When Chicago summer rolls around you can be sure you’ll see scenes like this around the two water monoliths in Chicago’s new Millennium Park — a great park. Complete with imagery on the giant surfaces water pours out of these things in every which way and kids — often fully dressed — cannot resist getting soaked. Once in a while a huge flood of water pours down. It’s an odd and humorous form of city art combined with performance and participation art. It’s highly entertaining to watch and a great photo op for anyone with a camera. It’s a “can’t miss” for making funny and unique pictures.
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Most aggravating slide show format ever! Ahhh!
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Nice, John, makes me wish I was a kid again. Now, all we’ve got here are those $60 entry fees to Wet ‘N Wild or Six Flags. Garrrgh.
Great candids John. We have several water fountains in Portland Oregon that invite similar participation on the occasional hot summer day. Keep photos coming.
#1 – Geez. You’re easily aggravated.
I like the article and the little slide-show applet – very nice photographs
#1 — it’s an experimental way to show pics…It should be scrolled way down next time you come to the blog.
It’s not “art”–it’s a water park that lets people cool down on a hot day. Let’s keep the description simple.
John–the slide show would be better if it was like most slide shows–under the control of the viewer.
want to make money.
Make a CHEAP water proofing material for BOOKS.
#8 — if you simply click on it then it becomes under your control. Cripes.
Cranky people. But seriously the wall images remind me of Big Brother, Orwell would love this park.
Sorry, didn’t mean to be cranky. It’s just that–as an engineer–poorly designed things annoy me. . . (The slide show is fine after you click it, but adds an unnecessary step to the process, IMHO.) Which is strange, as my current job involves supporting Lotus Notes!
#12 – Lotus Notes? No wonder you’re cranky.
#12 sweet mary – Lotus Notes? You get a pass for being cranky!
#8 – It is art.
#12, 13, 14 – Outlook sucks and I’d sacrifice a kitten to work in an office that used Lotus Notes.
#John C. Dvorak – Thanks for the lovely slides, and thank you for providing yet one more to an already long list of reasons why Chicago is the greatest city on Earth. You are truly a divine from God to all of mankind.
15. Quit sucking up.
#16 – Sucking up to who?
I wouldn’t have even posted had this been Newark or Flagstaff.
Anyone recall? It was about 1-2 years ago the cops were telling us we couldn’t take pictures of the artwork on the monoliths in Millenium Park — the city claimed the *view* was copyrighted! They’d snag your camera if your weren’t careful. Is taking pictures of “our” park legal again?
17. whom
18. Hmmm, Chicago, maybe not so great? copyrighted views?
This is not interesting and I live in Chicago.
20: Yup, they actually pulled that stunt. Dunno what happened after that. Guards/cops would come running up to block your camera.
It’s not an unusual concept — for private business owners who don’t understand copyright — for a store clerk to come running out to tell you you can’t take pictures of the exterior of the store. The Alley on Clark street, for instance, will go nuts if you stand on the sidewalk and pull out a camera. People do think they own the view.
But the City of Chicago? I assume someone straightened them out on this subject. Or maybe not. Chicago is semi-fascist, has been for, well, ever.
Puts me in mind of the filming of “Batman Begins” a couple years back. They were filming the highway chase sequence on Route 41 near Waukeegan, and I *heard* — didn’t see — that cops were confiscating cameras if anyone took a shot. I don’t know if they were private or real cops. Point is, people do think they own the view. I think they cite the common law principle of “I have a gun and a badge, and you don’t”.
21: We never look at the stuff we walk by every day. I assume New Yorkers think the Statue of Liberty is boring.
#22 – Chicago is semi-fascist, has been for, well, ever.
I have been sentenced to live in Indianapolis. You are wrong. You are oh so very, very wrong.
And I’ll happily fight you (with Marcus of Queensbury rules, of course) to prove my point.
24: Well, I don’t know if Indy is more fascist. If we’re gonna have a competition, we have to set some rules. I’m defining it as Mussolini did, and he did invent the term.
But we are a one-party corporate police state, and it’s never going to change. People LIKE one party police city-states. They’re peaceful. We have one man one vote rule: Daley is the man, and he has the vote. We’re the most Republican Democratic city in the country.
I’ll probably be leaving Chicago soon; the real estate is too high priced to afford, and the rents are skyrocketing because of the slowdown in condo purchases as people wait for price drops. I need to make 100K a year or it’s time to for me to boogie to a city that isn’t trying to turn into South Highland Park.