vote for the most terrifying gigantic statue of all time

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*

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

― nickn

that's jesus shortly after burning his guitar at monterey, right?

Excavating the Easter Island statues pic.twitter.com/RW7PkaC3QJ

— 41 Strange (@41Strange) August 6, 2019

i always find it weird when you see them with the eyes in

absolute unit

rapa nui is v interesting

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

Otm

'Nightmare' hand statue looms over New Zealand city

Also Czech giant babies (though not terrifying).

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-41502954

A mere link is not sufficient--all must bear witness!

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/3IzwW3MSV9Kz_64z9J9aalYLIAo=/620x349/smart/filters:quality(70)/arc-anglerfish-syd-prod-nzme.s3.amazonaws.com/public/A2TJKKRUMRGOJNIEF6KO7CDOQQ.jpg

I have no idea what these condo developers were thinking. This dude is hideously uncalled for

https://ribalych.ru/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/rodina-mat-zovyot_002.jpg

pixel art getting real

If that's it finished I love it.

heh, yeah i was going to say that more terrifying gigantic statues should leave the scaffolding up, it looks kinda cool

pretty soon every country is going to have a gigantic terrifying statue. before long they'll wheel them all into the same valley and have at it, mighty morphin power rangers style

Very Anthony Gormley

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-zOrAL1V5Jg/THpTlcoEzJI/AAAAAAAAHCo/yIDWk5RfiFE/s640/exposure.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZfG5mjq0DxU/TdAvj1zq-8I/AAAAAAAAAeQ/QxQ2zZJB0hA/s1600/gormley_1_905.jpg

Saw Motherland in Kyiv up close over the weekend (posted on this thread 5 years ago and by the same guy as Motherland Calls) and damn, it's impressive.

not gigantic but still:

This statue depicts Saint Bartholomew, an early Christian martyr who was allegedly skinned alive. If you look closely, you’ll notice that’s not a robe that he’s holding. It's actually his dissected skin hanging around him. This statute is by Marco d’Agrate, c.1562. pic.twitter.com/wyPnQqbXTu

— Lindsey Fitzharris (@DrLindseyFitz) October 5, 2019

https://kapang.com/rathergoodradio/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2017/08/Robbie.png

yikes

obi-wan voice “That’s no robe...”

That's amazing work.

Never heard of this before, more weird than terrifying

this place is legit very strange pic.twitter.com/kDL7MQfAXp

— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) October 20, 2019

I posted it a couple years ago

https://adventure.com/abandoned-presidents-heads/?utm_content=president+heads&utm_medium&utm_source=facebook

Looks like they need to drain the swamp.

^ I think the Natalie Prass video for 'Into The Fire' was shot there.

Meanwhile, these aren't gigantic but Yerevan otherwise just slaps at this

https://www.peopleofar.com/wp-content/uploads/lion-2-by-ji-yong-ho-cascade-yerevan-armenia.jpg

https://c1.wallpaperflare.com/preview/21/662/466/lion-head-sculpture-art.jpg

https://travelplugged.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Statues-Botero-Statues-Yerevan.jpg

Yerevan has lots of fun public art.

I saw the GWK from a distance this week. It’s so chunky it’s probably not that impressive until you’re closer. It kind of looks like a weirdly shaped tower block.

https://i.postimg.cc/T1SzpY3W/C169-E314-646-C-4-D1-A-9406-CABBEB6-B23-C8.jpg

It looks like a building destroyed by a kaiju from a distance

totally!

That's great but it looks like it's frowning on the simplicity of the building it's been perched on.

I don't think this fountain is gigantic but I need someone else to see it

https://i.imgur.com/TmV6xVV.jpg

Where is that?

i have no idea! i found it on the LiveJournal random images page

(since LJ, probably Russia)

It's on the roof of the Ilana Goor Museum in Tel Aviv.

https://www.ilanagoormuseum.org/collections/%d7%94%d7%9e%d7%96%d7%a8%d7%a7%d7%94-%d7%95%d7%a8%d7%93-%d7%90%d7%94%d7%a8%d7%95%d7%a0%d7%95%d7%91%d7%99%d7%a5/

ah thanks!

Some where between terrifying and hilarious

If you are looking for statues of famous Italian Americans to replace Columbus, consider the 5 meter tall statue of Tony Soprano in Lithuania pic.twitter.com/8xlCFZAM0D

— Jᴀᴄᴋʏ☮︎Bʀᴀᴡɴ (@jckybrwn) June 10, 2020

<3

Thet should put a gigantic Star-Ledger on the opposite platform

needs some ducks in a swimming pool

"The world's largest and longest stone Buddha statue, which was started in AD 713 and completed in exactly 90 years, 'The Big Leshan Buddha'"

https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/151070036_1084387825375743_5037553714177404194_o.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=3&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=f_sBYSxCfN4AX_kMZOl&_nc_oc=AQl6z3jiJ0M_UkAdi6gDWTKxzATT7GnrWMuuxGu_DdnXcWYs0zo8bagzI_WWj04AcdA&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=36db3112a2c68fdcfdb4ec98ab32c448&oe=6052C31F