Ever Seen a Creepier Tower?

By Miss Cellania in Architecture, Art on Jul 17, 2008 at 12:25 pm


The Zižkov television tower in Prague, Czech Republic features crawling babies by artist David Cerný. They were attached in 2000 as a temporary exhibit, but people liked them so much, they are still there! See many more pictures at deputy dog. Link

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  1. snarky1
    Jul 17th, 2008 at 1:05 pm

    Oooh! Alien babies with sticky limbs. It is pretty cool though.

  2. yo
    Jul 17th, 2008 at 2:07 pm

    yep – I saw these in person in 2002. pretty sweet, if you ask me.

  3. floatingk
    Jul 17th, 2008 at 2:51 pm

    When I first saw those we just missed one falling off and crushing a car. Theyre HUGE babies!

  4. Ali S.
    Jul 17th, 2008 at 3:09 pm

    I think they may have ingested a bit too much of that Absinthe we were talking about a few posts back. ;)

  5. Max Power
    Jul 17th, 2008 at 3:31 pm

    At first I thought the babies would be cameras. THAT would have been creepy.

  6. Stefanie
    Jul 17th, 2008 at 5:02 pm

    The only thing worse than crawling babies would be dancing babies…I hated that awful thing.

  7. All Adither
    Jul 17th, 2008 at 6:35 pm

    At least they’re not tarantulas. Although…

  8. Alberto
    Jul 17th, 2008 at 7:34 pm

    If you want to know more about that crazy tower, take a look here:

    http://planetagadget.com/2008/01/07/zizkov-television-tower-praga/

  9. EJ
    Jul 17th, 2008 at 8:05 pm

    There is a creepy baby in MetroTech Center in Brooklyn, NY USA. Below is a good pic of it and link to a full size photo. Gave me a good chuckle the first time I went to MetroTech. If you go there, look for the seeing eye dog.

    http://mcbrooklyn.blogspot.com/2007/05/what-lives-under-metrotech.html

  10. Jeff - Prague TV
    Jul 17th, 2008 at 10:43 pm

    As far as i understand it: They were not left up because people liked them so much, but because there was not enough funding to take them down. Or rather, no one would spend their own funds to make happen. So the babies are left hanging in limbo. (Sometimes the Kafka-esque bureaucracy here in Prague has its pluses.)

    David ?erný has done some other great city-size installations: http://www.davidcerny.cz/startEN.html

  12. dsn
    Jul 18th, 2008 at 7:31 am

    *politicians
    ;]

  13. Larfin Jackarse
    Jul 18th, 2008 at 7:42 am

    Ok, how do we abort them?

  14. lisa
    Jul 18th, 2008 at 9:55 am

    why are the babies black?

  15. RM
    Jul 19th, 2008 at 9:27 pm

    lisa, I asked myself the same thing.

  16. ted
    Jul 19th, 2008 at 10:20 pm

    That’s a question that’s asked a lot more than you think, lisa.


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