It mimics a much larger, rightside-up one in Wenceslas Square nearby, right before you come to the National Museum. David Černý has put wacky sculptures up all over Prague, including giant black babies crawling up the TV Tower in Zizkov. I have yet to see this weirdness up close!
I've been wanting to go to some of the grand cafes, and also this place I keep passing by on the tram, and the two made a great contrast for one night. I just realized yesterday that there's streets upon streets of interesting things that are parallel to the path I always take, so we took this new path from one cafe to the other. Peachie has found her places in Prague. First is Cafe Louvre, from 1902, frequented by Kafka and Einstein back in the day.
It was just the same time of day as in this picture when we arrived, and we sat in a room near this painting. Here's another of the gorgeous area by the windows and the waistcoated servers.
Then the Shadow Cafe on Ujezd (ooh-yesd, I love to say this) street for a couple of pilsners. This place has an associated bar in another neighborhood that plays drum and bass or reggae (or ragga, for that matter) almost every night. Dark, relaxed, pop/street art, and good music. I thought they were playing Tricky's Maxinquaye mixed with trance, but the bartender revealed it to be three Faithless albums on shuffle. Faithless again! I hadn't given them a thought since "God is a DJ" and "We Come 1"...classic P.L.U.R. The way people dance in the video for the latter, I remember that, dancing as if you're beating back authority itself. In places like the Soulhouse in Gainesville. It didn't matter who was playing. Maybe that's where I'll find any shred of it again, going through this weird period of nostalgia- by letting go of expectations completely.
Tangent over! Here are a few snaps from Shadow's website.
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