{"id":23566,"date":"2016-08-19T05:42:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T12:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23566"},"modified":"2016-08-19T05:42:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T12:42:39","slug":"friday-fun-maybe-nsfw-the-emperor-has-no-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/19\/friday-fun-maybe-nsfw-the-emperor-has-no-balls\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun \u2013 Maybe NSFW? \u201cThe Emperor Has No Balls\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who knew that the Hans Christian Andersen’s<\/strong> <\/a>story “The Emperor’s New Clothes”<\/em><\/strong> – a parable about a ruler so full of himself that he believes he’s wearing the finest raiments of the realm when in fact he’s naked – would be the inspiration for “exposing” Donald Trump<\/strong> for the blathering blowhard he is … in clay … NUDE!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Five cities – New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco and Cleveland – were the lucky locations for the display of the life-sized statues of a naked Trump titled “The Emperor Has No Balls”<\/em><\/strong> – a performance art installation created by the artist Joshua Monroe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Monroe was commissioned by self-described “American Activist Collective” INDECLINE<\/a> because of his skills at creating monsters for Halloween Haunted Houses as well as in movies.  The irony of that fact doesn’t get much sweeter.<\/p>\n

The artist, who goes by “Ginger”<\/em><\/strong>, said<\/p>\n

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“When the guys [INDECLINE] approached me, it was all because of my monster-making abilities.  Trump is just yet another monster, so it was absolutely in my wheelhouse to be able to create these monstrosities.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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It took Monroe over 1,500 hours, working since April while also holding down a full-time job.  He says he was only getting “three hours of sleep a night.”<\/p>\n

Monroe explains the two phases to create his statue: He first sculpted the original in 700 pounds of a specialty modeling clay using a six-foot-two “hired model with similar proportions” to Trump.  (We’ll let that one ride.)  Then once the prototype was completed, he made a giant silicone mold so that he could create identical replicas.<\/p>\n

The project ended up requiring 300 pounds of Monster Makers Oil Clay, 400 pounds of Concrete and Rebar, 400 pounds of Walter E. Disney Clay (for the mold), 1 gallon of smooth cast 300 (liquid resin), and ten gallons of Foam It, costing around $6,000. <\/p>\n

While explaining that INDECLINE had very specific criteria set as to “what the statue would include – and what it would not<\/u>,”<\/em><\/strong> he noted Trump’s “constipated scowl” was actually the hardest part to get right. <\/p>\n