OK, this guy thinks it’s creepy and has a few pictures. Personally, I think the tower itself is a nice example of clean-lined modernism and the black, faceless babies crawling around on it are a nice touch of artistic flair.
(Yes, the Žižkov Television Tower, babies, háčeks, and all, is real. The babies are even permanent now.)
It’s like that H.P. Lovecraft story about the trolley operator with the tentacle where his head should be, only inside-out and institutionalized.
We should retaliate by putting Cthulhu on our microwave cell-phone relay towers, or something.
Absolutely, positively, without question, creepy.
Those are some pretty big babies.
That last image is a real gotcha!
I like it. I think it’s cool.
For most of it, I was thinking ‘odd, but not creepy’.
When it did the closeup of the damned cenobite-baby’s non-face…that was creepy.
Creepy in a good way. They put them up shortly after I moved away from Prague, so I never got to see them.
I’d really like to see this one by the same sculptor, David Černý.
ETA: mildly NSFW.
Kinda cool, but out of place in the surroundings a bit.
I wonder if the artist was erasing the lingering echoes of the defenestrations of Prague… instead of men falling to their deaths, it’s babies merrily clambering up and down the tower, in defiance of gravity.
But you know that many future filmmakers shooting in Prague will either be blocking around the damn thing or budgeting for the CGI erasure of same.
Another vote for cool.
The tower isn’t creepy at all. I remember seeing it when I was there for a week several years back. It dominated the skyline from certain places. I don’t think the babies were there at the time, but I never got that close anyway. Those faces are certainly creepy.
This guy is either a certified genius or a genuine wacko.
I think the tower is hideous and totally out of place among the wonderful old architecture, but the creepy babies are so awesome they make up for it. I’m torn. And I have a new favorite sculptor.
It wasn’t creepy until I saw the last picture. This one is definitely extra-creepy :eek:
I really liked it until I saw that it was crawling with babies with slots for faces.
Even with the bwsff – it’s interesting. The world already has plenty of uninteresting architecture.
The tower? Not creepy. Those babies? Totally creepy.
+1
I hate modern architecture. All of it.
I visited this tower on a very cold January day a couple of years ago. The view from the top was fantastic. As for spoiling the surroundings. It’s not located in the historic heart of the city, but in a suburb which is full of not very interesting communist-era architecture.
You’re talking about a city full of creepy shit like THIS!!
I think it fits right in!!
