Colored lighting for downtown buildings
#1
Posted 06 October 2009 - 09:41 PM
I liked many of the lighting designs, even the retro neon look of the Mercantile Clock Tower is pretty cool.
I think that a few FW buildings like the AT&T building or Burnett Plaza could do with a bit of lighting magic.
And I like what the T&P lofts recently did with their roof top pedestal lighting. Nice job.
#2
Posted 22 October 2009 - 04:20 PM
#3
Posted 22 October 2009 - 08:16 PM
I agree also. What started out as kind of a fun them has turned into an icky 60's theme. When I get up in the middle of the night and the lights are turned off, it looks great. In fact I just thought of a great before and after pic. Act surprised...
#4
Posted 23 October 2009 - 07:41 AM
That said, I'd not object to a little more variety. The buildings which light their crowns and other details really work for me, especially the new lights on the T&P.
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#5
Posted 24 October 2009 - 01:24 AM
#6
Posted 30 October 2009 - 09:19 PM
#7
Posted 14 November 2009 - 11:39 PM
#8
Posted 15 November 2009 - 11:58 AM
I agree with color. I love the Chesapeake building with any colored lighting. It can be Red and Green all year or pink if they like. I hope that it is purple until TCU wins the championship...
I have many TCU purple pics posted on another thread on this Forum. (kind of hidden, so here is the link)
http://www.fortworth...m...ic=3977&hl=
#9
Posted 11 March 2010 - 09:44 AM
#10
Posted 12 March 2010 - 08:58 PM
I did notice, maybe it's a test, but a new string of lights on one edge of the Jet Building. They slowly change colors, reminds me of that 70's era round multi colored pizza thingy that twirled over a heat lamp to add a colorful glow to your Christmas tree and decorations.
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#11
Posted 14 March 2010 - 11:51 AM
I took this video with my camera Friday night. As luck would have it, the first third of the video shows little crazy action. Watch it all to see what I am talking about.
#12
Posted 14 March 2010 - 09:49 PM
#13
Posted 15 March 2010 - 08:00 AM
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#14
Posted 17 March 2010 - 07:03 AM
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#15
Posted 20 June 2010 - 06:52 AM
#16
Posted 20 June 2010 - 10:01 PM
#17
Posted 20 June 2010 - 10:22 PM
#18
Posted 22 June 2010 - 09:53 PM
Have not heard of anything beyond the gell packs. They sure can work well. The Tower has a bit of pink to its display. Purple is harder. Chesapeake has the secret as evidenced by this shot form Montgomery Plaza I took Sunday night. I congratulate them on their color displays year round. They could leave this TCU Purple for a long time in my book.
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#19
Posted 01 October 2010 - 11:03 PM
I really enjoy the spirit. Good for Fort Worth. And good for TCU...
#20
Posted 02 October 2010 - 10:04 PM
#21
Posted 03 October 2010 - 02:28 PM
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#22
Posted 03 October 2010 - 07:23 PM
#23
Posted 03 October 2010 - 07:46 PM
The lights have a full range of colors. If you remember, Brian posted a video showing the disco lights on the Jett Building (Chisholm Trail Mural) taken from his unit in The Tower.
That is correct. In fact in the week leading up to Friday going purple, they were every color as well as every pattern. A technology that I surely do not understand whereas sometimes the lights seem to be running in packets. I can understand changing the whole string to another color (like by changing the frequency of the electricity or something) but to have different colors moving along the string? Just don't see how that is possible. They were playing with the lights mostly after 11 pm as to have less of an audience. Was fascinating going to bed as the ceiling would be changing colors. They surely are effective in their colors. Like purple really being purple. I am thinking they are something very new. Friday night when I decided to take pics of all the purple I took a shot off of my balcony first because a year ago one of buildings (The old fire station downtown) installed LED lighting around it's perimeter and my camera would not really capture the color. It all looked like muted white lights. These lights do photography great. Complicated stuff. But I do love the vivid purple. (Photographically for sure)
#24
Posted 03 October 2010 - 07:51 PM
The lights have a full range of colors. If you remember, Brian posted a video showing the disco lights on the Jett Building (Chisholm Trail Mural) taken from his unit in The Tower.
That's what I thought, but I only see white or TCU purple for all of downtown, you'd think they'd have maybe green for St. Patrick's Day, maybe red and/or white for Christmas or Cowboy's blue for big games. Perhaps TCU is the only official company Sundance Square can back or the only one they can agree on. I see them playing with the stock settings on the Jet Building, just random cycle settings but no uniform downtown color scheme.
I could see something like that give people something to talk about in the outlying areas, "what's the blue for?" kind of like the GOOGLE images on their home page, more than once I've clicked on the image to find out what day they were celebrating. Might be enough for some to hop online to see what's going on downtown.
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#25
Posted 04 October 2010 - 12:30 PM
#26
Posted 04 October 2010 - 01:40 PM
I really wish Burnett Plaza would consider the LED lights as opposed to the burned out Christmas lights.
Agreed. These new LED's are really visible. And the Burnett building is way huge.
#27
Posted 04 October 2010 - 07:20 PM
I really wish Burnett Plaza would consider the LED lights as opposed to the burned out Christmas lights.
Agreed. These new LED's are really visible. And the Burnett building is way huge.
Wonder how much that would cost, those LEDs are not cheap?
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#28
Posted 04 October 2010 - 11:16 PM
Wonder how much that would cost, those LEDs are not cheap?
They aren't cheap, but they pay very well for themselves in the long run.
#29
Posted 06 October 2010 - 06:49 PM
Since Fort Worth is spending 4.5 million on the event, I'm hoping some of the funds will be invested in things that leave Fort Worth in a positive light for years to come and don't wind up instead in a bunch of confetti to be cleaned up and carted away once the party is over.
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#30
Posted 22 October 2010 - 10:45 PM
#31
Posted 23 October 2010 - 08:19 AM
Last night 22 Oct downtown lights were red and white stripped, looked pretty cool. I'll get a shot the next time I see something worth noting.
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#32
Posted 23 October 2010 - 12:49 PM
Tonight, the Omni went TCU Purple. Looks great! Good for them. Took this shot hanging off of my balcony in the rain while Downtown was still a bit loud with Rangers celebration. Of course later tonight Nolan Ryan is going home to the Omni so these things are not completely unrelated...
It has been like that for a few days now. I was gonna send you a note and tell you to get a shot of it when I first saw it. Also not sure if it is a TCU thing or a Joel Burns thing... I'll just think both!
#33
Posted 24 October 2010 - 07:19 PM
Since TCU doesn't play every day I'm voting for the Joel Burns support.It has been like that for a few days now. I was gonna send you a note and tell you to get a shot of it when I first saw it. Also not sure if it is a TCU thing or a Joel Burns thing... I'll just think both!
Tonight, the Omni went TCU Purple. Looks great! Good for them. Took this shot hanging off of my balcony in the rain while Downtown was still a bit loud with Rangers celebration. Of course later tonight Nolan Ryan is going home to the Omni so these things are not completely unrelated...
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#34
Posted 24 October 2010 - 07:40 PM
Since TCU doesn't play every day I'm voting for the Joel Burns support.
It has been like that for a few days now. I was gonna send you a note and tell you to get a shot of it when I first saw it. Also not sure if it is a TCU thing or a Joel Burns thing... I'll just think both!
Tonight, the Omni went TCU Purple. Looks great! Good for them. Took this shot hanging off of my balcony in the rain while Downtown was still a bit loud with Rangers celebration. Of course later tonight Nolan Ryan is going home to the Omni so these things are not completely unrelated...
As Fort Worth has been going purple for a year, I will go with TCU support.
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