Uglier Than the Pat Tillman Statue

And when I say "in front of the U.S. Capitol," I do not mean in some obscure clearing behind a tree on the lawn or somewhere. I mean

http://i.imgur.com/7Ge8iqK.png

^ Abraham Lincoln's inauguration, 1861.

Not creepy at all.

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

'Hey, we just got here. Did you guys find a place yet?

y. Pretty high up. Good view.

Cool. Where you guys at?

Uhhhhh

http://i.imgur.com/H3BtvSi.png

"The Rescue" is the name of the frontiersman statue. It's got a neat Paul Harvey/Raiders of the Lost Ark twist:

In 1976, a crane accidentally dropped The Rescue while moving it to a new Smithsonian storage area in Maryland, thus reducing it to several fragments. Today they lie next to Discovery, also said to be in poor condition.

In an unusual collaboration between the Middlebury College Museum of Art and the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, the pioneer's dog from The Rescue was exhibited during a temporary show, “Horatio Greenough: An American Sculptor's Drawings” in late 1999.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rescue_(statue)

amazing. 1958 sounds about right.

It does, even though 1958 doesn't strike me as the most enlightened year.

Reminds me of the Confederate flag flying on the Capitol grounds in South Carolina. "What if we took it down, would that make it all better?"

yeah this shit is baked into the country we'll be removing problematic statues and flags for a long time

On a pure artistic level, though, the statues are fine.

that's amazing. i had no idea.

In 1939, a joint resolution submitted to—but not passed by—the U.S. House of Representatives recommended that The Rescue be "...ground into dust, and scattered to the four winds, that no more remembrance may be perpetuated of our barbaric past, and that it may not be a constant reminder to our American Indian citizens…"

sounds like they were semi-woke by 1939

pplains you gotta bundle that up in a nice 4-pic tweet package so i can retweet the shit out of it

gah

I know this country was laid out on this crap. Slavery. Manifest Destiny. Suffrage.

But damn, putting these two on either side of the U.S. Capitol's front door? They couldn't find any lions instead?

Artistic level: Columbus one's the lesser of the two. Head looks out of proportion, which may be due to the angle. The "cowering native" looks cartoony. Reminds me too much of the Nathaniel Forrest statue above.

The David Bowie statue unveiled in Aylesbury yesterday is really quite hideous. pic.twitter.com/D3HK9sEZh7

— Ted Gioia (@tedgioia) March 26, 2018

sweet jesus this is hellish

oh my god

Sculptors have forgotten how to model attractively lifelike human figures. It was never easy, but now it seems to be impossible.

he should have stuck with a single figure. kind of looks like one of those crazy 70s movie posters with a million people on them.

then again maybe the human figure isn't the problem here. even the disk with the album covers looks like shit.

Sculpture has always frozen time to represent us at our best, and is a terrible medium for documenting changing characters.

There are millions of unflattering Ziggy exposures.

Also most people have bad taste

More trenchant than the pat tillman statue

https://z1035.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/bowie-statue-vandalised-1522144295.jpg

We came to buy a couch and uh..... pic.twitter.com/hxhAnJphU3

— 🇭🇹🇲🇽 (@RetiredFilth) February 24, 2019

jfc

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/s8d6236Waf_b25hh4GOSKwlMu925W1BaJxFBQC80k36KvZYM9l1ZNwabRrZnvNdJ2MRTbaCY-hlnORcyAupbJDrJjbbtgLmt6yo6FLtrJnF4Ibd5q8XoluwFhBdT

this appears to be a different version of the same "statue"

https://tonymorano.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/tony-morano-hard-rock-park-sand-sculpture.jpg?w=720

is that jimi on the right in the second one? his hair makes him look like warren grog.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S9wv09c2hc

In the first image, on the far right - is that Arlo Guthrie or Waddy Wachtel?

I guessed Janis.

Probably also Marley tho.

OH. MY. GOD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0gzmUsDM9I

You have led me to to THE MOST BORING AMUSEMENT PARK RIDE EVER MADE.

The sand "Rushmore" was for Hard Rock Park, a 55-acre, $400-million rock 'n' roll-themed park in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, that never offered discounts, bored children and promptly closed up for good in 2009 due to the recession.

Which is fine by me, since while I enjoy both kinds of music, rock and roll, this place sounds like Rock 'n' Roll HELL.

The level of detail was often astonishing. For example, the original version of a song, say "Purple Haze," that played along the walkways in the Rock & Roll Heaven area seamlessly morphed into a note-for-note calypso version of the tune as guests approach the Reggae River Falls attraction.

An Elvis-looking cow statue made small talk with onlookers before spraying them with his udders

It included Alice's Restaurant, the park's full-service eatery that served Thanksgiving dinner and clam chowder.

You know, there's nothing I enjoy more than walking around a 55-acre amusement park in the hot South Carolina sun for hours before sitting down to a heapin' hot helpin' of Thanksgiving dinner and clam chowder.

But.... that "Nights in White Satin" ride... From the video alone, I've ridden airport trams that were more exciting than that.

Ha, and that's Mark Sanford in the blue shirt in the first pic.

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

No Quarter indeed.

https://i.imgur.com/RIPyh1U.jpg

Do gotta say that the Lynyrd Skynyrd ride was in really poor taste.

lol

yeah i was lead to that image by podcast: the ride, specifically their two-part episode on failed amusement parks that focuses mostly on hard rock park but also the sid & marty kroft amusement park in atlanta.

hard rock park cost $400 million to build and closed after five months of business. then it reopened as freestyle music park, and closed for good after something like six months. so it actually failed twice

Tulsa's Golden Driller statue painted to look like Elon Musk.

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

Good ol' Ok-lol-homa.

The "Before" picture:

https://i.imgur.com/OFv2NvH.jpg

Ya know, "Tulsa" is very nearly an anagram of "Tesla".

And it's 100% an anagram of "a slut."

Salut!

just think, the tesla factory workers could all live in the same building, walk to work in the morning, hang out together, and do all their grocery and leisure shopping, all in the same general area, monitored by the everwatching ugly elon musk statue!

About eight other threads I could've posted this on.

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

Very cursed images.

john bonham

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

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

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

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

How it started vs how it’s going pic.twitter.com/Y0Lwj3CHbu

— Brad Batt for TN State Sanity ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾 (@bradbatt) December 11, 2022

proud of this statue for showing it

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

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

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

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

"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.

The famous photo being depicted here:

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