"QUANTUM SHOT" #550(rev) Link - article by Avi Abrams
When you are trapped in a nightmare, you might as well enjoy a swing and a kiddie-slide
As we mentioned in our Part 1 and Part 2, these hilarious and often ugly sculptural atrocities for kids are seen generally in Eastern Europe and Asia, with only a few of them located in America. It seems that these "monuments to bad taste" are the results of either builders being lazy (perhaps on drugs?), or artists sincerely believing in freedom of artistic expression but lacking skills to convincingly pull it off. The weird thing is, we really like to see such crazy playgrounds sprout everywhere - yes, bring them on! - because then your typical urban landscape might even change overnight from "soul-deadening" to "mind-boggling".
1. Aaah! I hope this thing is not going to roll after me (like a wild unshaven Katamari)
Open the gates! Fun awaits "beyond thrice nine lands, in the thirtieth kingdom" (Russian idiom, written in the image below) -
2 - 20. Various awesome examples of Russian playgrounds, including the "Cheburashka" character, via
23. Pig? from Saratov kindergarten - photo by Tatiana Mitrofanowa
24. Wolf, threatening to sing (don't let him!) in playground in Tomsk - image via
25. "Swan Lake Ballet" by Mikhail Dronov, seen in Moscow - image via
26. Is this... Jar-Jar Binks?? - photo by Lyudmila Juhimec
27, 28 - Again, Cheburashka - and Dr. Aibolit "healing" animals;
Bottom image 29, 30, 31 - various abominations
32. Abandoned playground in North Chertanovo, Moscow - via
Mushroom Land! I like it -
33. unknown location
Japanese Manga Monster Land! (I like it even more) -
Drunken statue and its dog (turns out to be a memorial to Russian poet Sergei Esenin... come to think of it, this is quite an original and charming interpretation):
Many Soviet pioneer camps in the 1930s through the 1950s featured standard-issue pioneer statues, which since then fell in awesome disrepair (it's pretty common to find headless, limbless statues of young athletes, spread all over the lush forest). These statues often were erected just outside children playgrounds... see the one below, telling a tragic tale of "love triangle gone wrong":
36.
This is a winner (Peter Straub, author of "Shadowland", take note!) - from the Soviet pioneer camp Petrushkovo:
Playground representations of animals just keep getting weirder (and why not? I ask you, why not). This cow is one of many wonderful cow installations in Madison, Wisconsin:
Not at a playground, but located close to it, in a family park - "The Mother" (Maman) installation in Paris, by Louise Bourgeois (more info and a gallery):
Also not a playground, but so cool a structure that I just had to include it (imagine yourself relaxing on this bench after playing around - but beware, time starts to flow differently once you sit down...) -
65. Bench at the Dali museum entrance in St.Petersburgh, Florida - photo via
Androids and robots get into play:
67, 68. somewhere in Moscow
Back to the miserable kiddie grounds... Babushkas seem to like it, as well:
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2 Comments:
WTF!? Those are really bizarre... ^^
28,Dr. Aibolit "healing" animals; is more like Walter White testing metha on animals!
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