I have mixed feelings.
http://i.imgur.com/va0jw4K.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 01:10 (eight years ago) link
oh god
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 01:15 (eight years ago) link
hahaha I wonder if my brother with paraplegia would lol if I sent this too him with txt "I FOUND UR GRAVESTONE BRO!" Pretty sure he would then post it on FB.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 21:21 (eight years ago) link
and then my mom would see it and I would catch hell
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 21:22 (eight years ago) link
http://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/01/06/world/06CHINAMAO01/06CHINAMAO01-master675.jpg
― del griffith, Friday, 8 January 2016 15:41 (eight years ago) link
Saw this on fb, meming is not mine. Weird/funny more than ugly.
https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/v/t1.0-9/575244_10150763841566205_529399520_n.jpg?oh=977c7b534eb66aedef4e7e30114c590c&oe=570428A6
― nickn, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 00:39 (eight years ago) link
Pat Tillmann lives on... in dog form.
https://asunow.asu.edu/20161109-sun-devil-life-unleashing-tillman-asus-new-police-dog
― del griffith, Thursday, 10 November 2016 15:33 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/805sXa5.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 14 April 2017 18:33 (seven years ago) link
Cost: $35,000
http://i.imgur.com/CE8cTDe.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 14 April 2017 18:34 (seven years ago) link
Fellatio pic in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
― nickn, Friday, 14 April 2017 18:57 (seven years ago) link
Statue of broadcaster Wogan unveiled in native Limerick https://t.co/OzmoeW0AQq pic.twitter.com/ilcE1bT1EG— RTÉ News (@rtenews) June 24, 2017
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 25 June 2017 09:52 (six years ago) link
https://s4.postimg.org/psz18adj1/image.png
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 25 June 2017 10:00 (six years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Wcibwx9.jpg
― pplains, Sunday, 25 June 2017 23:57 (six years ago) link
Is that a statue or a dude in a costume?!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 26 June 2017 00:09 (six years ago) link
This thread's reminded me of this statue, which I guess isnt that ugly per se, but every time we drive past it, my bf mutters darkly (in the voice of the statue) "I'm gunna fuckin kill you and everyone you care about!"
https://melbourneartcritic.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/dsc05381.jpg
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 26 June 2017 00:10 (six years ago) link
THE BROS
― the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered), Monday, 26 June 2017 00:34 (six years ago) link
Cat in the Hat resembles Terry Wogan statue.
― pplains, Monday, 26 June 2017 01:38 (six years ago) link
Or vice-versa, who tf knows, we're through the looking glass here people.
Trayce, have you seen this monstrosity? http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/8590026-3x2-940x627.jpg Admittedly it's more who it's commemorating that's the problem here...
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 26 June 2017 03:48 (six years ago) link
shoulda carved back the torso & hung a set of swings off his ears
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 June 2017 03:59 (six years ago) link
I saw Tony Abbott on the beach once, coming in from a surf - he has that stupid duck waddle walk even when there are no cameras around.
Terry Wogan statue looks a bit disconcertingly like Nick Cave
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 26 June 2017 04:08 (six years ago) link
Ha yeah I havent in person but I gather that went up in the avenue of PMs thingy in Ballarat a while ago. Euugh.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 26 June 2017 04:33 (six years ago) link
Why is Don Revie wearing a dog collar?
― Michael Jones, Monday, 26 June 2017 21:49 (six years ago) link
I had heard about these awful, ugly statues, but had never bothered to look them up. GOOD LORD.
http://i.imgur.com/mPHKEvd.jpg http://i.imgur.com/OHyiKZZ.jpg
They used to sit in front of the U.S. Capitol until they were removed finally in 1958.
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 14:39 (six years ago) link
And when I say "in front of the U.S. Capitol," I do not mean in some obscure clearing behind a tree on the lawn or somewhere. I mean
http://i.imgur.com/7Ge8iqK.png
^ Abraham Lincoln's inauguration, 1861.
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
Not creepy at all.
http://i.imgur.com/pdnXlPC.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
'Hey, we just got here. Did you guys find a place yet?
y. Pretty high up. Good view.
Cool. Where you guys at?
Uhhhhh
http://i.imgur.com/H3BtvSi.png
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 14:43 (six years ago) link
"The Rescue" is the name of the frontiersman statue. It's got a neat Paul Harvey/Raiders of the Lost Ark twist:
In 1976, a crane accidentally dropped The Rescue while moving it to a new Smithsonian storage area in Maryland, thus reducing it to several fragments. Today they lie next to Discovery, also said to be in poor condition.In an unusual collaboration between the Middlebury College Museum of Art and the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, the pioneer's dog from The Rescue was exhibited during a temporary show, “Horatio Greenough: An American Sculptor's Drawings” in late 1999.
In an unusual collaboration between the Middlebury College Museum of Art and the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, the pioneer's dog from The Rescue was exhibited during a temporary show, “Horatio Greenough: An American Sculptor's Drawings” in late 1999.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rescue_(statue)
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 14:48 (six years ago) link
amazing. 1958 sounds about right.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 14:55 (six years ago) link
It does, even though 1958 doesn't strike me as the most enlightened year.
Reminds me of the Confederate flag flying on the Capitol grounds in South Carolina. "What if we took it down, would that make it all better?"
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link
yeah this shit is baked into the country we'll be removing problematic statues and flags for a long time
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link
On a pure artistic level, though, the statues are fine.
― nickn, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link
that's amazing. i had no idea.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
In 1939, a joint resolution submitted to—but not passed by—the U.S. House of Representatives recommended that The Rescue be "...ground into dust, and scattered to the four winds, that no more remembrance may be perpetuated of our barbaric past, and that it may not be a constant reminder to our American Indian citizens…"
sounds like they were semi-woke by 1939
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
pplains you gotta bundle that up in a nice 4-pic tweet package so i can retweet the shit out of it
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
gah
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 17:41 (six years ago) link
I know this country was laid out on this crap. Slavery. Manifest Destiny. Suffrage.
But damn, putting these two on either side of the U.S. Capitol's front door? They couldn't find any lions instead?
Artistic level: Columbus one's the lesser of the two. Head looks out of proportion, which may be due to the angle. The "cowering native" looks cartoony. Reminds me too much of the Nathaniel Forrest statue above.
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:47 (six years ago) link
The David Bowie statue unveiled in Aylesbury yesterday is really quite hideous. pic.twitter.com/D3HK9sEZh7— Ted Gioia (@tedgioia) March 26, 2018
sweet jesus this is hellish
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Monday, 26 March 2018 18:49 (six years ago) link
oh my god
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 26 March 2018 19:42 (six years ago) link
Sculptors have forgotten how to model attractively lifelike human figures. It was never easy, but now it seems to be impossible.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 26 March 2018 20:03 (six years ago) link
he should have stuck with a single figure. kind of looks like one of those crazy 70s movie posters with a million people on them.
then again maybe the human figure isn't the problem here. even the disk with the album covers looks like shit.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 26 March 2018 20:35 (six years ago) link
Sculpture has always frozen time to represent us at our best, and is a terrible medium for documenting changing characters.
There are millions of unflattering Ziggy exposures.
― #DeleteFacebook (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 01:12 (six years ago) link
Also most people have bad taste
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 03:51 (six years ago) link
More trenchant than the pat tillman statue
https://z1035.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/bowie-statue-vandalised-1522144295.jpg
― lana del boy (ledge), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 08:21 (six years ago) link
We came to buy a couch and uh..... pic.twitter.com/hxhAnJphU3— 🇭🇹🇲🇽 (@RetiredFilth) February 24, 2019
― pplains, Sunday, 24 February 2019 03:30 (five years ago) link
jfc
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 February 2019 03:46 (five years ago) link
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/s8d6236Waf_b25hh4GOSKwlMu925W1BaJxFBQC80k36KvZYM9l1ZNwabRrZnvNdJ2MRTbaCY-hlnORcyAupbJDrJjbbtgLmt6yo6FLtrJnF4Ibd5q8XoluwFhBdT
― na (NA), Monday, 24 February 2020 22:31 (four years ago) link
this appears to be a different version of the same "statue"
https://tonymorano.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/tony-morano-hard-rock-park-sand-sculpture.jpg?w=720
― na (NA), Monday, 24 February 2020 22:32 (four years ago) link
is that jimi on the right in the second one? his hair makes him look like warren grog.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S9wv09c2hc
― wasdnuos (abanana), Monday, 24 February 2020 23:00 (four years ago) link