Soviet statues as comedy fountains

"QUOTE" I'm not clear on whether this Cracked.com image is a photoshop job or an actual fountain somewhere in the world (the former USSR?) or just a clever idea for repurposing all that Stalin-era monumentary, but it's sure a fine idea. I once got to visit the Soviet theme-park outside of Budapest, which is basically a giant field filled with Soviet-era statues, and it was a kind of Stalinist Easter Island experience, all these nigh-identical socialist realist piles looking bravely into the future. But this is even better.

Craptions Feb 25th, 2010 (Via: Making Light) Via: Boingboing

The Recurring Ruins Of The Statue Of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty, and its location on Liberty Island, has appeared in posters, pictures, movies, and books. In some of these publications the Statue is damaged or destroyed. Here's a small collection of the recurring ruins of the Statue of Liberty. LINK

Human Statue of Liberty

"On a stifling July day in 1918, 18,000 officers and soldiers posed as Lady Liberty on the parade [drill] grounds at Camp Dodge." [This area was west of Baker St. and is currently the area around building S34 and to the west.] "According to a July 3, 1986, story in the Fort Dodge Messenger, many men fainted-they were dressed in woolen uniforms-as the temperature neared 105 degrees Farenheit. The photo, taken from the top of a specially constructed tower by a Chicago photography studio, Mole & Thomas, was intended to help promote the sale of war bonds.
Many examples of Mole's patriotic photographs in true perspective still exist. Pay close attention to the way spatial depth and perspective is defied. As in the Statue of Liberty there are twice as many men in the flame of the torch as in the rest of the design. LINK, Via: Snopes.com Snopes is a site that debunks or proves urban myths, and this was proved not to be a Myth.

Crazy Statues

Coming from a distance this Statue would really have you thinking. Good images of what the mind can reflect.