Ever Seen a Creepier Tower? - Neatorama

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. http://deputy-dog.com/2008/07/17/ever-seen-a-creepier-tower/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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At least they're not tarantulas. Although...

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

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

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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

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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

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The tower & babies are cool, but this is not:
http://www.czech.cz/en/news/domestic-news/conservationists-slam-new-skyscraper-project-in-pankrac/
Our politics are retarded :/

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*politicians
;]

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Ok, how do we abort them?

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why are the babies black?

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lisa, I asked myself the same thing.

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

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