ever seen a creepier tower?
i can’t actually believe i’ve not written about this tower before today.
i saw it for the first time a few years back and still remember how initially confused i was. maybe i blocked it from my mind to prevent nightmares. then this morning i, for some reason, had a flashback to that very day of discovery and actually got annoyed with myself for not writing about it sooner. anyway, better late than never. we’ll start the photos from afar and then get closer with each picture as i want to make the experience as creepy as possible for you.
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that last photo’s the clincher for me – creepy as hell – and the fact that there are 10 of these huge crawling babies permanently attached to a television tower in the czech republic really does make me happy. not since watching the tripods as a kid have i been so affected by a 3-legged structure.
on to the facts.
the tower itself, sans faceless toddlers, was built in the mid-late 80s and stands 216 metres tall. even without the babies it’d be a strange looking beast, but that didn’t deter the geniuses in charge of the tower from permanently attaching david cerny’s sculptures to its legs – in 2000 they were added as a temporary installation but the public loved them so much that they were kept for good.
on that note, i’d like to personally thank the people of prague for having incredible taste. this tower is a work of art.
