9/11 / firefighter statue

[Taylor1]

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-flbpstatue0422sbapr22,0,1487012.story

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/media/photo/2008-04/38118303.jpg

PEMBROKE PINES - What started as a project to display a 2-by-2-foot piece of twisted steel girder from New York's World Trade Center has turned into a mammoth memorial to victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that will weigh more than 10 tons and rise more than 20 feet.

The multi-piece project is so immense that city officials who commissioned it are having trouble finding a place to display it.


More:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-flbpstatue0422sbapr22,0,1487012.story

[Rhino]

"We're our biggest fans," Gonzalez admitted.That's good, because the artwork leaves something to be desired. Unless that's a very wide angle lens, the scale of the arm/ax does not at all match that of the head. I know some people consider distorted scale to be artistic sometimes, but I personally think it just looks childish or amateurish. However, I applaud them at least for the sentiment, and for the effort.

[Taylor1]

That's good, because the artwork leaves something to be desired. Unless that's a very wide angle lens, the scale of the arm/ax does not at all match that of the head. I know some people consider distorted scale to be artistic sometimes, but I personally think it just looks childish or amateurish. However, I applaud them at least for the sentiment, and for the effort.

Wait, what? Are you complaining?

[Rhino]

About the artwork, yes. About the cause or sentiment, of course not.

[hellinon]

looks rather crusty to me.

[gnome]

I wonder if the somewhat distorted image is due to the original shape of the wreckage?

[Taylor1]

I wonder if the somewhat distorted image is due to the original shape of the wreckage?

I'm pretty sure about that.


Also Rhino: Oh, gotcha.

[DeclinetoState]

That's good, because the artwork leaves something to be desired. Unless that's a very wide angle lens, the scale of the arm/ax does not at all match that of the head. I know some people consider distorted scale to be artistic sometimes, but I personally think it just looks childish or amateurish. However, I applaud them at least for the sentiment, and for the effort.Ever wonder what would happen if they were commissioned to make a statue of Hillary Clinton? How big, for instance, would her rear end be?

[DoctorDoom]

Considering the "lean" of the left wall, it's most likely a wide-angle lens. This graphic lifted from Wiki shows perspective distortion caused by wide angle lenses vs normal lenses, with the object kept the same size in the frame.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Camera_focal_length_distance.gif

Here's the exaggerated size of close objects made quite obvious.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/CompTech/wide-angle.jpg

[Rhino]

I wonder if the somewhat distorted image is due to the original shape of the wreckage?Not according to the article. All they got from the World Trade Center was one small piece of twisted girder, and they aren't making the statues out of that.

Considering the "lean" of the left wall, it's most likely a wide-angle lens.That's why I mentioned that possibility in my post, and I hope you're right. It looks cartoonish the way it's depicted here.

[Lubbock]

Well. We only get that one view/shot.

What Rhino said at #2.