{"id":911,"date":"2008-10-19T05:56:12","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T13:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=911"},"modified":"2008-10-19T05:56:12","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T13:56:12","slug":"cell-towers-as-public-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=911","title":{"rendered":"Cell Towers as Public Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To make a cell phone work there needs to be a cell tower within a few miles.\u00a0 The towers look like what they are big metal towers and often neighbors don&#8217;t like them.\u00a0 A current solution is to disguise them as trees. We have seem palm tree towers and pine tree towers.\u00a0 Lillian took this picture of a pine tree tower near the road to Lake Arrowhead:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/2941832091\/pa090026jpg.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3221\/2941832091_a5aef36896_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"PA090026.JPG\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is a start but why not celebrate the existence of the towers and turn them into large pieces of public art? Like this cell tower model that is a celebration of the working man:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/2952271222\/cell-towers.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3283\/2952271222_611faeab3e_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"Cell Towers\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more-->I can visualize a Banana Tower and a Giraffe Tower.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/2951420689\/cell-towers.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3187\/2951420689_4121714550_m.jpg?resize=180%2C240\" alt=\"Cell Towers\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But what about a Henry Moore or a Calder?\u00a0 How about a series of them on the way to Las\u00a0 Vegas that celebrate money: a dollar sign, a Euro sign and a pound sign for starters.\u00a0 Near Washington DC could be the Presidents from Mt Rushmore and near NYC the great retail icons Shoes, Bags and Stockings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/2951420595\/cell-towers.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3055\/2951420595_aa1d9306c9_m.jpg?resize=180%2C240\" alt=\"Cell Towers\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My creativity leans toward realism but there are lots of opportunities in the modern art arena.\u00a0 Spirals, spires and columns to name a few.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The cell company that seizes this idea could have an international contest.\u00a0 They would select from models submitted by sculptors from around the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/2951420741\/cell-towers.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3213\/2951420741_127097ce4e_m.jpg?resize=180%2C240\" alt=\"Cell Towers\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>This from the Bejing Shanghai Highway<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This process would gain them much invaluable publicity.\u00a0 The installations would gain them even more.\u00a0 And what fun it would be to have a giant dandelion or a rose growing where a cell tower used to be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/2951420533\/cell-towers.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3059\/2951420533_63d185eb0e_m.jpg?resize=180%2C240\" alt=\"Cell Towers\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My favorite and one of the 17 &#8220;flower towers&#8221; in Interstate 5 between San Francisco and San Diego<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To make a cell phone work there needs to be a cell tower within a few miles.\u00a0 The towers look like what they are big metal towers and often neighbors don&#8217;t like them.\u00a0 A current solution is to disguise them as trees. 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