Uglier Than the Pat Tillman Statue

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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)

Scorpio October 24 - November 21
Deny it all you want, but that giant robot from the Queen album cover is real and he hates you.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Here's another statue of a Twin Cities hero: Herb Brooks

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).

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Samuel Gompers does the Robot.

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

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

That dinosaur pig butt monster has completely made my day.

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

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://209.34.82.147/media/IP3E5561_0607311812076.jpg
Because the rendering isn't enough.

― a.b. (alanbanana), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

lol asscrack is hueg

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

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

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry I missed a word here!

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!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

In 2002, Vulcan wasn't there. I'm telling you this is a fact.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, he was down for renovation from 1999 to 2003.

Good butt-shot at Vulcan's Butt blog.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

My grandmother used to take us to visit Vulcan whenever we visited Birmingham. His pedestal has an elevator inside it that faces a window that oversees the mountain. Since it hardly ever got cleaned, my grandmother would observe how it the dirt made it appear like it was raining (with the elevator passing the stationary window on the way up.)

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.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

these are in eugene oregon. i loved it when i was a child! "frogs on pots!"

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

whoops:
http://www.hultcenter.org/_downloads/performingfrogs.jpg

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:21 (nineteen years ago)

By the way, I have no idea who Pat Tillman is... Looking at that statue, is he some sort of a Troll?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:25 (nineteen years ago)

he was a professional american football player who enlisted in the army to serve his country in afghanistan but then he was killed by friendly fire and the pentagon spun it like he was a true patriot or some bullshit but it just came out that he hated george bush and was a big noam chomsky fan. you would have got along i think.

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:35 (nineteen years ago)

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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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