Out of State Quote:

Where did you find this? I'm always glad to hear feedback from out of staters good, or bad.

As the crow flies, Sonic to Devon Tower is 18 miles.

Well, I guessed pretty good then.

Thanks to the lousy Vimeo Uploader, I gotta start all over again.

Thanks to the lousy Vimeo Uploader, I gotta start all over again.

Crap! I seen you had just now posted and was like YAY! But Vimeo has failed me and you both.

September 2011


http://vimeo.com/29753165

Best yet...Amazing.

Not real happy how Vimeo renders the video on their end. Some areas are overexposed. I'm uploading it to YouTube right now. I've never put any of these on there before. I want to see if the video quality is better. Won't take too long. If it's better, I'll link to it.

By the way, here's what a real time lapse video looks like compared to my junk.


http://vimeo.com/23237102

OKC as seen from my favorite viewing site, the upper deck of the Bricktown garage.

YouTube version looks just the same... so I don't know. Whites and clouds are too white.

By the way, here's what a real time lapse video looks like compared to my junk.


http://vimeo.com/23237102
Inception music always helps.

Some of you had requested to see my original pic before I messed around with it. As I stated, it is blurry but that's because we were on the move. You'll see in this why the other buildings are brighter in my edit. Either way, it's a cool shot with the setting sun!

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6004/6193842651_189dcc3ba4_b.jpg

Awesome shot!

Wow! That is quite lovely! You should be proud of yourself for only having a skyline view from the Great State Fair of Oklahoma!!!

Awesome shot!

Thank you Sir!


Wow! That is quite lovely! You should be proud of yourself for only having a skyline view from the Great State Fair of Oklahoma!!!

Be glad I actually took my camera ;-)

Some of you had requested to see my original pic before I messed around with it. As I stated, it is blurry but that's because we were on the move. You'll see in this why the other buildings are brighter in my edit. Either way, it's a cool shot with the setting sun!

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6004/6193842651_189dcc3ba4_b.jpg

When did they add LED lighting onto Chase? ;-)

When did they add LED lighting onto Chase? ;-)They subbed solar lighting for it.

They subbed solar lighting for it.

Ha! Sounds about right.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=2055342142562&set=a.1220590634296.2032237.1214828759&type=1&theater

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Another view of OKC from the Bricktown area.

From my urban trek on Wednesday.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20681375@N03/6198003872/in/set-72157627662822427
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20681375@N03/6198003694/in/set-72157627662822427
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20681375@N03/6198010160/in/set-72157627662822427

Thanks for those photos, doug!

I hope you don't mind, but I cropped one of your pics to show an interesting development: looks like they have started to disassemble the exterior freight elevator components on the first 20 floors. They must have some of the internal elevators working now and I bet we'll see glass go up in those empty spots soon:

http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/devon93011.jpg

Not sure if you noticed, Pete, but it looks like they already have glass going in the bottom!

Yes, sharp eye SkyWest!

Looking back at photos from just a few days ago, that glass on the third level was not there.

Pete, I noticed this and mentioned it a week ago when I did the ceremony video. (http://www.okctalk.com/showthread.php?t=19439&p=471011#post471011)

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Downtown%20OKC/Devon%20Tower/Septembe%202011/devontowerprogress9-21-11-28.jpg

For those that are not good at the "what is different in this picture" game, the red safety cages are missing from the elevator on the left.

There's also a guard rail, so the elevator probably doesn't stop on those levels on both sides.

Drove by Today, and I know this isn't the thread, but they have put up to Chesepeake Energy signs on the OKC arena!!!!

Every time dougsevert post, its all blank. Why is he doing this? I don't see any pictures. Everyone else post pictures, I see them, but all blank on dougsevert.

Amazing picture I found while flickr-ing. ;)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/trixter/6084940557/

Drove by Today, and I know this isn't the thread, but they have put up to Chesepeake Energy signs on the OKC arena!!!!

And was mentioned days ago in the CHK arena thread

Keep an eye out for this guy...

September 30 2011... 30 today...

Looks like some sort of bucket lift in the close up shots of the top.

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Will/2011/willokcskyline9-30-11-2.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Will/2011/DSCF2391.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Will/2011/DSCF2378.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Will/2011/DSCF2361.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j286/UnFrSaKn/Will/2011/DSCF2369.jpg

Who is he?

Unforsaken aka Will

Will,

I think we board members ought to petition Devon to invest in a Bogen fluid head for you...at a minimum.

Unforsaken aka Will

I know the avatar is Obama'esque but he doesn't look the same. ;-)

OKCisOK4me, it is him. Don't even bother trying to get him to shave. He does it whenever he feel like it. The one in his avatar was of him shaved and an earlier picture.

I definitely will keep an eye out. :-)

Courtesy of OKC Devon Tower Construction: (http://devontower.blogspot.com/)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O8VwbqNxyMQ/ToTESmqAiqI/AAAAAAAAAXs/YohxYrdLP9I/s1600/CIMG0930.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kayneshots/6205110969/in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/20681375@N03/sets/72157627662822427

^^All I see is a red X there,do you have a link?

^^All I see is a red X there,do you have a link?

One of these days I'll get the right URL/Link. Maybe this is the day!

One of these days I'll get the right URL/Link. Maybe this is the day!

I see a link now,very nice pics!

I definitely will keep an eye out. :-)

Me too, sailor!

How soon before they start adding glass panels at the top section of the tower?

How soon before they start adding glass panels at the top section of the tower?

Should be any time now. I think someone said their going vertically with the panels now instead of horizontally across one floor.

Regarding the glass, a recent report said they would no longer be adding it one floor at a time, rather they would be doing it in vertical strips.

You can see on the construction cam that is already starting to happen on the southern side.

A friend employed down there tells me that something else fell from the building and flattened a car on top of the parking garage. The news isn't substantiating it yet that I can see.

EDIT: Well, a picture shows that it isn't FLATTENED, per se...but it's certainly damaged beyond drivable. The windshield and part of the roof is caved in slightly.

Unfrskn must have dropped his video port folio.

It looks like a pole fell off the side of the smaller building or the tower and landed on a car in the parking garage doing damage to it and the car next to it.

http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/302450_10150314563151636_141321506635_8265289_1471 352471_n.jpg

It looks like a pole fell off the side of the smaller building or the tower and landed on a car in the parking garage doing damage to it and the car next to it.

Several of our folks went out - the blue car in UnFrSaKn's pic was hit so hard the airbag deployed and car is probably totaled - frame bent. Other vehicle not so bad but substantial damage. OSHA folks were out there fast. The two owners were actually walking to their respective vehicles to go home. Good thing they didn't sneak out early.
The pole was purportedly removed from the scene quickly.

At least the white van is safe.

Alas, the white van has faded into obscurity. It shall not be forgotten.

Good thing they weren't in their vehicles. The person driving the truck might of gotten lucky, the person driving the car not so much...

At least the white van is safe.

FWIW, I laughed. Long live the white van!

That pole could be one of the poles that hold the nets.

I hate the white van! It has been parked in my spot the last three days!

I did find out the blue car was totalled. It was a Cavalier, so I am sure the owner will be happy to get a newer car! The other car Toyota Prius had substantial damage, but not totalled. Glass also hit the car next to them, but not sure how much.

The pole now sits on the smaller building next to the tower, although one of the net poles is missing!