[Atompunk] Vienna's flak towers

[jaromil]

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re all,

astonishingly  enough web  2.0 is  getting  all spoken  out, even  the
unspeakable... today I've found for the first time a public account on
the web, about the flak towers of Vienna:

http://www.newstatesman.com/europe/2008/07/flak-towers-vienna-city

i've kept discrete about these  myself, living three years of my exile
very close  to two  of them,  in the second  district of  the Austrian
capital. one  even had the  sarcastic graffiti of "Wiener  Melange" on
it. they are a very delicate  cultural entity, but a very solid pieace
of concrete. please handle with  care. they tried to destroy them with
TNT long time ago: no success.

AFAIK Robert  Adrian X (one of  the best media artists  ever, that you
should really  know about)  told me privately  he was planning  an art
project about migration  of crows from Russia in  winter going to live
on those towers during cold seasons.  i'm not sure this project is now
finished, worth asking.

there were even some raves held  inside those towers, in the late 90s,
until they fenced them off  and arrested some ppl corrupting the youth
to descend these depths...  these towers  they are 5 (or 6?)  in total
in all Vienna,  they are connected across the  whole city underground,
they  are massive concrete  and go  down for  hundred meters  or so...
have you  ever seen the "Third man"  b&w movie?  some of  it refers to
the underground  of Vienna.  one of my  hobbies has always  been going
underground ...  :) but while in Amsterdam i've lost the habit, eh eh.

i'm not sure i should really share  all this with you. it is some deep
story, anyway  let's just do it.   again please *handle  with care*. i
wish  an Austrian  could  be subscribed  to  this list,  to have  some
feedback. these things evoke lots of bad feelings over there. BTW just
for  understanding  the context,  how  many  and  from where  are  the
subscribers of this list from?

anyway. those flak  towers were the nuclear bunkers  built to save the
Aryan race in  case of nuclear war.  i've sneaked in  one of them once
or twice, but it's so dangerous to get lost down there...

ciao

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