• quick_snail@feddit.nl
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    7 hours ago

    This artists just needs to get good at marketing.

    If he made it into a guerilla piece in some park and then “someone” shot it in the neck, pouring red paint on it, and then he “complained” about it to the press

    …then it would be worth a lot

  • ToastedRavioli@midwest.social
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    14 hours ago

    Sergio Furnari, originally from Italy, had hoped the statue of the deceased far-right activist, which he intends to display in Times Square, would raise “millions” of dollars. Instead, he said he has been inundated by messages from people saying they intend to urinate on the sculpture.

    To add injury to insult, Furnari recently broke his foot working on the statue, after tripping over a roll of tape in his studio.

    “Is it cursed? Maybe. I don’t know,” he told the Guardian.

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    16 hours ago

    It’s a decent likeness, but somehow not quite creepy enough.

    I wouldn’t pay money or travel to see it, but if I happened to walk by it and I was sure of not catching a charge, I’d probably be willing to stop and piss on it.

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      16 hours ago

      His weird body is the creepy part of this statue. It looks like his body is underwater and you’re viewing it from above the surface in the way that makes it look squashed.

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        16 hours ago

        Ah. I looked at the second picture in the article.

        Torso is too short.

        I’d still be willing to piss on it.

        Edit: Looking at it again, I still think the creepiest part about it is it looks like Charlie Kirk.

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    8 hours ago

    Wonderful likeness. I know I might seriously injure myself if I were to punch it in the face… But I still want to punch it in the face.

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      18 hours ago

      Gotta find something to pad between articles from JK Rowling about how Dumbledore would happily murder Trans people and some Reform UK slimeball insisting Ukraine refugees were stealing all the NHS money.

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    19 hours ago

    Labeling fascist culture war ghouls “activists” may literally be correct but I refuse to consider them so. They are not activists as we colloquially consider them. They are agitators, stochastic terrorists and our media has been laundering their awful slop for far too long.

    Have fun in hell Charlie you scumbag.

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      18 hours ago

      Charlie Kirk was an “activist” in the same way that Horst Wessel was an “activist” - which is to say that the regime picked him up as a mascot after he got ganked, so the regime could get some blood on their flag and say “look what they did to my boy 😭”.

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    19 hours ago

    Really takes off from the headline…

    Sergio Furnari, originally from Italy, had hoped the statue of the deceased far-right activist, which he intends to display in Times Square, would raise “millions” of dollars. Instead, he said he has been inundated by messages from people saying they intend to urinate on the sculpture.

    To add injury to insult, Furnari recently broke his foot working on the statue, after tripping over a roll of tape in his studio.

    “Is it cursed? Maybe. I don’t know,” he told the Guardian.

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    19 hours ago

    It looks like dogshit. And that’s before you even consider the fact that it looks like Charlie Kirk.