Uglier Than the Pat Tillman Statue

Yes, I should clarify that I found the picture on the blog through GIS, not because I was reading up on conspiracies and the occult.

don't ever change, Texass. Don't ever change.

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g199/vazquez24/IMG_1473.jpg

http://images5a.snapfish.com/232323232%7Ffp63386%3Enu%3D47%3C3%3E%3A54%3E255%3EWSNRCG%3D334%3B485378346nu0mrj

http://images5a.snapfish.com/232323232%7Ffp633%3A9%3Enu%3D47%3C3%3E%3A54%3E255%3EWSNRCG%3D334%3B485375346nu0mrj

those look classical to me!

http://io9.com/5616498/ultraviolet-light-reveals-how-ancient-greek-statues-really-looked

ROGER CLEMENS

http://images5a.snapfish.com/232323232%7Ffp6339%3B%3Enu%3D47%3C3%3E%3A54%3E255%3EWSNRCG%3D334%3B47%3A783346nu0mrj

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/1557/kevindurantstatue.gif

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__6db0wLu-YE/SElL7h5H3dI/AAAAAAAAApA/s0RCNaNVjUQ/s320/250px-Frank_Zappa_Bust.jpg

Much love, but that actually looks like an awesome statue/bust.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/midnight_sun/blog/zappastatue.jpg

Oh. Didn't see the party in the back.

is that durant or jordan

those faces look like forensic reconstructions of missing persons

http://i810.photobucket.com/albums/zz30/knicabokerjs/article-1317267-0B716BF0000005DC-634_964x603-2.jpg

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w118/vangyjo/Untitled-4.gif

Why did I not find this until 5 p.m. CDT on a Friday?

http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/.element/img/4.0/global/swapper/201104/110408.04.jpg

the statue's pretty bad, too

http://jeffpicard.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/rim-shot-johnny-utah.thumbnail.jpg

please tip your servers, folks

God help us all if I catch any of this on the excelsior thread.

hahahaha

http://media.nj.com/springsteen/photo/9554930-large.jpg

What in the

beautiful

If you're some ugly-ass alien.

Why does he look like Picard with a sweatband?

God that is terrifying

have they stopped teaching sculpture class at art schools or something?

sculpted from memory

I had no idea the Boss suffered from acromegaly!

Soulful Humanitarian indeed!!

I didn't know there was more than one Bruce Springsteen.

Bruce Springstein

Hello, is it Brooce you're looking for?

FTW

And seeing as my pic upthread now seems gone, I have to repost it because I remain utterly baffled by this statue (which is located about 5 mins down the road from me at the local town hall)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_F-LyTrM0YP0/Rhrz4cHbqKI/AAAAAAAAAeY/4cOfq9AlzMo/s400/stkildastatue.jpg

The chap in the sculpture looks like he's lying back enjoying a lazy bj. With snakes. And a plane. And a temple.

Wut.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6150/5922115255_bc4254999d_z.jpg
as if the British Government hadn't already done enough to Alan Turing, he must now suffer this posthumous indignity

oh god no

;_;

I've seen that statue of Nathaniel Bedford Forrest! Somewhere in TN amiright? I remember asking 'wtf is that' and someone explaining the KKK thing and me just thinking aaah the south.

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/50/92/1509266_180577ba.jpg

more sculpture than statue.
Nr Peterborough. Love the fact that most people think it's a pile of rubbish but kind of accept that it's there anyway.

Scrap metal yards would look so much nicer if they polished their goods...

That's just...well, bad.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/midnight_sun/blog/zappastatue.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ka/thumb/5/58/SimpsonsMPG_7G07.jpg/250px-SimpsonsMPG_7G07.jpg

Anyone else think the Springsteen statue looks like Midnight Oil's Peter Garrett?

That Turing statue can't be all bad, it fooled this dog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8DiOthAKek

in fact you might say it ... passed the turing test

I'm guessing that most of the artists responsible for these monstrosities didn't have enormously glittering careers. The one obvious exception is Zurab Tereteli who, despite being one of the least talented people to ever pick up a chisel, has somehow made astronomical amounts of money and landed the position of President of the Russian Academy of the Arts.

Tear Of Grief upthread (offered to Jersey City who refused it) is the classic but he's got so many in his locker. This was originally meant to be Columbus and offered to the US who, again, rejected it so it was rebranded as Peter The Great.

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

His Balzac was meant to be a gift to the people of Paris who, yet again, said thank you but no thank you. It's in a small town on the south coast now.

http://i.imgur.com/CFp9I.jpg

Due to his relationship with the Luzhkovs, Moscow's littered with his appalling art.

holy crap. they're like overdecorated christmas trees of sadness. I don't even...

This frog eyed monstrosity just off the top Of Gt Portland St in London
http://img3.photographersdirect.com/img/13725/wm/pd432137.jpg

Close up
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2035/5697472022_423b5c79ff.jpg

http://img3.photographersdirect.com/img/13725/wm/pd432137.jpg http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/9021/troymcclure3ec.jpg

I love how if you Google Image search "Pat Tillman Statue", ilxor.com is on the first page with this pic:

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/7076/nbfs2xr2.gif

Wonder how many people end up on this thread from that...

Last month, I drove through Council Bluffs and passed through this foreboding gauntlet of spires, which I can only assume is a tribute to the incarcerated men and women of Iowa who risk life and limb to remove garbage from the side of I-80.

http://www.publicartandpractice.com/images/24thstbridge_large_18.jpg