I'll start with the most controversial and infamous one, The Statue of Lenin in Seattle. This statue got a lot of press last summer when statues of former slave owners were being torn down across the country in protests a lot of alt-right media ran stories about the Seattle Lenin

Made by Bulgarian sculptor Emil Venkov in 1981 as a commission for the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Venkov intended to portray Lenin as a fierce bringer of revolution, in contrast to the traditional portrayals of Lenin as a philosopher and educator.

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12 Sep

In June 2001, Konstantin Petrov, an immigrant from Estonia, got a job as an electrician at the restaurant atop the north tower of the World Trade Center. He was an amateur photographer and captured some of the last images of the interior of the WTC buildings. (thread 🧵)

Petrov worked the night shift. This suited him because he had a day job and because he was an avid photographer, and the emptiness of the Trade Center at night, together with the stunning vistas at dawn, gave him a lot to shoot, and a lot of time and space in which to shoot it.

In the summer of 2001, he took hundreds of digital photographs, mostly of offices, table settings, stairwells, kitchen equipment, and elevator fixtures. Many shots were lit by the rising sun, with the landscape of the city in the background.

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11 Sep

https://twitter.com/hkfp/status/1435818868631474177

Everyone complaining about this clearly hasn't looked into it very much. They are not destroying the statue, they are relocating it 8 km away to Dianjiangtai, where historically Guan Yu is said to have drilled his troops. The statue was also built illegally in the first place.

https://twitter.com/hkfp/status/1435818868631474177

The developers didn't have proper clearances for it, they just had permission to build the pedestal/museum, and also it's so heavy that the land under it was literally sinking under its weight. It surpassed the legal height limit, of course, they have to move it.

but this is being framed as "the Chinese hate art and are destroying this awesome badass statue what a waste of money 😭"

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11 Sep

A series of four Twin Peaks 'spin-off' commercials were directed by David Lynch for the Japanese company Georgia Coffee in 1993.

These commercials only ever aired in Japan. Despite being aimed at a Japanese audience, most of the dialogue is in English.

Originally the second series of four were planned, but the Coffee company, unhappy with the first series, canceled them.

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