― researching ur life (grady), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 08:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― From the Moon to Pluto Back Down to Earth (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 10:56 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
Call me stupid, but I think this might have something to do with it.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link
http://static.flickr.com/76/205243741_03c518e343_m.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/61/205243736_c57b4bbec5_m.jpg
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link
-- 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 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost exactly
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link
(So ugly is was chopped up then some idiot put it back together)
― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link
i believe said statue was erected by his former club and is outside their current stadium. that would be my guess as to why.
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.thereareplaces.com/guidebook/images/pagepix/ITmil/itmlnduoint.jpg
― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/21/SomervilleNJ.jpg/300px-SomervilleNJ.jpg
See, it's ALWAYS time to remember.
A friend of mine and I came up with the idea that every hour, on the hour, 24/7 it should broadcast loudly, to the entire town: "TIME TO REMEMBER. TIME TO REMEMBER" and then the the names of all of the 9/11 victims.
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― === temporary username === (Mark C), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link
They made a statue of the villians from the a-ha video?
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link
That really works. Let 'em keep it.
― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link
What about that is not incredibly awesome?
― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link
Even the Pat Tillman one would be weirdly cool if it wasn't for the fact that Pat Tillman's story makes you wish they hadn't made a statue for him at all.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link
Tribute to 9/11 firefighters. It used to scare the hell out of me at night - I have a fear of gasmasks.
― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link
I like the big clock on legs at the bus station though, and the big nappy pin where Rottenrow Maternity Hospital used to be. Can't find decent pictures though.
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.art-public.com/member/img/wyllg001.jpg
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link
If you look closely at the notebook in the hands of this woman outside the Barnes & Noble in Naperville, Ill., it reads "Naperville has grown big and fat." WTF.
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link
hardcore
― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link
My mum says I'm talking shite, I always wore disposables.
Maybe I've stolen someone elses memory. Or maybe my auntie just stabbed me for the hell of it.
― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.airninja.com/pictures/melbourne/gigantic-purse.jpg
I suppose it is meant to be some commentary on consumerism, but people just sit on it and laugh at it.
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 16 November 2006 02:49 (seventeen years ago) link