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Old 01-08-2013, 03:07 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Just curious to see if anyone has even seen their own image or the image of a friend displayed on Jaume Plensa's Crown Fountain in Millennium Park? I was walking past it the other day on the way to the Art Institute and saw what I think was my friend's face. It's possible, as we both had ourselves videotaped for it years ago.

It is hard to tell as the images were manipulated to make it so everyone's mouth ended up in the same place for the water to shoot out from.
So some of the faces are shown more close up than others and identifying features like hair and shirt collar or jewelry are eliminated. Also the odds are slim as 1,051 people were filmed for it and 960 of those were selected for the final product. I forgot the statistics, but the likelihood is that your image would be displayed roughly 3 to 10 times per year depending on the random rotation of images.

I'll admit that once or twice a year I'll do a search on Google images or Flickr to see if anyone has taken a photo of me or my friend on the fountain. Every once in awhile I think I see something that looks like one of us, but one or two details are usually off. A lot of people look really similar when you crop their face and project their image 70ft high.

I'm curious if anyone else has seen their own image on the fountain or knows of anyone who has?
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