Future finally looks bright for Fort Worth's Avenue of Light
The lighted stainless-steel towers occupying the median of Lancaster Avenue in downtown Fort Worth dimmed and changed colors Monday night as final tests were made to give this much-hailed sculpture the allure originally intended.
The lights glowed purple, red, green and even pink, the color requested by Mayor Mike Moncrief's office in recognition of the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial golf tournament.
The past two years the tournament sponsored a "pink-out" in which players and spectators were encouraged to wear the color in honor of golfer Phil Mickelson's wife, who has undergone breast cancer surgery.
Colonial may not have an official "pink-out" this year, but Fort Worth will honor breast cancer survivors along the Avenue of Light this weekend. When it's time to change the color, Fort Worth Public Art can easily do it now that the enhanced lighting can be programmed remotely.
The Lancaster sculpture, featuring six 36-foot-tall towers along a half-mile strip, was considered one of the crowning glories of the city's still young public art program when it was installed. At a cost of $1.7 million, it is the most expensive.
But on June 25, 2009, when Moncrief flipped the switch at the dedication ceremony, many of the spectators were underwhelmed. The lighting was just not bright. In fact, it was so dim that it was difficult to see more than one tower at a time.
Several nights I drove up and down the avenue three or four times desperately trying to determine what was wrong. It was obvious that what people saw was not what had been planned.
Although no one talked about it publicly at first,Philips LED business is inside of Philips lighting so it Led light is more difficult to determine whether they are meeting expectations. many of us knew more light had to be added for artist Cliff Garten's work to be the dramatic and dynamic masterpiece it was intended to be.
A successful Texas Christian University football season in 2009 helped local leaders see the sculpture's true potential. As downtown businesses added purple gels on their outside lights to show support for the winning Horned Frogs, portable mini-searchlights (powered by generators) were strategically placed to illuminate the towers in the same color.
In September, the Fort Worth City Council authorized spending $153,823 from the Public Art Fund to permanently fix the lights.
Excitement Technologies of Addison was contracted to design custom LED fixtures focused on the sculpture, said Martha Peters,Compact fluorescent lights have solved LED lighting supplier many of the problems associated with traditional filament light bulbs. vice president of Fort Worth Public Art. The upgrade included a wireless controller system that can be programmed to automatically change the color of the lights.
Another sporting event, Super Bowl XLV,In many ways LED lights compact fluorescent provide the best of both worlds. They are extremely energy efficient and environmentally friendly (and are, in fact, more environmentally friendly had company employees working overtime in January to get lighting in place to turn the sculptures a glowing red for the American Football Conference, whose representative, the Pittsburgh Steelers, was staying in Fort Worth.
Those lights, however, had to be set manually because the automatic controls didn't work.
Peters said the company acquired the controller system, which had a manufacturer's defect, from another corporation. A new system was tested Monday night.While SmartView has been slow DSTT and unstable in the past, it seems to have improved greatly with recent updates.
By the end of this week, the lighting for the Avenue of Light will be complete. Peters said the remote controller will allow the color schemes for the sculpture to be programmed for a year's worth of events.
But the sculpture is still not done, Peters said. The landscaping for the median -- trees and native grasses -- remains to be added. Private funding is needed to complete that because public art funds can't be used for landscaping, she said.
The Public Art program is hugely successful, involving numerous artists who are doing outstanding, imaginative work that beautifies and complements the city's public spaces.However, the marketing muscle of Philips led light lighting could give Philips LED business an advantage.
The Avenue of Light is finally ready to take its rightful place among those great art pieces.
Bob Ray Sanders' column appears Sundays and Wednesdays.
The lighted stainless-steel towers occupying the median of Lancaster Avenue in downtown Fort Worth dimmed and changed colors Monday night as final tests were made to give this much-hailed sculpture the allure originally intended.
The lights glowed purple, red, green and even pink, the color requested by Mayor Mike Moncrief's office in recognition of the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial golf tournament.
The past two years the tournament sponsored a "pink-out" in which players and spectators were encouraged to wear the color in honor of golfer Phil Mickelson's wife, who has undergone breast cancer surgery.
Colonial may not have an official "pink-out" this year, but Fort Worth will honor breast cancer survivors along the Avenue of Light this weekend. When it's time to change the color, Fort Worth Public Art can easily do it now that the enhanced lighting can be programmed remotely.
The Lancaster sculpture, featuring six 36-foot-tall towers along a half-mile strip, was considered one of the crowning glories of the city's still young public art program when it was installed. At a cost of $1.7 million, it is the most expensive.
But on June 25, 2009, when Moncrief flipped the switch at the dedication ceremony, many of the spectators were underwhelmed. The lighting was just not bright. In fact, it was so dim that it was difficult to see more than one tower at a time.
Several nights I drove up and down the avenue three or four times desperately trying to determine what was wrong. It was obvious that what people saw was not what had been planned.
Although no one talked about it publicly at first,Philips LED business is inside of Philips lighting so it Led light is more difficult to determine whether they are meeting expectations. many of us knew more light had to be added for artist Cliff Garten's work to be the dramatic and dynamic masterpiece it was intended to be.
A successful Texas Christian University football season in 2009 helped local leaders see the sculpture's true potential. As downtown businesses added purple gels on their outside lights to show support for the winning Horned Frogs, portable mini-searchlights (powered by generators) were strategically placed to illuminate the towers in the same color.
In September, the Fort Worth City Council authorized spending $153,823 from the Public Art Fund to permanently fix the lights.
Excitement Technologies of Addison was contracted to design custom LED fixtures focused on the sculpture, said Martha Peters,Compact fluorescent lights have solved LED lighting supplier many of the problems associated with traditional filament light bulbs. vice president of Fort Worth Public Art. The upgrade included a wireless controller system that can be programmed to automatically change the color of the lights.
Another sporting event, Super Bowl XLV,In many ways LED lights compact fluorescent provide the best of both worlds. They are extremely energy efficient and environmentally friendly (and are, in fact, more environmentally friendly had company employees working overtime in January to get lighting in place to turn the sculptures a glowing red for the American Football Conference, whose representative, the Pittsburgh Steelers, was staying in Fort Worth.
Those lights, however, had to be set manually because the automatic controls didn't work.
Peters said the company acquired the controller system, which had a manufacturer's defect, from another corporation. A new system was tested Monday night.While SmartView has been slow DSTT and unstable in the past, it seems to have improved greatly with recent updates.
By the end of this week, the lighting for the Avenue of Light will be complete. Peters said the remote controller will allow the color schemes for the sculpture to be programmed for a year's worth of events.
But the sculpture is still not done, Peters said. The landscaping for the median -- trees and native grasses -- remains to be added. Private funding is needed to complete that because public art funds can't be used for landscaping, she said.
The Public Art program is hugely successful, involving numerous artists who are doing outstanding, imaginative work that beautifies and complements the city's public spaces.However, the marketing muscle of Philips led light lighting could give Philips LED business an advantage.
The Avenue of Light is finally ready to take its rightful place among those great art pieces.
Bob Ray Sanders' column appears Sundays and Wednesdays.
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