Comments on: Excusez-Moai

Excusez-Moai

hermitosis — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:41:56 -0800

The Easter Island Statue Project: a glimpse at what's going on from the neck down.

By: everichon

everichon — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:17:13 -0800

Excellent. This blew my mind.

By: Maaik

Maaik — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:32:37 -0800

Ah, I was hoping for funny drawings of Easter Island statues like jogging or in a river with fishing waders on or something. This is good too.

By: jillithd

jillithd — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:51:33 -0800

Wow! I never even considered there might be more than heads! I did not dig far enough - were there volcanic eruptions of some sort that buried these guys or were they originally meant to be underground? Amazing! Thanks for posting this!

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:01:11 -0800

The Easter Island "heads" are thirty-foot-tall golems, buried up to their necks to immobilize them and prevent them from wreaking havoc. These fools have just doomed us all.

By: codswallop

codswallop — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:31:00 -0800

I don't want to alarm you, Faint of Butt, but here is one walking...

By: usonian

usonian — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:59:41 -0800

I was probably 8 or 9 and already simultaneously fascinated and a little bit spooked by Easter Island when I saw This episode of Gaiking. This is reassuring (and in all seriousness, wonderful) - thanks!

By: ciderwoman

ciderwoman — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:20:27 -0800

If that pattern on the base of the main photo stone isn't the magazine for an old movie camera my name's not Erich von Daniken.

By: GallonOfAlan

GallonOfAlan — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:02:01 -0800

Tying in nicely with other threads including the one about The Joy Of Sex, Chriss Foss has done a couple of works around Easter Island in his time too.