they ate the chicken afterwards, and wonders why anyone who eats meat would have an issue with that scene. Sorta agree, although I have a hard time with that scene.

― Soccer mom, hopeless and lost, in utter despair (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:44 (11 months ago) Permalink

that scene showed me just how deep the darkness can go

― ⦧(^_^)⦦ ♫ \(' )/ ♪ \(' o ')/ ♬ ⦧( ')⦦ ♪ ⦧(- ̺-)⦦ (dsvoris), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:45 (11 months ago) Permalink

sorry but birds are fucking asshole dinosaurs. we owe them nothing. dogs have been our friends for eons, we owe them.

― ⦧(^_^)⦦ ♫ \(' )/ ♪ \(' o ')/ ♬ ⦧( ')⦦ ♪ ⦧(- ̺-)⦦ (dsvoris), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:47 (11 months ago) Permalink

we owe them kibble. that is their payment for services.

I wish all those John Waters moveis were edited, censored, beucase the parts I like most are the dialogue, costumes, story etc - I want neuter versions

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:50 (11 months ago) Permalink

ya i could skip the rape-by-chicken stuff and still have a good, dirty time. the poop eating can stay tho. kinda mezmerizing @o@

― ⦧(^_^)⦦ ♫ \(' )/ ♪ \(' o ')/ ♬ ⦧( ')⦦ ♪ ⦧(- ̺-)⦦ (dsvoris), Thursday, 31 May 2012 18:58 (11 months ago) Permalink

When the Uglier Than the Pat Tillman Statue thread gets ugly.

― pplains, Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:03 (11 months ago) Permalink

Pat Tillman probably never saw a John Waters movie

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:06 (11 months ago) Permalink

― the fey monster (ledge), Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:08 (11 months ago) Permalink

And Waters hates sports, so I'm sure he never saw Tillman.

― Soccer mom, hopeless and lost, in utter despair (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:08 (11 months ago) Permalink

okay what the shit is that

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:09 (11 months ago) Permalink

it's a running clock of course.

glasgow buchanan st bus station.

― the fey monster (ledge), Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:10 (11 months ago) Permalink

to back up for a sec, that harry carey statue is horrible

― goole, Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:10 (11 months ago) Permalink

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:11 (11 months ago) Permalink

literally would like to punch that clock

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:11 (11 months ago) Permalink

http://www.pressherald.com/news/panel-votes-to-move-artwork_2010-11-18.html

local news to amuse

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:15 (11 months ago) Permalink

i hope the terrorists take this horrible thing out of my life forever:

― ⦧(^_^)⦦ ♫ \(' )/ ♪ \(' o ')/ ♬ ⦧( ')⦦ ♪ ⦧(- ̺-)⦦ (dsvoris), Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:16 (11 months ago) Permalink

I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder - in this case someone who likes parts taht are left over after you cut something out of leather

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:26 (11 months ago) Permalink

it looks like an abstract bird flip

― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:27 (11 months ago) Permalink

I wish all those John Waters moveis were edited, censored, beucase the parts I like most are the dialogue, costumes, story etc - I want neuter versions

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, May 31, 2012 2:50 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i made the mistake of renting A Dirty Shame from Blockbuster and it had definitely beed edited.

― mizzell, Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:31 (11 months ago) Permalink

I own that - I have not seen the non-neuter version

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:47 (11 months ago) Permalink

i think its supposed to be an abstracted antelope on a boat (im not kidding, im pretty sure thats the real story). its an african thing, but it's still barf-a-licious. what really kills me are the fucking black marble caskets radiating around it.

― ⦧(^_^)⦦ ♫ \(' )/ ♪ \(' o ')/ ♬ ⦧( ')⦦ ♪ ⦧(- ̺-)⦦ (dsvoris), Thursday, 31 May 2012 20:36 (11 months ago) Permalink

xp and that clock. i hate it so much

― ⦧(^_^)⦦ ♫ \(' )/ ♪ \(' o ')/ ♬ ⦧( ')⦦ ♪ ⦧(- ̺-)⦦ (dsvoris), Thursday, 31 May 2012 20:36 (11 months ago) Permalink

it looks like an abstract bird flip

I had the same thought!

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Friday, 1 June 2012 05:09 (11 months ago) Permalink

always considered it a hammer

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 00:46 (11 months ago) Permalink

4 weeks pass...

― mizzell, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 05:15 (10 months ago) Permalink

GAH

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 05:22 (10 months ago) Permalink

those are bong-pulling lips.

― goat news for people who love boat news (how's life), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 11:59 (10 months ago) Permalink

leave unwanted babies in here

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 12:48 (10 months ago) Permalink

lol

― carl agatha, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 15:33 (10 months ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

"WHERE ARE YOU?"

*"here."*

― pplains, Thursday, 25 October 2012 14:20 (6 months ago) Permalink

I'm not crazy about the finished Crazy Horse, I think it looks more impressive and cool unfinished. I mean, the unfinished version has a natural authority about it and the model looks too European.

― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Marian, Shut Up (Mount Cleaners), Thursday, 25 October 2012 14:53 (6 months ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

Apparently, Vlad's head got smashed in by some vandals. So a sculptor was commissioned to recreate the bust which led to ...

― pplains, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 14:04 (1 month ago) Permalink

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