August 14, 2006

• Well, there's this revision of a well-known monument one state over from me, which is kinda kooky. Or terrifying, or wonderful, depending on your pov.
• Foreboding imminent doom, more like.
• Soem context would be nice on those pictures. I'm really curious about the real names of 'The kid-stomper', the 'Homage to the Fallen Paparazzi' and the 'upside-down Aussie'.
• We have Lenin, but he isn't that strange out of context.
• Lenin really does seem to belong in Fremont, doesn't he? Right along with the Troll.
• there are more views of some of the statues on the main link here. i always find this one a little incongruous, though it's beautifully situated.
• in dublin: the tart with the cart (molly malone) the floozy in the jacuzzi (anna livia, since moved) the prick with the stick (james joyce) the fag on the crag (oscar wilde) some background: dublin statues and their nicknames
• I don't know if the Oxford shark counts as a "memorial," exactly... he's not on public land, and I don't know if he actually commemorates anything. It was just this one guy's harebrained scheme to build an enormous upside-down fibreglass shark whomping into the roof of his semi-detached Headington house. It's showing its age a bit now, but is still visible from the London-to-Oxford bus, between the stops for Headington and Gipsy Lane, on a sidestreet off to the left.
• On San Francisco's Embarcadero.
• I'd never heard of the shark before. Here's a Wiki reference & photo. I want one.
• Ottawa's pretty dull except for this humongous spider, titled "Mother". (looks more impressive when you click the little magnifying glass)
• StoryBored, that looks like something straight out of Doctor Who!
• Doesn't it though? Also, roryk, I love Anna Livia-- glad she's coming back.
• This isn't really that odd, but in London we've got FDR and Churchill sharing a park bench. Note how shiny FDR's knee is from people sitting on his lap for photos.
• I don't get what's so strange about some of them. Like the Armenian one, or the one in Monaco.
• Note to self: Stay away from Ottawa.
• The Oslo, Norway monument fills me with indescribable glee.
• OMG Storybored we have one of them spiders here too! It's in the (kinda) new Roppongi Hills complex. someone's piccie
• We had this cool, half-buried version of the Thinker where I used to be (I can't find a better picture, but you can zoom in a little). He looks particularly neat when it's snowy out.
• ...that looks like something straight out of Doctor Who! Gemme out of here!!!
• OMG Storybored we have one of them spiders here too! They're everywhere!
• > I love Anna Livia-- glad she's coming back. me too. and i think the new location (by the river near heuston station/collins museum) will be mor suitable.
• mor -> more need to find my glasses
• Somnolence - the affect of this location upon the populace depicted here. Snore The Woodlands. Tx.
• The Oslo, Norway one is from the Vigelands Park
• Madison, Wisconsin (USA) has a series of colorful cows around the city this summer, but apparently a number of places are doing such things. We also have a cool pair of ostriches made from steel scrap, but I can't find a pic.
• I love that thinkin' feller, meredithea. He looks like he's in the bathtub.
• We've got more funky art downtown than you can shake a stick at. The City Fathers got it into their heads that spending millions of dollars on modern art was a better way to "revitalize" than say, I don't know, providing incentives for businesses to open there.
• The Awakening up the road from me is pretty cool. And apparently it's for sale.
• Anna Livia Plurabelle here.
• (Trying to Wake again)
• The Tart with the Cart is hawt. And, but, also: compulsive mental illness, or the irresistible pull of the Muse? You decide: Including, but not limited to, Carhenge, Foamhenge, and Stonefridge
• D'oh! I previewed the hell out of that and still screwed it up! The link that was meant to be between the big and small text: America's Stonehenges. *sigh*
• I'll see your Churchill and FDR, and raise you a Glenn Gould, who, in no small irony, is outdoors, in front of CBC HQ in T.O.
• This just in: Prince Harry photographed groping Molly Malone.
• That seated Gould reminds me of the lounging gargoyles of Notre Dame.
• When I lived in Seattle we had the Hammering Man and Hendrix and the Wall of DEATH!!!. In Sacramento...nothing.
• Seated Glenn Gould wins!
• Well, it's bronze, but you know what they say about bronze. . . . it's as good as Gould. ah ha - ah ha ha . . ahh . . eh.
• More strange statues
• I read about "duelling tampons" years ago, but only just looked it up for the first time.
• SuperSize monument.
• At the right, the delicious Blueberry Totempole. And further down, a replica of the ship Hector may also be observed.
• That's really special, Bees!
• Prague TV tower with crawling babies
• AAAaiiiiiiiIIGHh! *click*
• Oooh, de widdwe babieses cwimb da big tower!