Well the correct term is battle mittens, but yeah. How else does a soldier keep his ungainly wrist hair from getting matted with terrorist blood?
I think these would lend a certain whimsy to the statue, which might lighten the mood and mollify its detractors.
But then people would wonder why the guy just didn’t bounce back after being shot.
If only his SEAL training had included the effective use of Looney Tunes stragety…
Navy SEAL: “Well… looks like you Al-Qaeda militants have got me cornered. Er… would you like to shoot me now, or wait until you get home?”
Al-Qaeda leader: “Shoot him now! Shoot him now!”
Navy SEAL: “You keep out of this! They don’t have to shoot you now!”
What would these do?
Trolling or an attempt at comedy?
They just don’t get it. You find people like this every once in a while. It’s best just to pat them on the head and send them on thier way.
Honestly, that’s getting a bit ridiculous, isn’t it? I mean, given that the sculptor evidently lacks any skill at portraiture, anatomy, head/body proportion, and basic compositional principles, do you seriously think they would be capable of capturing the sensual texture of embroidered nylon?
No doubt the finished result in bronze would appear more like an adult incontinence garment. So instead of a gigantic statue of a squatting, acromegalic pinhead, the citizens of Littleton would have to endure the sight of a gigantic, squatting, diaper-wearing acromegalic pinhead.
And that, I submit, would simply be undignified.
I think enormous turd sculptures might be more attractive.
Look: for all we know, this could be exactly the sort of statue that Navy SEAL would have wanted as a memorial. Maybe, before he shipped out to Afghanistan, he told his friends and family:
“Promise me that if I die heroically in combat, and someone decides to make a statue of me, you’ll make sure that it’s really big. Except for the head, which should be half the size of the rest of the body, because I’ve always been irrationally convinced that my own head is freakishly balloonlike. Oh, and the statue should be based on the last known photo of me, regardless of whatever I may actually be doing in that photo, even if I’m just slacking off pitching pennies somewhere. But if I happen to have any facial hair in that photo, make sure they don’t include it on the statue, because it will make my head look too puffy and inflated. In fact, just tell the sculptor to make the statue resemble Rondo Hatton instead of me. And lastly, I should be wearing my lucky ‘Hershey’s chocolate bar’ Halloween costume.”
I can tell by the sculpture that this is a magic gun which can only be used to shoot bad people. Maybe they need a plaque which explains that for those who cannot tell.
Attempt?!
Don’t sweat it, he didn’t get Zebra’s post either.
Yeah but I’m used to it, Bryan isn’t.
You can see a lot more mediocre sculpture from the same artist here
The man is not “Mr. Talent”, is he?
I don’t doubt that Otis was a treasured pillar of his community. Like the Navy SEAL statue, however, the memorial doesn’t quite manage to convey whatever dignity he may have had in life.
“Yes, Otis was a beloved fixture in our town; every Sunday he’d be seated on his favorite park bench, always neatly attired in his best church dress and penny loafers, his enormous '70s porn mustache neatly waxed, warmly greeting passersby with his legs splayed out and a friendly death rictus on his face…”
Speaking of those splayed legs, it seems like rainwater would really tend to pool up in Otis’ groin area; but perhaps uncontrollable incontinence was one of his endearing qualities. I wonder if the locals make wishes by tossing pennies into Otis’ crotch pond after a rain.
In any case, I suspect that the Otis Memorial makes visiting the library a somewhat more stressful experience for small children than it would be otherwise.
Seems like the sculptor’s got a pretty good racket going with the patriotic theme, doesn’t he? Those little folded American flag pins he hawks on his site are nice and tasteful.
… I’m guessing those parents would find statues of St Sebastian offensive because, y’see - they include arrows! And once they got over that, they’d be offended by the blood! Only after they’d gotten over this second shock, would they split into two fields: the one that’s offended by partial nudity because it’s nudity, and those who are offended by partial nudity because it’s partial.
The statue is pretty bad, but heck, being known for having a bad statue is better than being known for the size of the balls of your statue’s horse, methinks.
- Espartero, an important XIX century loyalist Spanish general
Well look at what those pins do.
If everyone would just buy one of those pins…