The new E.A.Poe statue in Boston

[Kyriakos]

^ You are fooling no one

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I am indeed not fooling anyone.

 

[Kyriakos]

^If you are fooling someone, then they are no-ones.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I am not fooling anyone, but strangely enough someone is fooled.

This is all becoming quite meta quite fast.

 

[Kyriakos]

^So, to return to the topic, do you honestly like the (now placed) actual statue?

Looks inelegant/ needlessly convoluted in my view.

Very underwhelming too..

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I don't like the material it's made of. I'd have preferred simple statue grey stone, and more defined lines. It seems rather blurry.

But I do like the image.

 

[bhsup]

I like the shape and all, but why is it blue/green/aquamarine/teal/whateverthehellthatis? Gotta go with Ziggy here.

 

[Antilogic]

It didn't look so weird in the first shot, the second is awfully green. Is that a camera effect?

 

[classical_hero]

Why is Kyriakos making such an issue out of this?

 

[Antilogic]

It has to do with a macabre writer, but for the life of me I can't figure out why Kyri would care about that connection.

 

[gay_Aleks]

This unsubtle monstrosity has now been placed in Boston

http://www.bostonherald.com/enterta...s_native_son_edgar_allan_poe_with_statue_more

As noted before, the front bit of the statue looks passable, but the back (with the heart falling out of his luggage? ) not so much...

The detail is a bit cartoony too...:

In the first photo, he looks as if he's flashing his dick to someone or something. If he held a giant "FREE HUGS" plaster, this statue would have been shot down.

 

[Kozmos]

I think they went for the oxidized copper/bronze look. I'm fine with how it looks.

 

[Kyriakos]

I think they went for the oxidized copper/bronze look. I'm fine with how it looks.

Because building it out of actual copper and waiting for it to oxidise would be too mainstream

 

[gay_Aleks]

And expensive and kind of wasteful.