Uglier Than the Pat Tillman Statue

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― 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.

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― 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)

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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)

oh and when that chomsky shit came out last week all the right-wing bloggers talked about how he had betrayed them...

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:36 (nineteen years ago)

That's awful nice of you. I was just going to post a link to Google.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:37 (nineteen years ago)

like jesse jackson accusing thomas jefferson of betrayal

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:37 (nineteen years ago)

I must go back a ways. Someone has to explain me this:

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― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:47 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, it's kinda ugly, I guess, but it's also fucking looney tunes. Doesn't that trump ugly?

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:50 (nineteen years ago)

Is that supposed to be Pat Tillman's hair flowing a'forth? Cuz like, a crueller person might suggest it looks like brains being blown out. A heh heh.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 07:07 (nineteen years ago)

i thought it was supposed to be brains

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 07:13 (nineteen years ago)

The MLK is the only statue on this thread worse than the Pat Tillman.

― researching ur life (grady), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

I'm on my way to bed. I wonder which of these statues I'll have bad dreams about.

― From the Moon to Pluto Back Down to Earth (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

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

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

he was a professional american football player

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

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

more dignified? like being killed by friendly fire?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

I can sorta see the idea of portraying him in a footaball outfit, but why make his mouth gape and his hair flow like he's about to rock? Surely a more dignified expression would've been better.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

Also, can someone explain what's happening with the Queen Charlotte statue?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

I can sorta see the idea of portraying him in a footaball outfit, but why make his mouth gape and his hair flow like he's about to rock? Surely a more dignified expression would've been better.

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?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

A simple GIS finds the picture that was used for photo reference.

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.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

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― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

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― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

So was he better known as a footballer than as a casualty of war?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

He is known as a casualty of war because he was known as a footballer.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

put it this way, if he hadn't initially been a famous footballer he would be about as well known as most casualtys of war. i.e. not very.

xpost exactly

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

casualties argh.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

More ugly statues less disingenuous Finns plz

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

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