And all drugs, art, sex and culture aside, there were a few things in Amsterdam that just made no sense or were weird enough to warrant their own post. Like the gift shop below that featured one of those famouse Dutch ceiling cows you're always hearing about... and by that I mean why on earth was there a life size replica cow nailed to the ceiling of a place selling wooden tulips and clog keychains?
There's some kinds of architecture that just don't age as well as others, and one of the motifs that has certainly been out of fashion for awhile is leering skulls and dead-eyed babies. Maybe it was making a comment on some plague or war at the time, but history has moved on and left this particular bit of work out in the cold. And weirder still it wasn't in a cemetery or anything, it was in the side of a shopping district building. Or maybe advertising is just different over there.
This is exactly what it looks like, courtesy of the Sex Museum. Pleasant dreams everyone...
There's some kinds of architecture that just don't age as well as others, and one of the motifs that has certainly been out of fashion for awhile is leering skulls and dead-eyed babies. Maybe it was making a comment on some plague or war at the time, but history has moved on and left this particular bit of work out in the cold. And weirder still it wasn't in a cemetery or anything, it was in the side of a shopping district building. Or maybe advertising is just different over there.
This is exactly what it looks like, courtesy of the Sex Museum. Pleasant dreams everyone...
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