vote for the most terrifying gigantic statue of all time

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

would vote for that as the most chill gigantic statue of all time

wow, what a great view. I’ve been there, awesome statue and very cool place, but you don’t get to see it like this.

I don't think of myself as having a fear of heights in general, but aerial views like that creep me out worse than looking up at it would do.

Like this one of the Statue of Liberty:

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-h_jEm7Qs1RI/WOqdaLmDEmI/AAAAAAACovg/MNM5Tvw4uUAKHSsXtGSmaIZSMPZ_GTHFgCLcB/s1600/Statue-Liberty-head-from-above-1930s.png

looking up at the Leshan Buddha:

https://www.unusualtraveler.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/leshan-giant-buddha.jpg

https://c8.alamy.com/compde/e7wb43/leshan-giant-buddha-der-grossten-stein-buddha-der-welt-sichuan-china-e7wb43.jpg

xxp yeah I can't account for it but that statue of liberty image^ makes my palms sweat

Accidentally posted it in the wrong thread originally, but my son was watching an animated movie recently that had a pivotal scene at that statue:

https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/AbominableBuddha.jpg

My kids just watched that movie last night! It wasn't bad!

i had intense megalophobia when i was young, though it's eased a little, now. i can trace it back to playing on a common green in my hometown as a child. there was a welcome sign there, with translations of 'welcome' in about eight different languages. i'd look up at it as a child and the languages just looked... wrong, or threatening. i feel the dread in my stomach just thinking about it. the first time i went to london and came out of a tube station underneath big ben i pissed myself. i wonder what the psychology is behind this. i also grew up in a town about fifty miles south of the angel of the north, but i've never been. i'm trembling thinking about being anywhere near or under it. i think it's the facelessness of it as much as the scale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usYC_Z36rHw

videos like this really get me.

If you have a tea phobia...

https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/149170431_280564570111805_222251176191392489_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=I9kiShtpEEwAX8Ppffe&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=cfde336c026a1ff7daf43400b16cb527&oe=6058E21E

"Located in a lovely* and friendly* province of Guizhou, this is the No.1 Pot of Tea Culture Park 天下第一壶中国茶文化博览园
.
Apparently it is the largest physical teapot in the world. Also, my friend told me that this building has been rated as one of the ugliest buildings in China 🤣"

seems like a remarkable waste of space

My kids just watched that movie last night! It wasn't bad!

Yeah, as far as non-Pixar CGI kids flicks go, it was pretty solid. Didn't help that going into it, I was thinking it was the Zendaya meme kids flick about a Yeti instead.

Well, I'm into it. So there.

xp

my kids got really into the whooping snakes gag from the exotic animal collector, and spent a few days hiding in various places around the house and popping up with a "whoop!" it was pretty cute.

xp

xp you can be into it but there's a lot of wasted space in the construction! i didn't mean that the whole thing was a waste of space, just that it obviously left a lot of dead and unusable area in the building.

not very gigantic but certainly terrifying

https://i.imgur.com/rhBqet7.jpg

hey I went to the Leshan Giant Buddha! there's nothing terrifying about it, dude is very chill. whole area had a chill vibe.

not very gigantic but certainly terrifying

Even a 1cm statue of that guy would be way more gigantic than it ought to be.

hello giant statue fans, here is some shameless promotion for this similar (but probably less terrifying or impressive) giant monuments poll:

~~GIANTS OF THE PRAIRIES~~ road trip: which one do you visit first?

https://www.abandonedamerica.us/the-president-heads

http://photos.on-this.website/wm/IN4PG9bcF_v4xMFm8L7_zbk_maE%3D/wbr/1607888669/15678_12462729855e4afbbb41385.jpg

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/06/992149491/far-from-the-internet-these-big-benevolent-trolls-lure-humans-to-nature

aw I like those

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0xdtKXWEAEzk7B?format=jpg&name=medium

I love the Kelpies, never really thing of them as belonging on this thread.

*think

Daniel Popper's Thrive

https://i.imgur.com/kiO9sgz.png

https://i.imgur.com/arUK8T3.png

not a statue, but they do loom so
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/07/me-face-balloon-japan/

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/wara-1.jpg

more here:
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/09/wara-art-festival-japan/

those are awesome

Sultan the Pit Pony in Caerphilly

https://countrymusicnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/largest-earth-sculpture-horse.jpg

https://countrymusicnation.com/650ft-horse-largest-figurative-earth-sculpture-in-the-united-kingdom

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBf_c4OXMAUDDQr.jpg

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/waters-soul-massive-white-sculpture-makes-statement-new-york-harbor-2021-10-19/

whoa. is this planned to be a permanent installation? the article didn't seem to say one way or the other, or maybe i missed it.

also

His pieces mostly feature women, he says, because he sees life and the world as female, while "boys are just an accident - a very nice accident, but an accident."

uh

Yes, I believe permanent!

Here he is coming up with the next super deep thing that artists are supposed to say

https://cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/JD6RINENGRLMPLHDAEEORV7XJQ.jpg

that's it - next one will be a woman furrowing her brow and stroking her chin in thought.

https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/284099251_126965739970364_481601607848288231_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=foyKCy6k2noAX8tIO7w&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=00_AT98HDG_1OiLz3FJAwWflliDdtfZZ6shoGiUJSMpHW7bSQ&oe=62954BBD

"This night photo shows the work "Foreign Body". This is an art installation of a gigantic female figure created by Varga Weisz through High Desert Test Sites, located in Wonder Valley near Joshua Tree National Park. This sculpture depicts a woman who has been pierced by a tree, representing nature and its slow mutilation by humans."

Don't know if this one has been on before.

https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/292866949_10229330174344675_6923457901295185740_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=26DPKrWRPZgAX9lG70R&_nc_oc=AQl5h9qF0pg2kx-eimh6F8Bzr4Zn1tQdygtThlfjjounwu3Zjgs7p7XhWGGoVYIcNp4&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=00_AT8cMZF9ipMmuDYoo3dMJlsPWoc7rVOFCeWhi3sR4eInCQ&oe=62CCC859

[Giant red coffeepot with cup]

bump

Not only has it been, but it was I who posted it. Oh well, that link is dead, so enjoy anew.

If you have a tea phobia...

"Located in a lovely* and friendly* province of Guizhou, this is the No.1 Pot of Tea Culture Park 天下第一壶中国茶文化博览园
.
Apparently it is the largest physical teapot in the world. Also, my friend told me that this building has been rated as one of the ugliest buildings in China 🤣"
― nickn, Monday, February 22, 2021

Alas the picture from seven months ago is gone. This is what "Foreign Body" looks like:
https://static.frieze.com/files/inline-images/paloma-varga-weisz-foreign-body-2022.jpg

"This sculpture depicts a woman who has been pierced by a tree, representing nature and its slow mutilation by humans" - wouldn't it make more sense to show a tree being pierced by a human being, then?

it's like what I say to my kids when they play with bugs - imagine what would happen if a giant hand came down from the sky and picked you up?

These questions are great, but weren't the first ones I had in mind.

it's like what I say to my kids when they play with bugs - imagine what would happen if a giant hand came down from the sky and picked you up?

And...that's why they can't sleep!

I mean, why not have a sculpture of a woman punching a tree? That would "represent nature and its slow mutilation by humans". Something like this:
https://image.shutterstock.com/shutterstock/photos/157857452/display_1500/stock-photo-stock-image-of-a-woman-punching-a-tree-157857452.jpg

Or a sculpture of a woman slowly strangling a tree, or putting a plastic bag over a tree's head and force-feeding it poppers, or something. While the tree is tied up. Bizarrely, there was a tiny internet buzz back in 2018 about a 10-year-old girl called Evnika Saadvakass, who can destroy very small trees with her fists. The following clip is from 2015. Maths was never my strong point, but I know that 2015 was before 2018 so she would be younger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS_WMy4T2nU

I realise you sometimes have to break... I mean you always have to break an egg in order to... at some point in the process of making an omelette *an egg has to be broken*. But this sculpture and the shipping crates are doing more harm to the environment than whatever awareness they raise. Unless the argument is that the desert is just a pile of empty nothingness, which isn't true. It's the kind of really bad art that irritates me.

"Ego Erectus" - Mario Mankey

https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/foot-sculpture-mario-mankey-1.jpg

https://mymodernmet.com/foot-sculpture-mario-mankey/