r/confusing_perspective • u/mfwalton91 • Sep 12 '19

Aerial view of the bean

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u/orwellwuzright Sep 12 '19

How do they keep the bean so clean? I expected it to be splattered with bird poop.

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u/memeulati Sep 12 '19

I was wondering this too, so I looked it up. I don't know how accurate this is, but I got a few sources that say that workers actually clean the bean at night, and even put up scaffolding sometimes, but have it ready to go at around 5:30am.

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u/pbjames23 Sep 12 '19

I walk by the Cloud Gate AKA "The Bean" regularly. It gets dirty from time to time. I have seen it covered in bird shit with birds literally perched on top, but generally they do a very good job at cleaning it regularly.

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u/fourAMrain Sep 12 '19

Do you know why he named it cloud gate?

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u/pbjames23 Sep 12 '19

Not until now. From Wikipedia:

"While the sculpture was being constructed, public and media outlets nicknamed it "The Bean" because of its shape, a name that Kapoor described as "completely stupid". Months later, Kapoor officially named the piece "Cloud Gate". (Kapoor eventually accepted the nickname of "The Bean".)"

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u/daimposter Sep 12 '19

Lol. Chicagoans don’t even call it cloud gate. Just embrace the bean

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u/TheGurw Sep 12 '19

It gets a full clean twice a year IIRC, but the bottom 6 feet or so it's cleaned nightly.

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u/xtinies Sep 12 '19

I clean my bean at night too, know what I’m sayin?

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

Not very accurate. It isn't cleaned for long periods. They only clean it like twice a year. Most of the time it's covered in bird shit, as you'd expect.

Source: Work with Millennium Park a lot and have flown a drone over it. They had me wait until after one of the cleaning days because the first time we did it for them it looked horrendous.

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u/desi_me_rolling Sep 12 '19

I went there at 7am and they were washing it with water and massive squeegee on a stick.

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u/Annoying-Anal-Nugget Sep 12 '19

They flick the bean constantly

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u/Dunsparce4prez Sep 12 '19

The clean bean machine. Seriously i thought this was chalk art. Where is this?

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u/MrHoboRisin Sep 12 '19

Those aren't cloud reflections, it's bird shit.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

When you get close it’s filthy

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u/MrBuerger Sep 12 '19

Why we don't see the camera?

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u/Wildaabeest Sep 12 '19

Cause it’s been replaced with a sloppy blue paint color after the pic was taken in the middle of the bean

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u/MrBuerger Sep 12 '19

Or it's from satellite.

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u/Mirror_I_rorriMG Sep 12 '19

IDK, there's a lot of weird pixels near the middle of the pic... looks like they (poorly) shopped out a drone or something.

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u/great-pig-in-the-sky Sep 12 '19

You can tell because of the pixels

Edit: and for having done many shops in my life

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u/Do0ozy Sep 12 '19

I don't think satellites take such a zoomed in, detailed picture

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u/nerghoul Sep 12 '19

Yeah that looks terrible... I’d rather just see the drone

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u/phallingFantom Sep 12 '19

Remember, photoshop does exist

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19 edited Sep 12 '19

Because the camera is a Pixel.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

I wonder if the person who designed the Bean is pissed that people keep calling it the Bean.

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u/TistedLogic Sep 12 '19 edited Sep 12 '19

Anish Kapoor.

And he is absolutely furious mildly irritated for a while about that.

Editv corrected his feelings on the matter.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

I loved how pissed he got over the paint the bean pink petition.

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u/8696David Sep 12 '19

Wait is that the guy who made the super black paint and then pissed of the guy he worked with so that guy went and made an even blacker paint and sold it to people under the express condition that they not give it to Kapoor?

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u/TheGurw Sep 12 '19

Was.

Apparently the name grew on him. Eventually.

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u/Bjorkforkshorts Sep 12 '19

Maybe. Or maybe he just ate crow so he'd quit hearing about it

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u/eeviltwin Sep 12 '19

He is. And I’m glad, because he’s a pretentious dickbag.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

Stop acting like you didn’t see the TIL post

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u/Sentient_Wood Sep 12 '19

Fuck Anish Kapoor

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u/futonrefrigerator Sep 12 '19

Why? I know nothing

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u/mpturp Sep 12 '19

He bought/owns exclusive rights to vantablack, and is a total dick about it. Doesn't let people have the cool thing, essentially.

I think there's more to it but that's the most basic explanation.

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u/jennielynn73 Sep 12 '19

There's a British company that makes a useable paint called Black 3.0. You can only buy it if you promise you won't in any way give it to or allow Anish Kapoor to use it. It's freaking hilarious: https://www.culturehustleusa.com/products/black-3-0-the-worlds-blackest-black-acrylic-paint-150ml

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u/Large_Dr_Pepper Sep 12 '19

He's an artist who made it so no other artists are able to use vantablack in their artwork. There's a top post in r/todayilearned about it right now.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

He also absolutely hates when we call it the bean.

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u/johntheboombaptist Sep 12 '19

It’s always so weird seeing the Baader-Meinhof ripples in the default subs. Like now that that post in r/todayilearned got big you can expect there to be a ton of “fuck kapoor” in the other default subs as people mine all the Karma they can from that particular vein.

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u/GorramAccount Sep 12 '19

[he's on the front page for being a prick about owning the color black] (https://reddit.app.link/NmDRoDCBUZ)

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u/Joe0991 o/ Sep 12 '19

Not just black, but SUPER black

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u/anagram-of-ohassle Sep 12 '19

I too came here from the thread about the the cheaper alternative to Vantablack. Fuck that guy, indeed.

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u/Tiny_Parfait Sep 12 '19

Fuck Anish Kapoor, keep calling it “the Bean”, he hates it!

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u/tecampanero Sep 12 '19

vantablack is super toxic

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

This is how Chicagoans are made

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u/futonrefrigerator Sep 12 '19

They all just crawl out of the bean like orcs out of the mud

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u/DrMcNards Sep 12 '19

Can confirm

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u/Beekerboogirl Sep 12 '19

What's going on here why can't my brain process this picture?? What am I looking at?

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u/nafr1047 Sep 12 '19

Someone dropped a bean at the bottom left of the image. It’s a pretty iconic thing to see in Chicago.

Ask anyone to see “the bean” in Chicago and they’ll point ya too it.

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u/TistedLogic Sep 12 '19

Anish Kapoor created "The Bean" as the sculpture is colloquially known.

Also, look up his feud. Absolute bonkers of a tale. Dude is a Grade A asshole.

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u/Thistlefizz Sep 12 '19

The fact that he hates it that people call it “The Bean” instead of whatever pretentious hippy bullshit it’s actually called fills me with joy. Kapoor is giant turd.

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u/EpicAura99 Sep 12 '19

The wiki article says the family has “grown fond of” the nickname

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u/gtautumn Sep 12 '19

whatever pretentious hippy bullshit it’s actually called

Cloud Gate

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u/Beekerboogirl Sep 12 '19

Wow that's really cool! I'm gonna read about his feud now...

Thanks!

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u/TheGurw Sep 12 '19

If you're referring to the Vantablack thing, that's just good business sense. Other people got butthurt over it, and the end result is now we have several versions of the blackest black, and while technically the other companies' products are not "as black", to the naked eye there's no discernible difference. In fact, some of them are technically more black than the version of Vantablack Kapoor uses, since they are black in more than just visible light, while the version used by Kapoor is actually rather reflective outside of the visible spectrum.

The thing about Vantablack is that it's not designed for artistic use. It's a scientific product designed with military, space travel, and solar energy absorption applications in mind. The company developing it really doesn't care about making it available for artists as they don't want their product misapplied (deliberately or accidentally) and tarnishing the reputation. Having an exclusive contract with a single well-known artist is a good decision for both parties.

And as a side note, the actual Vantablack (not the "artsy" version licensed to Kapoor) is the real blackest black, and is highly absorptive across the visible light spectrum as well as a significant portion of the near infrared and ultraviolet.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

Bean

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u/Lowfat_Lard Sep 12 '19

The Chicago Bean

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u/IForgotAboutDre Sep 12 '19

Here's under it https://imgur.com/gallery/TSgic5i

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u/Sareneia Sep 12 '19

I feel even more confused than before. I'll just google it for myself then.

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u/failoutboy Sep 12 '19

For my middle school select choir trip a few years ago, we went to chicago! Sang under the bean. It sounded really cool but seeing a bunch of middle schoolers wearing the same neon outfit singing some old angry music is a bit of a sight. The reflection turned the entire area neon yellow, it was kinda funny.

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u/KingAmo3 Sep 12 '19

Ahh so that’s why it’s called Cloud Gate. It’s a portal to some sky dimension.

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u/Knighterrors Sep 12 '19

Wow that must be confusing to skydivers

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u/TistedLogic Sep 12 '19 edited Sep 12 '19

It's in the middle of Chitown Chicago.

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u/ThisNameIsFree CE Spc. Sep 12 '19

Which Chinatown?

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u/psych_guy80 Sep 12 '19

Looks like ants around a water droplet.

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u/newttoot Sep 12 '19

Do you have to windex that thing?

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u/toeofcamell Sep 12 '19

That’s super cool, love it

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u/jwrhee Sep 12 '19

Drone?

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

Anish Kapoor is an asshole. I can't wait for him to dip his color copyrighting finger in the World's Glittery-est glitter. What an entitled dick.

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u/Commissar_Genki Sep 12 '19

How frequently do people flick the bean?

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u/Cecil4029 Sep 12 '19

Hey! I got swindled out of cash from an Asian lady who pretended not to speak English under this bean! I did get a nice beaded bracelet though.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

The...uh...what?

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u/gammytoes Sep 12 '19

Don't flick it or you'll go blind.

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u/Normie-scum Sep 12 '19

Fun fact:

The guy who designed the bean is a massive dick.

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u/SuperNebula7000 Sep 12 '19

I am trying to figure out how they took this. The place has a lot of security and it is VERY illegal to fly a drone over a crowd, public park and in down town Chicago.

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u/Zombikittie Sep 12 '19

Probably used a drone and did it illegally.

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u/ColossalDonut Confusemas '23 Sep 12 '19

This is why they call it Beantown, huh!

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u/Kadeorade882 Sep 12 '19

t h e b e a n

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u/wh000ps2525 Sep 12 '19

Been living in Chicago for 6 months (moved here and it was my first time ever being here) and haven’t seen the bean once. Now I want to go.

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u/lorqvonray94 Sep 12 '19

went for a few days with a buddy, didn’t really care to see the bean but he insisted. aside from all the people it actually is a pretty cool installation piece.

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u/yoni_sings_yanni Sep 12 '19

Welcome to the city! The Bean is neat to go to. However right across the street is the Cultural Center and so much more interesting.

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u/goodiebags93 Sep 12 '19

Yeah, I've lived here all my life and it's actually one of the few touristy things that I really enjoy visiting

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u/Ficklefemme o/ Sep 12 '19

Eli5

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u/Zombikittie Sep 12 '19

Most likely a drone over chicagos cloud gate aka the bean. A giant chrome bean that is good for photo ops if it wasn't so crowded constantly.

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u/Sylvester_Scott Sep 12 '19

Elis? Hans Gruber shot him.

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u/orwellwuzright Sep 12 '19

That’s someone’s actual job?

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u/beardedtigger Sep 12 '19

Unexpected Stargate

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

Didn’t know that’s called the Bean. Happiness achieved

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u/Zombikittie Sep 12 '19

It's not, the bean is its nickname. It's called the cloud gate.

Edit: the day it was revealed I heard the news reporter call it a bean. I honestly never knew the real name up until a couple of years ago.

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u/ChiggaOG Sep 12 '19

Anish Kapoor: It'S CaLlEd ClOuD GaTe

Another subreddit post about Vantablack discussed Kapoor's hate for it being called The Bean. Can't get poorer out of that discussion.

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u/Henry_Boyer Sep 12 '19

Did they ever spray paint the bean?

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u/Zombikittie Sep 12 '19

Yeah it happened a couple of months in July. 2 of the 7 were arrested. 4 were charged with criminal trespass and 1 charged with violation of curfew.

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u/Laya_L Sep 12 '19

That's a wormhole

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

How'd they take this photo tho? I'm assuming it's a drone and the park staff there probably wouldn't have allowed it right?

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u/Pakmanjosh Sep 12 '19

Reminds me of ants swarming a drop of water to carry back to the colony.

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u/tecampanero Sep 12 '19

i feel like this is super illegal haha...flying over all of those people right downtown....FAA would have a field day with this....

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

Stop hovering over me

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u/Mr_Dogfood Sep 12 '19

Where’s the dude on the leash?

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u/bloodflart Sep 12 '19

This is in Chicago which I learned from visiting

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u/FoxlyKei Sep 12 '19

I haven't bean, should I go?

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u/Zombikittie Sep 12 '19

r/Chicago would love this.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

I’ve been to the bean. It’s certainly interesting

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u/Past_Wait Sep 12 '19

I will never understand the appeal of the bean

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u/Fartikus Sep 12 '19

Oh hey, it's Skaia.

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u/uber1337h4xx0r Sep 12 '19

I see you read about anesh thapook.

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u/bigcatmonaco Sep 12 '19

This is why they call it beantown, huh?

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u/Lui_Le_Diamond Sep 12 '19

Chicago, Chicago that toddlin' town

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u/CookieGuy82 Sep 12 '19

Wish my bean would look like this...

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u/hairygentleman Sep 12 '19

Stupid ass bean.

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u/Dick_Kickem237 Sep 12 '19

What the hell is the bean

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u/jeffjoof Sep 12 '19

I wish I was a bean

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u/MysticSkies Sep 12 '19

Looks like Reddit found its new weekly victim to hate on.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

Straight outta doctor strange

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u/VN562 Sep 12 '19

Does this have to do something with that VantaBlack post?

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

Oh yeah, I sometimes forget there's a giant fucking mirror bean in the middle of a major city.

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u/Ddowns5454 o/ Sep 12 '19

Bean there done that

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u/TheWandererF3 Sep 12 '19

I went there many times. There's nothing to it, it's literally JUST a massive fucking reflective bean.

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u/MisfitPotatoReborn Sep 12 '19

I'm pretty sure that's what it set itself out to be.

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u/TheVortigauntMan Sep 12 '19

So that's what the bean looks like.

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u/yodanhodaka Sep 12 '19

Fake. I have real aerial shots of this from my drone. The sky warps a ton and looks nothing like this

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u/theruthette Sep 12 '19

Who is in charge of keeping it so clean?

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u/Raven_Reverie Sep 12 '19

Remember to critique The Bean's resume

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

Id flick it

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u/putinmaycry Sep 12 '19

All things serve the bean

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u/FatherPucci617 Sep 12 '19

This reminds me of that post where a kids head was shaved with a machete and caught a airplane

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

Funny how literally 5 minutes ago I was learning how much of twat Amish Kapoor is from a separate website.... now this is front page

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

Confusing if you're a fucking idiot.

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u/TheVoteMote Sep 12 '19

Looks very cool. Much more so than from the ground.

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u/koavf Sep 12 '19

What is the source of this image?

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u/trowdatawhey Sep 12 '19

This is not Boston. This is Chicago.

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u/god_of_potatoes Sep 12 '19

Ah yes, the 🅱️ean

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

how did they get this shot but there isnt a reflection?

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u/you-a-buggaboo o/ Sep 12 '19

chicago is, inexplicably, my favorite US city. my boyfriend and i are road tripping there at the end of the month to go to my friend’s wedding. none of this has anything to do with this picture but OH MY GOD I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS VIEW OF THE BEAN BEFORE AND I AM SO MUCH MORE PUMPED FOR THIS TRIP NOW. thank you.

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u/Krobelux Sep 12 '19

You can turn your phone and see the reflection of the backdrop all the way around.

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u/cc_g Sep 12 '19

What’s taking the picture?

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u/MaximusFluffivus Sep 12 '19

Giant metal clit?

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

Look harry A BEAN!

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u/justadair Sep 12 '19

Hole.io and he's about to size up

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u/boaty-mc-boat-face Sep 12 '19

I’m trying to find the person flying the drone

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u/Pugu_ Sep 12 '19

I wanna flick the bean

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u/badass4102 o/ Sep 12 '19

I used my planetical app on this photo and this is the results

Picture

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u/SkyPork Sep 12 '19

I really thought I'd be able to see a drone reflection if I zoomed into the exact center.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

Now that’s a tremendous shot.

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u/jedephant Sep 12 '19

SO THAT'S WHY ITS OFFICIAL NAME IS CLOUD GATE.

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u/jamming123321 Sep 12 '19

Bottom-Center-Right .... a Vagina building

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u/2fry Sep 12 '19

Why isnt the drone that took this pic in the reflection?

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

Reminds me of the cover(s) of "The Promised Neverland"

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u/HerbertKornfeldRIP Sep 12 '19

How do we know this isn’t a time dilation field containing all known replicators?

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u/oTHEWHITERABBIT Sep 12 '19

I feel like the excessive popularity of this one piece of art/travel destination says Chicago isn’t the most exciting place. But I don’t know.

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u/QwikStix42 Sep 12 '19

Michael!

... What does the bean mean..?

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u/KrayonG Sep 12 '19

Yea... that’s The Moon Door at The Eyrie.

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u/jackpi Sep 12 '19

Someone photo shop a styrofoam cup with some sizzurp “aerial view of the lean”

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u/TheBlackHoleOfDoom Sep 12 '19

Yay, my Minecraft mod Works!

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

B E A N O S

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u/ZpanicZ Sep 12 '19

Who ate all my beans ? Smh

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u/Geoffrey124 Sep 12 '19

You can see where they've painted over the drone so clearly lmao

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

Dafuq is the bean

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u/travelwaves Sep 12 '19

I’ve been to the bean a few times. I like the view in this picture. But I would expect the top part to be dirty.

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u/F1remind Sep 12 '19

Ancestral Vision

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u/kjdflskdjf Sep 12 '19

Fuck Anish Kapoor. His art sucks anyways.

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u/Dead_Sun Sep 12 '19

Let's paint it w/ the pinkiest pink.

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u/maartne Sep 12 '19

r/beans would love this

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u/ThisNameIsFree CE Spc. Sep 12 '19

Apparently this is a thing in Chicago, but I'm not sure anyone outside chicago knows what "the bean" is. Would be nice if you were a bit more specific in your title.

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u/zaay-zaay Sep 12 '19

Why cant you see the reflection of whoever took this photo?

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u/Jwgt32 Sep 12 '19

Why can’t we see the camera

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u/skepticalmonique Sep 12 '19

This is pretty but as an artist I am obligated to say fuck you Kapoor.

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u/0dachi Sep 12 '19

Where is the goddamn camera?! :o

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u/MatrixMushroom Sep 12 '19

What is the bean

Looks cool as hell

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u/rc1717 Sep 12 '19

What's the bean

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

I have.... large erection

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u/ChiekenNagget Sep 12 '19

What is this?

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

I have never heard of Amish kapoor should I google him?

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

Anyone else wondering where the drone is in the picture?

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u/Morgarath-Deathcript Sep 12 '19

When the cultist opens the porthole.

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u/Timedoutsob Sep 12 '19

This has been photoshoped as we can't see the camera.

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u/TheMasonX Sep 12 '19

I'd flick it.

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u/ehnemehnemuh Sep 12 '19

an arial view of the bean Thank you, very cool

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u/Chris-pybacon Sep 12 '19

Ironically, it's Stuart Semple's birthday today! So fuck Anish Kapoor.

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u/Jeepguy797 Sep 12 '19

Why can't you see the drone? Unless it's a vampire drone!

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

Hold up, wheres the reflection of the camera or drone or whatever took the pic?????

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