Obama's sculpted face heads to Mt. Rushmore park
Mount Rushmore National Memorial's famous stone carvings of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt are about to receive a sculpted visitor: a massive bust of Barack Obama.
According to Black Hills Today, the statue is made of steel and concrete, tops 20 feet tall and weighs roughly 12 tons.
Crafted by artist David Adickes of Houston, Texas, the Obama bust left Adickes' sculpture center earlier this month, shipped in two pieces on the back of a truck, making its way along a 10-state, 40-city tour.
The statue has been spotted in St. Louis, took a rest in Chicago's Grant Park, the site of Obama's election night victory speech, and is now moving through Minnesota.
On Wednesday, the bust is scheduled to be put on display at Mount Rushmore.
Those that might question whether Obama belongs in the company of Washington and Jefferson, however, need not worry: the sculpture won't be staying.
The massive bust of Barack Obama is scheduled to finish its tour about 40 miles from Mount Rushmore, in Lead, S.D., home of another tourist attraction called Presidents Park.
In fact, Obama's likeness is only the latest to join the sculpture garden at Presidents Park, which contains 20-foot-tall busts of all of our nation's presidents, crafted by Adickes.
The traveler's guide website RoadsideAmerica.com describes the park, which bills itself on its own website as proclaimed by USA Today to be one of the top 10 places in the United States to see:
"The 43 heads are arranged chronologically along a path winding up into a rocky knoll of tall pines," states Roadside America. "Wild turkeys roam the slope. The tree shade makes for challenging photos, but the dappling adds character. You can capture a Nixon and Ford lurking side by side in the shadows, or G. W. Bush gazing toward a slightly smirking Clinton. Beyond those two there's room for another century worth of larger-than-life likenesses."
Adickes is an accomplished artist who has also created an 8-foot bronze statue of former President George Bush for the Bush International Airport in Houston, Texas, and a statue of Sam Houston on display in Huntsville, Texas, which – at 67 feet tall – is believed to be the tallest statue of any American hero.
Good for David
He's done some amazing work over the years.
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=david+adickes&btnG=S...
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They made a statue of Lenin too....
I believe it is rusting in some Russian junk yard now....
Did the taxpayer pay for this?
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Nope,
Currently, I think our generation is still paying for Vietnam.
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"the only thing that keeps the banking system from failing is general ignorance about how the banking system works."
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No, the money was just entered into a computer and created
Taxpayers only give their time, the money is meaningless. It's fun to pretend we have an actual economy and get mad when "they waste our money" but in reality, we've never had money in our lifetimes; just blips on a screen or a piece of paper. Taxes are nothing more than a way to assure that a large portion of your time is spent in servitude to the state. They don't need or use the money.
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I don't know what the problem was -- Did we rant about this
When it was all the other Presidents?
I don't like any gov't money to be spent on it, but I don't see a level of gripe the size of the Federal Reserve in it either.
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I ranted.
Sounds like a really freaky place too. Someday, that spots gonna make somebody scratch their heads. Interestingly, when archaeologists find something like that they would assume the people worshiped them as gods. Oh wait. . .
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What was the sign on the enterance to the park?
"Abandon All Hope"?
WE ARE GOING TO WIN!
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For those who didn't see this...
Pretty funny. I just knew someone creative would have already done this on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6DwN-zt-24
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That was funny -- here's another video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8cNtH1mULo&feature=related
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Great!, now he's...
got an even bigger head. How simple minded are the slaves, that they worship a master who would destroy them through their love for him.
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Typical
for the activities of Adickes.
Makes me wanna vomit...
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