http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=768076&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=7573
Maybe it’s just me, or a significant lack of sleep, or some deep seeded psychological problem, but this picture is really creeping me out.
I don’t just mean mildly, like looking at a clown, I mean serious heebie-jeebies. I have visions of this thing bashing down my door and just lumbering at me, arms outstretched.
::shudder::
I think I’m going to turn all the lights on now. And find my baseball bat.
I thought that sculpture looked kinda neat, but then again I am know to like kinda creepy things. 
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Well, there’s definitely a creep factor there. Though I find the sculpture pretty cool. Though I don’t really know the reasoning behind it (I haven’t read the article yet).
Oh don’t get me wrong. It is definitely an interesting piece of work. It carries a fairly obvious and important message, but man-o-man it just triggers something in the deep reptilian portion of my brain.
Hmmm. I wonder what the name for an irrational fear of big mouthed blue statues with submarines bursting out of their nether regions is?
The thin lips, the squinty eyes, and of course, the blueness. Yes, definitely creepy.
I like the sculpture. Do you remember ordering a hamburger by yelling into a fiber glass clowns mouth at Jack in the Box? The sculpture definately has some possiblities.
It makes me think of Gollum in the Tolkien series.
Archer—you’ve got a good thought there. Maybe Long John Silvers or ArthurTreacher’s Fish n’nChips could use it. Carry on that sea faring theme and put it in the lobby of Red Lobster.
It is kinda creepy though. Almost ghost like.
It’s the way the sculpture’s mouth is so unnaturally wide open that really bugs me. “A combination of anger and sorrow,” I’ll say!
First thing to pop into my mind when seeing that picture… “Man, I’ll bet she give GREAT head!”
Scared the shit outta me to the point where I had to shut the window… Wow…
It reminds me of the original Star Trek series where the last creature on a planet, is removing all the salt from it’s victums. The creature lived on salt. It was covered with suckers, when not in stealth mode looking human. It doesn’t have to be based on a scientific possiblity for God’s sake Jim, it’s the original Star Trek. This episode was made before people became so fanatical and expected star dates to be anything but random.
Not quite as scary as the picture, but I’m trying as best I can not to wonder what bear breasts look like.
Look like one of those blow up dolls
look it is Tigra Smith, with european openings. feels like the real thingooooh…
Doens’t look like a good likeness to me, I think I made sculptures like that in elementary school…
I like the meaning though.
I wonder if it’s occurred to the sculptor and other people who say “what’s the big deal?” that the controversy may be at least partially about the SUBMARINE? It’s not the bare breasts, considering there haven’t been many complaints about a bare-breasted mermaid sculpture in the same competition.
Looking at a map, New Haven – the story is from the New Haven Register – is not far from New London, CT. Home of Electric Boat, where U.S. Navy subs are built. Site of the Navy’s major submarine base for the East Coast and the Atlantic. We’re talking about an audience that is NOT welcoming of the argument that humankind has “violated” the sea by operating submarines in it.
AAAHHH…thanks. Now I’m gonna have nightmares about that THING coming at me and some dude molesting me with a toy sub…
Shudder. Minor hijack.
This picture bolsters a theory I’ve had that creepiness is not monstrous things with tentacles, or zombies with brain matter exposed and eyeballs dangling down their cheeks.
True creepiness is when something just a little bit off. In this case, of course, the mouth. Who was that comedian from the 50’s with an unusually large mouth – Joe E. something – he was scary.
And that woman from Men in Black, the one married to “Egger” – she was very unsettling, much scarier than he was. He was just gross. Gross isn’t scary. And what did she make that lemonade with anyway?
Give me someone whose legs are just a bit too long for his body, eyes too far apart, arms that dangle to the knees and a bad haircut – I’ll cross to the other side of the street, go home and lock the doors.
This thing was on the lawn? Can you imagine walking past that thing at night? I think I’d run home and hide!
You mean Joe E. Brown, I think. Personally, I thought he was funny, but YMMV.
That sculpture is creepy. I would guess that’s what the sculptor intended.