Somebody in Hungary thought that designing high voltage towers in a shape that vaguely resembles a clown is a good idea. As if high voltage towers and their potential cancer-inducing powers weren’t terrifying enough. Somebody needs to get fired.
The argument is that the shape will beautify and make big industrial objects more attractive. The reality is that this thing just looks even more horrible than a regular tower, like the unholy children produced after an orgy between a clown, a spider and Zelda’s Tingle with his nipples tied to a power plug. It’s like painting a waste processing plant sky blue with birds on it. At the end of the day, it’s just a waste processing plant painted in blue with some fake birds over it.
What’s next? High voltage towers designed to look like mimes? Because I can’t think of anything more horrifying than that. Except Nazis. It’s Nazis, then mimes, clowns, cockroaches and spiders. Pandas come on sixth place.
But I digress. If you want to make industrial objects and buildings less horrible, just design them to be pretty as is. [The Telegraph -- Thanks Matt Hardigree!]
The Joker
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 1:01 PMAnd yet you use the convenience of electricity to write this blog. It’s different, even weird but your cancer causing rant seems a bit out there. Perhaps authorities shouldn’t allow building under them in the first place. Not the fault of the people in the power industry but those who want to make money out of cheap land which is cheap for a reason.
Dave
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 1:42 PMThe cancer rant (if you could even call it that) was a throw away comment making a humorous connection linking the fear of general idea that power lines give you cancer and the fear of clowns into one terrifying piece of Art(?? anything passes as art now days lol)
Jake
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 1:15 PMZelda is the princess, Link was the guy. Come on mate.
Dave
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 1:45 PMNot to mention.. WHAT THE HELL is Zelda’s (or Link’s for that matter) TINGLE?
cayal
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 2:22 PMPerhaps Zelda is a shemale.
Jason
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 5:42 PMTingle does not belong to Zelda or Link, but is from the game Legend of Zelda. The article is correct, you are not.
Antonia
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 1:15 PMPerhaps you should familiarise yourself with Godwin’s Law:
;-)
Its just some engineer’s whimsy and nothing to get emotional over.
Antonia
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 1:16 PMDang it didn’t post the URL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
Wayne
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 1:32 PMso does the law follow that over time, the effect of the intention of the law, will result in no-one ever mentioning N _ _ _ s again?
Ozoneocean
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 1:30 PMThis is a humorous posting, not supposed to be taken as invective.
And I agree, it’s horrible design. Effort could easily be put into making the towers look good without creating abortions like this- just look at so much of the infrastructure produced in the 19th Century! -lamposts that looked like beautiful fluted columns etc.
shane
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 1:39 PMYeah I love how the front of this blog is just plastered with a massive JW ad… hypocrisy much?
Kyle
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 4:42 PMHaters gonna hate
Michael
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 4:59 PMI like it, looks heaps better than the boring old kind of towers.
at least someone out there is trying to make people smile. and its great to see the company has allowed for this kind of thing to happen.
LOVE IT! . . . .Whats next :-)
FSM
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 7:48 PMYou know, many power companies build their office buildings etc at their zone substation sites, these buildings are filled with the engineers who build them…there are videos of people climbing on live 500 and 750kV power lines as part of their job.
I find the idea of electro-magnetic waves having any significant effect as a cancer causing agent incredibly suspect.
I’m not saying it doesn’t….but I’m tending to think it doesn’t as there doesn’t seem to be much if any credible evidence, and I would think by now we would have a mountain of statistics to draw from so we would know for certain one way or another….how long have we been using electricity? How long have people lived near lines, how long to powerline workers usually stay in their job for?
smurfydog
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 8:11 PMThanks Jesus – I always have a chuckle when you post one of your rants :D
Jason
Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 2:33 AM“As if high voltage towers and their potential cancer-inducing powers weren’t terrifying enough.”
No. Just no. Anyone with even a basic education should be intelligent enough to realise that the cancer inducing powers of power lines is, wait for it, non-existent.