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  • KReneeC Apr 22, 2012 @ 5:50 pm | delete
    I live in Denver but never cared much about this statue until I actually did see it in real life. I was completely creeped out and wasn't sure if it was placed there bc this is Bronco country. But I heard rumors about it and until now, I didn't know what to believe. Thank you so much for writing this lens! I had no idea!
  • LewesDE Feb 17, 2012 @ 8:48 pm | delete
    Great lens. I hope you make more of them!
  • traian Jan 27, 2012 @ 10:53 am | delete
    I love horses and the sculpture itself is really OK. But I would paint it in a natural color. That kind of blue doesn't fit it. I'd also change the color of the eyes - they should be that warm brown horses have. Seems like somebody wanted to make it a controversial work of art. Also wanted to make it scary - blue as in the Apocalypse and with red like fire eyes! Should this tell us something?
  • Phoenix Apr 12, 2012 @ 11:56 pm | delete
    What horse of the Apocalypse is blue, exactly? Misinformation?
  • BlueTrane Jan 7, 2012 @ 9:51 pm | delete
    As a piece of art, it's nice. I just never got it's relationship to anything. Just seems out of place there.
  • FoCoJo Mar 9, 2012 @ 2:41 pm | delete
    I assume it's "relationship" is that Denver is the home of NFL team the Broncos who's colors are blue and orange. I could be wrong though. (Having seen it up close I think it is hideous.)
  • baby-strollers Dec 27, 2011 @ 6:52 pm | delete
    That thing is pretty freaky, not my cup of tea per se, but I can still appreciate the artisitic side of it.
  • waldenthree.net Dec 15, 2011 @ 8:25 pm | delete
    I see you love games. Just sent you an idea for possibly developing a new game for kids that I hope may interest you. Thanks
  • swinglow Dec 8, 2011 @ 10:48 pm | delete
    just another indicator of an ignorant and sick society, where the evolved are abhorred and the stupid love and cant get enough of there mtv, csi, bones, walking dead, survivor, american idiot, etc...its a flaming poorly proported jackass and the product of a 2nd rate imagination at best. Its a stupid party with hidden exits.
  • Phoenix Apr 12, 2012 @ 11:56 pm | delete
    You smoke a lot of drugs, huh?
  • Dennissss Dec 6, 2011 @ 4:47 pm | delete
    It reminds me of Denver Broncos
  • Sarah Sep 26, 2011 @ 3:02 pm | delete
    I'm kinda just wondering why in the photo slide there is a close up of the horses butthole..... "/
  • PaxLamprey Sep 27, 2011 @ 4:11 pm | delete
    To highlight the exquisite detail of the work.
  • sukkran Apr 8, 2011 @ 12:12 am | delete
    lovely art work ~blessed~
  • C N Truth Apr 4, 2011 @ 2:42 pm | delete
    Seems to be a symbol of something; Death In Apocalypse - DIA or The forth seal of the apocalypse and the pale Blue Horse and it's rider was named death. Hell was following close behind: DIA Subsurface = Death, Weapons, Plague, Famin. Or just a demented Denver Boncos mascott.
  • petra ofosu Dec 25, 2010 @ 5:45 am | delete
    it is the most beautiful and expressive depiction of a horse, I have ever seen. it contains and expresses something really horselike .everybody who has had a horse and has seen and felt their way of communication ,understands, that the artist must have known horses and caught the essence if it , some of the most adorable beings on earth- an incredible piece of art- how ART should be!!!!!
    if the name picasso was under it- everybody would accept it.
  • wtf???? Dec 24, 2010 @ 4:54 pm | delete
    Trigger high on crack.
  • EastCoastBias Dec 5, 2010 @ 10:41 pm | delete
    - Badass sculpture
    - It sort of scares me

    I kind of like it, but .... I wouldn't want that thing to welcome visitors to my city.
  • Tom L Aug 16, 2010 @ 6:48 pm | delete
    Great Work of Art
  • Hoobajoob Jul 16, 2010 @ 3:32 pm | delete
    My wife and stepdaughter saw this aberration for the first time on their way to catch an early morning flight from DIA. They laughed their heads off at this piece of, um, "art." With its glowing red eyes and its posture, all you'd have to do is replace the forelegs with human arms and you'd have a Filipino demon called a "tikbalang," and as the wife and stepmonster are Filipinas, that explains the laughter. I'm not sure what the "artist" was trying to convey with this, but a better color scheme and a lack of glowing eyes would help make it substantially less repulsive.
  • Carlos Jahen Dec 24, 2009 @ 8:09 pm | delete
    It seems most modern works of art have varying degree of controversy. My suggestions to Denver is to leave the horse where and as it is now. It has been paid for already. Another suggestion is to have it painted white with black and brown markings. Like the bronco it appears to be.... Denver already has a Blue Bear in front of the Convention Center. That one is just great too. Think about it Denver....
    Carlos in Oakland
  • la2161 Oct 11, 2009 @ 9:43 am | delete
    My gosh, don't people have other things to worry about? It's art and people need to get used to it. It's here to stay, at least for a while. I think it's pretty cool.
  • Hoobajoob Jul 16, 2010 @ 3:29 pm | delete
    Nobody "needs to get used to it." If they think it sucks--which it does--they're free to say so and you need to deal with that.
  • Captain Salmon Dec 13, 2011 @ 12:13 am | delete
    Hoobajoob, you make me facepalm myself to no end. It doesn't suck, art is in the eye of the beholder. You see Hoobiejoobie sometimes things in life happen and you have to deal with it... So deal with it.
  • L Haywood Coffey Jul 12, 2009 @ 6:34 pm | delete
    I've linked your story to my web site, so take a look at the way I've done it and if you don't like it, I'll remove it, but this story is one that just has to be told. Any art work that kills the guy who made it is one bad ass piece of art in my view:

    Here is the link:

    http://lhaywoodcoffey.com/2009/07/05/2009-the-year-of-the-avenging-sculpture-artist-killed-by-his-own-controversial-public-art.aspx
  • Cayde Jun 18, 2009 @ 6:46 pm | delete
    That horse is made of epic win.
  • so. Jun 7, 2009 @ 7:12 pm | delete
    Damn Denver what happened?
  • Mikhail Jun 6, 2009 @ 10:29 pm | delete
    Its a giant blue horse. I don't like it, I don't hate it. People just need to get over it.
  • SeekerX May 26, 2009 @ 4:47 am | delete
    Hmm, pretty creepy, take this horse, along with those murals and gargoyles and stuff..I don't know, its a weird place, for sure...
  • Tammy May 16, 2009 @ 9:20 am | delete
    If you can compare it to other Equine sculptures of its scale or to the beauty of the horse itself, it is way off. The bone structure is wrong wrong wrong and is probably one of the many reasons that people are finding this horse so disturbing. It also has an overall expression of "nothing good". It does not have anything to do with the true beauty or strength of an Equine and only shows the animal in a negative light. I think the artist was intentionally going for this disgust. It is sad to see that they supported such a non uplifting peice of art to be displayed when there are soo many feel good sculptures out there.
  • Lisa May 10, 2010 @ 5:13 am | delete
    I totally agree with your opinion, Tammy!
  • appaloosa May 15, 2009 @ 7:52 pm | delete
    Shoot the poor thing. Put it out of its misery.
  • Rory May 15, 2009 @ 1:44 pm | delete
    That is one ugly horse! Someone should shoot it and put it out of its misery. Or just take a chainsaw to it...
  • Natalie Mar 31, 2009 @ 8:06 pm | delete
    I agree
  • Becky Mar 31, 2009 @ 11:56 am | delete
    I think that the horse should be tooken down now. It really scares me and my family

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