#warszawa love

[polish-art-tournament]

sculptures* round 1 poll 1

*and installations and some other stuff i didn't know where to put

Smok Wawelski (The Wawel Dragon) by Bolesław Chromy, 1969:

propaganda: This is a famous and beloved statue outside of Wawel Castle (pronounced Vavel) in Kraków. The story of Smok Wawelski goes that he'd been eating all the animals (and people?) in Kraków so the king ordered his sons to kill him, but obviously the dragon is very dangerous. The princes tricked him by filling animals with tar and leaving them out. He ate them and when he tried to breathe fire, his insides burned up. There is a second version that says a cobbler tricked him into eating a tar-filled sheep and the tar made him so thirsty he drank the Wisła (the Vistula, the river that runs through Kraków) until he burst.

Fun fact, those are not extra arms but rather extra heads. Also, you can text the dragon to ask him to breathe fire, and then he does. He gets thousands of texts a day.

about the artist: When I was a kid, I was sure this statue was the actual Smok Wawelski that had somehow carbonized over a thousand years, but alas no, a guy made it in 1969 out of bronze. Bronisław Chromy was an artist, a professor, and Dragon Mother. He passed away in 2017.

Pomnik Syreny (Monument of the Warsaw Mermaid) by Ludwika Nitschowa, 1939:

propaganda: The Warsaw Mermaid is the symbol of Warsaw, and her image is all over the city in various forms. She's a warrior and is depicted with a sword and shield. She lives in the Wisła River (the Vistula), which runs thru Warsaw. There are different variants of her legend, but they all have something to do with her involvement in the foundation of Warsaw and her eternal role in protecting the city.

There are several statues of Syrenka around Warsaw, but the one I picked was created by Ludwika Nitschowa in 1936. It is made of gunmetal, and it stands on the bank of the Wisła. The model for this statue was a Polish poetess named Krystyna Krahelska. Krahelska joined the Home Army during WWII and participated in the Warsaw Uprising. She was shot and killed while rescuing a wounded colleague. I think it's really special the way the myth of Syrenka played out like this -- she really did protect the city, like in the legend. Incidentally, this statue was one of the few pieces of art in Warsaw not destroyed by the war.

tldr: badass warrior mermaid, made by a badass woman, modeled on a badass woman. women!

about the artist: Ludwika Nitschowa is the creator several famous statues in Poland, including of Maria Skłodowska-Curie, Copernicus, and several of Fryderyk Chopin.

both statues were submitted by @slaviclore 🐉🧜‍♀️

[nobeerreviews]

Sometimes we have only ten minutes to be with the love of our life and thousands of hours to spend thinking about them.

-- Paulo Coelho

(Warszawa, Poland)

[jula483]

I went to three Taylor Swift shows in Warsaw last week and I thought I would share some pics from night 3 🥰

and I can't believe I'm saying this, but she looked at me during Anti-Hero????

[punkowa-i-postrzelona]

Ville and bras

[love-in-my-twenties]

winter in warsaw *ੈ✩‧₊˚

[rurecka-odbior]

[warszawskiemozaiki]

Warszawa, ulica Rejonowa.

[dorianbrightmusic]

so for some reason i can't reblog the original of this so i have to do it as a separate post but @soullessbutsenile tagged me to share 10 songs i've had on repeat lately (thanks for the tag!) so here's my list

I Feel You – Depeche Mode

Hurt – Nine Inch Nails

Doll Parts – Hole

If You Can See Me – David Bowie

I Am Not a Woman, I'm a God – Halsey

Everything in its Right Place – Radiohead

Sour Girl – Stone Temple Pilots

Dickeye – Jerry Cantrell

Hyper-Ballad – Björk

Schism – Tool

And now to tag others to leave their own top 10 songs left on repeat... hmmm. @v-1enna @srijellyfishtempura @sanguidge @0rchidrose y'all are up

[apdistractions]

@noodlenoodlenoodle Warszawa, 2022

[czexe]

Love is in the air…

[averagecheese101]

Gyns I'm going to Poland 👍 I low key feel like I weeb going to Japan. Even though I am polish.

[mskup-skup-i-kasacja-pojazdow]

[xd0gb0y]

Bowie's Warszawa is like if the gate of heaven was a deep future desert colored nebula-esque structure. Organic, no sharp corners, immesurably large and airy, all the sandy colors and a bright yellowish light coming seemingly from nowhere and yet shining behind every wall. An endless maze of religious fear and awe, like when you enter a particularly big cathedral, even if you don't believe in god, if you don't believe in anything, there are places that instill this feeling in you. That's what Warszawa feels like. That's what it looks like in my head whenever I hear it.

[jula483]

simply obsessed with my pics from harry styles in warsaw 😭

[punkowa-i-postrzelona]

comprised vv gig checklist after attending three of his concerts on the neon noir tour:

- tech guy meticulous preparing the heartagram mic stand

- first thing ville does when coming onto the stage is putting away said mic stand

- smiling smiling smiling

- waving to fans

- struggling with mic cord

- putting mic in his trousers’ pocket while not singing (iconic but why, you have a mic stand for that)

- EYE CONTACT WITH FRONT ROW (not joking about that oh my gods)

- WINKING TO FANS (also not joking about that 💀)

- struggling some more with mic cord

- ville quickly wrapping mic cord around his hand

- then struggling to break free

- he is trapped in cords and cables hell help him pls

- hitting the mic against his hat to indicate when people should clap

- just standing there and smiling to his bandmates when people were singing for him all the choruses

- dramatic introduction of said bandmates

- did i mention struggling with the mic cord?

- trying to catch things that fans throw for him and being terrible at it

- but still picking everything up and setting it next to the drums (classic)

- aggressively trying to untangle the mic cord and instead messing it up even more

- hanging the mic from the stage by the cord and watching it spin around as a attempt to untangle it (and we all were waiting for the moment when it hits the ground or the side of the stage or the two speakers in between which it was hanging and we all go deaf)

- bowing very politely and saying thank you at the end of every song

- dedicating saturnine saturnalia to kælan mikla <3

- lovingly calling kælan mikla either weird scary or like a horror movie

all in all best experience of my life, 10/10, would recommend <3

[itoshi-s]

ushijima you say 👀👀👀👀👀 big big huge tall muscly man

RIVER AHDBAKKAKAKA PLEASE THE THINGS ID LET HIM DO TO ME .. HES SO HUGE !!!!!!! 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 no need to even get down on my knees fr