Gallery: A Dutch Town Installs 5 Giant Eyeballs on Buildings, Because Art

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    Right now, in the town of ‘s-Hertogenbosch in The Netherlands, there are five giant plastic eyeballs hanging off buildings.
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    *EYE* was conceived and created by the local New Heroes design duo. Each eye is affixed to a different location. This one hangs off a historic water mill.
  • With a reservation visitors can go sit inside one of the eyes for 20 minutes and look out over the city below.
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    With a reservation, visitors can go sit inside one of the eyes for 20 minutes, and look out over the city below.
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    Halfway through their sitting, an animation (powered by the host of each eye, through a computer) of a lonesome man walking through the city gets projected against the inside of the pupil.
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    This eye is attached to a hospital, allowing patients and staff to sit inside the eye.
  • The eye is a commentary on city life. When youre in a city you become highly visible and totally anonymous at the same time.
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    The eye is a commentary on city life. When you’re in a city, you become highly visible and totally anonymous at the same time.
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    The eye literally and metaphorically creates a shared glance between the viewer and the city.
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    Here, an eye outside the slick SAP software office building.
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    New Heroes worked with Canon, local technology and printing companies, and roller coaster engineers.
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    Their expertise helped to print eyes on PVC plastic both thin enough to see through and light enough to stay suspended on the side of the building.
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