Yesterday we drove up to Chicago with our friend Chris Zeager, to pick up his wife from the airport. They used to live in Chicago, so after we picked up Melissa, they gave us a quick tour of the city, showing us a few places where we'd probably enjoy poking around the next time we visit. Usually, we've always just ended up on Michigan ave, which we're pretty familiar with at this point, and the museums. We actually ended up on Michigan ave this time too, but I had never gone to see the giant bean sculpture thing up-close before. It's really reflective, and kinda crazy. I actually almost started feeling sick when I walked under it and looked up, it's kinda weird. It's called the "Cloud Gate" - cost $23 million, and was constructed betwen 2002 - 2006. That's a lot of money. It could have supplied our entire support at the Château for 270 years. Or purchased about 150 homes in Winona Lake. Or drilled new wells for 1,500 villages in the C.A.R. Hope it was worth it. Here are a few pics from Michigan Ave:
And here's a picture, also on Michigan Ave, of a corn hole competition area. And I thought it was just a small town phenomenon. If like me, you hadn't heard of corn hole before this spring, here's a link for you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_hole
Monday, September 24, 2007
Chicago
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Corn Hole? You mean, Bean Bag Toss, right? Was this a permanent Corn Hole court? Boy, between this and the bean sculpture, ya gotta wonder about Chicago's priorities! Although good old Portland has the Portlandia sculptue, which is a very large statue of a woman kneeling down like she's playing marbles, but they mounted it on a ledge a couple of stories up, then planted trees along the sidewalk next to it, so you can't actually SEE the Portlandia statue. Hmmm. Our tax dollars at work, once again.
I bet other cities have rediculous examples of public art as well.
thanks for the link... it counted as my 'useless peice of info' for the day...and here is one for you.
everyone in korea (including the government) is convinced that being locked in a room with a moving fan will result in death. they call it "fan death", no joke.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death
Yah, what's with corn hole? I had a bean bag toss at my grandma's when I was a kid...I didn't know there were so many terms and rules, though!
In Austin, we have a series of big blue rectangles mounted on the side of a retaining wall along Lamar just south of Fifth Street...I don't even want to know what they paid for them...or why...
:)
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