#pyloncore

[nurse-w1th-wound]

Steel angels ☆

Featuring two of my personal favorites, the Shukhov tower(s) by the Oka river in Russia and the Duga-3 "Woodpecker" in Pripyat

I wanted to add more of my favorite towers/radar/constructions etc but they didn't fit, but perhaps in a future post

[kvetch19]

[katiethekreator]

PicMix gif I cooked up of the pink pylon that was demolished in 2003

The blinkie that says "Katie the Kreator" was made by me with ezgif and kleki, everything else is from PicMix and the PinkPylon website. PicMix is fun!

Another pylon-related thing. Collage of pylons, poles, and a substation that I made using all my own photos and ibisPaint.

Making this collage is what got me interested in electrical infrastructure to begin with, and then I spent ridiculous amounts of time learning minute details about it, for who knows why. Now I'm at the point where I can talk at length about every part of a utility pole and its function. Insulators, fuse cutouts, transformers, service loops, secondary service drops, primary conductors and neutrals, pole-mounted capacitor banks, guy wires, what-have-you. I'm too deep in the electrical infrastructure lore bro nobody knows what I'm talking about 💀

Also if you like pylons, you should check out Pylon of the Month. Pretty cool blog, and it's where I learned about the Pylon Poets (group of 1930s poets who used industrial imagery in their poems. Pretty neat stuff)

[nurse-w1th-wound]

What I think fascinates me most about pylons, apart from the whole "divine machinery" connection and view on them, is the fact that they're really just reflections of our own anatomy, and in turn natures anatomy.

The towering of the lattice steel structures reminds both of the base and branches of a tree, and the skeleton of a human.

The transmission pylons conductors creates an overhead network, much like how the mycelium and roots of trees creates an underground network, the human bodys nervous system an internal network, the clouds and lightning a sky network, and planets and stars an astral network.

And just like humans found and created something divine out of these natural and organic systems, we built, projected and found it in the pylons too, that are nowadays also part of the worlds layered network.

[nurse-w1th-wound]

Had a difficult psychologist meeting so made this really dumb thing to cope yay

[katiethekreator]

I scrumbled this image together from various google images (sorry for the crunchy low quality) and felt like posting it on here