vote for the most terrifying gigantic statue of all time

lol

that is wonderful

Winner

wow

生生不息 is actually my family motto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBEiHP1k2AU

Moderately terrifying

THE VIDEO IS EVEN BETTER LMAO. GOD EMPEROR TRUMP pic.twitter.com/5rOIgRRFOo

— Armani (@armani_salado) February 10, 2019

warhammer 40k movie fx looking impressive

another vu of guan yu (good photos upthread) for max imperiousness:

Guan Yu statue in Yuncheng City, China pic.twitter.com/xbLDEWF1up

— Carl Zha (@CarlZha) February 15, 2019

https://www.ctvnews.ca/polopoly_fs/1.4321514.1551720683!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_225/image.jpg

World’s tallest gnome needs a new home

ATTN NYC...

https://i.imgur.com/BzCrtjV.jpg

I DON'T GET IT.

So it's a bunch of stairs that go interlock with each other to form a basket?

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/03/thomas-heatherwick/

I mean, other places have those too, except there's usually a food court on the ground level.

Generally acknowledged as garbage by New Yorkers

ya know, maybe I do ♥ NY.

Great and somewhat less than respectful piece about it and it's designer Thomas Heatherwick, which manages to use the sentence "Heatherwick is forty-eight, employs nearly two hundred people, and has two children" as a punchline:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/26/thomas-heatherwick-architectures-showman

"it's" smdh

Meanwhile in Plymouth https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/18/huge-bronze-statue-messenger-crouching-female-actor-arrives-plymouth

http://gothamist.com/2019/03/18/psa_the_vessel_claims_it_owns_all_your_photos.php

wtf

anyway this jibes w M. Kimmelman's piece last week characterizing Hudson Yards as the world's largest gated community

i am getting increasingly chip-on-my-shoulder about that whole development; really need to see something at the shed shortly so i can form an informed opinion above and beyond EAT THE RICH

Me and some buddies hit it last night. Definitely has to be seen to be believed!

https://i.imgur.com/nH9IjzC.jpg

haha

all your photos are belong to vessel

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/03/grasshoppers-dream-cafe/

https://main-designyoutrust.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/8-48.jpg

come and dine inside the giant fornicating grasshoppers...

write up weirdly fails to mention they are humping

Big Yuri has been spruced up.

c днем космонавтики! pic.twitter.com/ySXkZsyqNu

— Owen Hatherley (@owenhatherley) April 12, 2019

Damn! Looking good Yuri <3

*yuri grimly nods*

http://i.imgur.com/oZv8k7p.jpg
uncanny

https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/57416458_10219260335805283_378635915859329024_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_oc=AQnj9Eb5vZjZp4UTYAt2u_RNxZvjgnn5MwpbDvo4PVlWRmqUZSElv8eE8H6XDvRrLyroM28aO3FNgB-irDLj07UG&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-2.xx&oh=a7775fb8fbb9447e084b6d8d04d6ac1a&oe=5D36812F

^lol

have we had the enormo eagle on it's back?

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/04/jatayu-earth-center/

(apparently not. had a scroll back. lots of broken links...)

I think we did have that one, maybe it's one of the broken links.

not exactly a statue but still

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5Yk7pfX4AAutle.jpg:large

Damn! Looking good Yuri <3

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, April 12, 2019 6:40 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*yuri grimly nods*

― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Friday, April 12, 2019 6:47 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

DO NOT BE AFRAID! I AM A SOVIET LIKE YOU! I HAVE JUST DESCENDED FROM SPACE AND I MUST FIND A TELEPHONE TO CALL MOSCOW!

The Washington Monument during the fireworks is pretty fuckin terrifying pic.twitter.com/FtyMW9rpLO

— Matthew Gaydos (@MatthewGaydos) July 5, 2019

O_O

sauron, lord of the rings, has a new home

Not gigantic but pretty horrory
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/victoria-s-way-indian-sculpture-park

crikey! Nightmare Park to haunt yr dreams

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/angel-monument-chernobyl
http://assets.atlasobscura.com/media/W1siZiIsInVwbG9hZHMvcGxhY2VfaW1hZ2VzLzliYzdjZWVmLWE0NGMtNDJmMy1iODI3LTQyNThmZDFiMjNiZmNmYjM4NjcxOTFlMGIwZjgxZF9HRUQ0OEYuanBnIl0sWyJwIiwidGh1bWIiLCJ4MzkwPiJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcXVhbGl0eSA4MSAtYXV0by1vcmllbnQiXV0/GED48F.jpg

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/66125038_10157292844856310_1164246208084967424_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_oc=AQk753Vpm8rFdyMag9zWGe785N6s_BJ9LQ-WGHJLxc7vbrb2TCQLPEATC8i632u4WVE&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.xx&oh=a108b29f46dee178dc0ec3ed5ffb1429&oe=5DA87466

With Ira Kaplan, the most terrifying guitar player of all time. (photobygeorgia)

The Melania statue.
https://cdn.japantimes.2xx.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/f-melstatue-a-20190708-870x580.jpg

really captures her personality

that looks like it was designed by the woman who restored this painting:

http://https%3A//news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2014/04/Ecce-Homo.jpg

god damnit.

https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2014/04/Ecce-Homo.jpg

melania statue has powerful minecraft energy

they got her knees perfect

Statue of Neptune, Spain. pic.twitter.com/1kxLAvTgQb

— Bohemian Rhapsody (@bohemiaann) July 29, 2019

Nice one! Sea statues seem quite rare.