Is it a Palm Tree?

It's an exotic plant called cellulus erectus mobilus americanis dollarsgalorus.

Or, cell phone tower ubiquitous.

Phenomenal rate of growth observed. Almost seem to spring up overnight.

OOOPS: wanted to edit an error but was timed-out ... "the leaves were made of metal sheets were painted green"

PLS replace the second "were" of this sentence by "and"

The leaves 'were' made of metal or 'are' made of metal might be a change to consider as well.

The second edit puzzled me, as the past tense of what was seen is perfectly correct and can/should, remain consistent throughout the post.

I.e. no edit required and no additional "corrections" necessary

Hi, thanks for the tip! Besides English is not my mother tongue, I also speak and write 5 more languages and every now and then I make these kind of mistakes. Greetings from Patagonia!

Palm trees are good to eat dates,very useful for man's body.

Old news but let them be, at least it is green. (in colour / color)

The idea came from this birds nest (bird apartment erection / construction)

Actually the wisdom behind the presence of this very tall palm tree among the other short trees is to be good guide for man,animals,and birds to mark a specific location as guide and not to get lost in the large forest.

Wisdom, isn't ?

There is a lot of these trees here in California, hundreds, and I don't know how many in the whole USA. These fake palm trees are telecomunication amplifiers. There are countless palm trees here in Southern Cal. They plant this fake trees among them, but you can tell right away the fakes from the real ones. Enjoy your new palm tree!

In New Jersey and New York they look like pine trees.

How do they look at the poles: like snowmen? ;-)

Ha, Ha, Ha! that was really funny! Maybe like Totem Poles in Alaska??

So you believe this to be "a creative way of preventing visual pollution"? I think it is neither creative nor preventing visual pollution, but I DO believe you must be fooling yourself: if it actually were preventing visual pollution it wouldn't "have caught your attention". Personally I think this is just another example of the worst possible kind of art-abuse.

Thanks for sharing it anyway.

So you believe this to be "a creative way of preventing visual pollution"? I think it is neither creative nor preventing visual pollution, but I DO believe you must be fooling yourself: if it actually were preventing visual pollution it wouldn't "have caught your attention". Well, I respect but do not share your opinion. What caught my attention from a distance of 500 meters was that the "palm tree" was much taller than the rest of the trees that surrounded it. NOT the palm itself. We probably should find out if the human being REALLY needs to be connected by cell phone, bluetooth, wi-fi, etc 24 / 7 no matter where he is. As this seems to be what everyone wants (or at least a wast amount of people), until new technologies appear, telephone carriers will continue installing antennas. If you ask me, I prefer the "artistic" version of the antenna rather than the bare pole with all the crap on top of it. Another good question could be why cars are painted in so many colors instead of being black (as H. Ford once made them) if it just a means of transportation? Shirts? No need to use colors or patterns, just make them olive green, as used for decades in China? Just a question: are Andy Warhol´s paintings of Campbell soup cans also art-abuse to you? Thanks for sharing your opinion anyhow!

I do not think that the phone conpanies thought about this poles as work of art. They just tried to camouflash these antennas so they would not be so obviuos. Maybe the people that made these things, in their minds they were doing something artistic. Who knows! As long as they serve a purpose, who cares what they look like? as long as they are not planted in my front yard!

OK, I won't be tempted into a discussion on what is or is not art. On second glance I may have overreacted slightly, sorry for that, I was not trying to be rude. I just hate the half-heartedness of such cheap attempts to disguise the ugly consequences of our apparent social ~and commercial~ needs. And I stick to my opinion that this palm tree does not prevent visual pollution, it rather emphasizes it. (Of course that too is a possible 'function' of art, but in that case the leaves would probably have been flashing fluorescent pink...) Wether art or not, I feel this arty "solution" is just too obvious, too easily found, too risk-averse. But I agree that this may just be a matter of taste. And then again: there is no telling good art from bad if the latter would not exist...

Hi, no bad feelings.... just wanted to share something I had not sen before. If you ask me if I prefer an antenna disguised as a pine or palm tree instead of a bare pole with all the crap on top. Some people drink Coke, while other prefer beer. Who is wrong: no one, i guess! Just a matter of taste!

The motivation for art is not the defining characteristic.

What defines art, and makes it relevant, are both subject and technique.

chris

Typical - blame me.

Someone says "good art and bad art" and it's all my fault?

Alright; I'll be "technical";

But it is a fairly crap choice of tower for an ersatz palm. They should use a 'taper line pole', but maybe it's a preexisting sewer breather.

And I don't think "metal leaves" is clever in a high wind area.

So there, and I'm putting this "on topic"!

Define "defining"

Then define "relevant"

ky just did that for me by showing his wonderful piece...

Everybody should have one

Do not eat my dates man.

I think that multifunction artificial trees could be both beautiful, and functional... adding to the grid, pumping water, providing shade, and perhaps comms towers. I think that they can be a form of vertical axis wind turbine. Perhaps they can even be made from recycled components and materials. (ie car alternators, recycled wood, fibers, plastics, etc.) and wire forms for the 'leaves' with membranous materials as skins. (recycled coroplast political signage)

and in an effort to stimulate green growth, perhaps we can spread recycled politicians on the soil. we will have to test for efficacy.. don't want to poison the ground.

Awesome! a virtual forest!

thanks!

Now we have to design iron birds, so then can survive the cutting edges of all the metal leaves.

" Now we have to design iron birds, so then can survive the cutting edges of all the metal leaves."

IRON BIRDS are called AIRPLANES!

Yes, I know what airplanes are called! just like locomotives are called Iron Horses, but I was talking about the little birds in the forest or insects and animals.....know what I mean?

That's a cute little wood pecker! Looks like the little sucker is ready to chomp on all nice trees!

Yeah, I know what you mean! Would you like to know how my wife calls me...?

as long as she doesn't call you late for dinner.

What do you mean "we"

I've already found them food

Wow! that's a beautiful spider! did you design it? or..? That is a real piece of art! Some people are very creative! Thanks!

how about these?

Oh! will you buy me this one? Please Chris, please

oh those... those are just leftover mannequins... you can have that for free.

you never know what you will find on the internet...

Oh! Your right and things to puzzle

So

1. absent minder dresser?

2. zero coordination skills?

Its a higher calling.... or set of priorities that make coordination less important, provided it has the "look and feel" of victorian age tech.

Of course it is Chris. Not unlike wildebeests culling out harems, or Goth where said harem is conned into being unattractive to competing males.

BTW have you been here?

Check "NEWS OF INTEREST" World's Oldest Sci-fi Movie — Restored

but I for one still appreciate translucent clothing on interesting women...

thanks for the link. it seems to have informed so many movies, from bladerunner to starwars to batman to Robots to Bicentennial man.. and more.

and I also think that it gained a great deal in turn from Nikola Tesla.

I've not heard of the wildebeasst deal... you are a fount!

chris

Looping back to Roman courtyards are we?

"translucent"? that's an opaque Chinese silk underskirt (or would've been back then). But yes - a nicely turned ankle was rather racy (back then).

Did you ever catch my link to the this guys work?

oh no.. that just won't do...

the milk is much too opaque!

Um - 34 minutes to consider and evaluate

and i notice it is all in lower case

lol

I would not mind one of those either...........this is getting good! More birds please!

No! - Go find your own!

Oh, come on now! Don't be so selfish! There is enough birds for everyone!

Wow!.......what a collection. I guess we have enough birdies for the Virtual Forest.

Thanks

I've been meaning to do this for a while now...

OMG! Don't go near 'next'!!!!!!! It's just gets far too personal

I couldn't watch the whole thing...

but if it is personal you are looking for...

Um - well past time to get back on topic ..............

OH No!!!!!

unfortunately some will say that if functional, now matter if ugly....

I'm a little confused as to your meaning.. but I will assume that it is a compliment either way.

I think he's saying; some say being "functional" is justification for being ugly.

i.e. the barbarians that aren't talented enough to see the aesthetic choices in functional engineering.

I presume it's just ruminating on the original in contrast to your efforts.

But I could be wrong.

you are not wrong!

thank you.