Getting a Trotsky bust made for my home office

[Blanquist]

I got a little study and work area in my apartment. There arn't many books, I've moved on to iPads and ebooks, but there's a desk, some papers, a couple dictionaries and journals. I'm thinking about getting a medium sized bust of Leon Trotsky made.

Thoughts?

[o well this is ok I guess]

Sounds kinda
tacky
Busts in general, tho. Not just a Trotsky one.

[Aurora]

meh do what you like man. I never got the attraction of busts unless you want a paper weight or something, i'm a bigger fan of posters though, like some old civil war posters or something.

[o well this is ok I guess]

meh do what you like man. I never got the attraction of busts unless you want a paper weight or something, i'm a bigger fan of posters though, like some old civil war posters or something. I dunno man he's doing an office kinda thing
I mean posters are great for every occasion, but I think he wants something
more uh
officey

[Aurora]

I see, maybe "Hang in there babe Trotsky"?

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

To represent the bust nature of Trotskyist politics? :laugh:

[dodger]

To represent the bust nature of Trotskyist politics? :laugh:

"BUSTA BLOOD VESSEL" ___almost--well nearly:laugh:

Bust o' Keaton?

[honest john's firing squad]

Thoughts?
hahahahaha

[SHORAS]

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NjUzWDYwMQ==/$(KGrHqF,!oEE9ggNEJjwBPh8(+jEu!~~60_3.JPG

[Luc]

sounds pretty cool, though I suggest making it organic to your office style cause imho a bust in a modern style office would look weird and out of place. Also you should think about how you'll set it up, maybe some red cloth around it on a pedestal? o yeah what color/material? is something you should consider so that your office has a unifying theme i.e. a brown bronzy kind would look prety bad on a stoney pedestal or a grey stoney bust on a brown side table, know what I mean? Either way, do what you want that's what's most important, just some thoughts :)

[Rusty Shackleford]

get a medisum sized bust of trotsky with a medium sized bust.


now, that would be interesting in a mildly surreal way.

[Deicide]

I want a Marx one.

[Deicide]

http://www.soviet-power.com/product.php?cat=29

They even have Stalin, Brezhnev, Dzerzhinsky and so on..

[Railyon]

I would go massive troll and get a Stalin bust, kinda like Zizek only that he got a picture in his apartment.

[Rooster]

I'd like to get a Stalin shaped egg cup. That'd be awesome.

[Kassad]

Maybe I'm an idiot, but can someone explain to me what a bust is?

[Luc]

Maybe I'm an idiot, but can someone explain to me what a bust is?

a bust is just a statue but only of a person's upper body and up

i.e.

karl marx bust
http://klamathnews.net/sites/klamathnews.net/images/Karl-Marx-Biography.jpg

:)

[Deicide]

karl marx bust
http://klamathnews.net/sites/klamathnews.net/images/Karl-Marx-Biography.jpg

:)

Right lads.. I'll be needing your help. We'll need a big van, some chisels and a couple of sledgehammers.. and some beers.

[Railyon]

If I had a Marx bust I'd pray to it every night before going to sleep.

[Franz Fanonipants]

i have a bust of myself that i also pray to

[gorillafuck]

make it a life size nude statue and I'm all for it

[Rooster]

I wish I had a big bust. I would display it proudly for all the world to see.

[Sam_b]

Most bourgie topic ever.

[Luc]

Most bourgie topic ever.

how so? surely the idea of heros transcends the capitalist epoch? :confused: i.e. idol worship (:lol:), mythologys, :unsure:

[Pretty Flaco]

how so? surely the idea of heros transcends the capitalist epoch? :confused: i.e. idol worship (:lol:), mythologys, :unsure:

i think he's pointing out the fact that owning a bust seems really bougie.

[Luc]

i think he's pointing out the fact that owning a bust seems really bougie.

well I got that, was just hoping that it wasn't that :lol: benefit of the doubt and all

[The Young Pioneer]

I think you should make a Chia Pet Trotsky. Like this one, 'cept with facial hair, glasses, and slightly better politics.

http://homepage.mac.com/daustins/.public/ChiaObama.gif

[Prometeo liberado]

"BUSTA BLOOD VESSEL" ___almost--well nearly:laugh:

Bust o' Keaton?

dodger, did you just go Bad Manners on us?

I like busts' as they are kinda insperational when writting or reading at ones desk. I had a Percy B. Shelley one when I was going through that faze.

[Prometeo liberado]

I think you should make a Chia Pet Trotsky. Like this one, 'cept with facial hair, glasses, and slightly better politics.

http://homepage.mac.com/daustins/.public/ChiaObama.gif
Slightly, maybe.

[Zukunftsmusik]

They even have Stalin, Brezhnev, Dzerzhinsky and so on..

uh... they even have a bust of Hitler that apparently was made in St. Petersburg during the soviet era....

http://www.soviet-power.com/detail.php?pid=1627

da fok

[A Revolutionary Tool]

uh... they even have a bust of Hitler that apparently was made in St. Petersburg during the soviet era....

http://www.soviet-power.com/detail.php?pid=1627

da fok
And of some Tsar...

[The Young Pioneer]

Don't over-analyse the Russians and bust-producing. It's a commercial thing.

Visit any big tourist area there and street vendors will try to sell you some deposed leader in bust miniature.

Edit: You'll also run into a bunch of impersonators entertaining tourists for coins. It's not uncommon to see Lenin strolling around Red Square entrances with Tsar Nicholas II.

http://wikileaksnews.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Lenin-impersonator-ill-after-arrest-on-Red-Square.jpg

Edit #2: Marx and Stalin as well!

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Travel/Pix/pictures/2011/2/10/1297362670775/Lenin-Stalin-Marx-imperso-001.jpg

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EtCXqrhC7b8/RilJJ2qpDbI/AAAAAAAACeM/yDUg8lRl1_o/s640/004-TIRANA-ENVER.jpg

Ismail, with his prized Hoxha bust.

I am going to steal it.

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EtCXqrhC7b8/RilJJ2qpDbI/AAAAAAAACeM/yDUg8lRl1_o/s640/004-TIRANA-ENVER.jpg

Ismail, with his prized Hoxha bust.

I am going to steal it.

Now that is epic.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Don't over-analyse the Russians and bust-producing. It's a commercial thing.

Visit any big tourist area there and street vendors will try to sell you some deposed leader in bust miniature.

Edit: You'll also run into a bunch of impersonators entertaining tourists for coins. It's not uncommon to see Lenin strolling around Red Square entrances with Tsar Nicholas II.

http://wikileaksnews.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Lenin-impersonator-ill-after-arrest-on-Red-Square.jpg

Edit #2: Marx and Stalin as well!

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Travel/Pix/pictures/2011/2/10/1297362670775/Lenin-Stalin-Marx-imperso-001.jpg
That second picture is too damn funny.

[Rusty Shackleford]

in all seriousness though, i would prefer to have a daft punk bust.

[Prometeo liberado]

Maybe I'm an idiot, but can someone explain to me what a bust is?

I dont think maybe is the.........:laugh:

[Ostrinski]

Man, I really need to get a Dzerzhinsky bust.

Edit: That's badass
http://www.soviet-power.com/pictures/LeninandFelix23.jpeg

[Sentinel]

I got a little study and work area in my apartment. There arn't many books, I've moved on to iPads and ebooks, but there's a desk, some papers, a couple dictionaries and journals. I'm thinking about getting a medium sized bust of Leon Trotsky made.

Thoughts?

Why not. I actually have an iron bust of Lenin in my home office, myself. I'm not sure if I would had bought one myself, but I got this one from my parents, who in turn bought it in the USSR sometime in the 70's.

It's nice. It kind of feels like Lenin watches over me, when I sit and work on political articles, translations etc. :cool:

http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/2674/arbetsrum.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/703/arbetsrum.jpg/)

[Sentinel]

Closer pic of my Lenin bust:

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/761/bustj.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/225/bustj.jpg/)

[Sam_b]

Man Sen those are some powerful looking speakers.

[Rusty Shackleford]

quick question sentinel, how do you sit that the somewhat corner of a desk like that?



quick comment, all that looks bad ass.

[Zukunftsmusik]

And of some Tsar...

Stalin???


@Comrade Commistar: was that a picture of Ismail, the user? Are you allowed to post picture of people here?

[Sentinel]

Man Sen those are some powerful looking speakers.

They are indeed. Beats regular computer speakers, hehe.

They're really old, but still do the job.


quick question sentinel, how do you sit that the somewhat corner of a desk like that?

I'm not quite sure what you mean? But one of the desk's corners is kind of rounded off (you can see it from that picture if you look closely), so that one can sit there comfortably enough.

[Ostrinski]

Stalin???


@Comrade Commistar: was that a picture of Ismail, the user? Are you allowed to post picture of people here?I highly doubt that was actually Ismail

[Zukunftsmusik]

I highly doubt that was actually Ismail

hey maybe you're right, he doesn't look anything like his avatar

[Ostrinski]

I might get a Stalin bust when I start teaching just to freak people out.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

I highly doubt that was actually Ismail

It could be........

[Rafiq]

I might get a Stalin bust when I start teaching just to freak people out.



Actually I've always wanted a Stalin statue/ Bust. And yes, for shock value only.

[Vyacheslav Brolotov]

Actually I've always wanted a Stalin statue/ Bust. And yes, for shock value only.

Let's all be Žižek trolls!!!!

[Ostrinski]

Not because Zizek did it, but because I generally think it would be fun.

[Rafiq]

Also, the production of Hitler busts in the Soviet Union is unlikely... Highly doubt it was made in St. Petersburg pre 1990.

These busts are most likely produced brand new, you know.

[Zukunftsmusik]

Also, the production of Hitler busts in the Soviet Union is unlikely... Highly doubt it was made in St. Petersburg pre 1990.

These busts are most likely produced brand new, you know.

yeah, it did seem very odd

[Grenzer]

Not because Zizek did it, but because I generally think it would be fun.

Why not a Zizek bust?

[Deicide]

I want a Zizek statue. Then I want to invite him to my house to troll him with it.

[Bostana]

I will not participate in this displaying of busts!


I Lied
http://www.leviathing.com/images/products/1254311729832.jpg

[Ismail]

I wouldn't take a photo of myself with a giant Hoxha bust.

Maybe a giant stack of Hoxha books, though.

[Sasha]

i smell a buisness oppurtunity, if anyone can get their hands on a trotsky bust we can cast a rubber mold of it. we will then sell trotsky busts made out of ice to the stalinist as a center piece for their (cocktail-)parties....
we will make a kiling (pun intended) out of the icepick wielding bloodlust of the stalinoids...

[Rusty Shackleford]

Im going to get a Cecil Rhodes bust for my Foreign Office.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

I want a Marx bust and a Hitler bust so I can put them next to each other.This would be awesome when I have conservative friends over;on the subject of real life trolling this would be epic.

[Ostrinski]

Why not a Zizek bust?Not really compatible with the megalomaniac theme I was going for.

[MustCrushCapitalism]

With or without an icepick in it?

trollface.jpg

[TheGodlessUtopian]

With or without an icepick in it?

trollface.jpg


Even in Non-Political those jokes aren't acceptable. I see it again from you,or anyone else here,in any thread, and it is an infraction.

[Geiseric]

i'm a Trotskyist and I wouldn't ever get a Trotsky bust. Maybe a Lenin one, but it seems like he'd be watching me, and his voice in a Russian accent would come into my conscious whenever I was doing something non communist related...
"Attend to your party duties!" "That pot you're smoking is the opiate of the masses!"

[HEAD ICE]

Edit #2: Marx and Stalin as well!

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Travel/Pix/pictures/2011/2/10/1297362670775/Lenin-Stalin-Marx-imperso-001.jpg

It's like Marx was having a discussion with Lenin and Stalin and then said "fuck it I give up"

[HEAD ICE]

Jim Cannon had a Trotsky bust. If you took the Trotsky bust off of the pedastal and didn't replace it with something equally heavy a gigantic boulder with a big 4 on it would start tumbling down and you would have to try to out run it.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/17/Trotskycannon.felixmorrow.jpg

[Ocean Seal]

Dude these busts are like 9 inches tall. if I had the money I would buy all of them and have Russian revolution action adventures.