Mmmm Beer, Mmmm Sculpture

August 19, 2006 6:28 PM

Urinal Sculpture - beautiful targets. (I think this site stands on its own. However, if you are in dire need and one of these lovelies is just too fare to run, here is a guide to your local loo, or even better yet your loo on the run. For the true loooligist this compendium is sure to satisfy.)
posted by caddis (30 comments total)

This post is too fare to run
posted by riotgrrl69 at 6:39 PM on August 19, 2006

These urinals are beautiful, but they're also hilarious!
posted by owhydididoit at 6:48 PM on August 19, 2006

what's next? ... stained glass windows to throw it out from?
posted by pyramid termite at 6:51 PM on August 19, 2006

Double.
posted by Galvatron at 6:54 PM on August 19, 2006

Metafilter: These urinals are beautiful, but they're also hilarious!
posted by jimmythefish at 6:55 PM on August 19, 2006

They're lovely, but I can't help thinking the metaphor is a bit weird. I mean, peeing into a flower? I can imagine these featuring in some weird, oversized nightmares, though.
posted by Hildegarde at 6:55 PM on August 19, 2006

It's always that way. aghhh
posted by caddis at 6:56 PM on August 19, 2006

The plumbing fittings and fixtures look horrid plugged into orchids & lilys.

And what the hell - no venus flytrap??? No Pitcher plant? No blooming corpse flower? Urinal cakes molded to look like insects. . . How bout a puff of Gold-Bond-Medicated pollen for the boys?
posted by isopraxis at 7:01 PM on August 19, 2006

Wow, almost one year to the day later. Weird coincidence.
posted by jonson at 7:03 PM on August 19, 2006

Oh well, enjoy the other two links. It's just so much potty which seems in keeping with today's roster of monkey diets and googlyeyed nonsense. The whole site seems to have gone to Fark today.
posted by caddis at 7:08 PM on August 19, 2006

Where's that image of the urinal shaped like large red female lips that was in some stadium or bar somewhere? Reaaaaly creepy. I think they were forced to remove it.
posted by Rhomboid at 7:25 PM on August 19, 2006

posted by caddis at 7:32 PM on August 19, 2006

I'm sure that guy considers "people piss all over my work all the time" to be a boast!
posted by clevershark at 7:34 PM on August 19, 2006

Rhomboid writes "Where's that image of the urinal shaped like large red female lips that was in some stadium or bar somewhere? Reaaaaly creepy. I think they were forced to remove it."

Actually they were installed in a McDonald's in Amsterdam, and they were removed after complaints by some American tourist.
posted by clevershark at 7:36 PM on August 19, 2006

posted by bob sarabia at 7:40 PM on August 19, 2006

4 minutes slow on that one.
posted by bob sarabia at 7:41 PM on August 19, 2006

The calla lily one is gorgeous. I could actually see that being installed in certain high-end martini bars and such here.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 7:55 PM on August 19, 2006

There is more to this post than the urinals. Would you still call it a double if the bathroom diaries were the first link?
posted by owhydididoit at 7:56 PM on August 19, 2006

I want each and every guy who pisses into these to think:
Little Shop of Horrors.

Have a nice day.
posted by leftcoastbob at 8:27 PM on August 19, 2006

And what the hell - no venus flytrap???
More like a penis flytrap.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 8:28 PM on August 19, 2006

Or would that be Venus Penistrap?
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 8:29 PM on August 19, 2006

I am shocked, shocked! What about the neighbors' children? This is NOT art.

(ahhhh.... pee shiver)
posted by R. Mutt at 8:38 PM on August 19, 2006

What a pisser.
posted by Balisong at 9:07 PM on August 19, 2006

I like to pee on/in pretty things.
posted by Ynoxas at 9:52 PM on August 19, 2006

Pistils.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 10:09 PM on August 19, 2006

this one (really big jpg) looks like it would be hard to hit.
posted by dirigibleman at 10:23 PM on August 19, 2006

Top 10 at urinal^.net is nice too.

And religiously themed urinals/toilets would be quite fun. Or one could place a screen inside & chang images.
posted by jeffburdges at 2:25 AM on August 20, 2006

jeffburdges: Haven't you seen those screens in the urinals in some men's rooms, reading: "Your ad here!"?

isopraxis: They gotcher pitcher plant. Scroll down.

I agree, the plumbing needs improvement to go with something this ornate. They're pretty. I like the mouths from Amsterdam better, but I'm goofyy. I had a cat that learned to flush the toilet, which she did, because she liked to watch the water go down. With one of these, I'd sit in there with her and watch. LOL
posted by Goofyy at 8:01 AM on August 20, 2006

Oh, there it is . . . but does it have dead insects in the bottom?
There would definitely be a good stagefright factor with the venus flytrap urinal.
posted by isopraxis at 10:18 AM on August 20, 2006

This art takes the piss.
posted by nthdegx at 3:00 PM on August 20, 2006