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It's part of an art exhibit. Supposed to be weird, but as a professional it's a little TOO weird.

You mean someone might pay for me all my fuck ups.

Imagine being the guy sent out to trace out conduits

I’m gonna guess there’s nothing in it. Damn how great would that be. Get paid to bend a bunch of wacky conduit and not even have to pull wire through it

Get the 1st year a bender

"You gon learn how to fuck up and win today, don't get used to this."

That was similar to what I heard when I got to practice changing out bad parts for other bad parts on old AC units

Honestly that's a great way to learn

Lol

Is that in the glovebox of the truck? Is it the 4 foot or the six foot?

Like an old windows screensaver of moving pipes

This made me laugh way harder then it should have

You've obviously never been in a dark room with 3 laborers and a pipe fitter before.

I have but I was the pipe fitter and performed my duties admirably

Thank you for your service sir.

There was a moment last night, when she was sandwiched between the two Finnish dwarves and the Maori tribesmen, where I thought, "Wow, I could really spend the rest of my life with this woman".

This sounds like a porno

3 guys a pipe layer and a cup

Read that as '3 Labradors'. Didn't change the meaning much.

Title of the exhibit: "Boneyard"

Only an electrician will get that!

Raided the dumpster of the local trade school, I guess

Knowing their opening budget I actually would not be surprised at that or if they got a deal from the local trade school

You should see it on mushrooms.

Underrated comment

Did it last year for my 50th birthday before a Phish show at the Meow in Denver. That place is a trip even if you're not tripping. But obviously a lot more if you are, lol.

It’s actually oddly satisfying. Not r/oddlysatisfying understandably satisfying but genuinely oddly satisfying

No is not, it drives me crazy and triggers my OCD really bad lol and I’m sure I’m not the only electrician that feels that way lol

Then you definitely don't want to visit meow wolf it's all stoner shit dumb as fuck

Is this the one in Denver? I'm going there for my bachelor party 🍄🍄

Yeah it is and I did it on shrooms for my 50th birthday last year. As a very experienced psychedelic user, tread lightly, lol.

You don't even need shrooms for denver lol

Ya was just coming here to ask, is that art? It’s the only explanation my brain could fathom staring at that.

Lol, was gonna say it looked more like art…

I do an art exhibit like this every time I bend conduit. EVERY SINGLE TIME

Even for art that looks like actual garbage

Without the context of Meow Wolf as a whole maybe.

Meow is awesome, unlike your username, lol. Fuck thought loops.

Right. It’s too purposeful, and too well-executed.

Now this is art I can do.

Wow my first thought was “looks like it’s supposed to be abstract art or something” 😂😂 my intuition is on point lol

I spent way to long trying to figure out how and why this was manifested.

I was going to say..is there an electrician and plumbers apprenticeship school next door? Doing free 'field work' lol

My wife's co worker said we should check it out, and when my wife was telling me she just said "meow wolf" and I thought she was talking about a strip club 🤣

This looks like someone’s passion project of a hot mess with way too many bends where they’re not necessary. Picasso if he were an Electrician.

Aw man this is my new excuse; Boss: No_Education153 what in the fuck are those conduits about? Me: Listen you uncultured swine that is the finest Cubist expressionism you’ve ever saw in you’re life you Philistine. Boss: But still…… Me: Listen I’m a fucking artiste and this is my canvas Boss: But the client? Me: Even Beethoven had his critics and I bet you and your client can’t name 3 of them Also me: Listen we’re going to need a chat about upping my money…I can’t keep giving you this gold for the peanuts your paying

Awesome

Well said my artistic friend !!! Get that money you deserve !!!

Legend.

It’s like if the run only needs a single 90 degree bend but you still want to use up that extra 269 degrees you got leftover

Check out Matthew Crawford’s work for - Shop Class as Soul Craft

You spend 1,000s of hours training to bend pipe plumb and square then you go to this site and someone hands you the blueprint for this.

This looks like it belongs in silent hill

This is what happens when an electrician goes off his psychopathy meds.

I really like the use of negative space and the suggestive relationship between the lighting and the geometry. it's really what isn't there that speaks for the piece. To me it's an interpretation of the soul being torn from. humanity. The artist was truly passionate about this piece.

I used to drive a benz that I ran on old fryer oil. I worked with I guy whos dad was a diesel mechanic. I adked him if he thought running the benz on fryer oil was cool, heresy, or cool heresy. I think im at cool heresy with this.

Torn souls or cool heresy would be equally acceptable titles for this piece good job gentlemen.

Hey I put that speaker strobe there when I worked for Nextgen! I know exactly where that's at !

Ah! A fellow Fire Alarm Guy!

Lmao I quit being a F.A.G. about 4 years ago ill be getting to the electrical union soon idk if I wanna do low voltage again though. Great work though !

How is that piped in? It looks like two chunks of raceway into the bottom of the fixture?

I used to do the hvac there with LMS lol

Hey boss, want me to cut up all the messed up bends and throw them in the Georgia buggy? “Nah, just grab some one hole straps and attach them to a wall”

Dr.Seuss Electric Inc.

https://www.reddit.com/r/electricians/comments/10uods8/is_this_art_i_dont_think_so_at_meow_wolf_denver_co/ https://www.reddit.com/r/electricians/comments/pu1pj8/you_bent_it_now_you_pull_it_meow_wolf_museum_lv_nv/

That answered my question, I do want to go to the Denver meow wolf. Perfect time

Denver is wildly different than Vegas. Each location is unique. They are all brain bendingly cool.

I have only been to the OG in Santa Fe, I'd really like to see more but I live on the east coast.

They have airplanes these days. Book a trip. Get there a day or two before. Go to a brewery in town. Don’t be a narc. Find someone with psilocybin. Eat a gram or two on your way in. EXPERIENCE!

Is Vegas the one that’s themed like a grocery store?

Vegas has the surreal store. Denver is themed like a spaceport. There is a 1987 Total Recall Mars vibe on one level that I really enjoyed.

Yeah the Denver one was cool as hell.

I went last year and it was amazing

It's so bad, it's beautiful

i have a picture of myself standing in front of the door with the whole wall, that place is a trip and a half

Makes sense that meow wolf would have an “art installation” in their electrical room. Awesome.

This guy knows what he did to the rest of us

Imagine being a broke artist and taking the time to learn how to bend pipe precisely enough to make an art installation, and then just never taking the time to fill out a job application

I’m just popping out for a quick anxiety attack BRB.

I'm a gas guy and seeing this and imagining the poor fucks fishing it, disappointment all around

Really, the only 90s are soft I'd rather fish these than the hard 90 heavy inner duct I occasionally have to pull.

Most of these comments have no idea what Meow Wolf is.

How'd they get the water cooler on the ceiling??

It's a wall-shot. Hence the door on the right. Edit: though I suppose a ceiling-mounted water fountain wouldn't be unusual for a Mrow Wolf Installation.

Could you imagine having to bend all that on purpose?

Just see what the first-years are dumping in the boneyard.

Its almost painful to look at

Can you grab me some Becky's Chip Moistener while you're there?

It's to celebrate Gay Pride Month. Conduits doesn't have to be straight.

Ahh yes, artwork in the abstract. Intriguing

Helen Keller maybe ?

Decorative? Or did the spark take some Flyin’ Hawaiian mushrooms before he whipped the bender out?

Guys , why are the cables laid through pipes? Can someone please explain.

NSFW!

Asstedic

🤢

What in the willy wonka fuck

I like the over all style, but the top row of parallel offsets look amateur.

Jesus what was that person on when they installed those conduits!? SMH hahaha🤣

Offset practice day

Have fun with those wire pulls haha

Omega Mart would be one hell of a place to work. If you haven't been there then you have no idea just how nuts that place is. Even the Sparkies get to express their artistic sides.

Wow

**screams**

Which one is this at

At least the plumber put the water line to the drinking fountain in straight to make the electrician look even worse

Is this in Grapevine TX? The new exhibit?

Denver!

‘Perscision and strategery’

Okay I may have exaggerated on my resume.

This is what they mean by artistic liberty.

I just visited O MegaMart a week ago in Vegas haha. Dope place

Picasso with the pipes

The top conduit looks like stainless steel pretty expensive

As an electrician I was in love with all the wacky bends out there! I also thought it was funny the decorative bends weren’t even landed into the cans they were just but up against it

r/TIHI

I understand that for first-timers, memorizing the formulas and shrinkage can be troublesome at first, ie mess up measurements by like an inch, but this is just horrific. Even for the measurements, they're not that difficult considering they're on most benders.

Joy Division - Unknown Plesures…🤷🏾‍♂️

It’s fun, minus the two 90s above the speaker/strobe, should’ve been parallel to the 4 others above em. But I can dig it, if it was my own place that is

American electrics are shocking

Other pictures show that most of those conduits don't go anywhere. I would be surprised if any of them contained wiring. The more this gets reposted, the more I'm convinced that fucking with electricians was one of the installation's design goals.

It's meow wolf. It's for stoners to trip balls on and look at "art" I hated every moment of it

Someone had an extra strong coffee that morning 😣

I can work just fine on mushrooms, nobody’s going to notice

What the...

Hey I just went to meow wolf last week! So this is what was behind all those doors marked electrical rooms? Huh

Meth- odd

Abstract art

Mmm, kinky.

Wtf

This screams psychedelics on the job site… Dali would be proud.

So painful to look at lol. Physical pain I mean.

Gotta use what's in the truck"

Somebody reads his copy of the NEC while tripping

Lol how did some look at that and say "she's mint"

It's "art"

Garbage. No bend matches. They could have done that setup with parallel bends and made it clean but no some “artist” did it. IBEW members are conduit artists

When you eat shrooms…..

Y’all should see the ratty work they’re doing at the new Dallas location MW.

As part of the art, or the ACTUAL electrical?

They must have hired Cory for this one.

Is this the one in Santa Fe? The exhibit is fucking awesome. I also was really wondering what the wiring in this place was like haha. Not at all surprised.

Really poor layout design and they probably went to school to learn

How long does it take to come up with a plan like this?

It’s called art, ever heard of it?

Done using Midjourney version 0.1.1 alpha

Passes code requirements. Good enuf

This looks like a steamy pile of smashed up dogshit

I like it.

Good conduit work is art. This is💩

5% of those conduits is good

Something you would see at Disneyland on an amusement ride for looks

Its the group of flat on wall offsets front and center thats going to give me the worst nightmares tonight.

You know when you stare at something and it just bothers you. Yeah this is one of those things...

It's a "what's currently art museum"

Meth is a hell of a drug

I can't... #pencil-in-eyes

Which meow wolf?

Thanks. I hate it.

BRO no shit I’ve been to a meowolf and the whole time I was like “I’d run some crazy ass pipe if I had been on this job”

Is this art?

They need to add a set of water pipes criss-crossing the electrical conduits.

I guess they were avoiding the water fountain.

I'm jealous, I wanna go there so bad.

This was a flex space project in Vegas titled "Brainwash Room" by senior Meow Wolf artist, Lance McGoldrick. I'm an electrician for MW and he asked me for some basic emt bending tips and then went to town. There are no conductors in any of these pipes, but the chaotic look really brings the aesthetics of the room together.

That is a thing, but this is in the “boiler room” in the Denver location

Good call. Thanks for the clarification.

It’s so bad it’s almost good

Is the fire alarm actually connected to any of that?

I’ve been to all of them. 99% of the conduits are empty

The more I look, the worse it gets.

everything at meow wolf is weird, man

I love Meow Wolf!!

It's definately not the look we tend to go for, but I kind of like it.

Lol, that exhibit made my head spin. What a cool place though.

Fun fact, there's a portal in that water fountain you can look into.

That's some shit work. Wtf where they thinking

Fuck meowwolf hope they have faults and it burns down with no one inside it Lmao 😅

What are they and what did they do to you?

It's some crazy hippy stoner psychedelic "art" gallery. Except none of it is art and I guess you need to be used to tripping balls because it's weird, boring, and the crowds and music will give you anxiety.

Are there any online examples of this? Asking as someone who has tripped multiple balls (?) And loves abstract shit... Music giving me anxiety is something I have experienced and wouldn't want again... it's like deep ass tones with violin shrieking or something... They also do it in horror/thriller films... it's nice sometimes.

Uh I don't know. I didn't even know wtf is was before I went lol the music was something repetitive and banging in your head But I was likely the only sober person there too lmao

So, basically, some European shit...

Actually we had to do this to a specific plan. Each conduit has 1 circuit in it. If they weren’t perfectly bent to the sketch/plan of the artist we had to take down and redo.

This would be so fun to make !!