nice

What's with the boarded up building in the foreground?

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Old%20Oklahoma%20City/Bricktown/bricktown_collection_100.jpg

Rock Island Plow.

Personally, I think Devon makes Chase look better. Chase is no longer the tallest or signature tower anymore, but it's ugliness and stout 70's Industrial-Style is a nice change from the glamor that is devon, the modern that is OK Tower and the Glass buildings, and the Art Deco that is FNC and City place, and the brutalist that is SandRidge/KerrMcGee.

in fact, I think it is great for OKC to have prominent skyscrapers now from every school of architecture; though we don't really have a true post-modern tower YET unless devon is considered post-modern. ...

February 1 2012

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Downtown%20OKC/Devon%20Tower/February%202012/devontowercrownprogress2-1-12-1.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Downtown%20OKC/Devon%20Tower/February%202012/devontowercrownprogress2-1-12-2.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Downtown%20OKC/Devon%20Tower/February%202012/devontowercrownprogress2-1-12-3.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Downtown%20OKC/Devon%20Tower/February%202012/devontowercrownprogress2-1-12-4.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Downtown%20OKC/Devon%20Tower/February%202012/devontowercrownprogress2-1-12-5.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Downtown%20OKC/Devon%20Tower/February%202012/devontowercrownprogress2-1-12-6.jpg

Are those 2 guys eating lunch in the first pic?

Are those 2 guys eating lunch in the first pic?

Maybe breakfast or an afternoon snack.

Personally, I think Devon makes Chase look better. Chase is no longer the tallest or signature tower anymore, but it's ugliness and stout 70's Industrial-Style is a nice change from the glamor that is devon, the modern that is OK Tower and the Glass buildings, and the Art Deco that is FNC and City place, and the brutalist that is SandRidge/KerrMcGee.

in fact, I think it is great for OKC to have prominent skyscrapers now from every school of architecture; though we don't really have a true post-modern tower YET unless devon is considered post-modern. ...

Good Analysis Hot Rod, however I personally would consider the Chase tower truly international style in the Miesian school. I've never really liked those horrid little arches at the top of the building, but every city does need it own big black box. What would be nice is if the facade were to be replaced (minus the white arches) with a truly elegant floor to ceiling dark tinted glass: kind of like the Seagrams in NYC.

(Besides, that was the skyscraper of my childhood... please don't take it away.....)

Maybe breakfast or an afternoon snack.

I think the 4th picture show what they were doing.......waiting for the next piece of glass.

I think the 4th picture show what they were doing.......waiting for the next piece of glass.

It was a joke Mike, but maybe they were eating a Kit Kat bar.

Brave men!

Brave men!

Understatement. LOL

It was a joke Mike, but maybe they were eating a Kit Kat bar.

Lol, yes, thank you metro for revealing my sarcasm ;-)

February 1 2012


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYxPeD8-01Y

Embeded video player doesn't seem to work anymore.

February 1 2012


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYxPeD8-01Y

Embeded video player doesn't seem to work anymore.

Yes, it does. Here's what to do:




1) In YouTube, click the Share button; a dialogue opens. In that dialog, an "Options ▼" link is present below the embed address box. Click that link. Then, a check box is present which reads, "Long link." Click that link. Then, in the embed address box, a long link is present. Select that link and copy the link to your clipboard (Ctrl+C).

2) Back here in the forum as you are composing a message, click the video icon (looks like a film strip clip). A dialog will open into which you paste (Ctrl+V) the link you earlier copied. Then, press the OK button.

That's it, and you get this:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYxPeD8-01Y

Don't use the YouTube icon in this forum when composing a message in advanced mode -- use the video icon, as I said, which is present in either basic or advanced mode.

Hope this helps.

To use the Youtube function, just click on the icon and paste between the two sets of brackets everything after the = sign, in this case xYxPeD8-01Y.

To use the Youtube function, just click on the icon and paste between the two sets of brackets everything after the = sign, in this case xYxPeD8-01Y.

Yes, that is also possible, but the reason I said not to use it is that a smaller version of the video is produced, like this ...

xYxPeD8-01Y

... compared to this:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYxPeD8-01Y

Copying the video URL like it says did not work like it usually does. It says "Enter your video clip URL below." then "Example:..." Click "OK" and it just does a regular URL link.

Doug, I follow those steps every time. All it made when I clicked Post was a regular URL link.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYxPeD8-01Y

The code it created when I click "OK" is this. [ video ] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYxPeD8-01Y [ /video ]
It just makes a regular URL link now. I've posted everything here without a problem until now.

Will, my friend, you are great at videos and pics ... but ... well, I won't repeat the instructions, correctly given in the first place. I wonder if it is a browser issue? I typically use Firefox, during which time my exemplary stuff was posted. Come by my house sometime, and I will show you. I think you have my phone number.

February 1 2012


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYxPeD8-01Y

Embeded video player doesn't seem to work anymore.
Never mind, i was too eager to help before I got to others help on the subject.

Will, my friend, you are great at videos and pics ... but ... well, I won't repeat the instructions, correctly given in the first place. I wonder if it is a browser issue? I typically use Firefox, during which time my exemplary stuff was posted. Come by my house sometime, and I will show you. I think you have my phone number.

I'm far from computer illiterate. I swear I'm doing it the same way it usually works, and all it creates is an URL link rather than an embedded video when I click Post. And no, I'm not using some junk like Internet Explorer. It's Firefox.

EDIT: Jeez, no wonder. Notice the "https" in there? That's what screwing it up. When I post videos, It's easier to right click the video in the editor rather than go to each video, have it start playing just so I can click through and to the "long URL" method. I notice now that those links in the YouTube editor have "https" in the URL but other than that it's the same. That's an easy thing to miss.

I'm far from computer illiterate. I swear I'm doing it the same way it usually works, and all it creates is an URL link rather than an embedded video when I click Post. And no, I'm not using some junk like Internet Explorer. It's Firefox.

EDIT: Jeez, no wonder. Notice the "https" in there? That's what screwing it up. When I post videos, It's easier to right click the video in the editor rather than go to each video, have it start playing just so I can click through and to the "long URL" method. I notice now that those links in the YouTube editor have "https" in the URL but other than that it's the same. That's an easy thing to miss.
Not to worry, grasshopper. Even the smallest butterfly can crash into Lincoln's face on Mt. Rushmore without ever knowing why.

Thought this was a neat shot from the Construction cam.

http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l527/mrktguy29/Devon%20Gif/DevonConstructionCam.jpg

The two times I drove through OKC it smelled like rotten eggs. There's something wrong with the pollution there....

Always something good to say.

Pretty sure it is the cottonseed mill. That seems to be where it gets strongest from the new crosstown anyway.

Pretty sure it is the cottonseed mill. That seems to be where it gets strongest from the new crosstown anyway.

I have yet to smell it on the new I-40 but I sure could smell it from the old crosstown.

The other possibility that comes to mind would be Moshe Tal's fuel additive processing plant north of the mill. I don't know exactly what cotton seed oil smells like, but those are pretty much the two possibilities. Btw, his property would be a good place for a garage but he has been notorious for being greedy from the days of his imminent domain dispute with the city about the Bricktown theater.

It's the cottonseed mill............they can't relocate fast enough.

I have never been able to figure out what the awful smell is downtown and around Bricktown some nights... I hope it goes away soon.

I've noticed it and commented to others for years (at least 10). Sometimes it smells like a moldy yeast/rotten biscuit smell. I go to work DT at 5 AM and it's at it's worst then. It's never there by noon.

I honestly have no.clue what any of ya'll are talking about. Devon Tower news please or nothing at all? K, thanks...

I honestly have no.clue what any of ya'll are talking about. Devon Tower news please or nothing at all? K, thanks...

Yep...they're still working on it. There's your news.

I honestly have no.clue what any of ya'll are talking about. Devon Tower news please or nothing at all? K, thanks...

It's tall. It's also all glass. And it stinks when you drive by it due to the cottonseed mill.

I honestly have no.clue what any of ya'll are talking about. Devon Tower news please or nothing at all? K, thanks...

It looks just like it did yesterday on the cam.....

no.clue

I have no.clue what this means?

Unlike.some.posters.on.here.I.smell.a.whiff.of.sar casm.coming.outta.that.cottonmill! LOL

So the cottonseed mill is moving? I've wondered what that smell is for a while now. It's almost an instant throw up every time you smell it. Glad I finally know what it is because it had been driving me crazy.

While I know this won't make Thunder happy - I got photoshop a few weeks ago and have been experimenting. Thought I would share. (KayneMo's photo):

http://i.imgur.com/Yg4Bc.jpg (http://imgur.com/Yg4Bc)

So the cottonseed mill is moving? I've wondered what that smell is for a while now. It's almost an instant throw up every time you smell it. Glad I finally know what it is because it had been driving me crazy.

They bought the old Dayton Tire facility out on South Council and are to relocate in the next year or two, I believe.

While I know this won't make Thunder happy - I got photoshop a few weeks ago and have been experimenting. Thought I would share. (KayneMo's photo):

Wow! Looks incredible!

http://i.imgur.com/Yg4Bc.jpg (http://imgur.com/Yg4Bc)

This definately needs to be the picture on the Devon Tower wiki page, perhaps when it's actually compete though. The reflection from the sunset is absolutely stunning.

Would be great if someone could add this photo to Wikipedia List Of Tallest Buildings In The U.S. We will be tied at #33 tallest in the U.S. With the GE building in NYC and Chase building in Chicago. (850 ft. each)

Would be great if someone could add this photo to Wikipedia List Of Tallest Buildings In The U.S. We will be tied at #33 tallest in the U.S. With the GE building in NYC and Chase building in Chicago. (850 ft. each)

It can't be done yet. It states that the list in question is for completed buildings. Soon, grasshopper.

Would be great if someone could add this photo to Wikipedia List Of Tallest Buildings In The U.S. We will be tied at #33 tallest in the U.S. With the GE building in NYC and Chase building in Chicago. (850 ft. each)

Devon is only 844 ft.

Is the cotton mill the cluster of white-ish looking buildings (UGLY) that are seen in the picture on page 357 to the left of the tower, south of the old Crosstown? Those need to be torn down...they look terrible while driving on the new I-40.

Yes that's it. It will be fun to see what gets put there. Hopefully a gas station and some residential facing the highway, maybe even office space fronting the boulevard. But time will tell..

Yes that's it. It will be fun to see what gets put there. Hopefully a gas station and some residential facing the highway, maybe even office space fronting the boulevard. But time will tell..

I believe the city is wanting much higher density than a gas station and some residential.

There is a salvage yard on the other side of the highway, which would would make anything over maybe four stories on the southern part of property pretty undesirable. That's why I said a gas station but power to them.

There is a salvage yard on the other side of the highway, which would would make anything over maybe four stories on the southern part of property pretty undesirable. That's why I said a gas station but power to them

In the C2S plans that will be gone as well.

I'm sort of a geek when it comes to what's happening downtown so it kinda surprises me when someone isn't aware of what's going on but I forget I have a rare obsession. LOL

But you would think if it is in the plans, it would have already been done, given that buying a large piece of land and demolishing it is one of the easiest things government can do compared to design, vetting, and building. But my bad!

Btw, I'm pretty sure that where a lot of the dust in Will's dust bowl Skydance video came from. That's several acres of dusty ground.

I used to love the cotton mill when I was a kid. They looked like huge shiny pyramids to me.

But you would think if it is in the plans, it would have already been done, given that buying a large piece of land and demolishing it is one of the easiest things government can do compared to design, vetting, and building. But my bad!

Btw, I'm pretty sure that where a lot of the dust in Will's dust bowl Skydance video came from. That's several acres of dusty ground.

The entire city was hazy with dust that day.

Messing around downtown today and happened to have some free time and my camera with me, along with a UWA lens. Too bad it wasn't a better time of the day (light-wise) and there were no clouds.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7026/6831478275_b7cd174c68_b.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7150/6831478383_19e9a9e4d2_b.jpg

Awesome photos! Thanks for sharing them.

Looks like they are just about done with the glass on the west side.

The west crane is coming down today! Great news for the completion of the exterior!

From a distance, it looks like the west crane is coming down as we speak...I'm probably wrong, but It certainly looks like it.

Stunning photos......I like the tapering curve that starts on floor 35.

Awesome photos! Thanks for sharing them.

Looks like they are just about done with the glass on the west side.

It looks like crap because it's cropped so heavily, and it being such a short focal-length lens (left the big zooms at home), but here's the view anyway. Yup...Aboot done.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7153/6831965883_b4dc2e7087_b.jpg

If I'd have brought my big cannon of a lens, I'd have been able to prove/disprove the Kit-Kat for lunch theory :D

Was out today around 2:30pm and the construction crews have started to disasemble the tower crane on the west side of the tower.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7017/6832042049_50d374a627_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/alonzoadamsphotography/6832042049/)
Devon Energy Tower (http://www.flickr.com/photos/alonzoadamsphotography/6832042049/) by AlonzoAdamsOKC (http://www.flickr.com/people/alonzoadamsphotography/), on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7028/6832042135_438af3aa7e_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/alonzoadamsphotography/6832042135/)
Devon Energy Tower (http://www.flickr.com/photos/alonzoadamsphotography/6832042135/) by AlonzoAdamsOKC (http://www.flickr.com/people/alonzoadamsphotography/), on Flickr