{"id":10607,"date":"2023-08-13T02:09:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T02:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=10607"},"modified":"2023-08-13T02:17:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T02:17:35","slug":"eye-aka-the-giant-eyeball-in-downtown-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/misc\/eye-aka-the-giant-eyeball-in-downtown-dallas\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye, aka &#8220;the giant eyeball&#8221; in downtown Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mrericsir\/53105766891\/in\/dateposted\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53105766891_e6c3e7cd2b.jpg\" alt=\"Giant Eyeball\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After my trip to Santa Fe, I hopped on a plane and then a DART light rail train to downtown Dallas. After dropping off my bags at my Airbnb I walked down the street to see it: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/places\/eye-sculpture\">giant eye sculpture<\/a> at 1601 Main Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This mixed media sculpture was created by American artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tonytasset.com\/\">Tony Tasset<\/a> based on photos of his own eye, and originally debuted in Chicago&#8217;s Loop neighborhood. Eventually it wound up at this site which previously was the home of an abandoned office tower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Eye is part of the luxurious Joule hotel in Dallas, where rooms typically start at about $500\/night and and can go well beyond that. This sculpture is part of a private outdoor event space located right across the street from the hotel and is often used for weddings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mrericsir\/53105200852\/in\/dateposted\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53105200852_aee9e2315f.jpg\" alt=\"Giant Eyeball\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Would you want to get married next to a sculpture of a giant eye? Well&#8230; me neither, but apparently some people do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although the event space is not open to the public, the eye is clearly visible both from its Main Street address as well as the pedestrian alley around the corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my trip to Santa Fe, I hopped on a plane and then a DART light rail train to downtown Dallas. After dropping off my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Eye, aka \"the giant eyeball\" in downtown Dallas - MrEricSir.com","description":"After my trip to Santa Fe, I hopped on a plane and then a DART light rail train to downtown Dallas. After dropping off my bags at my Airbnb I walked down the st"},"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1488,38,474,222],"class_list":["post-10607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-dallas","tag-photos","tag-streetart","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10609,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10607\/revisions\/10609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}