Commified monuments.

[Archpremier]

Does anybody have images of monuments or government buildings that people have edited to look communist/socialist? Or real-life happenings such as the activists that raised the Soviet flag over the Duma building in Russia.

Example (I made this one):

[Pawn Power]

haha, make her holding a sickle...

[comradesteele]

Originally posted by Revolution is the [email protected] 9 2005, 05:45 AM
haha, make her holding a sickle...
Thats a brilliant Idea!!

[Archpremier]

haha, make her holding a sickle...
:D
Will do, comrade.

Crimson Liberty

[Pawn Power]

nice, looks good

[Clarksist]

Now THATS what I call a statue of liberty.

Someone should do the Washington Monument now.

[encephalon]

oooohh.. make the spiky things on her head look like a gear!

Wait, that would suck. Sorry.

[The Living Red]

Cool ideas! how about a Mount Rushmore depicting some famous commies?

Or maybe 4 leaders of the Soviet Union?

[Clarksist]

Originally posted by The Living [email protected] 13 2005, 04:23 PM
Cool ideas! how about a Mount Rushmore depicting some famous commies?

Or maybe 4 leaders of the Soviet Union?
The Soviet Union?

Boo!!!!

How about Mount Rushmore with Marx, Che, Marcos, and Luxembourg.

I know there is gonna be some ass asking for Marx, Che, Lenin, and Castro... but I thought I'd throw in Marcos and Luxembourg for some diversity.

BTW, if someone could pull that off and make it believable... holy jesus wow.

[Zingu]

I think a hammer is more apprioate, since the hammer can represent labor more clearly.


Could you make a hammer version?

[comradesteele]

yeah a hammer would be cool

[Xvall]

Yeah.

[Xvall]

By the way; did you use CS2?

[comradesteele]

i made this it is nothing special
http://www.freewebs.com/comradesteele/London-Tower.jpg

[Xvall]

For some weird reason that link brought me to this thread again. I copied and pasted it, though - very nice.

[Che1990]

Originally posted by Drake [email protected] 15 2005, 11:07 PM
For some weird reason that link brought me to this thread again. I copied and pasted it, though - very nice.
Me too. It's very cool.

[Archpremier]

Sorry for downtime. Hurricane put me out of commission for a bit.



I think a hammer is more apprioate, since the hammer can represent labor more clearly.

Could you make a hammer version?
I had the same thought before I even made the sickle one, but I couldn't find a good picture of a hammer. Find me a suitable hammer, and I'll gladly try to put it in.



Yeah.
Nice. :D



By the way; did you use CS2?

No. I worked my ass of with nothing but Paint and Irfanview.



i made this it is nothing special
http://www.freewebs.com/comradesteele/London-Tower.jpg

Heehee. Yes it is.

[Archpremier]

Da Zdravstvujet Amerika!

[Xvall]

No. I worked my ass of with nothing but Paint and Irfanview.

Jesus christ.

[Che1990]

Originally posted by Drake [email protected] 17 2005, 05:22 PM

No. I worked my ass of with nothing but Paint and Irfanview.

Jesus christ.
Took the words right out of my mouth

:o

[Clarksist]

Originally posted by [email protected] 16 2005, 10:58 PM
No. I worked my ass of with nothing but Paint and Irfanview.
I don&#39;t believe you. <_<

[Archpremier]

I don&#39;t believe you. <_<
Pretend that I have posted a picture of a single pixel that is exactly the same color as the background. That picture is a graphical representation of how much I care what you believe.

[Archpremier]

Wait... That&#39;s what been irking me&#33; There&#39;s been something about the thread title, "Commified monuments", that just struck me as strange. I just realized what it is. It sounds like a Spoonerism of "Mummified communists". I smell ideas. And embalming oils.

[Red Heretic]

you should replace the book with a hammer

[Archpremier]

Ahh, now that&#39;s an idea. It could take some doing, but that&#39;s what I do. I... do. Besides, it might actually be easier considering the fact that I haven&#39;t found a hammer picture that I would put in her aloft hand yet.

[Clarksist]

Originally posted by [email protected] 19 2005, 05:46 PM

I don&#39;t believe you. <_<
Pretend that I have posted a picture of a single pixel that is exactly the same color as the background. That picture is a graphical representation of how much I care what you believe.
What I was saying is that if you did that in Paint, that&#39;s incredible.

But I guess no one caught my subtle meaning in... plain text.

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Why doesn&#39;t someone redo the big Jesus in Rio De Janero. :lol:

[Gunman]

This is just a concept, so don´t worry because I will finish it tomorrow

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/6738/monterevolucionario5zd.jpg

[Organic Revolution]

err.. gunman.. do you think you could make it look like... hmm... you didnt make it in paint?

[Gunman]

I´m using Photoshop CS. And I will try. ;)

[Ownthink]

May I ask, who&#39;s face is the second and the third?

[Organic Revolution]

Originally posted by [email protected] 20 2005, 07:00 PM
May I ask, who&#39;s face is the second and the third?
rosa luxemburg-Rosa Luxemburg (March 5, 1870 or 1871 - January 15, 1919, in Polish language Róża Luksemburg) was a Marxist politician, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary. She was a social democratic theorist of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, and later the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany. She started the newspaper The Red Flag, and cofounded the Spartakusbund, a Marxist revolutionary group that became the Communist Party of Germany and took part in an unsuccessful revolution in Berlin in January, 1919. The uprising was carried out against Rosa&#39;s orders, and crushed by the remnants of the monarchist army and freelance right-wing militias collectively called the Freikorps, which were sent in by the government. Luxemburg and hundreds of others were captured, tortured, and killed.



sub-commendante marcos-Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos describes himself as the spokesperson for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) but, since he is so prominent a figure, he is considered by many to be one of its main leaders.

According to the Mexican government, Marcos&#39; real name is Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente. Guillén studied high school at Instituto Cultural Tampico, a Jesuit school in Tampico, Tamaulipas, where he became acquainted with Liberation Theology. He later moved to Mexico City where he graduated from the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), then received a masters&#39; degree in philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and began work as a professor at the UAM. After that he left to begin his revolutionary activity. While Marcos has always denied being Rafael Guillén, Guillén&#39;s family are unaware of what happened to him and they refuse to say if they think Marcos and Rafael are the same person or not. During the Great March to Mexico City in 2001, Marcos visited the UAM and during his speech he made clear that he had at least been there before.

Like many of his generation he was radicalised by the events of 1968 and became a militant in a Maoist organisation. However, the encounter with the outlook of the indigenous peasants of Chiapas transformed the Zapatistas&#39; ideology, and Marcos has embraced an approach to social revolution that has been described by some as post-modernist; others argue that his philosophies and actions are more closely related to the revisionist Marxist ideals of Antonio Gramsci that were popular in Mexico during his time at university.

Marcos in his own words:

Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal, a gang member in Neza, a rocker in the National University, a Jew in Germany, an ombudsman in the Defense Ministry, a communist in the post-Cold War era, an artist without gallery or portfolio.... A pacifist in Bosnia, a housewife alone on Saturday night in any neighborhood in any city in Mexico, a striker in the CTM, a reporter writing filler stories for the back pages, a single woman on the subway at 10 pm, a peasant without land, an unemployed worker... an unhappy student, a dissident amid free market economics, a writer without books or readers, and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains of southeast Mexico. So Marcos is a human being, any human being, in this world. Marcos is all the exploited, marginalized and oppressed minorities, resisting and saying, &#39;Enough&#39;&#33;

[Ownthink]

^ Thank you SO MUCH, Comrade&#33; Added to the Comuniste Library.

[Organic Revolution]

Originally posted by [email protected] 20 2005, 07:24 PM
^ Thank you SO MUCH, Comrade&#33; Added to the Comuniste Library.
no problems.

[Che1990]

Can someone do a commified Buckingham Palace? that would be sooo sweet.

[Gunman]

Here is the 1st update about the Mount Rushmore Project :P

http://img309.imageshack.us/img309/8650/monterevolucionario24uv.jpg

[Clarksist]

Gunman, that actually looks okay.

Some Maoists and Leninists are gonna ***** about it though.

But you have my support. However much THAT&#39;S worth.

[Red Heretic]

Rosa was a revisionist, and Sub Commandante Marcos is hardly a role model when put next to people like Mao Tse Tung and Chairman Prachanda (if a role model at all).

[Organic Revolution]

Originally posted by [email protected] 22 2005, 09:15 PM
Rosa was a revisionist, and Sub Commandante Marcos is hardly a role model when put next to people like Mao Tse Tung and Chairman Prachanda (if a role model at all).
with lighting quickness a maoist jumps up to proclaim that everyone is a revisionst except there wonderful chairman.

[Red Heretic]

spare me of the dogma rise up. Rosa&#39;s programs of parliamentary reforms over revolution directly lead to the ease at which the Nazis rose to power. Bourgeois reforms are AT BEST revisionism.

[Che1990]

List of places in Britain that someone needs to commify:

Buckingham Palace
Windsor Castle
No. 10 Downing Street
Houses of Parliament

Someone commify them&#33; The London tower one was amazing&#33;

[The Living Red]

Hey Mt Rushmore never looked better. Well done, Gunman.

That stuff about Rosa + Marcos was interesting but I swear San Francisco is one of the gay capitals of the world: are you sure that bit&#39;s right?

[Forward Union]

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[RABBIT - THE - CUBAN - MILITANT]

Some one do the Canadian parliament ..and the "Mount Rushmore" would look better if Marcos didn’t have his pipe , or if he was out of the picture ... why isn’t Ho Chi Minh ever included in these projects ?

[Sugar Hill Kevis]

Here&#39;s my version of the rushmore thing, I thought I&#39;d be able to get the faces more rock like using vanishing point, I was clearly wrong...

http://img333.imageshack.us/img333/1746/rushmore7yw.jpg

[RABBIT - THE - CUBAN - MILITANT]

yeah that one looks nice , but i think u should use a less detailed pic of Che , to make it look more realistic.. Marx looks real good tho

[Sugar Hill Kevis]

Originally posted by RABBIT &#045; THE &#045; CUBAN &#045; [email protected] 7 2005, 05:32 PM
yeah that one looks nice , but i think u should use a less detailed pic of Che , to make it look more realistic.. Marx looks real good tho
I could of used a filter to make the colours more block, didn&#39;t occur to me at the time though...

I didn&#39;t save as psd so no changing now..

Mao and Lenin look terrible, my bad :(

[DUNKiNUTS]

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/2521/monumentsusacopy6mz.jpg

Here is my Mt. Commore

[Sugar Hill Kevis]

I quite like that, it looks like someone has spray painted the faces on just a normal cliff..

[Red Heretic]

Those both look reaaallly good. someone should do the graphic in 3D though.. anyone have that kind of skill?

[Sugar Hill Kevis]

I was just thinking that, if anyone knows how to use like 3d max or gmax they should give it a shot...

I could skin them if necessary..

[comradesteele]

here is my new creation
http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/4081/towerbridgecommunist2bf.th.jpg (http://img75.imageshack.us/my.php?image=towerbridgecommunist2bf.jpg)

[OleMarxco]

This is so pathetic, but I&#39;ll not get stuck on that ;)
Anyknowho&#39;, a tip on those "rocky-mountaint-statues";
Try to make them more NATURAL. They look they&#39;re
literally - which I also think they ARE - just simply pasted
into the mountain, like paper-cut. Try to make some gradual
"border"&#39;s o&#39;re faces, perhaps a little "stoneish"-color&#39;s goin&#39;
Qu&#39;ed into the faces&#39; own colors, gradually, from every angle.

It might take time, but it&#39;s worth it...if you care about this symbolic-shit :D

[Sugar Hill Kevis]

Originally posted by [email protected] 12 2005, 10:07 PM
This is so pathetic, but I&#39;ll not get stuck on that ;)
Anyknowho&#39;, a tip on those "rocky-mountaint-statues";
Try to make them more NATURAL. They look they&#39;re
literally - which I also think they ARE - just simply pasted
into the mountain, like paper-cut. Try to make some gradual
"border"&#39;s o&#39;re faces, perhaps a little "stoneish"-color&#39;s goin&#39;
Qu&#39;ed into the faces&#39; own colors, gradually, from every angle.

It might take time, but it&#39;s worth it...if you care about this symbolic-shit :D
Easier said than done...

[Anti-establishment]

Commify the Vatican&#33;

[CrazyModerate]

Originally posted by Anti&#045;[email protected] 14 2005, 11:12 PM
Commify the Vatican&#33;
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/ww2-pix/abomb.jpg

That is one place so reactionary, commifying would only disgrace the communist figures placed on it.

[comradesteele]

the vatican
http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/5747/thevaticancopy3ki.th.jpg (http://img363.imageshack.us/my.php?image=thevaticancopy3ki.jpg)