― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Nathan P1p (hoyanathan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:18 (seventeen years ago) link
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These little blob-people are scattered outside the Minneapolis Federal Courthouse, though I'm not sure they're so much "ugly" as they are bizarrely out of place. Not pictured: the arch that seems to be comprised partially of these little "Mr. Men" critters and/or boulders. It's supposed to be a sociological statement or something. Apparently the sculptor does a ton of this stuff.
― nate p. (natepatrin), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:25 (seventeen years ago) link
This one is in the narrow concrete of york university, the building is a perfect example of the stalinist block school of modernism, and the courtyards are filled with either concrete pads, or grey shale...here is a quebecois artist attempt at fitting in--its minimalism makes a bleak place even bleaker:
http://static.flickr.com/112/297104558_83a1967373_m.jpg
and here is a small monument to unborn children, in niagra falls:http://static.flickr.com/107/297104555_5cd5c7cd8f.jpg
― pinkmoose (jacklove), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link
http://sewardjohnson.com/site/index.html
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.waloszek.de/f3_kal/02-duane-hanson.jpg
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.glasgowsculpture.com/images/c0238_w.jpg
Someone knocked his glasses off
http://www.glasgowsculpture.com/images/c0306_w.jpg
(it's Donald Dewar - Scotland's First First Minister)
― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link
[img removed]http://worldofjunimoon.com/images/NYCtrip/UnionSquareArt.jpg
i am however a big fan of those silly lil dudes to be found @ the minneapolis federal courthouse and the nyc subway. there's also some @ the metrotech center in downtown brooklyn and, most delightfully, popping out the hudson on the upper west side.
who's buddy on the horse in the question? i likes him.
― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link
Is this a statue of Queen Charlotte taking a canon blast to the gut? WTF.
― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link
Dejuner Sur L'Herbe:http://nary.org/Dejeuner/dejeuner_grounds.jpg
Boating Party:http://www.wine-people.com/images/boatingpartyWEB.jpg
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link
haha I meant "cannon" but that's funnier "I'm sorry ma'am but your legacy is not sound!"
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
http://static.flickr.com/32/101662815_38f030ecbf_m.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/posankka.jpg
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
KINDA HARD TO MISS.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― pinkmoose (jacklove), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
http://static.flickr.com/39/89671016_081cd4d118.jpg?v=1137937735
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
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."
― pplains, Thursday, 21 May 2020 02:52 (three years ago) link
Salut!
― nickn, Thursday, 21 May 2020 06:19 (three years ago) link
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!
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 21 May 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
About eight other threads I could've posted this on.
https://i.imgur.com/lUDkQRz.jpg
― pplains, Sunday, 31 May 2020 23:38 (three years ago) link
Very cursed images.
― nickn, Monday, 1 June 2020 04:58 (three years ago) link
john bonham
https://i.ibb.co/PCGRHhw/85122143-1898544640289980-3107407644655091712-n.jpg
― visiting, Saturday, 5 December 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
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
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Saturday, 5 December 2020 19:44 (three years ago) link
Am I the only one who thinks that drummer looks like Bill Clinton?
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 6 December 2020 02:56 (three years ago) link
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/31/54332896_f42ee7da91_z.jpg
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 6 December 2020 23:47 (three years ago) link
How it started vs how itβs going pic.twitter.com/Y0Lwj3CHbu— Brad Batt for TN State Sanity βπΌβπ½βπΎ (@bradbatt) December 11, 2022
― pplains, Monday, 12 December 2022 04:12 (one year ago) link
proud of this statue for showing it
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/14/arts.artsnews
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 12 December 2022 15:38 (one year ago) link
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
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 12 December 2022 15:39 (one year ago) link
I present to you on this celebrated holiday, Coretta Scott and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
https://i.imgur.com/EDA1JB0.jpg
― pplains, Monday, 16 January 2023 14:18 (one year ago) link
"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.
"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
― pplains, Monday, 16 January 2023 14:20 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/C9eXUix.jpg https://i.imgur.com/oEad028.jpg
― pplains, Monday, 16 January 2023 14:26 (one year ago) link
Lewis Capaldi presented with statue by pupils at former school. https://t.co/MZH5dAZ2k1π· Credit: Wattie Cheung pic.twitter.com/T9UVkjlV8t— STV News (@STVNews) May 22, 2023
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 22 May 2023 15:12 (ten months ago) link
jesus christ that's horrific
― call all destroyer, Monday, 22 May 2023 15:18 (ten months ago) link
it's funny that no one ever gives the photographer credit for shots like that, at least not right in the tweet, and then the photographer gets credit for that one
― z_tbd, Monday, 22 May 2023 15:21 (ten months ago) link
Wow.
― pplains, Monday, 22 May 2023 15:58 (ten months ago) link
nothing can compete with the last entry, but the new Mick Jagger statue in Dartford is a look from certain angles
https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/64d3aedf36a1e9d12cb54c0c/2:1/w_2240,c_limit/mick-jagger-statue.jpg
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 August 2023 16:54 (eight months ago) link
I would've guessed anyone from Steve Winwood to Terry Fox to the guy who was in The Warriors before assuming it was Mick.
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 17:14 (eight months ago) link
ah dangit, just came to post that
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 August 2023 03:24 (eight months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9rdc5qWcAAxBZr?format=jpg&name=large
New fountain in Vienna, apparently
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 02:12 (five months ago) link
This may have been in the broken links above, and I do appreciate the spirit of this thing, but it's just butt ugly.
https://www.travel-mi.com/images/Detroit-Fist-Joe-Lewis.jpg
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 02:21 (five months ago) link
Another surprising omission. I am both fascinated and repelled by this.
https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/10/191030-BLUCIFER-DIA-3-1024x680.jpg
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 02:25 (five months ago) link
Oh I always kind of liked the Blue Mustang. It's definitely right on the borderline for me though.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 02:39 (five months ago) link
The locals call it "Blucifer."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 02:41 (five months ago) link
blucifer squashed his daddy fyi
and for a real good time you can google blucifer's veiny taint
but anyway
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/enhanced/webdr06/2013/7/2/18/enhanced-buzz-21114-1372803229-5.jpg
the more i think abt this lab mice memorial the less gruntled i get
it is inappropriately cute and has the nerve to be ugly at the same time
we have gained so much of immeasurable value, saved & improved so many human lives, at the cost of terrible acts on creatures that are utterly at our mercy -- creatures that we bred, we brought into existence, for this purpose! to suffer for us, so our dumb asses might suffer less. they deserve a way more fucked up statue imo
(not that i'm finna fight about whether medical research on animals, and animal exploitation generally, is sufficiently justified by its benefits to humanity; just that it's insulting all around to try and paper over the moral complexity with this dumb cartoon of a wise little mouse wearing glasses and busily knitting a double helix for its beloved human friends)
― objectively objectionable object to object to (cat), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 23:01 (three months ago) link
Yeah, I know. That goes in the You Cannot Make This Shit Up file.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 01:38 (three months ago) link