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Moving Statues in Galway

  • 28-10-2010 7:49am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering when they will be activated - the irish statues always seem to get giddy in a recession. Has anyone seen any move recently and in what area of Galway? :D:D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 685 ✭✭✭darrenh


    Is there not someone who can put a stop to this??:confused:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    Has anyone seen any move recently and in what area of Galway? :D:D

    Everyone with a brain knows they don't count if they move in October because it's the Magic Mushroom season in Galway. :cool:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭dolphin city


    watch them move after December tho.

    Anyone remember the last time they moved (in the 80's) remember the statue of our lady at the jes church - someone removed the statue and put a sign up - Gone to Lunch, back shortly". :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,961 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    A friend of mine does special effects for films including animatronics. We have often joked about making the local statue move or weep. Many churches have the same one - were they a job lot ?. It wouldn't be too hard to get one, modify it & then swap it over. The crying bit is especially easy.

    I spent a while looking at the one in Ballinspittle. It is a simple optical illusion caused by the way the statue was installed & the way that it is facing. Move your head slightly & the statue appears to move.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,728 ✭✭✭dilallio


    There was a big fight between 2 statues in the Cathedral this morning.

    Apparently, it all started when St Anthony called St Francis a sissy!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭the keen edge


    After hours is that way
    >


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭Fionn MacCool


    What is OP's obsession with all things recession?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    I spotted a lifelike and likesize statue of a bottle of Buckfast (empty) on the wall outside the City Hall last Tuesday morning.

    I assumed it was an artistic instillation put there by the city council to portray the contemporary lifestyles of many our citizens. A work of art.

    Later that evening I noticed that the statue had "moved" to the steps of the railway station. Now accompanied by a box of cheese & chives Pringles (also empty).

    Its great to see such artistic masterpieces being displayed in prominent locations around town.

    The tourists must be amazed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭dolphin city


    Lapin wrote: »
    I spotted a lifelike and likesize statue of a bottle of Buckfast (empty) on the wall outside the City Hall last Tuesday morning.

    I assumed it was an artistic instillation put there by the city council to portray the contemporary lifestyles of many our citizens. A work of art.

    Later that evening I noticed that the statue had "moved" to the steps of the railway station. Now accompanied by a box of cheese & chives Pringles (also empty).

    Its great to see such artistic masterpieces being displayed in prominent locations around town.

    The tourists must be amazed.

    are you serious??


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭Fionn MacCool


    Lapin wrote: »
    I spotted a lifelike and likesize statue of a bottle of Buckfast (empty) on the wall outside the City Hall last Tuesday morning.

    I assumed it was an artistic instillation put there by the city council to portray the contemporary lifestyles of many our citizens. A work of art.

    Later that evening I noticed that the statue had "moved" to the steps of the railway station. Now accompanied by a box of cheese & chives Pringles (also empty).

    Its great to see such artistic masterpieces being displayed in prominent locations around town.

    The tourists must be amazed.

    Definitely Banksy


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