Electron Valve

@electronvalve.co

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Mostly neon. Sometimes old computers. Occasionally photography, fountain pens, and nixie tubes. Brooklyn but slowly migrating to Palm Springs/Joshua Tree. AI is not art.

A refurbished old channel neon sign reading “Murray’s STURGEON SHOP” - the Murray’s is filled with yellow tubes in a script font. the sign is mounted on a white board. Below the sign is a small shop with a display window and a roll down gate.
a bundle of small, green glowing, glass tubes, arranged in 6 bunches and wrapped in bubble wrap. There are random packing peanuts and a brown cardboard box next to the packet of tubes. On the bottom left is the edge of a UV flashlight and a purple glow coming out from the front.
A think green-ish tube of glass with a neon electrode on the end. The background is a shop floor with some plumbing below a table. There is a chair in the background. On the right hand side it a metal pipe with a few flexible gas lines leading up to a torch which is not in the photo.
A thin glass tube in front of a black beanbag and on top of a dirty workbench. The tube is hit with UV light and most of the tube is glowing green - except for one dark spot in the middle of the tube.
A bundle of thing glass tubes in bubble wrap sitting in a counter. They are being illuminated with UV light and glowing bright green.
A logo for a company called base44 - the logo is a circle with horizontal stripes cut out of the bottom like all of the other logos in the thread. The text reads “Base 44”
A 1970s version of the Aperture laboratory logo - it is a circle with a gradated orange to yellow with horizontal stripes cut of out the circle. To the right of the circle is the word "aperture" written in a soft round font. (I think this is a version of the "Cooper Black" font)
A white neon tube with the end bent in to a U shape and dipped in black paint. The whole thing is tenuously balanced on an egg carton. Next to the tube is a small can of black latex paint.
A pigeon shape in neon - the body is in a sky blue, the eye is a deep red, and the neck stripes are a coral pink and green. The tubes are just laid out on a workbench and connected with random wires. At the top of the frame is a random white neon tube that is not illuminated. The whole setup looks a little sketchy.
A small u-shaped neon tube. The top is glowing a coral pink and the bottom one is glowing a green with a blue tint. On the left side of the tubes are electrodes.
a sign mounted by a street encouraging pedestrians to "Be seen. Grab a brick!" Below the sign is a small box holding a few red bricks.
A bent red neon tube with a hole in the middle of it. The hole exposes a white inner coating of the red tube. The tube is floating above an outline of the pigeon template.
The pigeon building three units of glass, they body and stripes are white glass (which will glow blue, green, and pink) and a bright red eye (which will glow red) electrodes are on the ends and it’s sitting on a dirty workbench.
A red tube of glass bent in a triangular shape with a bright yellow cork in one end of the tube
Two different r pieces of white glass fused together to make the stripes around the pigeon neck
An outline of a pigeon drawing, with a red segment of neon glass marked to be bent in to the eye of the bird. Below that are two white tubes that will glow green and pink when illuminated.
A neon sign on a dark wall reading “ADJECTIVE” in red “ADJECTIVE” in yellow “ADJECTIVE” in blue The three words are all written on a single line, in all caps block letters.
A 12 mm clear neon tube with a 10mm cobalt tube at a right angle to the glass. This isn’t a bend, it’s 90 degrees perpendicular to the glass.
A close up of a red record sitting on a clear platter with a tone arm and stylus in a red case hovering over the first track
A chaotic photo of construction, old signs, and wires hanging. The center of the frame has a sign that reads “Internet E-Mail T1”
A glass sphere with a glowing ring floating inside of it. It is bending and warping and causing internal reflections on the glass. It eventually disperses in to a green misty glow and then forms back in to a coherent ring.
A sign that reads: “PIEROGI ROOM ⬆️ MUSIC THIS WAY ➡️” The sign is on a white wall illuminated with red/orange light and there is a small picture frame with upcoming shows
A neon/ plasma display with a blue electrical/lightening bolt that occasionally hits a neon tube with the words YES and NO that illuminate when hit.
A photo from a security camera - 1 World Trade Center is in the background of the farm and several smaller electrical arcs flowing out of one large arc originating at the top of the building.
Two faces in neon, one blue with a green eye, the other yellow with a blue eye. Between them are four neon hands that alternate on/off and have hands outlines in various colors pointing directly at the opposing face.
A large neon sign (145 inches wide) with the word "AMERICA" written in an outline font. The side facing the view is blocked out, the backside facing the wall is not and creates a black text with white shadow effect on the wall. Below "AMERICA" is the same word, same size, flipped vertically and horizontally.
A wavy neon sign tube on a workbench. The tube is a deep violet blue and dark but the plasma center of the tube is glowing a deep magenta color.
Two neon outlines of heads - one blue and one yellow. Each has a pair of neon shaped hands pointed directly at each other in a menacing way.
a photo of a book, with cat photos, all arranged in a high school yearbook style layout. The center of the image has a grey (Russian Blue?) grumpy looking cat with the name "Freya" and BROOKLYN GLASS written below it.
A rectangular mirror filled with white neon, arranged in a perpendicular/rectangular pattern. The work is on an industrial white wall with an electrical wire hanging out the bottom. The piece is approximately 5 feet wide and 2 feet call.
A close up of a eyeglass lens with two square water beads, two triangle beads, and two circular beads
A neon sign of the marquee of the Kings Theater in Brooklyn with the letters "SPARKS MAD! TOUR SEPT 12" The marquee is a a 1920s (est?) era sign with gold leaf floral pattern with a double outline of white neon surrounding the lettering of the sign.
a cyberdeck-style computer, with a handheld form factor. The screen is showing a waterfall plot of a frequency spectrum. Below that is a keyboard. The device has 4 antennas on it and a thermal camera on the right side.
A photo of a space age neon sign reading “Grumpy’s Dining Bar” - taken at night with a storefront filled with brewery signs slightly visible below.
A screen shot of the “muted words” feature in the BlueSky app - with the text “salon musk” entered
a screen shot of inkscape with an outline of the logo for the movie Brazil in script font, with red and blue lines representing neon tubes
A theater marquee with blue outline bubble letters spelling “Film Forum” and a lot of movies underneath. The entire storefront is covered in scaffolding
A red neon sign reading Bongos 85. It’s made up of three strips of 10mm tube forming a serif scrip word underlined with incandescent bulbs
A messy desk with a small neon tube on one side, a tiny white neon transformer, and a usbc battery bank.
Three stickers referencing the Talking Heads. One in the shape of a stop sign reading “stop making sense” one reading “same as it ever was” over and over, and finally one in a Trivial Pursuit style design reading “you may ask yourself” followed by the lyrics to Once in a Lifetime.
A glass tube bent in the shape of a paper airplane. It starts out a bright red and fades to a blue color as the mercury in the tube heats up. In the background is a generic cloudy sky.
Close up of a white neon house number reading 163
Four boxes of fountain pen ink - sitting on a bar with a background shelf with a hundred-ish bottles of amaro and vermouth
I rise to speak in support of the campaign to protect the heritage craft of neon sign making—a uniquely British tradition that is now at risk. Neon was discovered here in the United Kingdom in 1898. After its discovery, Sir William Ramsay and Morris Travers demonstrated that by passing electricity through the gas, they could make it glow, paving the way for iconic neon signs the world over, from Piccadilly Circus to Times Square.
A notepad with a pen on it. Behind it is a wooden tray with a blue and green fountain pen ink bottle. Behind that is a Louis Poulsen PH 3/2 Poul Henningsen lamp.
Several shelves filled with colorful bottles of fountain pen inks
a screen shot of ChatGPT with the query "how do I exit vi?" The responses are to power off the computer or kill the process.
Side vide of a yellow neon Y where the glass connects at the top part of both halves of the Y
A yellow neon sign in block letters reading “NEON ELECTRICAL LIGHT ENGLISH GLASS LETTERS YELLOW EIGHT”
A storefront window, flooded with red light, and a bunch of happy looking, boxy cardboard robots in the window with a sign reading “chat haus”
A tv displaying a photo of the band Orbital. Below it is a record player, McIntosh stereo, speakers on the sides, and a nixie clock to the right side
A script neon sign reading “Enough Already” The top unit is in a purple color and the bottom unit is red
a close up of an Elgato stream deck with a bunch of icons, the focus is in a big red "B" icon from btop
A lamp post with 6 hikvision surveillance cameras pointing at random angles
A van covered in graffiti. Below the spray paint is a white and orange van with the logo “graffiti free NYC”
A screen shot of an M3-Ultra Mac Studio with the cpu maxed out, 80GB of ram used, and 947MBps of data being download.
A playfield of Creature from the Black Lagoon