Hello.
I am here in Chicago Illinois
and I am on my way to one of the staple attractions here in Chicago
which is the Millennium Park.
there are a bunch of different structures and art
and sculptures from artists all around the world
and being this one of them.
Cloud Gate is an art structure
which was made by the world renowned artist Amish Kapoor.
Cloud Gate is its original name
but it has been nicknamed the bean
because well, you know.
The sculpture was inspired by liquid mercury.
It is meant to reflect the cityscape as you can see in the background there
and it distorts it and it looks really cool.
So, the bean is a very popular attraction here
and as you can see there's no really anybody around
so, pro tip, if you would like to beat the crowds here at the bean
then you need to wake up at the crack of dawn
and show up before sunrise
or you could also come at night
and there probably won't be as many people either.
I am now at the next structure which is the Jay Pritzker Pavilion
this was designed by Frank Gehry.
I've actually been to another Frank Gehry structure
it was the Biomuseo, Biomuseum in english
and that is in Panama,
I have a whole video about it so I'll put a link in the description
so you can also check that out.
You can definitely tell that this is a Frank Gehry design
by all the curves and stuff that you see here.
They will host concerts here
I've heard that they have even like yoga classes and activities like that.
Even though this is outdoors, the acoustics were designed
so that it sounds like you are inside,
like you are inside of a theater
and that is awesome. I'm sure it's really cool to come to an event here.
This behind me is the BP pedestrian bridge
which was also designed by Frank Gehry
and you can tell because of this stainless steel curving form that it has,
it almost is snake like and that is very like Frank Gehry.
This bridge goes over the highway
and it serves as a sound barrier
so that the noise from the traffic does not interfere
with the performances going on in the Jay Pritzker Pavilion.
These three sculptures that are behind me were made by Chakaia Booker.
They are made entirely from old rubber tires and stainless steel.
This sculpture back here is called the crown fountain
and there's actually this one and that one.
This piece was made by a conceptual artist Jaume Plensa who is Catalan
What's interesting about this is that it's called the crown fountain,
doesn't look like fountain but it is.
It has a tiny little little fountain right there, like a little hole
where every five minutes or so it will spread out water
and the faces that you see will actually have their lips like
so that it looks like they're spitting water onto whoever is standing in front of it
I know, weird it's weird.
So these tall sculptures are actually screens
and they will display different faces,
so right now there's this face
and it's actually a short video clip
so if you watch closely, even though it looks like she's just like
she is actually moving and you'll see them blinking.
There are a bunch of different faces that were recorded
so every time that you come back to the park
you'll probably see a different face that you've never seen before.
There are a lot of things to see here in the Millennium Park
but the last thing that I want to show you is this ice skating rink
because you can actually come here and ice skate.
Sadly, I won't be ice skating today because I have other things I got to do,
so I am going to wrap up this video
but before I do fun fact, Millennium Park is actually considered
one of the largest green roofs in the world
because the park is actually built on top of parking garages
so it's actually the roof of a structure.
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And if you ever find yourself in Chicago
then you definitely have to make a stop at Millennium Park,
it's really nice, you can go here every day if you want and just walk around,
it's really relaxing.
Anyway, I'm gonna go now.
So, I will see you when I see you, bye!
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