# Is this creepy? (A TV tower in Prague) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 17, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-creepy-a-tv-tower-in-prague/456870 "2008-07-17T21:07:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-creepy-a-tv-tower-in-prague/456870/1 "2008-07-17T21:07:02Z")
[OK, this guy thinks it’s creepy and has a few pictures.](http://deputy-dog.com/2008/07/17/ever-seen-a-creepier-tower/) 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](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDi%C5%BEkov_Television_Tower), babies, háčeks, and all, is real. The babies are even permanent now.) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-creepy-a-tv-tower-in-prague/456870/2 "2008-07-17T21:12:54Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-creepy-a-tv-tower-in-prague/456870/3 "2008-07-17T21:16:31Z")
Absolutely, positively, without question, creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-creepy-a-tv-tower-in-prague/456870/4 "2008-07-17T21:16:55Z")
Those are some pretty big babies. That last image is a real gotcha! ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-creepy-a-tv-tower-in-prague/456870/5 "2008-07-17T21:49:42Z")
I like it. I think it’s cool. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-creepy-a-tv-tower-in-prague/456870/6 "2008-07-17T21:52:18Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-creepy-a-tv-tower-in-prague/456870/7 "2008-07-17T22:05:43Z")
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](http://www.davidcerny.cz/EN/piss.html) by the same sculptor, David Černý. ETA: mildly NSFW. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-creepy-a-tv-tower-in-prague/456870/8 "2008-07-17T22:11:55Z")
Kinda cool, but out of place in the surroundings a bit. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-creepy-a-tv-tower-in-prague/456870/9 "2008-07-17T22:38:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-creepy-a-tv-tower-in-prague/456870/10 "2008-07-17T23:23:50Z")
Another vote for cool. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-creepy-a-tv-tower-in-prague/456870/11 "2008-07-18T00:11:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-creepy-a-tv-tower-in-prague/456870/12 "2008-07-18T00:24:51Z")
[QUOTE=pravnik] I’d _really_ like to see [this one](http://www.davidcerny.cz/EN/piss.html) by the same sculptor, David Černý. [/QUOTE] > [@](#): > > While they are peeing, the two figures move realistically. An electric mechanism driven by a couple of microproccesors swivels the upper part of the body, while the penis goes up and down. The stream of water writes quotes from famous Prague residents. This guy is either a certified genius or a genuine wacko. ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-creepy-a-tv-tower-in-prague/456870/13 "2008-07-18T00:39:34Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-creepy-a-tv-tower-in-prague/456870/14 "2008-07-18T01:05:00Z")
It wasn’t creepy until I saw the last picture. This one is definitely extra-creepy :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Glassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Glassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glassy)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-creepy-a-tv-tower-in-prague/456870/15 "2008-07-18T03:42:04Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-creepy-a-tv-tower-in-prague/456870/16 "2008-07-18T04:19:39Z")
The tower? Not creepy. Those babies? Totally creepy. ---
**Author:** ![sugar\_and\_spice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@sugar\_and\_spice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugar_and_spice)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-creepy-a-tv-tower-in-prague/456870/17 "2008-07-18T04:27:54Z")
[QUOTE=clairobscur] It wasn’t creepy until I saw the last picture. This one is definitely extra-creepy :eek: [/QUOTE] +1 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-creepy-a-tv-tower-in-prague/456870/18 "2008-07-18T04:28:19Z")
I hate modern architecture. All of it. ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-creepy-a-tv-tower-in-prague/456870/19 "2008-07-18T09:51:57Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-creepy-a-tv-tower-in-prague/456870/20 "2008-07-18T10:42:10Z")
[QUOTE=Gatopescado] Kinda cool, but out of place in the surroundings a bit. [/QUOTE] You’re talking about a city full of creepy shit like [THIS!!](http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/5522/s1031939si3.jpg) I think it fits right in!! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-creepy-a-tv-tower-in-prague/456870.md?page=2)