Power lines

For images of power lines in the real world or otherwise. I don't know why but I'm strangely fascinated by these things.

This one is from Panoramio. I'll cherry pick other images for you next time.

>>5490 >I don't know why but I'm strangely fascinated by these things. I feel the same way as well. Seeing these kind of pictures makes me instantly think of so many things, like where is that electricity going to? Will it end up to the bedroom of a boy playing videogames or will it go to the refrigerator of a restaurant? I like imagining where the electricity will travel to, and what people will use it for... The same kinda happens when I see huge parking lots. What kind of person owns that car over there? Are those people passing by or do they live in this town? When did that one buy his car? Did he buy it with his girlfriend or when he was single? Does he have a couple at all?

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Panoramio dump Hope these three are good, sorry for hijacking the thread.

I think this should belongs to here without saying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W1P7AvV17w >>5495 Cool pictures, the rural areas are awesome!

You know me already. Power lines are so fascinating because they connect everything everywhere. They're in places almost no one visits, yet still exist.

My head is on fire from looking for power lines.

>>5507 Nice, really comfy.

I feel the same, OP. Power lines are one of my most favorite things to draw and look at and stuff. I would like to get a tattoo of a tangle of them or something.

Nice for a term bakground.

>>5517 Wow, that's an amazing idea.

>>5534 I would not say it's amazing but I liked the fact that the image was dark so I could see what I wrote. Thanks lainon.

>>5498 >>5495 Having lived in both countries, it is interesting how the small details in traffic signs, plates or power lines can immediately make you feel at home.

>>5490 Hey OP, I found something that you and everyone else in this thread might appreciate: https://powerlinesinanime.tumblr.com/index if you don't mind going to tumblr for that, that is. It seems they have a solid collection.

Lainons should look for field recording music produced by wind in wires. https://wiredlab.org/wires/audio-recordings/

>>5490 I literally just realised the power lines are a metaphor for "Wired". Either that or the japs just really like power lines, since they draw and film them so much.

>>5545 I think it's just a realistic depiction of their environment. Asian nations have different infrastructure codes and standards than the US and such. Lots more stringing things up in the air vs. burying them underground, since underground is often crowded and poorly-documented anyway. Like in Bangkok, there's enormous bundles of telecom and power lines everywhere. Even just within grasp from the sidewalk (not the high-voltage stuff though, they're not idiots). It's just a part of the landscape in many places over there. It was really interesting to see; I did some walks through Bangkok and Hong Kong just basically doing tourism of the crazy cyberpunk hardware and wiring hanging in the air and strapped to the sides of buildings. It was nice.

>>5545 Hey man. I draw powerlines. I'm not Japanese. Take that insensitive soykaf back.

train wires that I used as cover art for my music

>>5490 hello role playing game

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first time i saw one laying down!

based kodomo album

Snapped on my phone on a bullet train out of Tokyo

I shot these two some time ago

I see you have fun without me, not cool. Have some power lines! t. Panoramio dude

>>5545 and the sound the power lines emit is akin to the 'consciousness' of the wired - Parallel to the Schulman resonance the Earth emits

>>6548 I really like this one, could you tell me where you got it from? Couldn't reverse image search it.

>>6366 Visiting a city with power cable tangles like this, coming from a nation with clean power lines, was surreal. How low they hang and how knotted they are. I'd hate to think what happens if they are damaged by a weather event or falling pole. It's morbid like a hoarder's house. picunrel

Here's an old one by the United States Department of War.

>>6869 Ah, the Soviet woodpecker. My dad apparently picked that transmitter up all the time in the 80s from all the way in Texas or some ѕһіt like that. Just a huge wall of massive dipoles used as an over-the-horizon radar experiment during the war. It's so crazy-looking.

>>5541 This is exactly what I need, rad >>5543 Whoa that's really interesting, I'll give it a listen >>6548 The mood of this is stunning, this is just the kind of landscape I wanna pull on some heavy boots and tromp around in with my headphones on. Maybe I get cancer from the EMF, fuggit

>>6869 That's a legitimate question too. I wonder if they simply patch up the main ones and just leave everyone else to fend for themselves?

>>6877 That's basically what I saw in Bangkok. Just huge, tree trunk-sized bundles of knotted telecom cables (running beneath the actual power lines, to their credit they didn't seem to screw around with the high tension stuff at least) and at the ends there would be just tons and tons of raw, snipped coax with rusted cores and apparently the just run new ones a lot of the time and it just gets absorbed into the trunk.

>>6878 It's somewhat amazing no one's stripping off the dead/unused cables for resale.

Cool thread. Didn't think I had anything to contribute but I found this.

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Have some. Considering going to make photos of powerlines myself soon.

A few more trying to resurrect this thread from the dead.

A few more today

weird structs

>>5490 >I don't know why but I'm strangely fascinated by these things. Why is it, anon? I work as a Power Engineering, so my job is pretty much to design those things. While I love it, I'm not fascinated by them.

>>7062 I'm an electrician and I love looking at power lines while driving or while walking the dog. There's so much variation in transformer types, cable joints, insulating plates. It's amazing thinking about all the work it takes to build them and that there's a continuous path from some power station to every building.>>7062

Shot these a while ago

Not as cool as 'cyb' as some of the examples here. But this is a fairly 'famous' power line from my home town. It sits on top of a hill at the end of a cul-de-sac. Right next to the hill there's a highway, when I first started posting on this imageboard like 4+ years ago (fuarrrk), I used to sit on the hill drinking with my friends thinking about fuarrrking off down the highway to wherever. Had no real prospects at that point, and I guess that was the most 'cyb' I ever felt. I don't really feel that way anymore. This is my picture taken with a 35 mm camera. Right before I moved across the country working as a 'professional' software engineer. I learned to code on this imageboard and from resources on the irc. Now I feel kinda like a giant phony / dickhead. I don't come here much - mostly to post in the photography threads. I'll never forget you guys.

id like this thread to never die

>>7232 If it helps a lot of professional software developers have the same issue with imposter syndrome as most routes into the job are soykaf at actually preparing you for the job.

>>5490 I just have this gif from Tetsuo: The Iron Man

>>6923 More antennas than power lines but nice pics.

>>5490 >I don't know why but I'm strangely fascinated by these things. are you an anime director?

>>6887 that 2nd one looks sick

>>5543 https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/ye3ZeXfdtVgmV3Md6 This is so sick thank you. It's perfect to work to or whatever I love it

>>5490 Same. I'm always going on walks and find myself just admiring the power lines in my area. Really fascinating how far we've come. Sometimes I'll get a bit of a head rush thinking about it, as if I'm rolling. Am I nuts?

Here's one I took that I particularly like

I thought of you when I saw these, power line Lain. I hope you'll like them.

>>8775 Aaaand one more. These are particularly nice.

>>8991 woah I love that first one

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