vote for the most terrifying gigantic statue of all time

Giant naked cyclops next to E17 motorway in Belgium (you can see the motorway on the right in the second picture) - it has been there before, about 2 years ago, but was set alight then. Has now been put back but the owner of the forklift company, who is an art lover who did this because he wants to promote art in his industrial zone, is getting threatening letters again.

― StanM, Sunday, 27 April 2014 08:09 (twelve years ago)

as this thread has been sullied w/ plenty of ungiant unterrifying specimens already, the caganer can't really do any harm

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rb1TnWLyX4g/TRKeBHIw0BI/AAAAAAAAAVk/pbMBB4KeP8o/s1600/giant_caganer_medium.jpg

― ogmor, Sunday, 27 April 2014 08:19 (twelve years ago)

loool @ cyclops

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 April 2014 14:04 (twelve years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 00:01 (twelve years ago)

Fuck every one of these statues.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4076/4745626513_e42f88b11b_z.jpg

And yes, it's beautiful, but especially this one.

― pplains, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 00:13 (twelve years ago)

I can't even deal with this thing outside an RV park that used to be a novelty stop sign.

http://i.imgur.com/1beJ9sl.png

― pplains, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 00:16 (twelve years ago)

to be clear I love all the statues here & don't want anyone to think I was denigrating their contributions. anyway I think the most actually terrifying might have to be either to moai or the sphinx, on the grounds that having outlasted the systems of belief which led to their construction, they have this unknowable ghostly power.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-718a9zXxgNY/UOiN5JnED8I/AAAAAAAAASg/rNvg6myLLMc/s1600/Moai-Statues-Easter-Island-1.jpeg

apparently the moai originally had eyes. can't decide if that makes them more or less creepy. prob more creepy.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wAMI_vZQpUo/TGRgVCk4gBI/AAAAAAAAAXA/f9Cnn0u2nag/s320/moai_eyes.jpg

I can understand why you might want to topple them

http://31.media.tumblr.com/79f82a9afd47884a9d12a9a83fa32ef9/tumblr_mvqlx0LS031sh962to1_500.jpg

the arabs call the sphinx 'father of dread' which seems on point. imagining it lurking under the sand for vast periods of time is unsettling.

― ogmor, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 23:59 (twelve years ago)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eU4S6AB_g7I/UnsGsYQbS1I/AAAAAAAALmU/BfwVLiRPLJg/s1600/800px-Sphinx_partially_excavated2.jpg

― ogmor, Thursday, 1 May 2014 00:00 (twelve years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Thursday, 1 May 2014 00:01 (twelve years ago)

landslide!

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hqhVcgVUwdw/UQ-n02OopHI/AAAAAAABAxk/ZyHIzb4wv_s/s1600/Motherland_Calls_021.jpg

it did inspire the poll in the first place

― ogmor, Thursday, 1 May 2014 00:01 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/3jlSqXV.jpg

I'm gonna go see this tmr

― 龜, Thursday, 1 May 2014 09:07 (twelve years ago)

This is the greatest thread ever. Good work, y'all.

― ailsa, Thursday, 1 May 2014 11:29 (twelve years ago)

wow @ this thread

not that gigantic, but kinda terrifying nonetheless:

http://designyoutrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Planet-by-Marc-Quinn-650x403.jpg

― popchips: the next snapple? (seandalai), Thursday, 1 May 2014 12:20 (twelve years ago)

Indeed, amazing tread.

― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:12 (twelve years ago)

Thread.

― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:13 (twelve years ago)

I get very uncomfortable just looking at these fuckers. It's weird and I don't know why. I don't have a strong feeling toward trees, rocks or buildings in the same way.

But shit like this ... ughhh

http://fineprintnyc.com/images/blog/old-new-york/part-1/1886-Statue-of-Liberty-face-waiting-for-installation.jpg

― pplains, Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:26 (twelve years ago)

Feeling you on the discomfort and not knowing why. I was fascinated/terrified by renderings of Colossus of Rhodes in a book I had when I was little.

I don't think this one was mentioned upthread, but the Vulcan statue in Birmingham, Alabama is still a weird/scary sighting for me when I travel through the south:

http://cumberland.samford.edu/files/u52/Copy_of_vulcan.jpg

― A Perfect Ratio of Choogle to Jam (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 1 May 2014 14:50 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, I talked about that one too on Uglier Than the Pat Tillman Statue - Dude hid from me one summer.

― pplains, Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:25 (twelve years ago)

it's nowhere near as huge as the ones itt, but pplains you would hate this one in Sacramento

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/ca/CASAChead_dk5435.jpg

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:31 (twelve years ago)

(perspective on that photo makes it look like it's blocking the door, but it's set a ways from the front of that building)

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:32 (twelve years ago)

I could just about deal with that one since she looks dead and not ready to eat me.

http://cbssacramento.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/matter-contemplates-spirit-google-maps.jpg

― pplains, Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:36 (twelve years ago)

more of the pee seua samut statue

http://photos.worldisround.com/photos/30/309/440.jpg

http://photos.worldisround.com/photos/30/309/437.jpg

― ogmor, Thursday, 1 May 2014 20:54 (twelve years ago)

just saw this on reddit. felt it was appropriate-ish.

http://i.imgur.com/dbBVH7i.jpg

― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 2 May 2014 00:01 (twelve years ago)

I lol'd

― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Friday, 2 May 2014 02:15 (twelve years ago)

http://russiapedia.rt.com/files/prominent-russians/entertainment/zurab-tsereteli/zurab-tsereteli_3.jpg

Hey, why is Peter the Great aboard a ship?

― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Friday, 2 May 2014 02:20 (twelve years ago)

(A: because he's actually a rejected and repurposed Christopher Columbus)

― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Friday, 2 May 2014 02:22 (twelve years ago)

http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Sculpture+Giant+Bather+Presented+Hamburg+90Ht2JgX213l.jpg

― the final toasting before making a dash for the frigid regions upstairs (soref), Friday, 2 May 2014 03:28 (twelve years ago)

http://skyworld.com.ng/images/gallerypics/Calabar%20Art%20Nigeria.jpg

― the final toasting before making a dash for the frigid regions upstairs (soref), Friday, 2 May 2014 03:32 (twelve years ago)

this thread is the best thing EVER

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 May 2014 03:41 (twelve years ago)

that columbus-nvm-peter the great statue is hilar

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 May 2014 03:42 (twelve years ago)

http://www.thekelpies.co.uk/wp-content/files_mf/cache/th_096770c1a3354ec7002315ab0be78ad6_kelpiesaerial.jpeg

― ailsa, Friday, 2 May 2014 10:34 (twelve years ago)

of interest (via slate)
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/fabrice-fouillet-colossi-in-the-countryside

― mohawk oroducer (abanana), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 04:24 (twelve years ago)

Tangentially I'm reminded of a photo project done in HK documenting the giant advertisements

http://www.domusweb.it/en/photo-essays/2013/02/26/hong-kong-layers.html

http://i.imgur.com/iA7dVwv.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/XJzze37.jpg

― 龜, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 09:38 (twelve years ago)

http://www.thedrum.com/uploads/news/tmp/37015/morrisons%20angel.jpg

^ gigantic statue + giant advertisement

― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 09:45 (twelve years ago)

i don't even really like the angel of the north all that much but that advert really pisses me off tbh

― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 09:48 (twelve years ago)

man next time I come up with an idea for a thread I should probably try to squeeze an exhibition out of it huh

― ogmor, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 11:38 (twelve years ago)

Article possibly inspired by this thread?

― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 13:51 (twelve years ago)

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