I went for a walk today, and I took my camera with me. I went to Millennium Park and I took some pictures of the Cloud Gate.
Few Chicagoans would know what the Cloud Gate was though -- everyone here knows it as "The Bean". And what's with this Millennium This and Millennium That? Millennium Dome and Millennium Bridge in London (the former a sad tale of mismanagement, and the latter a sad tale of mis-engineering), Millennium Park in Chicago (with a history of huge cost overruns), Millennium Towers all over the place, the Millennium Prize, the Millennium Falcon, the Millennium Bug (and don't even get me started about how that one was misnamed by one year). So I took some pictures of the Millennium Bean.
The inside is particularly interesting. There are at least a dozen tiny reflections of myself.
After dark, the bean reflects the sky in an aesthetically satisfactory manner:
No fair: security people have all the fun, riding on their expensive
Segways (which, by the way, are
as good as banned in the UK -- not that I planned to buy one any time soon:
it costs about twice as much as our car, and we'd need
two of them):
It's quite entertaining to watch people taking picture of their reflections.
By the way, if it's you in the picture and you want the full-size image (eight megapixels) -- or you are a spoilsport and want your image removed -- let me know.
Few Chicagoans would know what the Cloud Gate was though -- everyone here knows it as "The Bean". And what's with this Millennium This and Millennium That? Millennium Dome and Millennium Bridge in London (the former a sad tale of mismanagement, and the latter a sad tale of mis-engineering), Millennium Park in Chicago (with a history of huge cost overruns), Millennium Towers all over the place, the Millennium Prize, the Millennium Falcon, the Millennium Bug (and don't even get me started about how that one was misnamed by one year). So I took some pictures of the Millennium Bean.
The inside is particularly interesting. There are at least a dozen tiny reflections of myself.
After dark, the bean reflects the sky in an aesthetically satisfactory manner:
No fair: security people have all the fun, riding on their expensive Segways (which, by the way, are as good as banned in the UK -- not that I planned to buy one any time soon: it costs about twice as much as our car, and we'd need two of them):
It's quite entertaining to watch people taking picture of their reflections.
By the way, if it's you in the picture and you want the full-size image (eight megapixels) -- or you are a spoilsport and want your image removed -- let me know.
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