Powerlines are cool and they make great framing for art
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/m6wdjr/twenty_skies/
I know it’s a very unpopular opinion but I actually like the aesthetics of infrastructure and industry.
When I see a steel mill, an oil rig or powerplants like wind parks, hydro- or nuclear power I am reminded of the human ingenuity that went into it. How many people needed to band together to work on something bigger than their tribe. I am reminded of our awe inspiring power to shape our environment completely.
Of course with great power… You know the rest.
Even though I hate car centric infrastructure, watching a new highway or bypass spring up out of nothing is an incredible testament to our ability to work together to achieve great things
we have a “wind park” a few miles west of here. i get some of my power from it. slightly less than half of them are inactive at any given time. dunno if its intentional or a rotation scheme. never see any crew trucks around the dead ones
They have to shut off if there’s too much power in the grid, it might be that
Not as bad as cars everywhere
I actually kind of enjoy powerlines and junction boxes. There’s a level of engineering that is both rough and delicate that is magnified by how orderly and chaotic they are alike.
Now if the power lines are at the expense of a view through trees, that’d be more a bummer. Likewise if the trees remain that’s a hazard waiting to happen, which is also a bummer.
Buried lines and conduit pipe are preferable in most cases and share similar aesthetic characteristics.
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Have it run underground. Safer for all parts.
The Lain aesthetics is just a regular day in Brazil.
But also:
Remembering that show frustrates me. How did they start with such a hilarious premise and end up with a show that’s okay and not one milligram more?
I weirdly don’t mind
This but unironically.
Fuck appeals to nature.
Honestly, to me the ironic part is the power lines in this artwork are unappealing to me because of the artist not the subject matter. It seems they don’t know what all the lines are or where they go or how they work, so when I look at it and do know what it’s supposed to look like, this just looks like a mess that makes zero sense. The artist has created some sort of electrical fire hazard.
I suspect that came directly from irl
I’ve seen some polls significantly worse than that, but not in a developed country.
I love nature. Termite mounds are nature, honeycombs are nature, spiderwebs are nature. Humans are a part of nature and our infrastructure is a part of who we are.
Carving out exceptions for human artifacts like this takes for granted that a bunch of arboreal primates figured out how to melt down the rocks themselves to extract their purest essence, then wound that essence into ropes that contain the lightning we learned to generate ourselves to power the many other artifacts we developed to bring light into our dwellings, communicate with primates on the other side of the planet, and automate the menial tasks of our lives.
While certainly selfish and misguided at times, everything we make is nature, just as much as honeycombs and spiderwebs.
Power lines blocking sky, Japan: 😍😍😍😍
go look at pictures of the Indian power systems
Do you guys like having power? Lol
Have you heard of under ground power cables? Or of not that, a slightly neater organization of power cables?
In civilized countries we tend to bury them
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I know it only makes sense in urban to semi-urban environments to run power underground
Not just civilized countries, it’s fairly common to bury power lines in Florida, because hurricanes.
I think clean power lines look nice. I’d definitely prefer them to a butterfly killing roadway or lighted poles that create light pollution and confuse wildlife.
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/what-s-killing-monarchs-our-roads
Plant the fields, not the roadways, got it
Welcome to Mexico, er have such beautiful cities! Except for the 3623516582 cables everywhere
Oh. I guess they could take the sky from me.
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Check out the photography by Alex Hyner for some amazing skies between the power lines
This was the first thing I thought of, but couldn’t remember the artists name - thank you!
