Saw the LED testing on the south side, which was more extensive, but this is the first time I've noticed LED testing on the north side, that I could see from my place, though not nearly as extensive as what's happening on the south. Very faint green lines, lower-ish right side of the tower in the below pic.

http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-w1GwU5jwWGs/Tz4P0wSCZMI/AAAAAAAAQnI/SF9l5UKqAJU/s640/106_5154.jpg

I'm confused. I'm looking at this on my phone. Are those blue leds on the tower? If so, I had no idea the leds would wrap around the building.

No, the blue lights are the roof of St Anthony's

Maybe this zoom-in will help in seeing the green LEDs?

http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Q5JX_sEPlq4/Tz4a5huRIUI/AAAAAAAAQnk/xwjO0GTQe5I/s640/106_5154b.jpg

Just a little strange driving in and not seeing a crane on top of the tower...

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/9719/devong.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/190/devong.jpg/)

The NEW Oklahoma City.

Was this last night? If so, I saw your helicopter hovering over....

Awesome Cooper! More, more, more please!

From that angle you can see the circular reflecting pool starting to take shape at the very base of the tower:

http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/devon14.jpg

Was this last night? If so, I saw your helicopter hovering over....

Yep!

Awesome Cooper! More, more, more please!

From that angle you can see the circular reflecting pool starting to take shape at the very base of the tower:

http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/devon14.jpg

Oh, Pete. You're just so impatient. :)

http://img803.imageshack.us/img803/483/53644984.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/803/53644984.jpg/)

Quite the light test going on in the south indention...

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/9719/devong.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/190/devong.jpg/)

The NEW Oklahoma City.

thank you very much ..

Awesome pictures. You need to seriously look at creating a branded desktop theme for Windows 7. Now can you photoshop in some people on the sidewalks.

If you haven't noticed, the views on this thread have officially gone over a MILLION.

The webcam thread is also over 700K now.

Has there been any detailed information posted on this forum about how exactly the cranes disassemble themselves? I'm sure there's been something posted about this, but I can't seem to find it.

Here is some general info

http://www.ehow.com/how-does_5787150_cranes-removed-sky-scrapers_.html

Photo from today:

http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/devon21712.jpg

Good day for a first post. Boomer, the mechanism used is a "top-climber" which is positioned under the jib arm and separates it from the mast. At that point, the mast segments are removed a section at a time and lowered until the crane reaches a point that it can be disassembled from the ground. YouTube "Tower Crane Assembly" and you can sift through a few vids. It's a sloooow process but cool to watch. I've witnessed a few over the years and it is fascinating.

don't have time to "host and post" at the moment so I'll just link to my site for now. I posted a few more recent skyline pics here. http://goivm.com/photography/view/new-okc-aerials

Very Nice!

Thanks Sir.

Half the building is lit up right now with green and blue leds

Shows up on the construction cam.

This might be my favorite.

Nice to see the Braniff Building all lit up once again.

http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/devon21612.jpg

Probably not the best angle, but got a pic of the current testing from my place. Looks like green and THUNDER BLUE!

http://www.okctalk.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1109

http://www.okctalk.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1108

who does the aerial shots for FSNOK & ESPN for Thunder games?....some of the shots seemed to have too much red in it IMO. The aerial shots took during last years playoffs turned out pretty good, but some of this seasons shots had too much reddish tint. If aerial shots looked similar to the pictures Cooper posted above that would be awesome!

This might be my favorite.

Nice to see the Braniff Building all lit up once again.

http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/devon21612.jpg
Pardon my ignorance, but, which one is the Braniff Building? Thanks in advance.

Yep!
We were at Harkins last night and saw you as well.

who does the aerial shots for FSNOK & ESPN for Thunder games?....some of the shots seemed to have too much red in it IMO. The aerial shots took during last years playoffs turned out pretty good, but some of this seasons shots had too much reddish tint. If aerial shots looked similar to the pictures Cooper posted above that would be awesome!
They use stock footage. Has anyone noticed they haven't updated the aerial footage of the crosstown? LOL They still broadcast the old crosstown with eastbound traffic. That is over 6 weeks old at this point!

nm

After the Thunder game tonight, they had all 3 indentions lit up in dark green at least half way up the tower. If looking straight on, they were very faint, but when looked on at an angle, it is brilliant.

Noticed they had LEDs on so I stopped by this evening to get some pics and video on my phone. I ran into William, he was getting some shots as well. His will be much more impressive as I was only using my phone. I am going to combine the videos into one, upload and then I will post. One section was phasing through all the primary colors then switched to red and green moving like an equalizer. Stay tuned!

So I saw the post about the building being all lit up and I thought what the heck I'll go take my 7D on the maiden voyage. Wasn't planning on being that long. Ended up around three hours of walking all over downtown. The night was perfect. Light rain but no wind at all. I already was working on Thursday's footage. Well you won't be disappointed. I did video and photos. This camera does amazing low-light stuff. I got a ton of stuff to do for one of the largest concerts of the year on Saturday. So just like that, I'm up to my eyeballs in footage to edit.

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Decided to take a final trip west on the Crosstown. I noticed when looking straight at the indentions they are not as bright but the reflections from the sides are bright - I noticed it from close up too. When look straight towards the lighted fins then do not project light but if you move to the side the light is projected from the glass. There was one strip on a panel in the NW facing indention and it looked like it was being lit at full power, if this is what all of them will look like we are in for a show - what I have one film is about 35-45% of what the other one was.

Some still photos I took.
http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l527/mrktguy29/Devon%20Gif/IMG_2655.jpg
http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l527/mrktguy29/Devon%20Gif/IMG_2642.jpg
http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l527/mrktguy29/Devon%20Gif/IMG_2650.jpg
http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l527/mrktguy29/Devon%20Gif/IMG_2638.jpg

The light test is still visible even after midnight on the construction cam.

A friend and I were sitting in a traffic jam on 35 north yesterday, and I snapped this:
http://i41.tinypic.com/64dkt0.jpg

From Integris:
http://i41.tinypic.com/30277g3.jpg

What impresses me almost as much as the new tower are the beautiful Oklahoma sunrises and sunsets! I think those seeing these for the first time will be astounded.

Thanks mrktguy29! I've been told the tests are always done at a fraction of the full brightness.

From Integris:
http://i41.tinypic.com/30277g3.jpg

Thanks! This is my favorite view of the skyline.

he he he i'm with ya kilgoretrout

Pardon my ignorance, but, which one is the Braniff Building? Thanks in advance.

Here you go. (f/ Cooper_GOIVM's beautiful photo who I hope they doesn't mind I modified and reposted. Please let me know if you do and I will remove)
http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/3991/devon21612.jpg

Here you go. (f/ Cooper_GOIVM's beautiful photo who I hope they doesn't mind I modified and reposted. Please let me know if you do and I will remove)
http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/3991/devon21612.jpg
Thanks again.

I'm up to my eyeballs in footage that I need to edit. Got a lot of footage Thursday night (that's going to be old by the time it's finished), spent three hours down there Friday night using my camera for the first time, WinterJam at the arena Saturday night, a lot of stuff this morning, and I went down there again a while ago. I got some video of them lowering a piece of the crane down to Sheridan. Took a lot of photos... I need a week off to work on this that I don't get. RetroMetro meeting tomorrow evening... no end. I'm going to start putting new stuff on my Flickr page. I haven't used it in almost a year.

Either the cam is stuck or the LED's have been on for three days.

They were on last night around 115am....or this morning rather. I was about 7 miles away to the southwest at work and I saw them.

The cam isn't stuck... They've just been testing the LED's the last few nights, trying to work all the kinks out of floors 3-27.

I can see the tower from my front porch on a clear night and out of curiousity I pulled out my high powered binoculars to see if I could see the LED's. I can and I think I see them with the naked eye also. I live on Indian Meridian in Choctaw. Wish I could hook up my camera to my spotting scope!

That would be pretty cool, no doubt!

I can see the tower from my front porch on a clear night and out of curiousity I pulled out my high powered binoculars to see if I could see the LED's. I can and I think I see them with the naked eye also. I live on Indian Meridian in Choctaw. Wish I could hook up my camera to my spotting scope!

I can see the tower on a clear night when I get on the highway at Peebly. That thing is TALL!

I can see the tower on a clear night when I get on the highway at Peebly. That thing is TALL!

I can see it clearly near my house, about 2 miles East of HWY 102 on County Line rd (Would be Reno if it went all the way through)

I used the measuring tool on Google Earth and it's exactly 25.5 miles from the Tower to the top of the hill on County Line Road where I can see it.

The second crane is coming down quickly.

I just looked at it on the cam moments ago, didn't look like it had changed much from yesterday...

That's probably fair, I didn't look at it over the weekend, but noticed the last few posts hadn't mentioned anything about it.


I just looked at it on the cam moments ago, didn't look like it had changed much from yesterday...

I hope Devon Tower doesn't turn out to have any of these:

http://www.cracked.com/article_19682_5-most-embarrassing-architectural-failures.html

i was riding with my mom on the highway yesterday and i saw 2 trucks carrying away pieces of the tower crane, in my head i was saying "thank u for all your help" :)

Good to see you Troypin! It's been a while.

I just saw a tweet that said a crane had fallen at (into) the Devon Tower. Has anyone heard anything? Apparently a few windows were broken.

I just saw a tweet that said a crane had fallen at (into) the Devon Tower. Has anyone heard anything? Apparently a few windows were broken.

It didn't fall into the building. The boom was blown against the building breaking some glass. Bad luck that the winds picked up when the boom couldn't move with the wind because its the process of being taken down.

Edit: More like grazed the building, only breaking one pane.

I just saw a tweet that said a crane had fallen at (into) the Devon Tower. Has anyone heard anything? Apparently a few windows were broken.

At the end of the game, the Thunder put out an alert by email that said Robinson was closed due to debris and glass......I figured the crane blew into the tower..

Oklahoma and our weather :/