“Leave no trace” is a saying among backpackers and hikers to minimize their impact on the local environment when they pass through it. Pretty sure it predates Burning Man by several decades.

Seems they are cleaning up all their “monoliths” including this interesting one in the Grünten mountain near Munich. Been there for years but gone now.

Yeah I really like Van Helsing. Its silly fun and never takes itself too seriously. It probably helped that it came out when I was 15 and had a smoking hot Kate Beckinsdale in it (basically why I liked the Underworld movies too). 

Your initial premise is incorrect. According to Google Earth, the monolith had been there for at least four years. source It was first archived in October of 2016. Unless they’re going for a slow burn media campaign, this was probably just some kind of installation art that was polluted by the selfie-takers

I’d like to see him team up with the other Vans to take on evil.

explain to me how praising pepe larraz’s art means all those other artists are suddenly bad when that’s obviously not what oliver was saying

Because of its similarity to the iconic geometric metallic object in 2001 which was dubbed “the monolith” and has been referred to as such since that movie came out.

They’re not out of touch, they’re avoiding liability. It’s more like “we won’t tell you where it is, so if you find it on your own and go get in trouble, that’s all on you.”

It’s probably a CYA thing: “We told you not to go out there; we didn’t tell you where it was so you wouldn’t go looking for it. Now, idiot, here’s the massive bill for the search & rescue team we had to send out to save your sorry ass.”

I’ve worked in the metal industry making exactly this kind of stuff. That probably isn’t $800 worth of sheet metal. They also didn’t say what kind of metal it was. To me it looks like galvanized, but it could be stainless. You can see where they’ve riveted or spot-welded it together. Definitely sheet metal of some…

professional public arts artist here - the fabricated sculpture would have cost < US$2k. not sure where everyone is getting these crazy dollar amounts from unless they’re being pulled out of their asses (quite common in these comments)

I smell corporate funding. Jeep ad? Ford Bronco? Or worse:

I doubt the artist necessarily lives in the state. But I agree that this was someone with serious funding.

Don’t know. Part of this guy, probably

The finish is fine enough and the material expensive enough that it was likely a known artist. They could probably narrow down who in the state has those kinds of skills. But it’s just a harmless metal sculpture, I doubt they will dig too much.

Aaand BOOM! How many seconds went by before someone pushed the old ‘blackface is bad’ SJW button?

The most fucked up part of this whole faux-representation bullshtick is that when you actually step back and look at it, you’re basically saying you are incapable of enjoying movies as fiction, you need the added bonus of real life trauma as experienced by the actors otherwise you won’t like the film.

Well, I’m sure there’ll be some uproar gainst Riz once they hear of it.

“Ziegler... is not autistic”. That sound like the STUPIDEST complaint in the world, currently (I’m sure there have been many others equally as stupid before). I mean, that is REALLY REALLY stupid. Do people not know what ‘acting’ is? Sean Connery was neither Russian nor a submarine commander yet he played both - at…

The film looks horrible. That said, I understand Sia’s frustration here. No matter what she does, it will never be good enough for some people. The easiest choice is to simply not include such characters in your film, which is often the unintended consequence of such advocacy.