http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/6c/23/03/6c2303b1971bba110188089ddd6822f2.jpg
the mighty Johnny Kaw of Manhattan, Kansas, the local Paul Bunyan
― Euler, Saturday, 26 April 2014 18:15 (ten years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LQ-m6mr3vIw/T_BJFwcP42I/AAAAAAAAAZg/PEzMSju-yLA/s1600/IMG_5063.jpg
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 26 April 2014 18:20 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Elefant_der_Bastille.jpg/640px-Elefant_der_Bastille.jpg
"Napoleon planned many urban regeneration projects for Paris and was particularly fond of monuments to his victories. He wanted to create a significant triumphal structure to demonstrate his military prowess and began the process of designing a 24 m (78 ft) bronze elephant. He planned to use the bronze from cannon captured in battle melted down and recast to create an imposing structure. A stairway would allow visitors to ascend one of the elephant's legs to an observation platform on its back.... The construction work stopped in 1815 after the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo."
― Euler, Saturday, 26 April 2014 18:21 (ten years ago) link
http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/display/9a3d519c-1d2f-45d2-9316-fcddf23c9acc.jpg
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 26 April 2014 18:23 (ten years ago) link
oh i know that guy cos...
http://www.vinylvendors.com/Pictures/l/i/liveskull424969.jpg
where is it? what is it?
― It's Pablum Time with (NickB), Saturday, 26 April 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
obviously he's moved since that record cover
― It's Pablum Time with (NickB), Saturday, 26 April 2014 18:28 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/NrBFaUZ.jpg?1
Friend of Lana Turner. It's in NJ, iirc.
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Saturday, 26 April 2014 18:34 (ten years ago) link
ha that's awesome!
― It's Pablum Time with (NickB), Saturday, 26 April 2014 18:36 (ten years ago) link
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Ffkzi3Kg--/c_fit,fl_progressive,w_636/18lp45ogzmriyjpg.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 26 April 2014 20:58 (ten years ago) link
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--iL_H-O3L--/c_fit,fl_progressive,w_636/18lp4psleuq2dpng.png
lol that doorway O_o
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 April 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
http://www.popfi.com/wp-content/uploads/middle-finger-statue.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 26 April 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/JFHZb0o.jpg
― 龜, Sunday, 27 April 2014 03:42 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/iaJ5m0Q.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/TlcTLnk.jpg
― 龜, Sunday, 27 April 2014 03:46 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/svTQh9X.jpg
'Sup
― 龜, Sunday, 27 April 2014 03:50 (ten years ago) link
wow!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 April 2014 03:54 (ten years ago) link
The giant sheep (ram, really) isnt a house, its a horrbile tourist attraction. Australia has a bizarre fascination with Giant Things.
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Sunday, 27 April 2014 04:16 (ten years ago) link
http://travelbieber.com/wp-content/uploads/mt-rushmore-at-nightbrian-wright-photography--night-visions-fli8elkt.jpg
― calstars, Sunday, 27 April 2014 04:54 (ten years ago) link
http://www.mir.com.my/leofoo/Thaipusam/Batu_caves_KL.jpg
You have to walk up 272 steps to get to the cave temples behind Lord Murugan's head
― Roz, Sunday, 27 April 2014 05:28 (ten years ago) link
that one's awesome
― ogmor, Sunday, 27 April 2014 06:55 (ten years ago) link
I always like the gentle reminders the Soviets left across the Axis countries about who won the war:
http://i.imgur.com/8FSxEDM.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/hmHqsGH.jpg
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Sunday, 27 April 2014 07:02 (ten years ago) link
^oversized games workshop model
― ogmor, Sunday, 27 April 2014 07:10 (ten years ago) link
NSFWhttp://www.reuzeninvlaanderen.be/site/sites/default/files/010_1.JPGhttp://hlnregiophotoprovider0.hln-cdn.be/photo/herve-missiaen-bij-de-reus-langs-de-e17-nbsp-nbsp-foto-henk-deleu/p1/img-NzM0MTg1MDQvYXQvNjY4NzExOS82NDB4NjQwL0ZU/6687119.jpegNSFW
Giant naked cyclops next to E17 motorway in Belgium (you can see the motorway on the right in the second picture) - it has been there before, about 2 years ago, but was set alight then. Has now been put back but the owner of the forklift company, who is an art lover who did this because he wants to promote art in his industrial zone, is getting threatening letters again.
― StanM, Sunday, 27 April 2014 08:09 (ten years ago) link
as this thread has been sullied w/ plenty of ungiant unterrifying specimens already, the caganer can't really do any harm
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rb1TnWLyX4g/TRKeBHIw0BI/AAAAAAAAAVk/pbMBB4KeP8o/s1600/giant_caganer_medium.jpg
― ogmor, Sunday, 27 April 2014 08:19 (ten years ago) link
loool @ cyclops
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 April 2014 14:04 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
Fuck every one of these statues.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4076/4745626513_e42f88b11b_z.jpg
And yes, it's beautiful, but especially this one.
― pplains, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 00:13 (ten years ago) link
I can't even deal with this thing outside an RV park that used to be a novelty stop sign.
http://i.imgur.com/1beJ9sl.png
― pplains, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 00:16 (ten years ago) link
to be clear I love all the statues here & don't want anyone to think I was denigrating their contributions. anyway I think the most actually terrifying might have to be either to moai or the sphinx, on the grounds that having outlasted the systems of belief which led to their construction, they have this unknowable ghostly power.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-718a9zXxgNY/UOiN5JnED8I/AAAAAAAAASg/rNvg6myLLMc/s1600/Moai-Statues-Easter-Island-1.jpeg
apparently the moai originally had eyes. can't decide if that makes them more or less creepy. prob more creepy.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wAMI_vZQpUo/TGRgVCk4gBI/AAAAAAAAAXA/f9Cnn0u2nag/s320/moai_eyes.jpg
I can understand why you might want to topple them
http://31.media.tumblr.com/79f82a9afd47884a9d12a9a83fa32ef9/tumblr_mvqlx0LS031sh962to1_500.jpg
the arabs call the sphinx 'father of dread' which seems on point. imagining it lurking under the sand for vast periods of time is unsettling.
― ogmor, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 23:59 (ten years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eU4S6AB_g7I/UnsGsYQbS1I/AAAAAAAALmU/BfwVLiRPLJg/s1600/800px-Sphinx_partially_excavated2.jpg
― ogmor, Thursday, 1 May 2014 00:00 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 1 May 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
landslide!
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hqhVcgVUwdw/UQ-n02OopHI/AAAAAAABAxk/ZyHIzb4wv_s/s1600/Motherland_Calls_021.jpg
it did inspire the poll in the first place
― ogmor, Thursday, 1 May 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/3jlSqXV.jpg
I'm gonna go see this tmr
― 龜, Thursday, 1 May 2014 09:07 (ten years ago) link
This is the greatest thread ever. Good work, y'all.
― ailsa, Thursday, 1 May 2014 11:29 (ten years ago) link
wow @ this thread
not that gigantic, but kinda terrifying nonetheless:
http://designyoutrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Planet-by-Marc-Quinn-650x403.jpg
― popchips: the next snapple? (seandalai), Thursday, 1 May 2014 12:20 (ten years ago) link
Indeed, amazing tread.
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:12 (ten years ago) link
Thread.
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:13 (ten years ago) link
I get very uncomfortable just looking at these fuckers. It's weird and I don't know why. I don't have a strong feeling toward trees, rocks or buildings in the same way.
But shit like this ... ughhh
http://fineprintnyc.com/images/blog/old-new-york/part-1/1886-Statue-of-Liberty-face-waiting-for-installation.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:26 (ten years ago) link
Feeling you on the discomfort and not knowing why. I was fascinated/terrified by renderings of Colossus of Rhodes in a book I had when I was little.
I don't think this one was mentioned upthread, but the Vulcan statue in Birmingham, Alabama is still a weird/scary sighting for me when I travel through the south:
http://cumberland.samford.edu/files/u52/Copy_of_vulcan.jpg
― A Perfect Ratio of Choogle to Jam (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 1 May 2014 14:50 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I talked about that one too on Uglier Than the Pat Tillman Statue - Dude hid from me one summer.
― pplains, Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:25 (ten years ago) link
it's nowhere near as huge as the ones itt, but pplains you would hate this one in Sacramento
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/ca/CASAChead_dk5435.jpg
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link
(perspective on that photo makes it look like it's blocking the door, but it's set a ways from the front of that building)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:32 (ten years ago) link
I could just about deal with that one since she looks dead and not ready to eat me.
http://cbssacramento.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/matter-contemplates-spirit-google-maps.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 1 May 2014 15:36 (ten years ago) link
more of the pee seua samut statue
http://photos.worldisround.com/photos/30/309/440.jpg
http://photos.worldisround.com/photos/30/309/437.jpg
― ogmor, Thursday, 1 May 2014 20:54 (ten years ago) link
just saw this on reddit. felt it was appropriate-ish.
http://i.imgur.com/dbBVH7i.jpg
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 2 May 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
I lol'd
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Friday, 2 May 2014 02:15 (ten years ago) link
http://russiapedia.rt.com/files/prominent-russians/entertainment/zurab-tsereteli/zurab-tsereteli_3.jpg
Hey, why is Peter the Great aboard a ship?
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Friday, 2 May 2014 02:20 (ten years ago) link
(A: because he's actually a rejected and repurposed Christopher Columbus)
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Friday, 2 May 2014 02:22 (ten years ago) link
http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Sculpture+Giant+Bather+Presented+Hamburg+90Ht2JgX213l.jpg
― the final toasting before making a dash for the frigid regions upstairs (soref), Friday, 2 May 2014 03:28 (ten years ago) link
http://skyworld.com.ng/images/gallerypics/Calabar%20Art%20Nigeria.jpg
― the final toasting before making a dash for the frigid regions upstairs (soref), Friday, 2 May 2014 03:32 (ten years ago) link