Now THAT'S a Big Eye!

I was in Chicago this week, and I was surprised to see a gigantic eyeball sitting on a street corner.

So I took a bunch of pictures! (You can see them over here.) But when I came back the next day, the eye was gone...and the entire area was covered in a globby white-and-blue jelly. What happened?

Kidding! The 30-foot high eyeball (highball?) is actually the work of artist Tony Tasset. He modeled the huge sculpture after his own eye. This was tough, because to do this Tasset had to pop one eye out of his head and then look at it with his other eye. Ha! Anyway, here's a video about both the Eye and another Chicago sculpture that's pretty darned cool.