The Doctor must be here somewhere

[eilidhsd]

More public art on the way back from dinner tonight:

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[mrua7]

Ahhh from the creepy, to the less creepy. Those statues are ghostly looking. Where's the Doctor, is right!

[eilidhsd]

They were pretty terrifying - even in these crap pics they are scary. It looked as if they were marching down those steps from nowhere.

[spikesgirl58]

Holy Shikeys! Those are seriously creepy! I can understand your reluctance.

[eilidhsd]

Having climbed up to see them, I had a bit of a scramble back down, as I felt Something Bad would happen if I turned my back on them.

[spikesgirl58]

It does look rather a scene from a horror movie. Or the X Files! I would not have gone up at night to look at them - maybe during the day... maybe.

[eilidhsd]

The lights set into the paving stones made it a different kind of creepy. Unlit, they could have been a terrestrial horror film; lit from underneath on a woodland path, you automatically looked for their spaceship.

[bluemeanybeany]

arrrrrrgggg. The are scary. Awesome, but scary.

That's a really cool look actually, Doctor Who needs these stat.

[eilidhsd]

They are probably heading in his direction. Even the back ones, which are really just slices of people, have a determined air about them.

[elmey]

Those figures coming down the stair are actually rather fabulous--in all meanings of the word :) Coming across them at night would have given me a scare too.
Any idea of what they represent? not a happy thing I have a feeling. But I love the idea of all that public art just waiting for you to stumble on it.

Did you hit the Christmas markets?

[eilidhsd]

I could not make out what I was looking at until I was right up ther with them - and by then it could have been too late!! The nosy neighbour or colleague slaughtered by the aliens just in time to set the scene for the Doctor.
Oddly enough, there were no other people hanging around them, and other half refused to come up!
But imagine bumping into that lot with a drink in you.
Reminds me of one of my mum's favourite stories from Three Men on the Bummel when they decide a colleague drinks too much, and casually steer him past the identical statue all over the city. Actually, I think that might have been Prague

Didn't buy much on the markets this year - no children needing puppets this time, but some good bohemian crystal from a posh shop for the nieces, and a few prints which will probably turn up here.
And Other Half has shopped non stop and how all that is going to get into two cases....

[eilidhsd]

Was playing with the other photos and one came up with a label Listener but can't find anything more on google. None of the others came up with a label, just one!

I went on to the maps, and we were not far from the Kampa museum (which was what the label on the giant baby photos on FB read) but when I tried to trace our route, the google street view was from 2009.

[elmey]

Memorial to the Victims of Communism

I can't help it, I checked :) The man's figure disintegrates as you move up the stairs, no wonder the impression is so creepy.

I saw this page too, are the penguins still there? (it includes the babies btw). The whole city just looks so interesting!

[saki101]

Is whatever entity organises the public art trying to keep people away from those woods? What is being hidden up there?

Combined with the gargantuan no-face babies, I'm beginning to see a trend.

Some commentary on mindlessly following a leader?

[eilidhsd]

Come to Prague and find your nightmares? Rehearsing for a new series of Sapphire and Steel?
I don't know? But the following figures are just splinters of people.

[saki101]

Perhaps it is some statement on people losing their humanity or their individuality by being followers.

Just encountering those two installations you've photographed so far (who knows what else is out there that you haven't found yet?) would be great scenes in Sapphire and Steel. Would it be the sculptor(s) or the person/committee that commissions them who is/are the entity messing with time?