Novel Sculptures

August 3, 2006 4:53 PM

Strange statues from around the world.
posted by caddis (20 comments total)

My favorite
posted by caddis at 4:54 PM on August 3, 2006

double
posted by bob sarabia at 4:55 PM on August 3, 2006

Those are awesome! pity it's a double.
posted by shoepal at 4:57 PM on August 3, 2006

this one is just wrong.
posted by shoepal at 4:58 PM on August 3, 2006

you would have to stoop and look under her skirt, tho, seems keen.
posted by undule at 5:00 PM on August 3, 2006

yeah, I suppose it is nice the artist put so much forethought into his work.
posted by shoepal at 5:03 PM on August 3, 2006

this one is just wrong.

Looks correct to me.
posted by dobbs at 5:04 PM on August 3, 2006

Belgium's Manneken-Pis (The Pissing Boy):


posted by ericb at 5:10 PM on August 3, 2006

touché, dobbs, touché.
posted by shoepal at 5:11 PM on August 3, 2006

number 28 is actually a mailbox. pretty cool.
posted by caddis at 5:28 PM on August 3, 2006

posted by MetaMonkey at 5:40 PM on August 3, 2006

You're in the middle of an arena. You're being attacked by 5 year olds who will stop at nothing to kill you. How many can you take on before they overcome you?
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 5:50 PM on August 3, 2006 [1 favorite]

ROU_Xenophobe -- thanks for the memory of a truly entertaining MeFi thread.
posted by ericb at 6:33 PM on August 3, 2006

posted by MonkeySaltedNuts at 6:36 PM on August 3, 2006 [1 favorite]

I visited the Hakone Outdoor Art Exhibit last month and have never seen anything like it.

Not much on the Web about it, though.

Japan. Go see it.
posted by kozad at 8:30 PM on August 3, 2006

enterprise, alabama's tribute to the boll weevil
posted by pyramid termite at 8:39 PM on August 3, 2006

ginger:

June 28th, 2006

14:10 25

I’m sorry but I miss classical art and the classical world. I was raised on the arts and took a nonjudgmental stance until it drove me literally crazy. Again, I’m sorry, but I really dislike most of these statues. Let people be naked once they’ve solved the world’s problems and learned what love is.

Please don’t make me stare at metallic genitalia in public places — it makes me not want to have sex, ever, because I’m ashamed of how lost and greedy humanity has become.

I do not want to bring a child into this world and have him be forced to consider this art somehow good. I was hoping to look at these photos and laugh, but I didn’t because it reminded me of how ugly contemporary people tend to be. I just felt nauseous at how low people are willing to go in order to feel “higher class” (they’re too stupid to think of the word “sophisticated” generally), and how entitled they feel to impose their bad aesthetics on everyone. I don’t want to pay any taxes for this crap, and I’m someone who once wrote graduate paper on Robert Mappelthorpe and the NEA. Boy, was that a bunch of propoganda I was fed. If you guys like it then good for you, but as for me: NO THANKS, not anymore.


DAMN!!

You are one fukt up bee-atch, Ging!!

Why am I thinking that you don't get laid much as it is?

Personally, I love most all of these statues.
Thanks for the post.
posted by pwedza at 9:47 PM on August 3, 2006

Yeah, double, but it's a good'un.
posted by NinjaTadpole at 3:10 AM on August 4, 2006

And what the heck is that, MSN?
posted by NinjaTadpole at 3:11 AM on August 4, 2006

This one is obviously just a Katamari.

This, on the other hand, is non-ironically one of my favorite statues in the world. I would love to own a small replica of it. Anyone know where I could get such a thing?
posted by Faint of Butt at 3:52 AM on August 4, 2006