@@HeyMavDak looks aren't exclusive... Multiple things can look alike... Either way the artist was inspired by liquid mercury as they stated. Look up what liquid mercury looks like.
remember that Kippur really likes it when you call it the bean! he also encourages you to touch and kiss it, make sure to bring some pinkest pink paint as well!
Artist: I give you, "Cloud Gate"! Chicagoans: Oh no, dat ain't how this works, we get to decide what it's called, and it's called "The Bean"! Also, may God have mercy on your soul if you ask which way to get to Willis Tower!
Kippur loves for it to be called the bean and when people Google him to find out how loved he is by art fans in general. What a generous, understanding person.
lmfaoo i hope this is sarcasm becase amish kippur HATES when ppl call it the bean (which is why i exclusively call it the bean) and is a piece of shit artist hated by the art community LOLL
That isn't all that they realize Chicago has wasted money on. The city wastes Illinois entire budget on a daily and they still have the nerve to call Springfield the capital of Illinois
Homeless are too busy taking fentanyl to notice. Whether you like that particular art piece or not, my opinion is art is a FAR better investment than spending money on jobless addicts who don’t want to get better.
Homeless need forever tremendous money. Not homeless need enjoy some joy at the city. Don't pretend you are so philanthropic. You are just complaint anything.
As a Chicagoan, I never really thought about "The Bean's" value before, but the sculpture, and Millennium Park where it resides, is so immensely popular as a tourist destination that I'm sure the resulting tourism revenue it contributes for Chicago has made it worth the investment.
I didn't even know you could go under it but that's definitely the best part. I've only ever seen it from the side but the say it reflects itself from below is actually pretty dang cool!
It is because of the shape. I've never heard anyone call it "Cloud Gate" except for Kapoor because it's just more convenient to call it the Bean and screw what that guy thinks. he's kind of a dick
@@carstarsarstenstesenn oh you sweet summer child. Some people may call it the bean because of that, but others call it that because of something else. Why do you think that he went "tickle tickle" when he went under it?
When it was first there I was not a fan, but it grew on me slowly. Then when I saw the influence it had on people, looking at their reflection, taking selfies, having fun and interacting with the sculpture, I really changed my mind. Bean ❤️
I feel the same way. Then I walked over to the fountains. I watched all the kids screaming when they stood next to the wall and the water just dumped on them like they were in a waterfall and they are screaming and they run when it shuts off and it comes out of the mouth like a fire hose and they are all screaming and laughing. I sat there for a long time watching them and their parents. Quietly I was smiling. And then I really looked at the kids with their families only to run back to the fountain. And the kids were of every color and age, from all over the world and the faces on the fountains are all chicagoans. And I thought to myself for some weird reason... This is real democracy. Everyone of us from all over this great country and from all over the world, playing and laughing. All together. We all are the world and we have some much in common and when I am there every single time i think about the beauty of the world. Of every single one of us from everywhere and all together.... It is so beautiful. Democracy is beautiful.
As an artist I feel my feelings for "The Bean" are self explanatory. And if you don't know the beef between "The Bean"s creator and the WHOLE artist community, go read up on it. It's insane.
@a s CLICKBAIT?!? Or what else do you call it in English when someone says something and then the content is only trying to make puns instead of actually talk about the topic ie, the title of the video !?
@@alexaecho4273 typical Millenials or Gen Z incomplete sentences and broken off thoughts, as if thinking outloud --becomes norm, plus it's a "Shorts" so it's not possible to do long.
@@teffley2766Duh!! 🙄 you don't understand English "shorts" or "long" meant? 😂 It's RUclips Shorts. It's not called "RUclips longs" 😝 😂 The regular RUclips is for long / longer videos. ☝️
It’s one of Chicago’s great pieces of outdoor art. I particularly like the Chagall mosaic of the four seasons and Joan Miro’s Woman with Her Arms Outstretched which seems to be waving Hi to the Chicago Picasso. You should cover them all. Was some of the $23 Million for reinforcement of the underground parking garage. I was a CTA Volunteer Culture Bus Commentator for 4 seasons in the 1980’s and just love the city’s history.
I LOVE the bean. It breaks my brain every time I look at it. And it's such a good place to look at the skyline of Chicago with its fascinating architecture.
@@silvershelbygt5006 The GT500 is also high art on varying levels...the car, the design, the symbol, the freedom, and the NOW of cruising the roads.... to name but a few 🎆🎇😎
I watched this being built from my office window over a period of months. Very interesting. Millennium Park drew the construction of a whole new neighborhood of townhouses, condos and apartments, greatly increasing the city’s tax revenue.
That’s only partially true. You’re forgetting to mention the billions of dollars the city spent, how it went over budget, how friends of the mayors were given contracts, and how taxes where siphoned from low income neighborhoods to fund this project in the richest parts of the city.
I'm trying to figure out why some people think that "the bean" and the "ass-inine" comment are about the same body part 🤦♀️ no one calls the bean and the @ss the same thing 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
The grudge story behind the artist and Vanta Black.. then "the blackest black" and later "the pinkest pink" is also quite hilarious. Anish Kapoor tried to copyright a color and make it so he'd be the only one that could use it.
Chicago born and raised and when I tell you no matter what time of year it is that bean is surrounded by people taking pictures in front of it All the time
I was thinking about how when I was little, people flocked to Chicago to see the museums and the big thrill attractions were the Sears Tower and Buckingham Fountain. But you hardly hear tourists talk about those anymore. Now it's specifically The Bean and the water wall at Millennium Park that everyone wants to see if they come to the city. And what do all those tourists also do while they're here? Go spend money at shops, restaurants, concerts, theater, sporting events, museums etc. Big money generators for the city...well along with all the tax revenue, parking fees and assorted real estate development kickbacks. lol
Hello fellow Chicagon. Used to live there before the move. But yeah you're right. I remember being an extra and filming there. We got some tourists in but at least there were signs and stuff. Hopefully winter isn't too bad this year.
@@sevinaroseman5595 I think part of it could be the trolley shutdown. There used to be a free trolley that used to run from museum to museum daily. I used to go to the Field Museum a lot of the time when I went downtown as a kid. I believe it was Daley that shut it down.
You should become a contractor and try to make such projects after few years and check if you go bankrupt or not because of not finishing the project because of cost overrun.
Just so you know, if you ever come, bring hand sanitizer. I used to live in uptown Chicago and the bean is very gross, with fingerprints everywhere. People touch the bean all the time, so dispite being cleaned every day, it still gets dirty quick.
That bean has brought tourist revenue 100 times more than they spent to make it. Chicago spent almost half billion dollars to build millennium park alone(not grant park) and Anish Kapoor was given very small budget (less than 5%) to fill an empty space and that was not even meant to be a highlight. He created history, and also imagine how much other architects got to spent in rest of the millennium park.
You could also cancel all sports events to make all cities safer. Hey, close all parks, museums, Amusement barks, bars, restaurants, and out all that money into safety.
Never seen it, never heard of it, never been to Chicago either, but my first reaction was, "I love it!" I would go to Chicago just to see/touch it, and I am sure there are many like me. A tourist magnet like that must be worth its weight in gold.
I think in my Art Appreciation class we went over (part of the lecture/textbook) the Bean. My family and I also went to Chicago once but I don’t remember seeing it XP
Next to the Bean is a very nice fountain called the Millennium Monument, it's where my parents got married. I even remember my mother having pancakes across the street the morning before the ceremony, in her wedding dress.
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 oh, fuck him then. Agreed that he is a prick. So sick of these "creative minds" not being able to accept such a simple concept.
@@livewiiiiire Anish Kapoor is one of the richest artists alive right now but he can be a dick with his money. He bought the "blackest black" color and has a monopoly on the “Blackest Material In The Universe." It was cool technology when it released but when he bought it he basically banned other artists from using that paint. Thankfully there's been even blacker paint released since then but still a dick move on Kapoor's part. I will say not everything he does is bad. he did actually stop the NRA from using his art in their film, on the basis of copyright (with the help of laywers) so I respect him for that.
@@Azeminad IDC about that, politics don't dictate if you're a good person or not. The entire US gov is a corrupt scam that both sides are in on, pitting red vs blue just makes them more money.
The Homeless Services budget gets tens of millions of dollars a year also it wasn't built by the city (they just provided a lot of funds) also homelessness was far less than it is today in 2006 so your point is stupid.
It’s the bean. If you call it anything else you’re making an asshole happy, and you are morally obligated to do everything in your power to annoy assholes in ways that don’t affect anyone else.
Actually it brings in a fair bit of money every year due to tourism and also gives people jobs I.E cleaning and maintenance. So it isn’t a waste of money
@@livewiiiiire Exactly! Tourist destinations such as this one helps a lot. Because there's an increase in the number of visitors, it gives opportunities for locals to open businesses which also increases job opportunities helping the economy as a whole! The funds weren't solely from tax payers but private donors as well, still a lot of money tho.
Worth every penny. Can you imagine a completely different world, where instead of spending money to help 1% of the population accrue the vast majority of the wealth, cities were filled with art and parks.
I love being up there by it and taking pictures. It's beautiful. I love Millennium Park in downtown Chicago. It's also very close to the beach which I loved as well.
As a Chicagoan, I never liked it because it was built in a period when the mayor was destroying all the lakefront amenities that the locals enjoyed and needed as highrise residents in favor of tourist-y garbage that didn't increase tourism and was mostly money being laundered back into politicians pockets.
Given the finishing and polishing involved, either the flux or backpurging materials to weld stainless correctly, the welding itself, the purchase and forming of that steel, transport, installation, approvals, the design, amount of people involved in making it happen and a whole lot more steps in making that thing to go where it goes, that's probably realistic pricing. I hope it's filled with argon to this day.
I think it's fucking cool and I've never seen anything like that. I like the fact that it's so symmetrically smooth that you cannot tell a weld anywhere which is probably its true craftsmanship.
I don't know about the 23mil to make it. That seems like a lot but the sculpture is really cool. That's a badass sculpture that you can interact with and reflects the skyline really well.
“Inspired by liquid mercury” now I understand why he had that idea.
Huh?
@@HeyMavDak it looks like liquid mercury.
@@sapphirejones7302 It looks like solid stainless steel.
@@HeyMavDak looks aren't exclusive... Multiple things can look alike... Either way the artist was inspired by liquid mercury as they stated. Look up what liquid mercury looks like.
@@sapphirejones7302 It doesn't look liquid.
Flickin the bean
Ahhh those where the days…. Too bad about all the drama
@@rushoflife2368 Huh??
@@rushoflife2368 what drama
Winner of the comments section 🤣🤣🤣
@ally....😁😁😁😁
remember that Kippur really likes it when you call it the bean! he also encourages you to touch and kiss it, make sure to bring some pinkest pink paint as well!
I like you.
You, my guy, are a man of culture
I was looking for a comment like this
@@tucoravid3510 so was I, but I didn't find one; really sucks because that means that there aren't many people that know proper bean etiquette
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grew up in Chicago and that's The Bean. no sensible person would entertain any other name
I’m from Chicago and I always call it Cloud Gate. As someone who’s not a fan of Anish Kapoor, I fully support people calling it The Bean
@@notsopunk you're not from Chicago, you're a liar and a shill. As someone who's ACTUALLY from Chicago I can, in fact, confirm we call it the bean.
Artist: I give you, "Cloud Gate"!
Chicagoans: Oh no, dat ain't how this works, we get to decide what it's called, and it's called "The Bean"! Also, may God have mercy on your soul if you ask which way to get to Willis Tower!
@@Zinervawyrm Sears tower. 😤😤😤
same!! i love the bean, really brings me back
Bruh man got me dying when he said "boop! Tickle, tickle, tickle" 💀😂
Now I can’t see the bottom of the bean the same no more😢😂😂
Right
Wouldn't "peg" it to be called a bean... LMAO..I died.
I was wondering if anyone else recognized the pegging joke 😂
@@DuckInGameStop Especially after the 2-finger action "✌✌tickle tickle" 😂😂
@@DuckInGameStop is it sex?
@@Oxygenationatom yeah it's sex
Get your mind out the gutter
*creates giant bean-shaped structure*
Kapoor: "no you can't call it the bean! That's asinine."
hes kapoor?
@@welwitschia3756 not this channel no 😭
The dude that made it HATES that people call it “The Bean” lol
Nah he loves it, he's also a really huge fan of pinkest pink paint and black 3.0 paint!
which makes it all the better to call it that. fuck the artist who made it.
I'm sure he does lol
I'm sure he hates all the money he made from it too lol. NOT
That's not true: ruclips.net/video/g1FrNzED8DU/видео.html
Kippur loves for it to be called the bean and when people Google him to find out how loved he is by art fans in general. What a generous, understanding person.
(sarcasm, sourced from my many Chicago friends)
If you respect him so much, how about you start by not completely butchering his name?
lmfaoo i hope this is sarcasm becase amish kippur HATES when ppl call it the bean (which is why i exclusively call it the bean) and is a piece of shit artist hated by the art community LOLL
@@korpakukac its not that serious
@@korpakukac its sarcasm, and was done on purpose 🤣 you must be a kippur lover
The homeless people in Chicago realizing how much money went into a bean
That isn't all that they realize Chicago has wasted money on. The city wastes Illinois entire budget on a daily and they still have the nerve to call Springfield the capital of Illinois
Wrong move 23 million boy, do you how many people could have been helped with $$$??
That money is nothing compared to what we’re sending to fight a war of attrition.
Homeless are too busy taking fentanyl to notice.
Whether you like that particular art piece or not, my opinion is art is a FAR better investment than spending money on jobless addicts who don’t want to get better.
Homeless need forever tremendous money. Not homeless need enjoy some joy at the city. Don't pretend you are so philanthropic. You are just complaint anything.
As a Chicagoan, I never really thought about "The Bean's" value before, but the sculpture, and Millennium Park where it resides, is so immensely popular as a tourist destination that I'm sure the resulting tourism revenue it contributes for Chicago has made it worth the investment.
Thank you and vloger was saying he is stupid for building it!
As a fellow Chicagoan you and I both know that revenue hasn't touched anything but pockets and downtown
@@shogunofsorrow787 yeah and with the shit that Rahm pulled where he cut mental health resources from the south and west side
Exactly, people go see it still. I see it everyday.
its looks really cool when you’re under the bean in person
It sure does
😂😂😂 underrated comment
I didn't even know you could go under it but that's definitely the best part. I've only ever seen it from the side but the say it reflects itself from below is actually pretty dang cool!
... and she loves it.
@@spiwolf6998did your marriage suffer?
Bruh 🤣 tickle tickle
What about when he emphasized *peg* 💀
He is a virgin
@@75PERCENTCOPPER or when he said “asinine”, emphasizing “ass”. 😂
lol
I was about to come up with more puns but I decided to pull out before it’s too late.
I saw it this summer for the first time and was far more awe struck than I thought I would be. Love it.
Born and raised in Chicago and I absolutely love playing tourist downtown and taking pictures with the bean ❤️
Aw , as a born chicagoan im 27 and i dont get tired of visiting the bean ❤ its beautiful
It generally has good reviews, doesn't it? Seems to be visited by a lot of people.
Dude had the opportunity and took it to make a pegging and flicking the Bean joke all in one video.
today I found out why people actually call it the bean. i just thought it was because of the shape of the sculpture
Is it not? Why else would you call it a bean?
It is because of the shape. I've never heard anyone call it "Cloud Gate" except for Kapoor because it's just more convenient to call it the Bean and screw what that guy thinks. he's kind of a dick
@@carstarsarstenstesenn oh you sweet summer child. Some people may call it the bean because of that, but others call it that because of something else.
Why do you think that he went "tickle tickle" when he went under it?
@@wyatts400 how old are you? Depending on your answer I'll tell you why they call it that.
@@carstarsarstenstesenn you've never heard the term, flicking the bean? The it is probably just you. There's tons of people that call it that.
“i wouldn’t peg this” “*ass*enine” 😂😂😂
are you a child
He's referring to the lady bits not the prostate. Though both could apply the outside is reminiscent of a womb.
Yeah, this kinda made me cringe for the lacking sexual education in the younger generations...
@@dreaminlayers I know right? What are they teaching?
@@bessevaraven859 it’s literally a butt joke but thank you for the correction
When it was first there I was not a fan, but it grew on me slowly. Then when I saw the influence it had on people, looking at their reflection, taking selfies, having fun and interacting with the sculpture, I really changed my mind. Bean ❤️
Flick it!
I feel the same way. Then I walked over to the fountains. I watched all the kids screaming when they stood next to the wall and the water just dumped on them like they were in a waterfall and they are screaming and they run when it shuts off and it comes out of the mouth like a fire hose and they are all screaming and laughing. I sat there for a long time watching them and their parents. Quietly I was smiling. And then I really looked at the kids with their families only to run back to the fountain. And the kids were of every color and age, from all over the world and the faces on the fountains are all chicagoans. And I thought to myself for some weird reason... This is real democracy. Everyone of us from all over this great country and from all over the world, playing and laughing. All together. We all are the world and we have some much in common and when I am there every single time i think about the beauty of the world. Of every single one of us from everywhere and all together.... It is so beautiful. Democracy is beautiful.
I felt the same way.
As an artist I feel my feelings for "The Bean" are self explanatory.
And if you don't know the beef between "The Bean"s creator and the WHOLE artist community, go read up on it. It's insane.
You started talking about how it’s cleaned every day and then cut yourself off. Would have liked to hear more about that.
@a s CLICKBAIT?!? Or what else do you call it in English when someone says something and then the content is only trying to make puns instead of actually talk about the topic ie, the title of the video !?
@@alexaecho4273 typical Millenials or Gen Z incomplete sentences and broken off thoughts, as if thinking outloud --becomes norm, plus it's a "Shorts" so it's not possible to do long.
@@goldHydrangeas bro look at what you just wrote. What does "not possible to do long" even mean
@@teffley2766it means it's not possible to continue it for an extended period of time
@@teffley2766Duh!! 🙄 you don't understand English "shorts" or "long" meant? 😂
It's RUclips Shorts. It's not called "RUclips longs" 😝 😂
The regular RUclips is for long / longer videos. ☝️
It’s one of Chicago’s great pieces of outdoor art. I particularly like the Chagall mosaic of the four seasons and Joan Miro’s Woman with Her Arms Outstretched which seems to be waving Hi to the Chicago Picasso.
You should cover them all.
Was some of the $23 Million for reinforcement of the underground parking garage.
I was a CTA Volunteer Culture Bus Commentator for 4 seasons in the 1980’s and just love the city’s history.
I LOVE the bean. It breaks my brain every time I look at it. And it's such a good place to look at the skyline of Chicago with its fascinating architecture.
What do I think? For that sum of money I instantly think of money laundering.
It's art.
"boop, tickle, tickle, tickle"😂😂😂
I love how you booped it and tickled it out loud in front of everyone. I'd love to hang out with you lol!
Lololol
This is the art of the now, where it adds to the environment by reflecting what is the present
That's some highbrow nonsense right there.
dude hits blunts* that's so deep
@@silvershelbygt5006 The GT500 is also high art on varying levels...the car, the design, the symbol, the freedom, and the NOW of cruising the roads.... to name but a few 🎆🎇😎
@@clown134 Making Bhang and blunt rolling are also fine arts.... plus you are an artist yourself 👍🎆💯
You know what else reflects the present? a mirror
I didn't realize how famous this anish kapoor is. The last time I heard about his name was yesterday on vanta black.
Ah yes, one of my all time favorite art feuds! I’m painting right now with Stemple’s black 3.0 and it’s fantastic.
I watched this being built from my office window over a period of months. Very interesting. Millennium Park drew the construction of a whole new neighborhood of townhouses, condos and apartments, greatly increasing the city’s tax revenue.
That’s only partially true. You’re forgetting to mention the billions of dollars the city spent, how it went over budget, how friends of the mayors were given contracts, and how taxes where siphoned from low income neighborhoods to fund this project in the richest parts of the city.
@@grontelp77 Well, I didn’t want to gloat . . .
Nice to see investment in the city.
It’s darn cool! That’s the kind of thing that brings tourists and is extremely interesting. Well done Anish!
Learning about this from Tumblr first then seeing this video made me expect jokes and reactions in the comment section that weren't there :(
Same
I'm trying to figure out why some people think that "the bean" and the "ass-inine" comment are about the same body part 🤦♀️ no one calls the bean and the @ss the same thing 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
i like your shoelaces
It'd be nice in pink I bet
@@justanotherfabulouskilljoy you can also buy them for $19
Living in chicago. The bean is nice and attracts tourist
Your gun violence does the opposite.
@@kensims4086 Why do you have to be a twat?
@@kensims4086 I'm sure the tourists love visting Englewood.
@@kensims4086 tourists dont go to areas with gun violence, silly. thats for us poor people.
The grudge story behind the artist and Vanta Black.. then "the blackest black" and later "the pinkest pink" is also quite hilarious.
Anish Kapoor tried to copyright a color and make it so he'd be the only one that could use it.
It’s unique. Flawlessly crafted. It’s beautiful.
Very nice choice of diction.
“Tickle tickle” lol
Chicago born and raised and when I tell you no matter what time of year it is that bean is surrounded by people taking pictures in front of it All the time
Like wvery single tourist attraction or monument in the world... annoying for the locals sometimes
@@reneeleese as a local it don't bother me cuz i don't go downtown that often but u are def right lol
I was thinking about how when I was little, people flocked to Chicago to see the museums and the big thrill attractions were the Sears Tower and Buckingham Fountain. But you hardly hear tourists talk about those anymore. Now it's specifically The Bean and the water wall at Millennium Park that everyone wants to see if they come to the city. And what do all those tourists also do while they're here? Go spend money at shops, restaurants, concerts, theater, sporting events, museums etc. Big money generators for the city...well along with all the tax revenue, parking fees and assorted real estate development kickbacks. lol
Hello fellow Chicagon. Used to live there before the move. But yeah you're right. I remember being an extra and filming there. We got some tourists in but at least there were signs and stuff.
Hopefully winter isn't too bad this year.
@@sevinaroseman5595 I think part of it could be the trolley shutdown. There used to be a free trolley that used to run from museum to museum daily. I used to go to the Field Museum a lot of the time when I went downtown as a kid. I believe it was Daley that shut it down.
I like the bean, but 23 million??? I know a guy in Louisiana who will weld you anything for a fraction of that :D
Hell do it for 10k a case of smoke boudin, deer sausage, and some liquor
Hahahaha!!!
You should become a contractor and try to make such projects after few years and check if you go bankrupt or not because of not finishing the project because of cost overrun.
@@nochance3914 Dude. Obviously. It's a *joke.*
@@MarkArandjus right it’s just a joke he must not be from the south or have a sense of humor
As someone who had to polish rusty old transparent plastic molds, the Bean brings me immense satisfaction.
Love the subtle jokes you slipped in there
It’s beautiful, clean, pristine, and well crafted.
Everything Kapoor isn't
Completely pointless. Coulda spent that money on better things
secret party room inside...did you find secret door???
$23 million? Someone got robbed and somebody's now rich.
THE END.
*Chicago had 60 Million visitors in Pre-Pandemic 2019......*
*I'll willing to bet "A Good%"*
*Visited said- Bean"*
*Defense Rests....*
what?
I can only think of the Dresden files when I see that sculpture. It's full of magic in my mind.
I love it. The bean has anchored the park and led to further public space development and brought Chicago to life.
Definitely on the to visit list soon!
Just so you know, if you ever come, bring hand sanitizer. I used to live in uptown Chicago and the bean is very gross, with fingerprints everywhere. People touch the bean all the time, so dispite being cleaned every day, it still gets dirty quick.
The bean. Love it. Nuff said.
I'm so lucky to live in Chicago but most folks forget about the lakefront
How lucky it is to have most of lakefront as public land.
Researchers in the future will say aliens built it
I think its much cooler after watching your video
For 23 million could help pay police officers to make Chicago a safer place.
That bean has brought tourist revenue 100 times more than they spent to make it. Chicago spent almost half billion dollars to build millennium park alone(not grant park) and Anish Kapoor was given very small budget (less than 5%) to fill an empty space and that was not even meant to be a highlight. He created history, and also imagine how much other architects got to spent in rest of the millennium park.
You could also cancel all sports events to make all cities safer. Hey, close all parks, museums, Amusement barks, bars, restaurants, and out all that money into safety.
Everyone MUST go to see it. It is fucking magnificent. Also the underside is just mind bending for me
Never seen it, never heard of it, never been to Chicago either, but my first reaction was, "I love it!" I would go to Chicago just to see/touch it, and I am sure there are many like me. A tourist magnet like that must be worth its weight in gold.
You get it
It makes me uncomfortable that the structure wasn't named "Samsung buds Live". That was a missed opportunity, fellas.
It never fails to amaze me how much money can be wasted by "leadership".
Lol if u talk about the bean you gotta talk about Stuart Semple and all the stuff with vanta black and Pinkest pink!
I always think about that when the bean comes up 😅
I'm happy I was able to see this when I was in high school.
I think in my Art Appreciation class we went over (part of the lecture/textbook) the Bean.
My family and I also went to Chicago once but I don’t remember seeing it XP
Great sculpture, amazing metal work
Next to the Bean is a very nice fountain called the Millennium Monument, it's where my parents got married.
I even remember my mother having pancakes across the street the morning before the ceremony, in her wedding dress.
Cool !
The Whole park is very cool- as is nearby Maggie Daley Park.Well done Mayor Daley II
I had no idea other people called it the bean, I just called it that because it looked like one and I didn’t care enough to find out it’s actual name.
The sculpture is nice but the sculptor is a kind of a prick
Why is that? I haven't ever heard of him outside of this video.
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 oh, fuck him then. Agreed that he is a prick. So sick of these "creative minds" not being able to accept such a simple concept.
@@livewiiiiire he voted republican once in 1976.
@@livewiiiiire Anish Kapoor is one of the richest artists alive right now but he can be a dick with his money. He bought the "blackest black" color and has a monopoly on the “Blackest Material In The Universe." It was cool technology when it released but when he bought it he basically banned other artists from using that paint. Thankfully there's been even blacker paint released since then but still a dick move on Kapoor's part.
I will say not everything he does is bad. he did actually stop the NRA from using his art in their film, on the basis of copyright (with the help of laywers) so I respect him for that.
@@Azeminad IDC about that, politics don't dictate if you're a good person or not. The entire US gov is a corrupt scam that both sides are in on, pitting red vs blue just makes them more money.
Money well spent, bringing amazement and pleasure to the public over the years, and spread over time very cheap, even with the upkeep.
The “BOOO Tickle Tickle Tickle Tickle” was 👁👄👁
23 million dollars that could've gone to addressing the homeless issues and gun violence problems in Chicago....
But oooooh shiny bean!
Maybe "blm" should help out its own community but hey a nice mansion helps.
The Homeless Services budget gets tens of millions of dollars a year also it wasn't built by the city (they just provided a lot of funds) also homelessness was far less than it is today in 2006 so your point is stupid.
Well worth it. One of the coolest sculptures!
Indian Parent of Kapoor : I send him US to do Engineering and he did this.
Takes flickin the bean to another level lol
I saw an article once about the interior of the Bean. If you can find it, there is a neat story about whats inside.
Most people in Chicago live below the poverty line but no let's make a bean.
Most people? Where did you get that fun fact?
@@debralarocco7110 Also even it was it wasn't built by the city they just proved some funds
Why the Tide ?
I know, right? Left us hanging! The tide “restores the surface to its mirror like stats”
it wouldn't be so shiny after all these years if it wasn't washed consistently
It’s the bean.
If you call it anything else you’re making an asshole happy, and you are morally obligated to do everything in your power to annoy assholes in ways that don’t affect anyone else.
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28million could've went to community help. Chicago needs it.
It did go to the community.
People from all the neighborhoods come to millennium park to relax.
My favorite trick at the Bean is to click a picture of your reflection without the phone being visible.
As somoneone who lives in Chicago, it's become a normal thing to watch people get arrested for fighting near the bean almost daily
Waste of money!!!
Totally agree!
Actually it brings in a fair bit of money every year due to tourism and also gives people jobs I.E cleaning and maintenance. So it isn’t a waste of money
Not really, but definitely a waste of resources
nice but a alot of people are starving
I agree or the material could have been use for housing
Cannot agree more. It was my first thought. $26 MILLION could have helped a whole lot of people currently.
But building and maintaining it gave work to many people who have families to feed as well.
It probably also brings in money for the city and local businesses through tourism
@@livewiiiiire Exactly! Tourist destinations such as this one helps a lot. Because there's an increase in the number of visitors, it gives opportunities for locals to open businesses which also increases job opportunities helping the economy as a whole! The funds weren't solely from tax payers but private donors as well, still a lot of money tho.
Worth every penny. Can you imagine a completely different world, where instead of spending money to help 1% of the population accrue the vast majority of the wealth, cities were filled with art and parks.
I'm from Chicago and we love our Bean :)
i’m more impressed by the welders who welded this thing flawlessly
That thing is so weird in person. One of my favorite stops in Chicago.
as a Chicagoan, this is a huge thing people come from all over the world to see. it really is breathtaking how big it is.
that's what she said, so I zipped up 😁
I love being up there by it and taking pictures. It's beautiful. I love Millennium Park in downtown Chicago. It's also very close to the beach which I loved as well.
As a Chicagoan, I never liked it because it was built in a period when the mayor was destroying all the lakefront amenities that the locals enjoyed and needed as highrise residents in favor of tourist-y garbage that didn't increase tourism and was mostly money being laundered back into politicians pockets.
You Dont see a seam … because all of the welds were polished to a mirror finish !
Given the finishing and polishing involved, either the flux or backpurging materials to weld stainless correctly, the welding itself, the purchase and forming of that steel, transport, installation, approvals, the design, amount of people involved in making it happen and a whole lot more steps in making that thing to go where it goes, that's probably realistic pricing. I hope it's filled with argon to this day.
I think it's fucking cool and I've never seen anything like that. I like the fact that it's so symmetrically smooth that you cannot tell a weld anywhere which is probably its true craftsmanship.
This sculpture makes it impossible to directly cross across a large courtyard.
The underside actually reminds me of the abstract imagery of Jean Jacket in Nope.
They spent 23 millions to build sculpture and they got potholes size of Lake Michigan on their streets
Love it, live close to it, and to be honest- your video makes me want to go enjoy it’s art and existence!
First thing I did was visit there when I got to Chicago it's a beautiful peace of art.
I mean it's better than i have seen some recently ❤
Man I haven't been to the Bean in an actual decade, it was cut off from visitors in the quarantine too, miss that weird guy
I love when artists give bullshit reasons for their work.
It's a bean. Dude was motivated/inspired by the commission.
The way he was walking towards them ladies tryna take a picture 😂😂
Listen, as someone who lives in the area, it was so underwhelming.
I don't know about the 23mil to make it. That seems like a lot but the sculpture is really cool. That's a badass sculpture that you can interact with and reflects the skyline really well.
"It's the Bean! It's the Bean!"
I live in Chicago, and I have yet to see The Bean in person.