New statues

[Doodler]

How long though, until the great man is found to have said something, in common usage seven decades ago, but not used now?

Larkin was an arsehole in many ways and wrote (in private) some very snobbish and racist stuff and his statue in Hull has been vandalised but apparently only by pissheads trying to climb and swing from it. Betjeman will not pop up on anyone's radar.

 

[Pickman's model]

Don't be silly. I'm not riled i'm just being annoying. He said that if anyone deserves a statue its Turing, and thats why he thinks the statue of Turing is not crap.
So any statue of Turing would be good, in his view. Because its not about the thing in itself its 'having a statue', as a mark of respect.
Idk how you can see any other interpretation of that, but you carry on.

Deserving a statue is not necessarily a measure of respect but a measure of significance A statue can be a reflection of power, for example a statue of Edward vii in Delhi. Not surprised you can only see one way of interpreting a statue.

 

[Saul Goodman]

ok so you posted it because you think he deserves a statue. Because a statue is the highest mark of respect or something, not because of anything about the statue itself. ok.

It reminds us how shit we were, and if just one person per day walks past it and reflects on that, it's making the world a better place. That, in my mind, makes it a great statue.

 

[bimble]

Deserving a statue is not necessarily a measure of respect but a measure of significance A statue can be a reflection of power, for example a statue of Edward vii in Delhi. Not surprised you can only see one way of interpreting a statue.

Very good. Maybe that’s what Saul meant, the statues good cos of how it shows Turing’s powerfulness.

Past my bedtime.

 

[rubbershoes]

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Doesn't even look like him, which you though might have come up in the brief.

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away

 

[Riklet]

Have no statues? Thats fucking depressing bullshit. There are people we should honour and remember that arent cunts. They can be educative as well as celebratory.

Louisa Gould is my choice. Absolute hero.

Pleased to see there is now a statue of Sylvia Pankhurst too. Did not know that.

 

[Saul Goodman]

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Doesn't even look like him, which you though might have come up in the brief.

Chairman Meow

 

[Serge Forward]

Have we had Diana Dors in Swindon yet?

 

[Ax^]

if its real it must be new


the pubs only started letting you into the garden today

 

[Saul Goodman]

if its real it must be new


the pubs only started letting you into the garden today

A statue of the invisible man?

 

[Ax^]

any statue with boobs is going to get rubbed by drunk people

 

[krtek a houby]

This one is at Taro Okamoto's graveside. If it's self representative, it's kind of lovely

 

[Saul Goodman]

 

[Sasaferrato]

Those are very good.

 

[not-bono-ever]

At the end of an era
The First thing to go
Are the heads of our leaders
Kicked down in the road

 

[Puddy_Tat]

'Landed' near the Victoria Dock in London

 

[TopCat]

You lot have so dissed Dr Gilbert with these tangents and pedantry.
A really big statue I think of her. Larger than life. Let’s have it near bimble s house.

 

[philosophical]

The blue plaques are informative to an extent.

 

[Doodler]

I don't know what that means, well judged.

I don't how to put it well in words but you might get some sense of it through comparison, eg Paul Day's pound shop Martian lovers in St Pancras vs Michaelangelo's David or the Royal Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park.

 

[A380]

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away

They could put that on post cards, cheap biros and snow globes of my statue that would be sold in the gift shop located in a retail space in my gonads.

 

[TopCat]

Sorry bimble .

 

[Pickman's model]

At the end of an era
The First thing to go
Are the heads of our leaders
Kicked down in the road

So the first thing to go is their necks

 

[stavros]