vote for the most terrifying gigantic statue of all time

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/

gah!

nice white toenails

Arrest this artist

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

now wait one god damn minute

https://i.imgur.com/7dNkHGW.png

i'm looking at this. the bronze statue of Dizang goes by, I can tell from the adjacent statues that the staff the figure carries "doesn't count". it's the top of his head. ok.

but yet, when The Motherland Calls, suddenly the top of the sword is the line of measurement. now wait one god damn minute

this is a pretty sweet video though, thanks :D

I'd say the pedestal might not count, but then a certain green lady shows up.

Yeah, it's a cool video but the measurements are weird. I was under the impression that the standard way of measuring statue height is to include staffs (staves?) etc but to not count pedestals - I get that would prob spoil the aesthetic of such a video, but not convinced that they've got things right the way they've done it.

Also, I somehow missed that Bolivia ripped off Christ the Redeemer and made a bigger one, and then (not included in that video) Poland ripped them both off and made an even bigger one again!

http://witaworld.com/assets_image/content/large/post-9_1500995399.jpg

Being built:
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HQY1n3wIOvk/TNfNZy322hI/AAAAAAAAAUo/xEt_d5DLnT8/s1600/alg_largest_jesus.jpg

lol at that last image!

I think the christian nations of the world should each build a really tall Jesus on this model. Then, there can be a competition and the winner can be placed on a very tall pedestal, towering above the others Jesuses

Or put the existing ones all together and rename them "The Three Christs of Ypsilanti".