New York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy
(www.theguardian.com)
My favorite comment on this statue, Charlie Kirk has become what he hates most, a person of color.
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People are cheap, man
Or people don't like nazis, it's a mystery!
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This is the funniest article:
In desperation, Furnari set up an online fundraising campaign, hoping to raise an initial $150,000, but potentially millions of dollars, which he said would allow him to take the statue on tour. As of Thursday, he had raised $1,400.
And then he goes on:
“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.”
He also compares himself to Michelangelo
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Too much time has passed for him to make money on the Kirk grift. Gotta ride that corpse before everyone else riding it wears it down to dust.
Maybe he's hoping this article will get enough people making fun of him that our disrespect will catch the right's attention and paying him millions will be owning the libs. There might be money in that grift, still.
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, but man, people are strange out there,” he said.
Errr...we didn't spend 100k on an ugly statue of a racist piece of shit. So who's the strange one here?
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Maybe if he sold tickets to shoot at it?
"Try to hit Charlie" 25 dollars / shot at 100m.
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Sounds like an oversupply problem.
Did they not check what the demand for fugly Charlie Kirk statues was prior to starting?
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There is no way that this thing consumed material worth $100k. It's a steel wire frame with an outer shell coated in resin, and spray painted.
This grifter is trying to leverage the coverage and hopes to raise some money by artificially inflating the price beforehand so that piece of crap is deemed to be worth anything.
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“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.”
The whole article is filled with gems like this and the exact right length for this sort of human interest piece about someone who is just trash.
During a cost of living crisis this guy drops 100k+ on something no one asked for and complains that people are cheap.
I get that people do own statues, but who exactly did he think was going to buy this? Anyone stupid enough to like this either in content or execution is too stupid to have the money to spend on it. Anyone rich enough to afford it could spend their money on things they actually like and don't just pretend to. Not that intelligence and wealth appear to have anything to do with each other at this point, but this guy clearly doesn't understand the way things work.
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Alternate title "racist moron wastes 100,000 dumping trash in times square"
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 ?
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Create a problem in the stupidest way possible. Blame everyone but yourself.
The MAGA playbook.
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Man discovers that the attention span in the modern world is measured in minutes, not years.
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100k? That cost 100k? The likeness is not bad (which is not helping the appeal), but just speaking artistically nothing else about that statue is even acceptable, particularly for 100k.
It looks like a pole frame with newspaper padding for the body, an actual t shirt and jeans drapped over that body that has so much glue saturated into them to harden them that they look like they are soaking wet, literal stickers for the "FREEDOM" letters on the shirt, an actual microphone prop shoved into a mannequin hand bolted on the end of the arm pole, actual shoes on the feet, multiple colors of metallic spray paint, and a thick clear coat sealant. Like $200-300 dollars in materials for the entire body, tops. How did you spend 100k on this? Did you pay a 100k licensing fee for use of his likeness or something? This feels like a tax write-off scam or something. What a fucking waste of money, regardless.
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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?
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If they make it like one of those virgin mary miracle statues where it shoots blood out its neck once a day this shit will sell in a second.
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Until then, Furnari is left with a 6ft 4in statue of a renowned racist, which he has spent $100,000 making, and which no one wants to buy.
The shade lmfao
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He could make it into a fountain. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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It’s missing a hole.
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We're probably going to end up buying this thing with our tax dollars aren't we?
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Maybe he'll get more interest if he drills a hole in it's neck and turns it into a fountain.
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