vote for the most terrifying gigantic statue of all time

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
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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".

i am working on a mockup.

this could change the future of giant statues

nevermind, it won't

https://i.imgur.com/Ep2umhw.gif

but what a world it could be

https://i.imgur.com/RB5T14O.jpg

omg karl

WORSHIP CHRIST!!!

this one's slower, probably better

https://i.imgur.com/BShVqVu.gif

incredible

Not that it's worth a whole thread, but if there were one of the most terrifying gigantic buildings, the Abraj Al-bait clock tower would be on my list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaseeK2sFTY

I like that they have a building in Atlanta, Georgia in there, I guess thinking it's the country of Georgia.

Quality control on those videos is dreadful, there aren't two Turning Torsos, the one Kenya is Britam Tower.

The height of statues from around the world.pic.twitter.com/Uggitgx6kj

— Fascinating (@fasc1nate) November 1, 2022

Excellent - somehow missed that big lad at the end.

https://i.imgur.com/ZWx7WqJ.png

The horrible secret Mr. and Mrs. Peanut kept locked in the basement until it grew too big to contain

FEED ME SEYMOUR

Never forget there is a 16ft Tony Soprano statue at Vilnius train station in Lithuania. pic.twitter.com/Y8EUPEOmoJ

— Michael Warburton (@MichaelWarbur17) March 11, 2023

Instagram video, with sound:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CsvcYDMLFs0/

lol, I just guessed that someone added screams to The Motherland Calls.

As to the link, under no circumstances would I take that ride.