http://i.imgur.com/tO6JaMN.jpg
― 龜, Friday, 15 July 2016 15:00 (nine years ago)
winner
― koogs, Friday, 15 July 2016 15:46 (nine years ago)
that's a wild story.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Friday, 15 July 2016 15:51 (nine years ago)
wow
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 July 2016 04:11 (nine years ago)
Not quite on the same scale as some of these, but Swindon's Wish Hounds have a certain eerie presence.
http://i.imgur.com/0BDceW7.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/5pAHNy5.jpg
― Pheeel, Sunday, 17 July 2016 10:26 (nine years ago)
they are v v cool
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 July 2016 14:22 (nine years ago)
From a certain angle, a little human hound centipede-y
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Sunday, 17 July 2016 15:02 (nine years ago)
http://67.media.tumblr.com/da2851a38b0c201508cea12ffebd8d54/tumblr_oavd9mulsq1qzwfgto1_1280.png
http://65.media.tumblr.com/4c1116ad2a6925377bc3b1b8c031f1ad/tumblr_oavd9mulsq1qzwfgto5_1280.png
http://66.media.tumblr.com/dc6e88f342750aee8b684c7d94bf7fcc/tumblr_oavd9mulsq1qzwfgto7_1280.png
― 龜, Friday, 12 August 2016 13:22 (nine years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/B0dWcGn.jpg
― pplains, Sunday, 14 August 2016 00:23 (nine years ago)
where is that? it's amazing!
― new noise, Sunday, 14 August 2016 01:34 (nine years ago)
Wat Theppitak Punnaram (White Buddha), Nakhon Ratchasima. The white big Buddha is a impressive 45 meters tall statue belonging to the Wat Theppitak Punaram temple in Thailand, located in Phaya Yen, Pak Chong district, Nakhon Ratchasima province.
― pplains, Sunday, 14 August 2016 02:41 (nine years ago)
I wonder how they decide on the size, like one person suggests 40 meters everybody's v enthusiastic but in comes the new kid HOW ABOUT... forty FIVE!!?? endless applause
Maybe its just a matter of budget
― niels, Sunday, 14 August 2016 08:05 (nine years ago)
ha, well actually ...
The elevation of the statue of 112 meters or 56 Thai Wa above ground level refers to the 56 goodnesses of Buddhism. The total of 1,250 steps of the two paths left and right leading uphill to the statue signify the number of disciples of the Lord Buddha who assembled on Magha Puja Day without prior notice. The height of the statue of 45 meters means the number of years Buddha spent in teaching the people after he had attained enlightenment
― pplains, Sunday, 14 August 2016 17:30 (nine years ago)
If they were using meters as their basic unit of measure, why would 112 meters refer to the 56 goodnesses? And if they were using Thai Wa as their unit of measure, why would 22.5 Wa refer to 45 years spent teaching?
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 14 August 2016 17:58 (nine years ago)
Some questions are not asked to be answered, but to be resolved instead.
― pplains, Sunday, 14 August 2016 19:34 (nine years ago)
It's almost like they just built a big statue where they had property rights and then retroactively looked for significant numbers to make it seem like it was divinely inspired
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Sunday, 14 August 2016 22:45 (nine years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/vJxukGO.jpg
― 龜, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 15:09 (nine years ago)
O_O
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 15:43 (nine years ago)
more like O|O
― pplains, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 16:10 (nine years ago)
attack on titan: the later years
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 17:23 (nine years ago)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrality_Monument
is it true that this statue used to always rotate to face the sun
― 龜, Friday, 25 November 2016 16:36 (nine years ago)
that's what everyone says. looks like a landing vessel from out of space, different sort of terrifying
― ogmor, Friday, 25 November 2016 17:42 (nine years ago)
literal lux aeterna
― mh 😏, Friday, 25 November 2016 17:42 (nine years ago)
...within daylight hours (weather permitting)
― ogmor, Friday, 25 November 2016 17:45 (nine years ago)
Carved from rock.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/six-massive-carved-monuments-you-need-see-believe-180960795/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia
― nickn, Thursday, 1 December 2016 04:12 (nine years ago)
http://thumbs.media.smithsonianmag.com//filer/73/02/7302d850-dbff-43ec-b64f-0e9a4c8b0754/decebalus-rex-romania.jpg__600x0_q85_upscale.jpg
p dope imo
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 December 2016 05:09 (nine years ago)
that's fucking Zardoz
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 1 December 2016 05:38 (nine years ago)
"The penis is evil!"
― nickn, Thursday, 1 December 2016 06:14 (nine years ago)
is there a set time of day when its mouth opens & a bajillion guns come flying out
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 December 2016 17:51 (nine years ago)
[A]t an impressive 180 feet in height, with a 23-foot nose and 14-foot eyes to match, the monument to Decebalus, the king of the Dacians, is visible from a great distance. (By comparison, the presidential faces depicted on Mount Rushmore reach a mere 60 feet in height.)
I mean, sure, say it's taller than Rushmore, but c'mon, it's not like Rushmore looks like this:
http://i.imgur.com/fK5dTPY.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 1 December 2016 19:41 (nine years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/wMTvvIa.jpg
― 龜, Saturday, 11 March 2017 23:58 (nine years ago)
https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5274/5867265311_27a8a8e089_b.jpgShowed this thread to my girlfriend and she showed me a bunch of pictures of the Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial and now I won't be able to go to sleep tonight.
― methanietanner, Sunday, 12 March 2017 01:18 (nine years ago)
http://meaton.net/Hammy/Salty.jpgI think Salty the Seahorse deserves a place in this thread as well. Definitely the scariest statue I ever stumbled across baked to the gills at 3 in the morning.
― methanietanner, Sunday, 12 March 2017 01:23 (nine years ago)
Whose gills, your's or Salty's?
― Moodles, Sunday, 12 March 2017 02:01 (nine years ago)
Holy shit that Holocaust one.
― I cut this hair, I wash this hair, I mess this hair up (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 12 March 2017 12:03 (nine years ago)
Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton NJ
http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/HideousLump/20151022_142917cropx.jpg
http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/HideousLump/20151022_155554cropx.jpg
http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j449/HideousLump/20151022_155541cropx.jpg
The first two by Seward Johnson, same guy who did the giant Marilyn Monroe and founder of Grounds for Sculpture
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 19 March 2017 03:06 (nine years ago)
that third one is dooooope
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 March 2017 03:37 (nine years ago)
It's King Lear. I just looked it up, and that one is by Seward Johnson too. Does not skirt the kitsch line like a lot of his other works do.
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 19 March 2017 05:28 (nine years ago)
https://twitter.com/Kiha85Nanki/status/852133381613670400
― 龜, Thursday, 13 April 2017 12:58 (nine years ago)
deal with it
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 13 April 2017 14:16 (nine years ago)
lol that's great
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 13 April 2017 14:28 (nine years ago)
https://youtu.be/dZoFjZkns4Y?t=1m10s
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Thursday, 13 April 2017 14:56 (nine years ago)
🗻
龜, where is that slope-covering statue you posted a month ago? I like it.
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 13 April 2017 16:44 (nine years ago)
idk tbh
― 龜, Thursday, 13 April 2017 17:34 (nine years ago)
fengdu ghost city
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/fengdhu-ghost-city
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Thursday, 13 April 2017 17:49 (nine years ago)
http://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/AFP_Getty-452224699.jpg
― jay kay huysmans (NickB), Thursday, 13 April 2017 21:52 (nine years ago)
http://www.anorak.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/PA-17862914.jpg
Ok that is cool as hell
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 14 April 2017 01:34 (nine years ago)
I love the Kelpies. Even more so when they're lit up at night.
― ailsa, Friday, 14 April 2017 13:55 (nine years ago)
https://68.media.tumblr.com/326bd98a8f59e3bbcb0e6aa79b0dd0a7/tumblr_oo7qmrZUZd1sliee9o1_1280.jpg
― 龜, Sunday, 23 April 2017 14:36 (nine years ago)