vote for the most terrifying gigantic statue of all time

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.

hard to get a true sense of scale but i like it!

Thirded or fourthed

That statue rools

Yeah, I love it. Saw a few photos with the arm and trident missing, hope it's fixed now.

there's currently a bit of a spate of undersea statuary (tho i think most of it is not technically gigantic)

https://www.theadventurejunkies.com/wp-content/uploads/UWesculptures.jpg

(this is from the underwater sculpture park in molinere bay off of grenada)

http://tropixtraveler.com/caribbean/four-amazing-caribbean-underwater-sculpture-parks/

Beautiful. Imagine most statues on earth will end up looking like that eventually :/

The bronze statues or the unreinforced concrete ones near sea level. The typical framework + cladding giant statues will corrode and collapse, the rebar in reinforced concrete corrodes and without maintenance the concrete becomes rubble.

Fortunately, sea level rise is the slowest appearing effect of the long climate crisis. Maybe 1 m this century, 3 or so m every century for the next several millennia. The Statue of Liberty's base isn't crested til late 4th millenium (around the time White Plains, NY is beachfront).

Whew.

*furiously buys white plains beachfront*