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
In the first image, on the far right - is that Arlo Guthrie or Waddy Wachtel?
― henry s, Monday, 24 February 2020 23:12 (four years ago) link
I guessed Janis.
― nickn, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 00:10 (four years ago) link
Probably also Marley tho.
― nickn, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 00:12 (four years ago) link
OH. MY. GOD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0gzmUsDM9I
You have led me to to THE MOST BORING AMUSEMENT PARK RIDE EVER MADE.
The sand "Rushmore" was for Hard Rock Park, a 55-acre, $400-million rock 'n' roll-themed park in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, that never offered discounts, bored children and promptly closed up for good in 2009 due to the recession.
Which is fine by me, since while I enjoy both kinds of music, rock and roll, this place sounds like Rock 'n' Roll HELL.
The level of detail was often astonishing. For example, the original version of a song, say "Purple Haze," that played along the walkways in the Rock & Roll Heaven area seamlessly morphed into a note-for-note calypso version of the tune as guests approach the Reggae River Falls attraction.
An Elvis-looking cow statue made small talk with onlookers before spraying them with his udders
It included Alice's Restaurant, the park's full-service eatery that served Thanksgiving dinner and clam chowder.
You know, there's nothing I enjoy more than walking around a 55-acre amusement park in the hot South Carolina sun for hours before sitting down to a heapin' hot helpin' of Thanksgiving dinner and clam chowder.
But.... that "Nights in White Satin" ride... From the video alone, I've ridden airport trams that were more exciting than that.
― pplains, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 02:10 (four years ago) link
Ha, and that's Mark Sanford in the blue shirt in the first pic.
― pplains, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 02:14 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/MGXpCWy.jpg
No Quarter indeed.
― pplains, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 02:25 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/RIPyh1U.jpg
Do gotta say that the Lynyrd Skynyrd ride was in really poor taste.
― pplains, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 02:28 (four years ago) link
lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 02:51 (four years ago) link
yeah i was lead to that image by podcast: the ride, specifically their two-part episode on failed amusement parks that focuses mostly on hard rock park but also the sid & marty kroft amusement park in atlanta.
hard rock park cost $400 million to build and closed after five months of business. then it reopened as freestyle music park, and closed for good after something like six months. so it actually failed twice
― na (NA), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
Tulsa's Golden Driller statue painted to look like Elon Musk.
https://i.imgur.com/JdLbdbg.jpg
Good ol' Ok-lol-homa.
― pplains, Thursday, 21 May 2020 02:51 (three 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 it’s going pic.twitter.com/Y0Lwj3CHbu— Brad Batt for TN State Sanity ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾 (@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