{"id":2720,"date":"2016-05-31T10:32:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T16:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dltwt.com\/?p=2720"},"modified":"2016-05-31T10:32:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T16:32:19","slug":"strange-and-creepy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/?p=2720","title":{"rendered":"Strange and Creepy"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday,\u00a0 we spent time exploring Prague on foot. There are many curious “attractions” here; and,\u00a0 we set out to find all of them!\u00a0 The famous John Lennon Wall is a memorial that is constantly being updated with new graffiti.\u00a0 In 1988, young Czecks would write grievances on the wall.\u00a0\u00a0 As a result, the wall was a source of irritation for the communist regime and caused riots between the students and police.\u00a0 This movement was called ironically “Lennonism”.\u00a0 \u00a0The wall represents love and peace with the original portrait of John Lennon buried under layers of paint.\u00a0\u00a0 With lots of visitors milling around, two artist were feverishly working when we stopped by to view the wall.
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\nPrague is a city with an abundance of statues. \u00a0 Many are historic dating back hundreds of years, others are more symbolic; however, some are so odd they leave you thinking.\u00a0 .\u00a0 .what on earth?\u00a0\u00a0 On the way to the John Lennon wall, we finally found the GIANT alien baby statues, at the Kampa Museum entrance.\u00a0 They were massive and with their smudged mechanical-looking faces, they were incredibly creepy looking.\u00a0 \u00a0Similar “Babies”, also by “rogue”\u00a0Czech sculptor\u00a0David Cerny,\u00a0are\u00a0 plastered up and down the 700 foot high, very ugly and weird\u00a0“Television Tower”.\u00a0\u00a0It is the\u00a0highest structure in the city.\u00a0 From afar, the babies look very tiny crawling up the tower; but, once you get closer they are well over six feet high!
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\nOne statue we strolled by was a ghostly-looking cloaked man with a hollow inside.\u00a0 \u00a0It sits outside the Estates Concert Hall.\u00a0 We were told that local legend says that if you take a picture with a flash, an image of a face appears on the photo despite there being no facial features on the statue.\u00a0 (We found out about the legend way after we took a non-flash picture.)
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\nThe Frank Kafka statue is located in the Jewish Quarter of Prague.\u00a0 The statue is based on a vivid description of a short story he wrote called “Description of a Struggle”.\u00a0 Kafka wrote about a young man riding on another man’s shoulders through the streets of Prague – interesting.
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\nThe hanging statue of Sigmund Freud, on a small, but busy, street, was alarming when we first saw it.\u00a0 It looks like a real person attempting suicide.\u00a0 Unfortunately, “Siggy” isn’t seen by many since he is hanging at the top of a building.\u00a0 Then, there was\u00a0 the man riding an upside down horse in an obscure local mall.\u00a0 Like the babies, it was created by David Cerny.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It appears that Cerny\u00a0is the creator of most of the crazy statues throughout the city.\u00a0 The sculpture represents a mocking reference to the more famous equestrian statue of Saint Wenceslas in Wenceslas Square where we are residing.
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\nAfter our tasty vegetarian lunch (Lesley has turned David into a wild Vegetarian), we went to Petrin Hill to see the Broken Men.\u00a0 It is a memorial to\u00a0the victims of communism.\u00a0\u00a0T here are 7 bronze figures descending stairs.\u00a0 The statues actually appear more decayed, losing limbs and their bodies breaking open,\u00a0 the further away you stand from them.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The statues symbolize how political prisoners were affected by Communism.\u00a0 .\u00a0 .\u00a0 .another very sad memorial.
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\nThe Piss Statue, another David Cerny masterpiece, was only a few streets away next to the Kafka Museum.\u00a0 \u00a0It is the actual name\u00a0of the statue!\u00a0 \u00a0Two men are facing each other and peeing.\u00a0 We read that this statue is quite controversial since the bronze shape of the basin of the statue is the shape of the Czech Republic.\u00a0 The men appear to be urinating into the country!!!!!\u00a0 Very strange.
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John Lennon Wall – the graffiti changes daily<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Fisherman<\/a>
Fisherman on a canal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Baby art<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Not sure of the meaning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Don’t leave your car in a tow zone – great tow trucks!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hanging Sigmund Freud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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One of the canals within Prague<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Memorial to those persecuted during the Communist rule<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nice carvings!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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American or British?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hollow cloaked man\u00a0next to\u00a0Estates Concert Hall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Author Frank Kafka was Czech – this statue was inspired by one of his short stories<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Piss Statue – the hips also \u00a0rotate back & forth!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday,\u00a0 we spent time exploring Prague on foot. There are many curious “attractions” here; and,\u00a0 we set out to find all of them!\u00a0 The famous John Lennon Wall is a memorial that is constantly being updated with new graffiti.\u00a0 In 1988, young Czecks would write grievances on the wall.\u00a0\u00a0 As a result, the wall … Continue reading Strange and Creepy<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Si9J-HS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2726,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions\/2726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}