Crown Fountain, Millenium Park

[mmarieden]

That is so creepy. God I love artists.

[artistmac]

@mmarieden That two-story tall statue of Marilyn Monroe in Pioneer Court with her skirt blowing up in the air? That might have raised the bar on creepy art. Ditto the giant eyeball that was in Pritzker Park last year.

[mmarieden]

@artistmac I'm not a Marilyn fan. I thought it was beautiful, but seemed out-of-place. One commenter summed it up nicely, "Did we lose a bet with someone?"

[mrpelon1000]

How bizarre

[artistmac]

@mrpelon1000 I take it you haven't seen the giant chrome bean just north of here. Or the band shell that looks like a giant pile of metal shavings. Millennium Park is full of the bizarre. But it brings in the tourists, so what do either of us know?

[cratclif1]

juame plensa

[cyngirl12]

Im so glad i live 15 min away from chi town its beautiful there

[SUPERTUBER01]

The water being 'spit' by those ethnic faces is just nasty imo.

[garycalgary]

that is about one of the coolest things i have seen

There is a building they are constructing and they commissioned the person who created the crown fountain to make something public for the building

hope he makes something as Cool as that

the more i see of chicago the more i like it

[monkeyface9633]

hey i saw that in my vid too!!!

[zenatii]

is this water natural or chlorine?

[artistmac]

The city of Chicago routinely chlorinates its water. They put in even more after heavy storms force them to dump raw sewage into the lake; sometimes you can smell it after running a glass of water. I use a Brita pitcher;-)

[selena12355]

@zenatii chlorine 

[miraclbab]

I'll ask around. I think it's cool too.

[miraclbab]

so cooll got to go put my face on there

[artistmac]

I wonder how they did choose the people whose faces went up on those two towers. Viewers? Anybody know?

[artistmac]

The screens, since all that water has to cascade in front of them, but when they filmed the people whose faces appear on the towers, they made sure that the mouths aligned with a small spout about 1/3 of the way up on the towers. When the people on screen pucker their lips and the water flows from the spouts, it looks like they're spitting gallons of water. With the 80 and 90 degree weather we've been having the last week or so, the kids must be having a ball playing in the water;-)

[bwillwall]

Thats awesome. How does it do that with the screen their?

[tonbonthemon]

00:47 looks like those magic photos in harry potter

[andone4eva]

fuck fuck

[doggdadd]

goddamndest thing I ever done did see!!