I can’t remember the name of this huge fountain. It was in downtown Chicago.
It was a hot August day when I saw this in Chicago last summer and I wanted to run through the fountain too.
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8 comments in “Fountain with a live face”
June 24th, 2007 at 3:51 am
Well, there’s certainly a landmark. The trouble is, I just can’t stop staring at it.
June 24th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Quite lovely, except for the strange black rectangle. Does the image on the front change, or is it strictly static?
June 24th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
The fountain image changes constantly. The black mark was likely a square that was changing. What they did was have people go the Chicago Art Museum and make a video of themselves smiling and then pursing their lips. So when their image comes up on the fountain it smiles at first then it purses it lips and water pours out the fountain. It’s marvelous!
June 25th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
yeah, I was going to mention that it spits water of the mouth of the image sometimes. It’s pretty cool. And they continue to change it I think. It’ll be interesting what creative things they do with it in the future.
June 26th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
That is by far the neatest piece of public art I’ve ever seen!
July 5th, 2007 at 10:46 am
Lovely blog and wonderful photography! I’m going to have to visit more often!
July 13th, 2007 at 6:38 am
You have a perfect eye for photography… I can say this is photo has more journalistic side more than just a souvenir photo… I think you are a PRO
June 17th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Wow, this is cool what part of Chicago is this? I lived there for about a year but never remember seeing this before. It does seem a bit odd that people just jump in a public fountain, though. Great pics!
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