RustyB Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 can you imagine waking up and throwing open the blinds to that face staring right at you? i'd slowly close the blinds, crawl back into bed and repeat........"it's only a dream, it's only a dream". Out my bedroom window..... (I hate it BTW...it stares at me night and day.... ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGraspo Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 Weird it does stare right at you. Thanks for the pics and welcome to the forum RustyB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted June 7, 2006 Author Share Posted June 7, 2006 Out my bedroom window.....(I hate it BTW...it stares at me night and day.... ) Welcome to HAIF, RustyB. I'd hate it too, but! what an opportunity! Ever think of rigging up a couple of laser pointers, so you could make her eyes glow when people stop to admire her? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 Welcome to HAIF, RustyB.I'd hate it too, but! what an opportunity! Ever think of rigging up a couple of laser pointers, so you could make her eyes glow when people stop to admire her? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricco67 Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 DO IT! you just need a simple mark on the balcony with some sort of rig and two laser pointers and there you go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torvald Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 Out my bedroom window.....(I hate it BTW...it stares at me night and day.... ) it does look quite menacing from that angle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 I'm thinking that big head is meant to represent Hulda (with her hair down). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimberlySayWhat Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 She reminds me of those things from "Neverending Story"; the scene where Atreyu has to walk through a path of "big heads on Main Streets" lined up on each side. They shoot things at him, then begin to crumble all around. That scene always scared me. Big head is very sinister looking. RustyB, you have a happening view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 She reminds me of those things from "Neverending Story"; the scene where Atreyu has to walk through a path of "big heads on Main Streets" lined up on each side. They shoot things at him, then begin to crumble all around. That scene always scared me. ooh the oracles on an unrelated note, every time i drive through the two tall beams with the blue lights at UH (near 45) i think of the oracles (only ONE person i know has ever known what i was talking about ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torvald Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 ooh the oracles only ONE person i know has ever known what i was talking about ) the main street head reminded me of that too. i think the material seems the same. photo i instantly thought it would be neat if there more things like that around, yet more in honor of something historic. the head annoyed me until i associated it with hulda. i was pretty surprised by "the oracles" in the neverending story. they were pretty hot to be in kids film... not to mention dominating. the oracles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 yes...the oracles were quite...large... the UH oracles don't look like the southern oracles, but give me the same feeling...imagine this image at night, and with the blue lights on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimberlySayWhat Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 Thanks for the picture, Torvald. I haven't seen that movie in such a long time. My sister and I would watch it every time it came on TV when we were kids. I wish one of the Encore channels would air it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyB Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 .... Big head is very sinister looking. RustyB, you have a happening view. Thanks all for the welcome...I stumbled across this forum and can't stop reading it. There are few other places I'd rather be than downtown Houston, and there's so much interesting stuff to read here. My apartment is nothing great, but the rent is cheap and the view is amazing...at least until that aweful hunk of concrete started peering into my windows 24/7. I guess this building will be sold soon, and I'll have to start paying the big bucks for someplace further into town, but at least that statue won't be watching me anymore. The laser pointer comment had me cracking up. I'm going to have to find a couple of the biggest ones I can afford, and light her up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 I don't want to seem ungrateful for the Houston Press mention, but I checked the logs and it appears to have had zero impact on the number of people coming to HAIF. Still, it's nice when members of HAIF are recognized for their contributions. It's not the chronicle, or the times... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 yes...the oracles were quite...large...the UH oracles don't look like the southern oracles, but give me the same feeling...imagine this image at night, and with the blue lights on I always think I'm going to teleport to another place when I drive inbetween them. Stargate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apower Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 http://www.houstonist.com/archives/2007/02...st_flic_189.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 I thought the Beatles were supposed to be at Shepherd & I-10, but downtown is fine. Will the other two be showing up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted June 7, 2008 Author Share Posted June 7, 2008 On at least four seperate (non-HAIF) occasions, I've heard this sculpture referred to as "Big Head On Main Street".Thank goodness no one has marked the spot by writing these words on the sidewalk.That would be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robhan Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 This must not be owned by the city since it is not listed as municipal art. Maybe the owners of the Savoy own it or it maybe owned by the bank that used to have a drive through there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 HAIF, you have been called out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtticaFlinch Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 HAIF, you have been called out.Effete aesthetes?It serves all y'all old-timer HAIFers right. When someone gives you a head, you're not supposed to critique their technique. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 Oh no! We may have made fun, but we never wanted it to go away. I was actually fond of the crazy-assed Big Head on Main Street! I wonder if Mr. Addickes would like to place it in my back yard for safekeeping?BTW, this was one of the all-time great HAIF threads. I miss those days. Now, the subject matter is....well, you can see what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 BTW, this was one of the all-time great HAIF threads. I miss those days. Now, the subject matter is....well, you can see what it is.Eviscerated. What's left is an amalgam of tripe and fatty tissue. Perhaps not surprisingly, a real estate implosion will do that to an architecture forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 Man, I'm sorry to hear this.The big presidential heads get stuck in the mud in Pearland, the big Beatles never made it to their spot off I-10, and now Big Head gets shipped back to the studio. Does Houston no longer have a place in its heart for big things? The good news maybe is that this may be a chance for the Big Head to find a more fitting and visible location. Main at Leeland was always a bit isolated for something so...unique. I would like a location next to one of the freeways, perhaps 45N immediately north of downtown. That way people stuck in traffic would look up and think, "Hey! There's that big head!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 Not that isolated for workers and tourists using rail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 Not that isolated for workers and tourists using rail.Still, I would bet that most Houstonians have never even seen her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 The good news maybe is that this may be a chance for the Big Head to find a more fitting and visible location. Main at Leeland was always a bit isolated for something so...unique. I would like a location next to one of the freeways, perhaps 45N immediately north of downtown. That way people stuck in traffic would look up and think, "Hey! There's that big head!"Well, since you claim to be a proponent of elaborate attention-getting aesthetics that are in questionable taste, how about we take the head over to the Beatles site, lay it on its side, sculpt some entrails coming out of the neck, and paint the ground red. Maybe carve a swastika in its forehead for good measure.And as for the Beatles, we can just go ahead and knock over John and George. For good measure, John could be placed face-down and have four water jets that squirt out his back at random intervals.Why not? That'd be a good way to stick it to the "Good Taste Police". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtticaFlinch Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 Oh no! We may have made fun, but we never wanted it to go away. Well, I didn't really mean it as a reproach. I guess I accidentally slipped in the indefinite article a, which entirely changed the meaning of what was supposed to be a joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 Well, I didn't really mean it as a reproach. I guess I accidentally slipped in the indefinite article a, which entirely changed the meaning of what was supposed to be a joke.I'm pretty sure that the a was originally in brackets or parentheses, or otherwise indicated the double meaning. This was probably a stealth edit by an overzealous moderator trying to "make the world more beige." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtticaFlinch Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 I'm pretty sure that the a was originally in brackets or parentheses, or otherwise indicated the double meaning. This was probably a stealth edit by an overzealous moderator trying to "make the world more beige."My comment was changed from a not so clever double entendre to something a bjtchy third grade teacher would say?Man, I feel hella safer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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