Uglier Than the Pat Tillman Statue

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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 (nineteen years ago)

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

I like the Bayonnet one.

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

thought this was gonna be another girlz of ilx thread

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

[broken image links removed]

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

martin luther king jr got a little bit ofhttp://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,1220206_1,00.jpggoing on

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

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:

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

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

unborn children: an inspiration to us all

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

reach for the major labia!

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

http://www.shipbrook.com/jeff/gimping/CosbyLiberty.jpg

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

this is supposed to be tupac
http://www.thuglifearmy.com/images/My%20Pictures/Tupac%20Shakur/Tupac_Statue.JPG

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

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

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

shown in his characteristic suit jacket & waistcoat

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

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

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

"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 (nineteen years ago)

http://z.about.com/d/phoenix/1/0/0/5/Ambassador_of_the_Streets.jpg

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

http://z.about.com/d/phoenix/1/0/4/4/Keeping_Up.jpg

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

http://www.hillsborough.k12.nj.us/hms/pictures/MVC-004S.JPG

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

Relative of yours, Scott?

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

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

Someone should just start uglystatues.com

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

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

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

http://www.rampantscotland.com/graphics/wallace_braveheart2247a.jpg

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

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.

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

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

Angry school teacher glares at Glasgow

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)

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

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

[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.

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://catcode.com/dc120/vac0997/charlotte2.jpg

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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

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

xpost

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

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.abo.fi/~dagren/cones/posankka2.jpg http://www.abo.fi/~dagren/cones/posankka3.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

This wonderful creation is located in Turku, one of the main cities in Finland, right next to the railroad so everyone arriving to town can see it. Notice the buttocks.

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

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Notice the buttocks.

KINDA HARD TO MISS.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/6/6e/The_Simpsons-Jebediah_Springfield.png

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

their destination: NEW SODOM!

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

http://blogs.families.com/media/mrpeanutz.jpg

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Testicle dentata!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ala.org/Images/ACRL/News/2005/March/marytmoore.jpg

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

― John Justen says Toonces was one of the most talented cats on televison (johnjus, Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://members.tripod.com/~rjdio/mj/jordan_Statue.jpg

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

Somehow, the Pat Tillman statue still creeps me out the most.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

approximate percentage of statues here that i like in some way: 90

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

i still think the bleak minimial thing is the ugliest, i mean not the most gaudy, but fuck is it bleak

― pinkmoose (jacklove), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

That crying vagina one is rather terrifying.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

Gerry's FREEDOM statue = awesome. It's everything I stand for.

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.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Probably so, he hates your guts.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

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https://i.ibb.co/PCGRHhw/85122143-1898544640289980-3107407644655091712-n.jpg

― visiting, Saturday, 5 December 2020 16:29 (five years ago)

OG pics of the Pat Tillman statue have shuffled off into the great cyber beyond. Here is a huge pic, allowing one to appreciate the abundance of ugly detail incorporated by the sculptor.

https://www.rocketsports-ent.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/IOS-0219223-Copy.jpg

― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Saturday, 5 December 2020 19:44 (five years ago)

Am I the only one who thinks that drummer looks like Bill Clinton?

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 6 December 2020 02:56 (five years ago)

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/31/54332896_f42ee7da91_z.jpg

― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 6 December 2020 23:47 (five years ago)

two years pass...

How it started vs how it’s going pic.twitter.com/Y0Lwj3CHbu
— Brad Batt for TN State Sanity ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾 (@bradbatt) December 11, 2022

― pplains, Monday, 12 December 2022 04:12 (three years ago)

proud of this statue for showing it

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/14/arts.artsnews

― | (Latham Green), Monday, 12 December 2022 15:38 (three years ago)

https://www.google.com/maps/uv?pb=!1s0x8edb3fa4e9ae6331%3A0xb32d864468561a2e!3m1!7e115!4shttps%3A%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPAI7pKfEjMdIJZL5a8YaCUW_mKJk-57Xi45THa%3Dw260-h175-n-k-no!5sKingston%27s%20new%20Emancipation%20Park%20-%20Google%20Search!15sCgIgAQ&imagekey=!1e10!2sAF1QipM3HIiuVnE1TG7dXJ5O_rPgL0F8j5G2qYpS3iMh&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwikyZvvtPT7AhUiLFkFHWgcAbsQ7ZgBKAB6BAgGEAI

― | (Latham Green), Monday, 12 December 2022 15:39 (three years ago)

one month passes...

I present to you on this celebrated holiday, Coretta Scott and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

https://i.imgur.com/EDA1JB0.jpg

― pplains, Monday, 16 January 2023 14:18 (three years ago)

"Given that I am not White, I am safe from ANY charges of racism for saying the MLK embrace statue is aesthetically unpleasant. The famous photo should have been a FULL statue of the couple and their embrace. What a huge swing and miss in honoring the Dr & Mrs King. SAD!" tweeted Boston Herald columnist Rasheed Walters.
"Show me a white man that was honored with a statue of only two of his limbs," tweeted comedian Javann Jones.

― pplains, Monday, 16 January 2023 14:18 (three years ago)

The famous photo being depicted here:

https://i.imgur.com/9HRvJ95.jpg

― pplains, Monday, 16 January 2023 14:20 (three years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/C9eXUix.jpg https://i.imgur.com/oEad028.jpg

― pplains, Monday, 16 January 2023 14:26 (three years ago)

four months pass...

Lewis Capaldi presented with statue by pupils at former school. https://t.co/MZH5dAZ2k1

📷 Credit: Wattie Cheung pic.twitter.com/T9UVkjlV8t
— STV News (@STVNews) May 22, 2023

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 22 May 2023 15:12 (three years ago)

jesus christ that's horrific

― call all destroyer, Monday, 22 May 2023 15:18 (three years ago)

it's funny that no one ever gives the photographer credit for shots like that, at least not right in the tweet, and then the photographer gets credit for that one

― z_tbd, Monday, 22 May 2023 15:21 (three years ago)

Wow.

― pplains, Monday, 22 May 2023 15:58 (three years ago)

two months pass...

nothing can compete with the last entry, but the new Mick Jagger statue in Dartford is a look from certain angles

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/64d3aedf36a1e9d12cb54c0c/2:1/w_2240,c_limit/mick-jagger-statue.jpg

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 16:54 (two years ago)

I would've guessed anyone from Steve Winwood to Terry Fox to the guy who was in The Warriors before assuming it was Mick.

― pplains, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 17:14 (two years ago)

ah dangit, just came to post that

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 August 2023 03:24 (two years ago)

two months pass...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9rdc5qWcAAxBZr?format=jpg&name=large

New fountain in Vienna, apparently

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 02:12 (two years ago)

This may have been in the broken links above, and I do appreciate the spirit of this thing, but it's just butt ugly.

https://www.travel-mi.com/images/Detroit-Fist-Joe-Lewis.jpg

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 02:21 (two years ago)

Another surprising omission. I am both fascinated and repelled by this.

https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/10/191030-BLUCIFER-DIA-3-1024x680.jpg

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 02:25 (two years ago)

Oh I always kind of liked the Blue Mustang. It's definitely right on the borderline for me though.

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 02:39 (two years ago)

The locals call it "Blucifer."

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 02:41 (two years ago)

one month passes...

blucifer squashed his daddy fyi

and for a real good time you can google blucifer's veiny taint

but anyway

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/enhanced/webdr06/2013/7/2/18/enhanced-buzz-21114-1372803229-5.jpg

the more i think abt this lab mice memorial the less gruntled i get

it is inappropriately cute and has the nerve to be ugly at the same time

we have gained so much of immeasurable value, saved & improved so many human lives, at the cost of terrible acts on creatures that are utterly at our mercy -- creatures that we bred, we brought into existence, for this purpose! to suffer for us, so our dumb asses might suffer less. they deserve a way more fucked up statue imo

(not that i'm finna fight about whether medical research on animals, and animal exploitation generally, is sufficiently justified by its benefits to humanity; just that it's insulting all around to try and paper over the moral complexity with this dumb cartoon of a wise little mouse wearing glasses and busily knitting a double helix for its beloved human friends)

― objectively objectionable object to object to (cat), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 23:01 (two years ago)

blucifer squashed his daddy fyi

Yeah, I know. That goes in the You Cannot Make This Shit Up file.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 01:38 (two years ago)

seven months pass...

https://images.app.goo.gl/LKK5xZ2LkJ6hKMby9

This controversial statue in Palm Springs is being relocated.

― o. nate, Friday, 2 August 2024 19:29 (one year ago)

https://live.staticflickr.com/2894/11981143274_eb52121438_3k.jpg

― o. nate, Friday, 2 August 2024 19:30 (one year ago)

that's just grate

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 2 August 2024 19:57 (one year ago)

I've read that the art museum it was in front of hated it because it made them look like rubes.

― nickn, Friday, 2 August 2024 21:04 (one year ago)

one year passes...

The level of disrespect of this hideous Tina Turner statue

https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/de8e00b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3912x2608+0+0/resize/1198x798!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F66%2Fd1%2Ffab416e9fc50c11fa509e41ff5b9%2Faf45b44abe204d8b965b8d1db069c216

https://apnews.com/article/tina-turner-statue-tennessee-af7c9763df361992136a5150ddaf20fd

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 September 2025 18:36 (eight months ago)

https://wpcdn.us-east-1.vip.tn-cloud.net/www.wbbjtv.com/content/uploads/2025/09/o/s/screen-shot-2025-09-27-at-50342-pm.png

― Kim Kimberly, Sunday, 28 September 2025 20:07 (eight months ago)

the fucking hair is a war crime

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 September 2025 21:35 (eight months ago)

And those gams. Look at them. :(

― z_tbd, Sunday, 28 September 2025 23:14 (eight months ago)

Get a load of them :(

― z_tbd, Sunday, 28 September 2025 23:16 (eight months ago)

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