http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6150/5922115255_bc4254999d_z.jpgas if the British Government hadn't already done enough to Alan Turing, he must now suffer this posthumous indignity
― the tune is space, Sunday, 10 July 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
oh god no
;_;
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 July 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― owenf, Sunday, 10 July 2011 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― owenf, Sunday, 10 July 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
Scrap metal yards would look so much nicer if they polished their goods...
That's just...well, bad.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 July 2011 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/midnight_sun/blog/zappastatue.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ka/thumb/5/58/SimpsonsMPG_7G07.jpg/250px-SimpsonsMPG_7G07.jpg
― Kerm, Sunday, 10 July 2011 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone else think the Springsteen statue looks like Midnight Oil's Peter Garrett?
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 10 July 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
That Turing statue can't be all bad, it fooled this dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8DiOthAKek
― ledge, Sunday, 10 July 2011 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
in fact you might say it ... passed the turing test
― ledge, Sunday, 10 July 2011 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― модный хипстер (ShariVari), Sunday, 10 July 2011 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
holy crap. they're like overdecorated christmas trees of sadness. I don't even...
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 06:42 (twelve years ago) link
This frog eyed monstrosity just off the top Of Gt Portland St in Londonhttp://img3.photographersdirect.com/img/13725/wm/pd432137.jpg
― solfege made me schizophrenic (MaresNest), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 08:51 (twelve years ago) link
Close uphttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2035/5697472022_423b5c79ff.jpg
― solfege made me schizophrenic (MaresNest), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 08:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://img3.photographersdirect.com/img/13725/wm/pd432137.jpg http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/9021/troymcclure3ec.jpg
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
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...
― phil-two, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
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
― del griffith, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
sounds correct
― mh, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
It's sort of difficult to see these statues, but they used to piss me off so bad when I worked in that part of town.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3541/3627174592_f3e474e259.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4016/4611974340_ed3a823960.jpg
― kkvgz, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
so much butts
― kkvgz, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
unintentionally homoerotic sports statutes
― relentlessly googling hipster (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think I would be erotic for these statues if I was a homo.
― kkvgz, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
That's the Federal Reserve Board in pic 2.
― kkvgz, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
a lot of these seem pretty successful to me. i mean, the pat tillman statue is obviously horrid (as are that insanely godawful 9/11 memorial, "martin luther king," hendrix & mr. rogers, lolocaust mem, texas footballers, malformed kennedy, overpass atrocities) but many of the others are far more funny, strange and/or intriguing than most public sculpture.
love the face-making mounted rider, the christ of the ozarks (amazing!), the polish WWII memorial, queen charlotte, bat-signal, astor place cube, anatomically correct fattys, prague weirdness, crazy guy with snakes & a plane. even the baseballers are okay. their worst crime is blandness.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-zOrAL1V5Jg/THtyB9MTmwI/AAAAAAAAHEI/TJJS_DaWu5w/s1600/6.JPG
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
that, otoh, is some hideous shit
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
Speaking of baffling "gateway" sculputres on freeways, this is what greets visitors entering melbourne from the airport road:
http://i.pbase.com/o6/99/380799/1/33201038.P7Bxx7vU.CITYLINK.jpg
― Bloompsday (Trayce), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
The I AM A GIANT CHEESE STICK AND I WILL CRUSH U sculpture.
― Bloompsday (Trayce), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
frankly baffled
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
I... like some of these
?
― i hate it when rats eat my bushels (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
like okay yes this is totally ridiculous and looks like something from a Terry Gilliam movie but I find that kind of endearing
contenderizer: I do like the snakes/plane/man sculpture i posted btw! I just think it is a bizarre thing to have in front of a city hall. And on googling about it yesterday I found an article where the sculptor himself apparently said "thats still there? I made that as a joke".
― Bloompsday (Trayce), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.seattleoutdoorart.com/images/EpicenterBuildingD.jpg
less public sculpture than gaudi fail, but still atrocious
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 14 July 2011 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
and shakey OTM about the endearing ridiculousness of tereteli's columbus (like his balzac, too)
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 14 July 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
WOuld totally live in that apartment block!
― Bloompsday (Trayce), Thursday, 14 July 2011 00:09 (twelve years ago) link
it's certainly cheerful! http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 14 July 2011 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
Jim's statue heavily influenced by Bjork in the Big Time Sensuality video I think.
― solfege made me schizophrenic (MaresNest), Thursday, 14 July 2011 08:38 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think it's uglier than the Pat Tillman statue. Hell, it ain't even the ugliest MLK statue.
But.
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/1484/bildesz.jpg
That is one angry looking peacemaker. Looks like if you piss him off, he's going to come out of that brick and whack you across the head with his rolled-up paper. His coming out of the mountain, leaving the two sides of it behind, either reminds me of one of the Buddhas that got blown up by the Taliban or some sort of weird Wile E. Coyote episode they took off the air in the early 70s.
And least his hands aren't up like Han Solo's.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 22 August 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
ha
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 August 2011 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/8.VQXSUYD7C9EvMj_GJ1qQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD02MzA7cT04NTt3PTM5MA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/9b408463c3b78212f60e6a706700e077.jpg
"Hey, HEY, Josh Turbin! You know better than to run in the halls like that."
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 22 August 2011 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/F4YEzCjIHJp2TfmCZwznDQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00MTM7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/64035c1fc3ba8212f60e6a706700818e.jpg
"Stay back from the gate. The band's not coming out for another 45 minutes."
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 22 August 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/t6gusUqhe0Zf4kwaCbEzGQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00MDQ7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/963ca097d8299a12f60e6a7067001875.jpg
"Swear this train gets later every morning."
http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Qf4xeTy5qbuF4Z4Zken0kQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00MjE7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/0aed628cd8299a12f60e6a7067007765.jpg
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 22 August 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/TDDZsPXtVpup6CL9JkJsCQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD02MzA7cT04NTt3PTQyMQ--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/23e0d082d7239512f60e6a706700cda3.jpg
"No! Watch the defense! SPREAD! SPREAD! Get away from that guy, Scotty. A FOUL? Godammit…"
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 22 August 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/mTeaMQOlxNDlJejpNNuVwQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00MjA7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/gettyimages.com/media-preview-held-martin-luther-20110822-095715-486.jpgAnd through the window in the wall, come streaming in on sunlight wings,A million bright ambassadors of morning…
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 22 August 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/.7nFf6ytKP70vWem5QC.iw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00MTA7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/513007f3c3b08212f60e6a706700652e.jpg
"Makin' fun of my statue on ILX, tsk tsk. I don't see any North Korean statues that are so goddamm funny on this thread, now do I?"
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 22 August 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
That statue is actually a fine likeness, but yeah... wow.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 22 August 2011 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
this isn't ugly, it's hysterical & great but i didn't know where else to put it.
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/erica/817/bunny01.jpg
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/images_2/erica/817/add02.jpg
― jed_, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
i love it!
― ledge, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
btw talking of giant stuffed rabbits...
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 10:36 (twelve years ago) link
http://sports.cbsimg.net/images/visual/whatshot/shaquille-oneal-statue-1.jpg
http://image.cdnl3.xosnetwork.com/pics32/800/VM/VMVIDXANIDJDSKF.20110909004747.jpg
If I lived in Baton Rouge, I know what my Halloween costume would be this year.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 9 September 2011 14:11 (twelve years ago) link