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New York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy
(www.theguardian.com)
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There should be a statue of Ron DeSantis killing old people with an axe
There's no way some idiot that puts a cool mil into the right political spectrum wouldn't but that. He just didn't get enough coverage yet. Kinda sad we're helping, but i'm aparently doing that too. :(
Needs a sign. Empathy would have gone a long way.
Summary: Artist tried to cash in on a person's death only to find that the hateful people that were supposed to like the hateful person dont actually care about him one way or the other ... and everyone with sense actually hates the guy.
More: Apprently he will put it on times square in 10th of September to raise awareness. Make sure to prepare your popcorns.
Awareness of what? I'm already aware that Charlie Kirk is dead.
Well, if he adds the bullet hole to the throat he may have better luck.
Would inserting a tube and turning it into a fountain be in bad taste?
Going by the man himself's beliefs, no. “I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new-age term that…does a lot of damage.”
There you go folks. Kirk endorses the fountain idea. Let’s let the red kool aid flow so folks suffering from a thirst can find respite in the Kirk Fountain.
Not a single one of the bots that admired him wants his statue.
Michelangelo at least waited until he was commissioned to do something. I translated an old Latin piece of conversation scroll between Michelangelo and the pope, it said..."Show me the money, bitch!".
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.
Yes, we can read the body text.
it's extremely shoddily made due to blatant inaccuracies.
obviously this statue needs a LOT more work to have any worthwhile representation of charlie kirk.
first of all, it's missing the very important actively gushing neck hole.
second of all, he looks lucid and composed instead of convulsing due to sudden loss of oxygenated blood pressure in his brain.
i don't think anyone will buy it until these glaring issues are amended.
Just grab a drill and you can fix the one issue.
How come this git is still in the news? He was not someone of any importance, not domestically and definitely not internationally.
All that guy was ever right about is that bullets are a pain in the neck.
he spent $100,000 on steel, resin and labor
So the real cost was probably a few grand in materials, at most, and he’s no doubt saying his time is worth $1000/hour or more.
It was a grift all along, especially wanting to display it in a place that just elected a “democratic socialist” mayor, one of the biggest Democrat strongholds.
Definitely, no way it's 100k usd of work. Looking around the going rate for human sized metal statues is 15-50k in the US.
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Surely, SURELY there must be a rifle range that wants this?
HEYYYY YOU GUYSSSS
This one I would pay mountains of money for just because I crack up every time I see it and it never gets old
This looks like it was made by Man★Gataro
Who's Charly Kirk ? /s
Shoulda made it a fountain, woulda sold in a hot minute.
Edit oh HELL NO "far right activist"?? What's the matter, did shit flinging troglodyte have too many syllables ?
Fountain where the water comes out of the neck?
No no, take it further. Add an urinal, ground level so the ladies can use it too. Then add in a fountain motor and the neck hole.. Kinda like a jukebox, instead of a coin you add in piss and instead of music you get a fountain!
// Heck, add a drinks stand next to it, sodas and slurpees.. And a T-shirt stand selling shirts saying stuff like "I pissed in the Charlie Kirk piss fountain at the Charlie Kirk Piss Fountain Park!"
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Hey guys, wanna buy my Hitler statue? I've spent $100k on it and I'm so proud of it.
I don't agree with what he did in the europe, but I want to support his family!
This artist sucks, he didn't get Charlie Kirk's face nearly small enough on that stupid head of his.
Create a problem in the stupidest way possible. Blame everyone but yourself.
The MAGA playbook.
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Didn't think his scam through. He needed MAGA to front him the money for making it, then not have it sell. No one who 'venerates' Kirk would actually put their own money on the line for him.
A New York sculptor has been left furious after spending $100,000 of his own money to build a lifesize statue of Charlie Kirk, only to find that no one wants to buy it.
What sculptor has 100k of their own money?
I hope he took out loans and his life is ruined.
He's a New York sculptor, which means it was $100,000 of his parents' money.
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By looking at the statue one can tell he is a mediocre artist so I assume he tried to grift instead of shining with his artistic skills.
Wow the more I read the article the more shocked I am at how delusional this guy is. His chain of logic as to why he built the statue and what he expected from it are completely insane. He clearly expected right wing people to rain money on him for this statue. %100 grift. He may also be interested in having sex with Erica.
Charlie Kirk was just a baloon and this guy found that out quite painfully. The icing on the cake? He is angry that people are cheap lol:
“Things financially are a total, absolute nightmare. It’s like wow. People are cheap, man. You know, people talk, talk – I know lots of people out there, and everybody’s so cheap. You know, like, it’s disgusting how cheap they are.”
Maybe he'll get more interest if he drills a hole in it's neck and turns it into a fountain.
My favorite comment on this statue, Charlie Kirk has become what he hates most, a person of color.
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The face to head proportions are way off
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