Uglier Than the Pat Tillman Statue

http://www.bayonnelra.com/memorial.jpg

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

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/7585/thevulcanstatuepr7.jpg

I also drove to Alabama one summer specifically to see it, AND IT WAS GONE.

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.

http://www.jerseypride.com/images/images_of_nj/monuments_and_structures/ww2_memorial.jpg

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)

http://www.flyeureka.com/skyradio/images/christofoz.jpg

Statue of Queen Charlotte outside the Charlotte Douglas International Airport.

This one is in Morristown, NJ. I kind of think it looks like Christopher Walken (Walken the dog!)

(at Solid Rock Church in Monroe, Ohio.)

um

I KNOW FOR DAMN SURE I DIDN'T POST LIKE THAT AND CERTAINLY NOT TWICE

The stocky woman firing a cannon farther north on congress.

A giant Lone Star in front of the history museum.

http://static.flickr.com/66/199253448_4a749a3cf3.jpg?v=0

And of course, Steve Ray Vaughn.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/9/9c/200px-SRV.jpeg

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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.

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:

http://static.flickr.com/112/297104558_83a1967373_m.jpg

and here is a small monument to unborn children, in niagra falls:
http://static.flickr.com/107/297104555_5cd5c7cd8f.jpg

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

http://www.waloszek.de/f3_kal/02-duane-hanson.jpg

http://www.glasgowsculpture.com/images/c0238_w.jpg

Someone knocked his glasses off

http://www.glasgowsculpture.com/images/c0306_w.jpg

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

[img removed]http://worldofjunimoon.com/images/NYCtrip/UnionSquareArt.jpg

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.

Is this a statue of Queen Charlotte taking a canon blast to the gut? WTF.

Dejuner Sur L'Herbe:
http://nary.org/Dejeuner/dejeuner_grounds.jpg

Boating Party:
http://www.wine-people.com/images/boatingpartyWEB.jpg

haha I meant "cannon" but that's funnier "I'm sorry ma'am but your legacy is not sound!"

http://static.flickr.com/32/101662815_38f030ecbf_m.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/posankka.jpg

KINDA HARD TO MISS.

Yep, that's Minneapolis' very own Mary Tyler Moore statue. Dear rest of the world...you're welcome.

The guy on the horse in the first post is none other than Nathaniel Bedford Forrest, Confederate general who later founded the KKK. It's a fitting statue for him.

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

-- Django Blowhardt (crump...), November 14th, 2006 9:04 AM. (Rock Hardy) (later) (link)

Uh-uh. If I ever make it back, chances are he'll just hop down and hide from me again.

http://www.rodnsal.com/Brooksstatue%20%28WinCE%29.jpg

Not as ugly as the Mary Tyler Moore statue, but I alwas thought it looks like he's being stretched out on the rack (and really loving it).

http://static.flickr.com/39/89671016_081cd4d118.jpg?v=1137937735

I agree with Anthony that the minimalist sculpture is just depressing as fuck, it makes Rothko seem all Hallmarky in comparison.

?!?!?! It's not gone! I just visited it two months ago! I have pictures of Vulcan's gigantic ass!

My favorite Vulcan story is the torch which shone red when a FATAL traffic accident occurred, but that it had to be taken DOWN because it was red all the TIME and disturbing people!

Good butt-shot at Vulcan's Butt blog.

Of course, on the way down, it looked like the rain was going up.

There's a television station up there on that mountain that had a security guard who got mad at me while I was driving around, looking for an invisible statue.

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/7076/nbfs2xr2.gif

If he was a war martyr, why on earth portray him playing football instead of something more, you know, dignified?

Call me stupid, but I think this might have something to do with it.

Tuomas, FFS, this thread is called "uglier than the Pat Tillmans statue", don't you think everyone on here has already asked themselves those questions?

Mercury News says:

Modeled after one of the better-known photos of Tillman, the statue features him in mid-stride, long hair flowing, helmet in one hand and mouthpiece in the other, and with his mouth open as if he's roaring. The sculpture's backdrop is a curved wall of black concrete that gives the memorial both an understated and reverential quality.

``I'm really pleased they decided to portray him that way,'' said Jim Kaskie, a Mesa man who also wore Tillman's No. 40 jersey. ``That's the way I'll always remember Pat.''

So, they made the statue so that people would recognise it. SEEMS KIND OF SENSIBLE.

http://static.flickr.com/76/205243741_03c518e343_m.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/61/205243736_c57b4bbec5_m.jpg

-- Tuomas (lixnix...), November 15th, 2006.

Here, I think, is the boundary of your understanding of American culture.

xpost exactly

(So ugly is was chopped up then some idiot put it back together)

i believe said statue was erected by his former club and is outside their current stadium. that would be my guess as to why.

http://www.thereareplaces.com/guidebook/images/pagepix/ITmil/itmlnduoint.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/21/SomervilleNJ.jpg/300px-SomervilleNJ.jpg

See, it's ALWAYS time to remember.

A friend of mine and I came up with the idea that every hour, on the hour, 24/7 it should broadcast loudly, to the entire town: "TIME TO REMEMBER. TIME TO REMEMBER" and then the the names of all of the 9/11 victims.

They made a statue of the villians from the a-ha video?

That really works. Let 'em keep it.

What about that is not incredibly awesome?

Even the Pat Tillman one would be weirdly cool if it wasn't for the fact that Pat Tillman's story makes you wish they hadn't made a statue for him at all.

Tribute to 9/11 firefighters. It used to scare the hell out of me at night - I have a fear of gasmasks.

I like the big clock on legs at the bus station though, and the big nappy pin where Rottenrow Maternity Hospital used to be. Can't find decent pictures though.

http://www.art-public.com/member/img/wyllg001.jpg

If you look closely at the notebook in the hands of this woman outside the Barnes & Noble in Naperville, Ill., it reads "Naperville has grown big and fat." WTF.

hardcore

My mum says I'm talking shite, I always wore disposables.

Maybe I've stolen someone elses memory. Or maybe my auntie just stabbed me for the hell of it.

http://www.airninja.com/pictures/melbourne/gigantic-purse.jpg

I suppose it is meant to be some commentary on consumerism, but people just sit on it and laugh at it.

http://elsewhere.polydistortion.net/lib/cache/pics/melbourne/2002/01/15-the-yellow-peril.small.jpg

(heres a pic of where it used to live hidden in a crappy riverside park no one went to).

just like america has no welfare or art, and europe also has no money and jesus. sounds like you got it.

The Super Lamb Banana! Some sort of comment on genetic engineering. I think it's kinda cute.

Rottenrow is gone? I need to pay attention more.

Wow, I'd forgotten about the Lamb Banana.

The hill up to Rottenrow is like the tramellator, pregnant women be wheezing.

? The thing from Gladiators.

I believe it's a memorial to Glasgow firemen that died attending a fire in Glasgow and has absolutely nothing to do with 9/11.

People left flowers and tributes on it following 9/11.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1615116.stm

I know it's ugly but it was also the first "landmark" I ever saw on my first wander around NYC, so I miss it.

-- Kv_nol (kn0l4n8...), November 16th, 2006 5:35 AM. (Kv_nol) (later) (link

It sounds like something Scooby-Doo would say if he was declaring his ignorance about a topic.

OTM!

"Is this your puppy scoob?"
"Rottenrow!"

I'm pretty sure this is where one of the hardest boss fights takes place in FFVII.

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/1383/lr9christmaswa1.jpg

Despite the benefit of the doubt being given to the sentiment behind this act, the decorations were removed by the Secretary of State's office shortly after being discovered.

http://www.nashville.org/Parthenon/Images/AthenaGilded.jpg

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/0/06/220px-Dixon_Musica.jpg

It's called "Musica". Scandalous!

http://www.agmc.org.au/22-stkilda-town-hall.jpg

This is a baffling statue out the front of St Kilda Town Hall, about 5 mins walk down the road from my place.

Maybe there is some legend story behind it, but I'm not feelin it. WTF is the PLANE there for? If I didn't know any better I'd say the snakes were a metaphor for local council getting into everyone's business and choking it up, ahaha.

Ohhhh Jesaulenko, you beauty!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/162/361251858_ce259988b4.jpg

thats in baltimore

there's an uglier one near the harbor but its a polish war memorial (for the katyn forest massacre) so i give it a free pass

n/a posted this on noise board, but i feel it deserves a wider audience.

http://edition.cnn.com/US/9607/11/ashe/ashe.mem.large.jpg

ARTHUR ASHE HAS JUST ABOUT HAD IT WITH YOU KIDS!

I live in Morristown with that seeing eye dog statue. I'm bummed it's so ugly. Morristown is the home of the Seeing Eye, the first training school of its kind. Walking around here, you always see dogs either being trained by the staff or being tried out by potential masters. It's great. They were trying to honor the founder with that statue, and turned out something kind of creepy.

lol at arthur ashe statue oh my god.

http://www.giantbusts.co.uk/acatalog/SWMACE.png

I want to see the 9/11 Vadge in person.

also that one in jersey city, the polish ww2 memorial. unreal-- surprised the gun hasn't been broken off in some way.

also this is the goldmine

http://www.weirdomatic.com/strange-statues.html

what has arthur ashe got in his right hand? is he pouring beer on the children?

(yes I know it's a can of tennis balls but I like to think it's beer)

how did this thread go on so long without Harry Caray ouside Wrigley Field?

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/e/e2/200px-Harry_Carey.jpg

Detail of the base, or movie still from The Frighteners?

http://www.thestructuralist.com/images/harry2.jpg

We could do a Bayonne Ethiopian food and 9/11 vadge FAP

Monuments on Monument Avenue
* Robert E. Lee – equestrian sculpture by Antonin Mercié; unveiled May 29, 1890
* J.E.B. Stuart – equestrian sculpture by Frederick Moynihan; unveiled May 30, 1907
* Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America – sculpted by Edward Valentine; unveiled June 3, 1907
* Stonewall Jackson – equestrian sculpture by Frederick William Sievers; unveiled October 11, 1919
* Matthew Fontaine Maury, oceanographer – sculpted by Frederick William Sievers; unveiled November 11, 1929
* Arthur Ashe, tennis player – sculpted by Paul Di Pasquale; unveiled July 10, 1996

which of these two are not like the others?

what has arthur ashe got in his right hand?

bottle of Knob Creek. I told you kids, it's best to just stay away from Arthur Ashe when he's been drinking.

http://menendez.senate.gov/images/gallery/gal_091106c.jpg

it's a big can of aids

Good thread.

OMG HARRY CARAY

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/246/535641251_b9786b686e_o.jpg

White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high
AND PARK MUTHAFUCKIN SOUTH OF THE STREET

I like how clearly Hendrix's guitar power is grounded, literally.

Harry Caray and the family he ate

http://www.wonderlane.com/images/fremont_troll.jpg

I am, you are, they are, we are CRA-zy

i would like to see the harry caray and arthur ashe statues come to life and have an epic battle, mic vs. racket

winner gets all the kids

that thing is actually kind of awesome (xpost)

I actually like a bunch of these statues in this thread -- a LOT. but many of them are damn ugly and aren't immune to satire.

I'm trying to find the truly awful matruskasian things in that Whole Foods/Tutta Bella corner on Denny and Westlake, but I guess people knew to not take pictures of them and put them online.

For those of you who hate MLK Day, don't forget this repost:

http://vcnv.org/images/02mlk.jpg

I've read up on this, and it's meant to depict Dr. King when he was a young preacher. It's still very "um" to me.

If I remember correctly, it's located on the grounds of the Illinois State Capitol.

(yes I know it's a can of tennis balls but I like to think it's beer)

i think it's a stack of books

want to post the anatomically correct fatteys from inside the Columbus Circle Mall but I can't find a shot of em

http://www.sj-r.com/News/stories/23871.asp

It's true, all the other statues on the capital grounds are stately, dignified, well-rendered, but here comes MLK looking like absolute shit (it's "abstract") and whistling Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah. Way to go, guys.

http://www.ilstatehouse.com/exterior_statuary.htm

http://www.arenet.com/unique2.jpg

This is FANTASTIC!

consider the bat

omg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3147/2585538222_a1a377d8fd.jpg?v=0

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3045/2596013866_e91556f449.jpg?v=0
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_gW8A0b7kIlo/SBjB-mYM1rI/AAAAAAAAA-M/9-LFmujYWik/P1010893.JPG

melting fecal einstein

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ea/Einstein_Memorial.jpg/800px-Einstein_Memorial.jpg

Melting Fecal Einstein would be a great movie title

want to post the anatomically correct fatteys from inside the Columbus Circle Mall but I can't find a shot of em

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/151/350426606_fa8546c028.jpg?v=0

http://www.nycarthur.com/Botero%20Sculpture/images/BoteroTimeWarner-31-IMG_5245.jpg

http://www.nycarthur.com/Botero%20Sculpture/pages/BoteroTimeWarner-28-IMG_4709.htm

http://www.nycarthur.com/Botero%20Sculpture/images/BoteroTimeWarner-27-IMG_4704.jpg

There's a large fiberglass figure of yoda in mongol armour near my house

There's a large fiberglass figure of yoda in mongol armour near in my house

-- slecked, Monday, July 7, 2008 4:40 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

teh fatteys are beautiful!!

pix plz slecked

Where are these from? I'm guessing a Blitz memorial...

http://static.flickr.com/76/205243741_03c518e343_m.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/76/205243741_03c518e343_m.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/76/205243741_03c518e343_m.jpg

Also:

They made a statue of the villians from the a-ha video?

-- Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:52

Loooooooooool

I love this thread!

http://static.flickr.com/75/205101130_ab5f1c1f49_m.jpg

A-ha villains...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3038/2336024789_3ef42f94df.jpg?v=0

http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/0/4/2/7/ar117394052172409.jpg

Neilsen family status in from of King 5 studios off Dexter Ave. in Seattle... a block or so away from KEXP.

I think this is meant to be one of those cement blocks to prevent cars from wanting to ramrod the studio entrance.

oops, sorry

http://slog.thestranger.com/files/2007/06/uglyartugh.jpg

My favorite detail is the cat turning its back on the far left.

Really dislike these statues that I walk by practically every day:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/56/237288961_87dfe63681.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/56/237288961_87dfe63681.jpg

Whoops, double post!

yeah I kinda hate those too. not as much as I hate the bow and arrow in the ground though/

am0n otm, hate that thing.

woah, Hurting, that silver-coated sperm swimmin up vaj alley one. Intrestin

Never Forget Vagine-Eleven

not as much as I hate the bow and arrow in the ground though

I really dig the spider though:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3210/2603596272_20eb20c500.jpg

http://flickr.com/photos/8577178@N03/2476278953/

it's so wee!

Mr Roger's statue in Pittsburgh wins

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/2634/mr1v.jpg
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/7312/mr2s.jpg
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/1915/mr4l.jpg

was there rly no mention of the Miami LOLocaust memorial?

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/04/15/holocaust_memorial_wideweb__470x325,0.jpg

http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/PICS34/MIAMI22.jpg

best thread

There's a large fiberglass figure of yoda in mongol armour near my house

― slecked, Monday, July 7, 2008 4:40 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

why was a photo of this never shared?

<3 <3 <3 this thread

why was a photo of this never shared?

― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, November 7, 2009 2:00 AM

lol he emailed one to me a long time ago. lemme find it

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3057/2661784232_e6e89c27fd_b.jpg

lol

omg losing my shit right now

haha came here to post about harry carey's ghosts

http://z.about.com/d/weirdnews/1/0/P/C/-/-/NAZI_GNOME_12.jpg

http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/PICS34/MIAMI22.jpg

This long shot is kind of incredible until you remember that it's a statue and not a drawing.

That statue scared the shit out of me when I visited Miami as a child.

http://www.davidcerny.cz/IMAGE/piss/IMG_45280.jpg

An electric mechanism driven by a couple of microproccesors swivels the upper part of the body, while the penis goes up and down. The stream of water writes quotes from famous Prague residents.

This one of a young Abe Lincoln in downtown Indianapolis is pretty ugly. It looks like it has psoriasis.

http://thumb13.webshots.net/t/52/152/8/31/80/484583180lqPEBZ_th.jpg

http://inlinethumb21.webshots.com/21140/1484583180069336573S425x425Q85.jpg

if you look real hard it looks like screech from saved by the bell

Looks more like Imus.

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/493/donimus1.jpg

aw man I like that Prague one of the guys peeing. that guy has a ton of weird ones all over the city

http://i2.photoblog.com/photos/4833-1179610865-1-l.jpg

dying @ yoda

Holy shit that horse one is amazing

RIP Touchdown Jesus
http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/06/15/touchdown-jesus-statue-destroyed-by-lightning/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAAj1OiH-WA

RIP horrible thing.

Would love to hear the next sermon at that church.

Blah blah mysterious ways blah blah

This statue of Luis Guzman's not bad either:

http://www.greendalecommunitycollege.com/images/alumni/alumni_luizgoodman.jpg

LOL I posted about that Jesus statue on ILM earlier this morning:

Six-Story Jesus Statue That Got Struck By Lightning And Burned Down, What's On Your iPod?

oh the divinity!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_airm5SxYQSM/SmU4GtuK1qI/AAAAAAAAAJo/nqszny7BpVw/s320/twin+pillars+-IRS+HQ+-New+Carrollton,MD.jpg

From an IRS building in New Carrollton, Maryland. I guess it's not uglier than the Tillman statue, but it gives me the creeps. Plus, according to the blog I found the picture on, it is some kind of masonic symbolism.

blog gives me the creeps

Yes, I should clarify that I found the picture on the blog through GIS, not because I was reading up on conspiracies and the occult.

don't ever change, Texass. Don't ever change.

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g199/vazquez24/IMG_1473.jpg

http://images5a.snapfish.com/232323232%7Ffp63386%3Enu%3D47%3C3%3E%3A54%3E255%3EWSNRCG%3D334%3B485378346nu0mrj

http://images5a.snapfish.com/232323232%7Ffp633%3A9%3Enu%3D47%3C3%3E%3A54%3E255%3EWSNRCG%3D334%3B485375346nu0mrj

those look classical to me!

http://io9.com/5616498/ultraviolet-light-reveals-how-ancient-greek-statues-really-looked

ROGER CLEMENS

http://images5a.snapfish.com/232323232%7Ffp6339%3B%3Enu%3D47%3C3%3E%3A54%3E255%3EWSNRCG%3D334%3B47%3A783346nu0mrj

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/1557/kevindurantstatue.gif

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__6db0wLu-YE/SElL7h5H3dI/AAAAAAAAApA/s0RCNaNVjUQ/s320/250px-Frank_Zappa_Bust.jpg

Much love, but that actually looks like an awesome statue/bust.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/midnight_sun/blog/zappastatue.jpg

Oh. Didn't see the party in the back.

is that durant or jordan

those faces look like forensic reconstructions of missing persons

http://i810.photobucket.com/albums/zz30/knicabokerjs/article-1317267-0B716BF0000005DC-634_964x603-2.jpg

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w118/vangyjo/Untitled-4.gif

Why did I not find this until 5 p.m. CDT on a Friday?

http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/.element/img/4.0/global/swapper/201104/110408.04.jpg

the statue's pretty bad, too

http://jeffpicard.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/rim-shot-johnny-utah.thumbnail.jpg

please tip your servers, folks

God help us all if I catch any of this on the excelsior thread.

hahahaha

http://media.nj.com/springsteen/photo/9554930-large.jpg

What in the

beautiful

If you're some ugly-ass alien.

Why does he look like Picard with a sweatband?

God that is terrifying

have they stopped teaching sculpture class at art schools or something?

sculpted from memory

I had no idea the Boss suffered from acromegaly!

Soulful Humanitarian indeed!!

I didn't know there was more than one Bruce Springsteen.

Bruce Springstein

Hello, is it Brooce you're looking for?

FTW

And seeing as my pic upthread now seems gone, I have to repost it because I remain utterly baffled by this statue (which is located about 5 mins down the road from me at the local town hall)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_F-LyTrM0YP0/Rhrz4cHbqKI/AAAAAAAAAeY/4cOfq9AlzMo/s400/stkildastatue.jpg

The chap in the sculpture looks like he's lying back enjoying a lazy bj. With snakes. And a plane. And a temple.

Wut.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6150/5922115255_bc4254999d_z.jpg
as if the British Government hadn't already done enough to Alan Turing, he must now suffer this posthumous indignity

oh god no

;_;

I've seen that statue of Nathaniel Bedford Forrest! Somewhere in TN amiright? I remember asking 'wtf is that' and someone explaining the KKK thing and me just thinking aaah the south.

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/50/92/1509266_180577ba.jpg

more sculpture than statue.
Nr Peterborough. Love the fact that most people think it's a pile of rubbish but kind of accept that it's there anyway.

Scrap metal yards would look so much nicer if they polished their goods...

That's just...well, bad.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/midnight_sun/blog/zappastatue.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ka/thumb/5/58/SimpsonsMPG_7G07.jpg/250px-SimpsonsMPG_7G07.jpg

Anyone else think the Springsteen statue looks like Midnight Oil's Peter Garrett?

That Turing statue can't be all bad, it fooled this dog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8DiOthAKek

in fact you might say it ... passed the turing test

I'm guessing that most of the artists responsible for these monstrosities didn't have enormously glittering careers. The one obvious exception is Zurab Tereteli who, despite being one of the least talented people to ever pick up a chisel, has somehow made astronomical amounts of money and landed the position of President of the Russian Academy of the Arts.

Tear Of Grief upthread (offered to Jersey City who refused it) is the classic but he's got so many in his locker. This was originally meant to be Columbus and offered to the US who, again, rejected it so it was rebranded as Peter The Great.

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

His Balzac was meant to be a gift to the people of Paris who, yet again, said thank you but no thank you. It's in a small town on the south coast now.

http://i.imgur.com/CFp9I.jpg

Due to his relationship with the Luzhkovs, Moscow's littered with his appalling art.

holy crap. they're like overdecorated christmas trees of sadness. I don't even...

This frog eyed monstrosity just off the top Of Gt Portland St in London
http://img3.photographersdirect.com/img/13725/wm/pd432137.jpg

Close up
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2035/5697472022_423b5c79ff.jpg

http://img3.photographersdirect.com/img/13725/wm/pd432137.jpg http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/9021/troymcclure3ec.jpg

I love how if you Google Image search "Pat Tillman Statue", ilxor.com is on the first page with this pic:

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/7076/nbfs2xr2.gif

Wonder how many people end up on this thread from that...

Last month, I drove through Council Bluffs and passed through this foreboding gauntlet of spires, which I can only assume is a tribute to the incarcerated men and women of Iowa who risk life and limb to remove garbage from the side of I-80.

http://www.publicartandpractice.com/images/24thstbridge_large_18.jpg

sounds correct

It's sort of difficult to see these statues, but they used to piss me off so bad when I worked in that part of town.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3541/3627174592_f3e474e259.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4016/4611974340_ed3a823960.jpg

so much butts

unintentionally homoerotic sports statutes

I don't think I would be erotic for these statues if I was a homo.

That's the Federal Reserve Board in pic 2.

a lot of these seem pretty successful to me. i mean, the pat tillman statue is obviously horrid (as are that insanely godawful 9/11 memorial, "martin luther king," hendrix & mr. rogers, lolocaust mem, texas footballers, malformed kennedy, overpass atrocities) but many of the others are far more funny, strange and/or intriguing than most public sculpture.

love the face-making mounted rider, the christ of the ozarks (amazing!), the polish WWII memorial, queen charlotte, bat-signal, astor place cube, anatomically correct fattys, prague weirdness, crazy guy with snakes & a plane. even the baseballers are okay. their worst crime is blandness.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-zOrAL1V5Jg/THtyB9MTmwI/AAAAAAAAHEI/TJJS_DaWu5w/s1600/6.JPG

that, otoh, is some hideous shit

Speaking of baffling "gateway" sculputres on freeways, this is what greets visitors entering melbourne from the airport road:

http://i.pbase.com/o6/99/380799/1/33201038.P7Bxx7vU.CITYLINK.jpg

The I AM A GIANT CHEESE STICK AND I WILL CRUSH U sculpture.

frankly baffled

I... like some of these

?

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

like okay yes this is totally ridiculous and looks like something from a Terry Gilliam movie but I find that kind of endearing

contenderizer: I do like the snakes/plane/man sculpture i posted btw! I just think it is a bizarre thing to have in front of a city hall. And on googling about it yesterday I found an article where the sculptor himself apparently said "thats still there? I made that as a joke".

http://www.seattleoutdoorart.com/images/EpicenterBuildingD.jpg

less public sculpture than gaudi fail, but still atrocious

and shakey OTM about the endearing ridiculousness of tereteli's columbus (like his balzac, too)

WOuld totally live in that apartment block!

it's certainly cheerful! http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

Jim's statue heavily influenced by Bjork in the Big Time Sensuality video I think.

I don't think it's uglier than the Pat Tillman statue. Hell, it ain't even the ugliest MLK statue.

But.

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/1484/bildesz.jpg

That is one angry looking peacemaker. Looks like if you piss him off, he's going to come out of that brick and whack you across the head with his rolled-up paper. His coming out of the mountain, leaving the two sides of it behind, either reminds me of one of the Buddhas that got blown up by the Taliban or some sort of weird Wile E. Coyote episode they took off the air in the early 70s.

And least his hands aren't up like Han Solo's.

ha

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/8.VQXSUYD7C9EvMj_GJ1qQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD02MzA7cT04NTt3PTM5MA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/9b408463c3b78212f60e6a706700e077.jpg

"Hey, HEY, Josh Turbin! You know better than to run in the halls like that."

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/F4YEzCjIHJp2TfmCZwznDQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00MTM7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/64035c1fc3ba8212f60e6a706700818e.jpg

"Stay back from the gate. The band's not coming out for another 45 minutes."

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/t6gusUqhe0Zf4kwaCbEzGQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00MDQ7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/963ca097d8299a12f60e6a7067001875.jpg

"Swear this train gets later every morning."

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Qf4xeTy5qbuF4Z4Zken0kQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00MjE7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/0aed628cd8299a12f60e6a7067007765.jpg

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/TDDZsPXtVpup6CL9JkJsCQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD02MzA7cT04NTt3PTQyMQ--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/23e0d082d7239512f60e6a706700cda3.jpg

"No! Watch the defense! SPREAD! SPREAD! Get away from that guy, Scotty. A FOUL? Godammit…"

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/mTeaMQOlxNDlJejpNNuVwQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00MjA7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/gettyimages.com/media-preview-held-martin-luther-20110822-095715-486.jpg
And through the window in the wall, come streaming in on sunlight wings,
A million bright ambassadors of morning…

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/.7nFf6ytKP70vWem5QC.iw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00MTA7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/513007f3c3b08212f60e6a706700652e.jpg

"Makin' fun of my statue on ILX, tsk tsk. I don't see any North Korean statues that are so goddamm funny on this thread, now do I?"

That statue is actually a fine likeness, but yeah... wow.

this isn't ugly, it's hysterical & great but i didn't know where else to put it.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/erica/817/bunny01.jpg

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/erica/817/add02.jpg

i love it!

btw talking of giant stuffed rabbits...

http://sports.cbsimg.net/images/visual/whatshot/shaquille-oneal-statue-1.jpg

http://image.cdnl3.xosnetwork.com/pics32/800/VM/VMVIDXANIDJDSKF.20110909004747.jpg

If I lived in Baton Rouge, I know what my Halloween costume would be this year.

That's pretty rad.

Statues look a bit odd when they're action shots in the first place (see OP), but when you start adding little props like one-quarter of a backboard that looks like a broken piece of plywood or the hardwood opening up like bamboo sticks, I think you're taking your subject into a much more surreal place than intended.

But it's LSU, not Statuary Hall. It's not like they could feature him making a free throw.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2006/06/12/2003057156.jpg

Not an actual statue right? One of those "guys"?

in front of baltimore's penn station
http://www.writingcentralbaltimore.com/wcb_spring10/lib/exe/fetch.php?cache=&media=male_female_statue.jpg

and by night
http://uncubedmedia.com/Vision/images/20080619153822_penn_station_statue.jpg

Oh boy...

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/7/2011/10/111007schwarz.jpg

So is that the winner for "veiniest statue ever"?

just checking the butt is sufficiently taut, there

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-i8pLFcO0tzI/TkTwhyEfm7I/AAAAAAAAhg4/1jRwupinA-I/s640/ENTER%252520TV-HAPPYDAYS%252520MW.jpg

huh, kinda neat having such symmetrical posts, a pic of the arnie statue next to a picture of T-1000

Bronzie

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0107/ncf_a_paterno_600.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4a3gyQ86j1qfy8bao1_500.jpg

balls of wax

I know it makes me a bad Chicagoan but I hate this statute so much:

http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000EEmNBoBJjd8/s/750/600/DSC-1928-Harry-Caray-Statue-Wrigley-Field.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/118/251911874_c90185435d.jpg

RARRRRRRR IMA EATCHOOOO

And this by where I work, which I don't mind aesthetically as much as I object to its frequent use as an open-air public urinal:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2011-08/64292445.jpg

good lord what is that terrifying frank costanza monstrosity, why are there children ossified in his legs?

ledge, he's a former mayor of Chicago who was forced to resign after the remains of ossified children were found in his umbrella can.

http://p.twimg.com/As4BwoyCIAEsOKj.jpg

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/pBU5e2HqcrA/hqdefault.jpg

http://art.newcity.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/BS98_The_Ghost_of_Harry_Caray.jpg

Either that, or he was the longtime announcer for the Chicago Cubs. I can never remember. </cardinals_fan>

The ossified children remind me of the kids under the robe of the Spirit of Chirstmas Yet to Come. Or something from one of the Nightmare on Elm St. Sequels, though I can't place which one. It's so bad, though.

also they look like diarrhea children :/

I love this thread."turds in the plaza" made me burst out laughing.

Pretty sure I'm going to have nightmares of that balloon tonight, see you all again at 4 am CDT.

http://cityofwalnutridge.com/wp-content/gallery/beatles-walnut-ridge-ar/abbey-road-night-1.jpg

Man those are some crummy ass sillouhetes.

Lennon looks like Teenwolf

hahaha

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4uzpcOqHJ1qzv9mho1_500.jpg

you see there?

Every time I see that Pat Tillman statue, I hear him saying "IS THAT ALL YOU GOT?!" as he goes out in a Scarface-like blaze.

omg mizzell, everything about that picture is fantastic

l-r:

B-x, 12, o_O

that photo should be captioned "the world's greatest side-eye"

Haha totally!

I complained about the stern expression given to the Man of Peace earlier, but now I think it's going to be appropriate with summer tourists milling about.

ya totally, that picture is exhibit A as to why that stern expression was totally OTM and an eerily prescient call on the part of the sculptor

especially when we get the tourist snap of the girl with the thong hanging out the back of her jeans.
I look forward to many MLK stern appraisals

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/usakennedyj2.jpg

I don't exactly HATE these sculptures near the Minneapolis Government Plaza, but...

http://www.emporis.com/images/show/535291-Large.jpg

which ones? that pic is dead

http://theloopny.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Paige-Bradley_Expansion-low-res-530x407.jpg

my mom made a painting a lot like this. it was a difficult weekend

http://0.tqn.com/d/themeparks/1/0/K/P/TGE6.jpg

WHA HAPPEN

The egg? Its from The Great Escape theme park in Lake George new Yrok - which is full of similar depressing failures

http://images.travelpod.com/cache/tripwow/autoplay/ta-00af-47c4-82ae-aplay-ta-fb.large.jpg

i love the egg! haha! hes adorable.

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

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

oops xpost

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

xp

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

Foiled by landscaping!

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.

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

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

Otterness that is

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

http://www.jungny.com/images.jungian.therapy.analysis/artemis.ephesus.jpg

that enough mammary mounds for ya?

xp he shot a dog for a film, apparently

did the dog die?

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

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.

If he shot a chicken no one would care

pretty much

no one cared what happened to the chicken in Pink Flamnigoes

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.

that scene showed me just how deep the darkness can go

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

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

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@

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

Pat Tillman probably never saw a John Waters movie

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/32/49/1324915_01ac8e53.jpg

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

xp

okay what the shit is that

it's a running clock of course.

glasgow buchanan st bus station.

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

http://images.morrissey-solo.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/normal_morrisseybobbleheadsmall.jpg

literally would like to punch that clock

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

local news to amuse

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

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/90/249864046_8448edab6b_z.jpg

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

it looks like an abstract bird flip

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.

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

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.

xp and that clock. i hate it so much

it looks like an abstract bird flip

I had the same thought!

always considered it a hammer

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6jnqpM8dw1qd9bz1o1_500.jpg

GAH

those are bong-pulling lips.

leave unwanted babies in here

lol

"WHERE ARE YOU?"

http://schistory.net/springsofgrace3/devotional/Moses/moseswithhornsonthecolonnadellimmacolata.jpg

*"here."*

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.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/56/Crazy-horse-comparison.jpg

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

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/185ad3hnga2u8jpg/original.jpg

http://patdollard.com/2013/03/americas-deadliest-sniper-chris-kyle-immortalized/

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

http://i.imgur.com/NGsPr6U.jpg

http://www.yousuckatcraigslist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/573.jpg

lolol

everyone needs to read the newyorker article abt that dude

Does it just focus on his solo stuff or does it go into his years with the Commodores?

Kyle and Rury had not seen each other during the decade that Kyle was in the Navy. But they picked up where they left off, pulling pranks on each other. Several times, Rury sneaked up Kyle’s driveway in the middle of the night and slapped pro-Obama bumper stickers on his truck. (Kyle was a fervent Republican.) In retaliation, Kyle pasted one on Rury’s truck that declared “I Love Black Cock.”

The SEALs began telling stories, and Kyle offered a shocking one. In the days after Hurricane Katrina, he said, the law-and-order situation was dire. He and another sniper travelled to New Orleans, set up on top of the Superdome, and proceeded to shoot dozens of armed residents who were contributing to the chaos. Three people shared with me varied recollections of that evening: the first said that Kyle claimed to have shot thirty men on his own; according to the second, the story was that Kyle and the other sniper had shot thirty men between them; the third said that she couldn’t recall specific details.

the Katrina story can't be true, can it? that's fucked up.

His statue appears to made of delicious milk chocolate, so at least it won't be around long.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/BraveStatue_1200x1600.jpg

sorry it's upthread already

it's a good one though. not only is it a comically hideous statue, it's a comically hideous statue of that great scottish hero... mel gibson.

In 1997, a 12-ton sandstone statue depicting Mel Gibson as William Wallace in Braveheart was placed in the car park of the Wallace Monument near Stirling, Scotland. The statue, which was the work of Tom Church, a monumental mason from Brechin,[20] included the word "Braveheart" on Wallace's shield. The installation became the cause of much controversy; one local resident stated that it was wrong to "desecrate the main memorial to Wallace with a lump of crap."[21] In 1998 the face on the statue was vandalised by someone wielding a hammer. After repairs were made, the statue was encased in a cage every night to prevent further vandalism. This only incited more calls for the statue to be removed as it then appeared that the Gibson/Wallace figure was imprisoned. The statue was described as "among the most loathed pieces of public art in Scotland."[22] In 2008, the statue was returned to its sculptor to make room for a new visitor centre being built at the foot of the Wallace Monument.[23]

I . . . don't know if this is actually uglier or not. I'd like to see the final sculpted version. It IS hilarious, though.

The Satanic church that applied for a permit to erect a monument to Satan next to the Ten Commandments monument at the Oklahoma state-capitol building has unveiled its proposed design.

The 7-ft.-tall (2.1 m) sculpture would feature Satan depicted in the form of Baphomet, a bearded, goat-headed, winged hominid with horns seated on a throne beneath a pentagram with two smiling children to either side.

Read more: Oklahoma: Satanic Temple Unveils Monument for Capitol | TIME.com http://nation.time.com/2014/01/07/satanists-unveil-statue-for-oklahoma-capitol/#ixzz2piqf5tck

http://timemilitary.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/satan-monument.jpg?w=753

Boy kinda looks like young Obama.

which .... come to think of it...

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1042840/thumbs/o-SATAN-OBAMA-570.jpg

Kurt is crying, y'all

http://www.angelfire.com/nb/devyl/statue3.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/nb/devyl/statue1.jpg

With a mop on his head.

are you guys really trolling me in 2014 by trygin to link to images hosted on angelfire

they were working earlier

http://media.komonews.com/images/140220_Kurt_Cobain_Aberdeen_11.jpg

Man, It's hard to believe Kurt Cobain has been dead for 20 years but Angelfire still exists.

lol

http://deathandtaxesmag.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/statue3.jpg

less ugly than odd: the boll weevil monument
http://azweird.com/img/arts/2010/Dec/07/756/boll_thumb.jpg

The original statue of the woman, excluding the fountain and boll weevil, was built in Italy for approximately $1,800. The boll weevil was not added until thirty years later, when Luther Baker thought the Boll Weevil Monument should have a boll weevil on it. He made the boll weevil and mounted it atop the statue.

The boll weevil, and sometimes even the entire monument, has been stolen many times throughout the years. Each time it was found and repaired by the city of Enterprise until July 11, 1998. On that day vandals ripped the boll weevil out of the statue's hands and permanently damaged the statue. City leaders were going to repair the original statue and put it back, but it proved too difficult and costly. A polymer-resin replica was erected in its place in downtown Enterprise in 1998, and the original is on display at Enterprise's Depot Museum, a few hundred feet away at 106 Railroad Street. There is a security camera nearby that monitors the monument for further vandalism.

got to give it up to alabama, they're not half bad at this public sculpture thing

had no idea bollweevils made it out of the South, much less outside the USA:

http://www.stewpig.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Mascots-and-cheerleaders-30.jpg

(not a statue, but a mascot.)

silent but deadly immortalized in bronze

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4tSpsukkfU8/TonkUv19MoI/AAAAAAAALhk/OqpsOljaLoY/s1600/poe-statue-02.jpg

Edgar Allen Poe-My-Finger

"Dude, you're too drink. I'm not giving you the keys."

"Wait... Wait... Look... I'm fine... hold on a ."

http://i.imgur.com/5g3GHYK.jpg

oof

I bet he would have appreciated a little help with the belly/pants fit thing. But I dunno the poorly fitting shirt may be awesome, I can't decide.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/9/14/1410700429972/Amy-Winehouse-statue-005.jpg

just literally said "oh no" out loud

laser eyes for sure

Better yet

http://www.bikehugger.com/images/blog/lazer_boob_bike_safe.jpg

loool

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/140916151034-09-selfies-0917-horizontal-large-gallery.jpg

on the upside, the statue looks a little better

Congratulations New Jersey

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10153776_1500490630221399_9094586965482786802_n.jpg?oh=0d44626483c9cc582de42d4389bb909b&oe=54F4AA08&__gda__=1424686897_4957a8e90a5b2ff085507600f0f89c5b

Like all great sculptures, it benefits from many different angles of viewing

http://media.nj.com/the-times/photo/2014/05/14843614-standard.jpg

Hey, I turned an iconic image into a creepshot!

http://s3-media4.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/-7Lycgte-FaZQ8uW-Nl5MQ/348s.jpg

http://mementopalmsprings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/marilyn-monroe-statue-palm-springs-ca.jpg

palm springs got ya beat tho

Yeah it is apparently visiting NJ's Grounds for Sculpture for a retrospective.

Oh I just realized it's the same dude who does those 3D versions of famous paintings, which are kind of awful and awesome at the same time

http://www.theartsadventurer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/manet-the-picnic.jpg

do they put roller skates on the statue to get it to new jersey

actually,
http://imgick.nj.com/home/njo-media/pgmain/img/the-times/photo/2014/04/-bd297a3369516da0.jpg

rong thread: RIDING GIANTESS