Slog - Comments on Traumwelt http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154 Minutes after closing my eyes last night, a city and a television tower appeared. The television tower had babies crawling up and down it. The babies were naked. Th babies had holes for faces. Just before my finger entered a hole, I awoke. A long and loaded train was rattling on the tracks. My dream has a debt. That debt is owed to Christin Clatterbuck.... Copyright 2008 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:39:55 -0800 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:01:14 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Greg No more Welsh rarebit before bed!

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077387 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077387 Architecture Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:46:43 -0800 Comment by The White Blackula I saw a huge one of these in Prague back in 2000

]]> The White Blackula http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077389 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077389 Architecture Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:47:22 -0800 Comment by Scott Dow How does copyright work on the web? Seriously, can anyone use anything by anyone without prior permission? Or does image and idea use base itself on non existent enforcement?

Charles, I like your posts but they do seem derivative, which from an academic is interesting.

]]> Scott Dow http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077393 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077393 Architecture Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:51:06 -0800 Comment by Abby I love Communist-built TV towers. And babies crawling on them just makes them better.

]]> Abby http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077394 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077394 Architecture Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:51:59 -0800 Comment by Sir Learnsalot I'm not a huge fan of the tower or the babies, but I do like some of David Cerny's other stuff.

This horse was a favorite of mine when I lived in Prague. It's a play on this original in Wenceslas Squre. It's also non-fucking-creepy.

]]> Sir Learnsalot http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077405 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077405 Architecture Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:01:21 -0800 Comment by village of the damnd, Clinto 09 That baby is so my new desktop and screen saver. I love it.

]]> village of the damnd, Clinto 09 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077407 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077407 Architecture Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:01:39 -0800 Comment by Tim Radio Free Europe
Remember Radio Free Europe? This was the US financed radio network that broadcast real “news” to those living behind the Iron Curtain during the cold war. Its headquarters was established in Munich in 1949, and began transmitting its first broadcasts to Czechoslovakia on July 4, 1950. The key goal of Radio Free Europe was to provide “democratic” information to the Soviet Satellite nations. Moscow didn’t like this very much.

So, years later (1980ish) Moscow began building this, what is known as the Zizkov TV and radio tower. It was initially meant to jam RFE broadcasts from Munich. However, by the time it was finished communism was dead.

Ironically, Radio Free Europe has since moved its headquarters to Prague and is located in the old Communist building which used to house the old Parliament back in the day. After communism fell, funding was cut for Radio Free Europe. In a sign of gratitude for the broadcasts during the cold war, the current Czech government rents space to Radio Free Europe for 1 CZK a year – or about six US cents.

Today Radio Free Europe broadcasts “news” into the Islamic world. It has recently been threatened by Al-Qaeda. Note in the photo that the streets around the building have been cordoned off and guards are posted due to the threat. As a result, plans are underway to move it out to the suburbs, where RFE’s building can be more easily safeguarded.

]]> Tim http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077411 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077411 Architecture Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:04:30 -0800 Comment by Suz Their faces look like USB ports.

]]> Suz http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077419 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077419 Architecture Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:14:42 -0800 Comment by daytrpr That is the one in Prague, but I don't remember the babies. How oddly creepy.

]]> daytrpr http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077438 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077438 Architecture Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:37:02 -0800 Comment by Betty X amazing art. Czech surrealism.

]]> Betty X http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077441 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077441 Architecture Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:39:28 -0800 Comment by Original Monique I remember seeing that baby tower in Prague in 2005. It was creepy then, and even creepier to see the babies in detail.

*shudders*

But on a side note, I'd kill babies to be able to go back to Prague and live there for a while. By far the best beer in the world (to me) and one of the best places I have ever travelled.

]]> Original Monique http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077446 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077446 Architecture Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:42:08 -0800 Comment by raisedbywolves I love the Prague TV Tower. Oddest thing ever.

]]> raisedbywolves http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077475 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077475 Architecture Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:12:25 -0800 Comment by Queen_of_Sleaze I have about 200 pictures of these babies. I found them pretty fascinating when I was there.

@11: I agree... Definitely one of the top places on my list of places I've visited :)

]]> Queen_of_Sleaze http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077558 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077558 Architecture Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:38:48 -0800 Comment by CommonKnowledge The Tower Babies is a good name for a punk act from Olympia

]]> CommonKnowledge http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077590 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/post_154#c1077590 Architecture Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:01:14 -0800