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Jim DeVito
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Post subject: Re: Ahead at Lightspeed  Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 11:35 am |
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dl meckes wrote: Where are new outcroppings of Lightspeed boxed popping up? Ohh, Theres more of those god awful things coming?
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Brian Pedaci
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Post subject: Re: Ahead at Lightspeed Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 9:29 am |
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More inspiration?Quote: Through the city of Fort Collins’ Art in Public Places Program, about 40 utility transformer boxes have gone from a frequent target for taggers to vibrant works of art adding to the city’s culture.
Utility transformers are cabinets that house a device the utility uses to convert medium voltage from the utility plant to operating volts for use at a business.
The idea to turn the boxes into works of art came about four years earlier when Fort Collins Utilities began realizing how much money and manpower were being used to clean off regular graffiti tags from the 7,000 utility transformers across the city, said Kraig Bader, electric standards engineering manager for Fort Collins Utilities.
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Geoff Wopershall
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Post subject: Re: Ahead at Lightspeed Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 7:19 pm |
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Heidi Hilty
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Post subject: Re: Ahead at Lightspeed Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 11:17 am |
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Would LOVE to see our Lakewood eyesores decorated...
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Dustin James
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Post subject: Re: Ahead at Lightspeed Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 2:24 pm |
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I know for a fact that A Graphic Solution (AGS) in Lakewood knows how to do both the urban camo version, or the art version on page 16 of this thread  I really like the urban camo for the best integration.
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Rhonda loje
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Post subject: Re: Ahead at Lightspeed Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 8:03 pm |
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So what are we waiting for???
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Jim O'Bryan
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Post subject: Re: Ahead at Lightspeed Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 9:04 pm |
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Dustin James wrote: I know for a fact that A Graphic Solution (AGS) in Lakewood knows how to do both the urban camo version, or the art version on page 16 of this thread I really like the urban camo for the best integration. Dustin While I can easily produce those prints and wraps to hide AT&T's Uverse Boxes that blight our neighborhoods. I hate to be a follower. While you and I could make a good case for coming up with these wraps, months if not years before anyone else, I want more for Lakewood. Lakewood is a city filled with hundred year old homes and a vibrant historical society. I think for Lakewood we should go more retro. So I had a meetings with the AGS Urban Planning design team visit with members of Lakewood Historical and Western Reserve Historical Society and came up with these. Pink is the new Light Red! Uverse Cosies     or kill two birds with one eyesore. Wayfinding!  Make AT&T pay for our wayfinding and place them only on Uverse boxes. .
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Brian Pedaci
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Post subject: Re: Ahead at Lightspeed Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 10:07 pm |
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I know you're joking but that last one's the best idea I've heard in a long time.
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Jim O'Bryan
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Post subject: Re: Ahead at Lightspeed Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 10:39 pm |
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Brian Pedaci wrote: I know you're joking but that last one's the best idea I've heard in a long time.  However it occurred to me, it should say ONELAKEWOOD.COM not just Lakewood. For the effort the city has gone into creating the website and branding it, we should have it everywhere. It is on every garbage can, why shouldn't it be on all wayfinding?  .
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Charlie Page
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Post subject: Re: Ahead at Lightspeed Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 11:00 pm |
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Jim O'Bryan wrote: Lakewood is a city filled with hundred year old homes and a vibrant historical society. As soon as I read that part I thought you might have come up with something like this  
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Rhonda loje
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Post subject: Re: Ahead at Lightspeed Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 11:03 pm |
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And what are you implying Charlie??????
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Jim O'Bryan
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Post subject: Re: Ahead at Lightspeed Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 11:19 pm |
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Charlie Page wrote: Jim O'Bryan wrote: Lakewood is a city filled with hundred year old homes and a vibrant historical society. As soon as I read that part I thought you might have come up with something like this  Does not have the same rustic feel I was hoping for. Still maybe we could put them on every corner and rent the empty ones out, and then we would never know if it was an AT&T box or outhouse-steader. .
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Post subject: Re: Ahead at Lightspeed Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 11:25 pm |
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Hi, I love them all, Jim. Last idea is great, agreed. I like the chicken cover, it will help combat that "anti-chicken" attitude the City government has. I did notice that in the swanky neighborhood north of Lake, there was a real effort at expense to "beautify" them.  Given that AT&T could have buried each and every one of these, I wonder why the City didn't require it. I have seen the City require "beautification" be done of property owners who have far smaller pockets than AT&T. It sad to see corporate welfare be run down the throats of Lakewood. Is it cheaper to send 1 guy to Harvard than correctly bury these? It isn't beautification, it's Dunnification.
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Jim O'Bryan
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Post subject: Re: Ahead at Lightspeed Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 11:25 pm |
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Jim O'Bryan wrote: or kill two birds with one eyesore. Wayfinding! Make AT&T pay for our wayfinding and place them only on Uverse boxes. . Left out some details! Sorry  .
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Jim O'Bryan
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Post subject: Re: Ahead at Lightspeed Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 11:47 pm |
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Donald Farris wrote: Hi, I love them all, Jim. Last idea is great, agreed. I like the chicken cover, it will help combat that "anti-chicken" attitude the City government has. I did notice that in the swanky neighborhood north of Lake, there was a real effort at expense to "beautify" them. Given that AT&T could have buried each and every one of these, I wonder why the City didn't require it. I have seen the City require "beautification" be done of property owners who have far smaller pockets than AT&T. It sad to see corporate welfare be run down the throats of Lakewood. Is it cheaper to send 1 guy to Harvard than correctly bury these? It isn't beautification, it's Dunnification. Don It is nice that they made some of them much nicer than others. Look at the one charley came up with! But for some reason, when I saw your image I was thinking maybe we could make others educational. As we have launched a project to build an Eifel Tower at the entrance to Lakewood maybe something like this would work down by you.  .
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