Statue

Singer Shakira said that she was "very excited" while showing off the honor she received from her hometown. The 46-year-old Grammy winner took to her Instagram page to share her thoughts on her statue that was built in her hometown Barranquilla. In a new post, she wrote: "I`m very excited about this tribute to Colombian woman and the Barranquilleras inside and outside my land!" adding a red heart emoji. In the post itself, Shakira uploaded a video featuring the 21-feet-tall statue, which was created by artist Yino…

On July 25, 2021, Pedro Huertas, an American doctor trying to cross from Canada into the U.S. at the Highgate Springs border crossing in Vermont, told a border guard he was bringing one $2,000 stone statue with him.  He was lying. A search of his vehicle revealed nine bubble-wrapped packages of various sizes, one of them long and thin, others small, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. court. When border guards asked Huertas what was inside, he and his wife would not respond to their questions.Three of the…

A life-size statue of martial arts legend and Hollywood icon Bruce Lee, who died 50 years ago this month, is on display near L.A.’s Chinatown. The Chinese American Museum opened its latest exhibit of works by Hong Kong master sculptor Chu Tat Shing at the Pico House, at 424 N. Main Street, across from the museum. Shing, a lifelong Bruce Lee fan, has created many sculptures honoring Asian icons, artists and visionaries. Officials said the 5-foot-8 Lee statue, the highlight of the exhibit, is the only one of its kind in his…

Did you know that an asteroid could be worth more than the whole Earth's economy put together? No, this isn't the plot of some heist film but a reality! According to NASA, the 16 Psyche asteroid, which is one of the biggest asteroids in our Solar System, is made up of gold, nickel, and iron deposits and is supposedly worth more than Earth's economy. It is worth a staggering $10 quadrillion! Other than its gold-rich structure, the outer surface of this asteroid is nickel-rich which resembles an early planet's core. This…

Adele did not go easy on Sylvester Stallone when she purchased his Beverly Park mansion for $58 million last year.The “Rocky” and “Creed” star revealed Monday in the Wall Street Journal that the “Hello” singer agreed to buy the property on one unique condition: She insisted that his bronze statue of Rocky Balboa remain at the house.Stallone admitted that he wanted to take the poolside sculpture of the fictional boxing champion punching the air with him, but Adele said, “That’s a no deal. That’s gonna blow the whole…

Sylvester Stallone left a piece of himself behind for Adele. In a recently published interview with the Wall Street Journal, Stallone confirmed that the “Hello” singer kept a statue of the actor as Rocky that overlooks the pool when she purchased his Los Angeles mansion. When asked is he had wanted to take the statue of the character with him, Stallone said, “I did.” “But she said ‘That’s a no deal. That’s gonna blow the whole deal,’” he told the publication. “She wanted the statue.” Adele is reportedly doing a complete…

Sylvester Stallone is revealing the one dealbreaker Adele had before buying his Los Angeles mansion last year. During an interview with The Wall Street Journal, published online Monday, the Rocky statue that overlooks the pool at his former home was brought up. When asked if he wanted to take it with him when he sold the house, the actor responded, “I did.” But Adele had a different plan in mind – she wanted to keep the statue for herself. Stallone said the “Easy on Me” singer told him, “That’s…

Located at JPL, the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) works alongside the Planetary Defense Coordination Office at NASA Headquarters in Washington to characterize the orbits of near-Earth asteroids. The organization further studies the data, predicts the close approaches with Earth, and even carries out impact hazard assessments in order to minimize the uncertainty around the trajectory of these space objects.The increasing number of asteroids that pass Earth closely has made it imperative for space agencies…

A historical dream team of five master sculptors, including Michelangelo, Rodin and Takamura, have trained artificial intelligence (AI) to design a sculpture dubbed "the Impossible Statue", now on show in a Swedish museum."This is a true statue created by five different masters that would never have been able to collaborate in real life," said Pauliina Lunde, a spokeswoman for Swedish machine engineering group Sandvik that used three AI software programmes to create the artwork. Shaking up traditional conceptions about…

Blizzard is holding a Diablo 4 Hardcore Victories contest, in which participants can compete to have their usernames added to a statue of Lilith. The first 1,000 players who reach level 100 on Hardcore in Diablo 4 are eligible.This comes by way of a tweet from the official Diablo 4 Twitter account, which shared the official rules for the contest. As the company explains, players who had pre-release access in May 2023 are not eligible for this contest. You need a javascript…