For anyone interested, this is one of a series of sculptures in Poland meant to evoke playground equipment. You can crawl on it, but it’s not actually meant as a slide.
Is Soviet playground! Is fun! Go play on playground while Papa reads Pushkin.
Submitted 1 month ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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sakodak@lemmy.world 1 month ago
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Aw, I thought it was so beautiful and it turns out it was because an artist made it to be beautiful.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s really cool! Thanks for adding that!
countrypunk@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
That unironically looks like a good time. I hate metal slides cuz they always build up a lot of static electricity and burn my ass during the summer
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t know that you’d get much speed going down that slide. Or slide very far either.
rtxn@lemmy.world 1 month ago
People have forgotten the simple joy of climbing to the top of a sketchy structure and suffering major contusions and broken bones on the way down.
toofpic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Hint: some things are intended to have ice on them. This is a kick-ass slide!
21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
I almost wonder if this may have been more of a winter attraction. I could definitely see rocking my snow skate in a park built like this.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Yeah but concrete would just be a cheese grater on your flesh
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I think you can get concrete pretty smooth if you really want… You can also put a coating on it that would make it very smooth. Maybe this had some kind of coating on it back in the 70s/80s? Probably not, but who knows.
countrypunk@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
That’s the way I like it
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 1 month ago
unironically
… did you notice this is concrete?
peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Not gonna lie, that looks fun as hell to play on
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I can see so many hours of my childhood friends and I playing army battles defending this as a fortress.
21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
Yeah the mixed comments are interesting, one gets the impression many here only see that as a slide intended to give kids road rash and have no sense of potential in other uses.
connaisseur@feddit.org 1 month ago
Hell seems like a good comparison, indeed
simplejack@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They call the design movement Brutalism because the concrete slides brutality shred your ass.
niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Brutalist playground!
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This unironically looks really freaking fun.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A great tag/grounders arena
Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
It’s amazing that something as inhuman as brutalism ever developed.
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
When you’re thinking of brutalist structures you have to keep in mind the architectural world they were coming into. How the world had rarely seen such, flat, pure surfaces. We take them for granted now, every box building ever built owes something of itself to brutalisim.
But in the wake of WWII, I think it made a statement that things done in this building are done in a modern way. No gargoyles, no baron von-fuckpants, none of the old world trappings.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Maybe it’s because I grew up within walking distance of the Indiana University campus, which has a lot of brutalist architecture (for example, this is the library), but I honestly don’t mind it if it’s done well. It can just also be done really poorly.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
finley@lemm.ee 1 month ago
And the Soviets had their own particular sub-style of brutalism called Soviet brutalism. They loved it so much, they put their own twist on it.
Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 month ago
As long as there’s enough greenery around, what’s the problem?
PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Brutalism is mint in the first place, but it really, really gets better with age and foliage. The more moss and lichen and ivy, the better it looks
stelelor@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
DrDominate@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I get it’s concrete, but you could totally polish concrete and it would make a great slide.
Baguette@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I lived by a concrete slide that you needed cardboard to use like a sled in order to go down. Otherwise the slide would burn the everliving shit out of you if you didn’t, but damn it was fun
Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yes, I also had access to drainage channels and a dam back in the day.
protist@mander.xyz 1 month ago
There’s a granite slide near me that they say gets faster with use, and they were correct. Fastest slide I’ve ever gone down
TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Kinda looks like it once had a layer of sheet metal attached to it at one point.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Where’s my brutalist hempcrete future I was promised?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
People got too high and forgot to implement the plan.
Rooty@lemmy.world 1 month ago
In the dusbin of history, along with Brutalism itself.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
That’s a total misrepresentation of a late soviet playground!
Where are handles and stopper you can kill yourself with while sliding? Where’s the Hole in the end, the one you feed bad kids to (and it starts to call you ‘tovarish’ at some point)? Where’s someone’s dad (also from CheKa) who takes kids out and never returns them.
You can do better Leutenant Squid. That’s said, I forgive you. But you’d not like to know the lenght my tolerance can go.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Ahh this brings back some childhood memories. I loved framing westeners for crimes that the party committed. That was my favourite subject in school.
sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Don’t worry, “exclusion zone” means zone where danger is excluded.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
To be fair, its probably better than those plastic spiral slides they used to have that seemed like they were designed to generate static electricity…
Hmm this just gave me a thought… We could harness the power generated from hyperactive kids sliding down those slides at Burger King, and feed it back into the grid.
Do those kinds of slides even still exist? Y’all know what I’m referring to right?
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Fun is mandatory.
emmy67@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Looks kind of awesome as a skate ramp
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Even the part where grownups need to duck?
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s a mini bobsled track
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 1 month ago
You see ass-destroying slide, I see the makings of a FFA KoTH paintball/airsoft arena.
ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Unexpected Babbdi
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 1 month ago
For instant fun, just add skateboard!
AGD4@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I was thinking this was intended for skateboards and scooters.
PineRune@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The sand at the bottom suggests otherwise.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 month ago
Superman by Goldfinger started playing in my head upon seeing the image.
raccoon@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
So here I am…
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Ok I can’t help but bring this up. Lazypurple a TF2 YouTuber got a state board and spent like 30 minutes just laughing his ass off with it. just scating past all his teammates fighting. The section in his video is like 3 minutes long but omg he has such good dork vibes youtu.be/XBF-g4y4clg?si=NY_1eA25tx2mAhJL&t=3103
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Yeah if the kids don’t love it the skateboarders will