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This looks like it belongs on a set of a budget sci-fi movie. So bland, neither elegance nor character.

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dcminter 4y ago
Allow me to quote to you from a Punch article by E. V. Knox written in about 1930 (collected in "Things That Annoy Me" of 1932): The Pylons (Being the transcript of an unwritten radiologue, dated A.D. 2129) Once again we are threatened with a historical calamity. It is proposed to uproot the graceful pylons which adorn the line of the Sussex Downs and are the sole relics of the electricity cable which carried light and power to our forefathers along the Southern Coasts... Plus ça change...
- wearsshoes 4y ago
  Does this exist online? When I searched I only found physical copies
  - dcminter 4y ago
    I don't think so. He died in 1971 so it's still in copyright though I doubt anyone would care much. I don't know exactly which volume of punch the original article is taken from, and it's possible that that's up there somewhere. Oh, and I just double checked and my copy was published in 1930; the second edition was 1932. So quite likely the original article was in one of the 1929/1930 run.
- MrBuddyCasino 4y ago
  Aesthetics of public installations has sharply declined since its heyday in the 19th century, so he was probably right.
dsfyu404ed 4y ago
It's for labor savings, not aesthetics.
detritus 4y ago
> So bland, neither elegance nor character Curious, I feel the exact opposite. I remember the competition that spawned these - they were, by far, my favoured option.. although the idea of wireframe giant humans and ants oVer the countryside was 'interesting'! : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2011/sep/14/shortlist-designs-electricity-pylons-in-pictures https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2011/sep/14/...
- MrBuddyCasino 4y ago
  I agree the others are even worse than this, but all of them really are terrible, did 5th graders make these?
  - jstarfish 4y ago
    Oval's is bleak. Looks like anti-tank caltrops strung together with barbed wire.
exabrial 4y ago
not sure "making in pretty" and giving in a UI refresh every 5 weeks when the latest version of whatever js framework is released is really in the budget.

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Allow me to quote to you from a Punch article by E. V. Knox written in about 1930 (collected in "Things That Annoy Me" of 1932): The Pylons (Being the transcript of an unwritten radiologue, dated A.D. 2129) Once again we are threatened with a historical calamity. It is proposed to uproot the graceful pylons which adorn the line of the Sussex Downs and are the sole relics of the electricity cable which carried light and power to our forefathers along the Southern Coasts... Plus ça change...

wearsshoes 4y ago
Does this exist online? When I searched I only found physical copies
- dcminter 4y ago
  I don't think so. He died in 1971 so it's still in copyright though I doubt anyone would care much. I don't know exactly which volume of punch the original article is taken from, and it's possible that that's up there somewhere. Oh, and I just double checked and my copy was published in 1930; the second edition was 1932. So quite likely the original article was in one of the 1929/1930 run.
MrBuddyCasino 4y ago
Aesthetics of public installations has sharply declined since its heyday in the 19th century, so he was probably right.

dsfyu404ed 4y ago

It's for labor savings, not aesthetics.

detritus 4y ago

> So bland, neither elegance nor character Curious, I feel the exact opposite. I remember the competition that spawned these - they were, by far, my favoured option.. although the idea of wireframe giant humans and ants oVer the countryside was 'interesting'! : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2011/sep/14/shortlist-designs-electricity-pylons-in-pictures https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2011/sep/14/...

MrBuddyCasino 4y ago
I agree the others are even worse than this, but all of them really are terrible, did 5th graders make these?
- jstarfish 4y ago
  Oval's is bleak. Looks like anti-tank caltrops strung together with barbed wire.

exabrial 4y ago

not sure "making in pretty" and giving in a UI refresh every 5 weeks when the latest version of whatever js framework is released is really in the budget.