Crazy Idea
by jessenumber1 on Apr 22, 2009 9:33 AM PDT
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PrintI'm not sure how realistic this is but I figured if anyone can get together and make this happen it's the fine residents of Blazer's Edge.
Last night on TV after coming back from a commercial a helicopter panned over the Portland skyline and I thought to myself:
How sweet would it be if there was a giant Blazers Pinwheel on the roof of one of the downtown high-rises?
The answer? VERY sweet.
I figure it wouldn't be much harder than a bunch of red and white christmas lights and some duct tape? Right?
OK, ok, I know there's the issue of finding all the lights, designing some large scale template so the thing looks ok and then obtaining the permission of the building. But that's what our superior networking skills are for!
So what do you think, can we make this happen?
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Shameless much?
You’re just not going to be happy till you own this city.
That's what the Blazers Edge Army is for.
But don’t tell anyone, it’s a secret.
I know less than half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
by haildablazer on Apr 22, 2009 5:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Finding a site would be the first critical step
Once we know the size on the rooftop we are working with we can design a template and outline how many lights, etc we would need.
do we have any Property Management/Real Estate people?
This would be a great way to get some attention for your building. There sure seem to be a lot of vacant condo’s. I’d want to live in the pinwheel building. This has to happen.
wanderlust
Put blazersedge.com on the bottom
and let’s pass a vurtual hat for the lights. I’m in for ten bucks.
Bedge or go home.
This needs to happen.
Are we talking some flimsy cheep pinwhell or a semi-permanent construct hard bolted to the roof designed to take wind-load, weatherproofed, etc…?
"We really don't reference the rulebook." ~Joe Borgia, NBA VP of referee operations, to Henry Abbot regarding the calling (or lack thereof) of traveling.
The Ducks did it down in Eugene
They painted a big “O” on the side of Autzen when College Gameday showed up…
Proud member of Duck nation!
was it a live shot for sure?
I’ve noticed many times that they use old footage for the flyovers…
But I like to be here. Oh, I like it a lot! Said the Cat in the Hat. To the fish in the pot.
by you'vegottomakeyourfreethrows on Apr 22, 2009 10:02 AM PDT reply actions
I think it was live
But I’m not sure, either way I’m sure that if we got this together it would make it on TV.
by jessenumber1 on Apr 22, 2009 10:04 AM PDT up reply actions
I live in The Strand building in SW Waterfront area right across from the RAC
The apartment I live in has a rooftop deck. We could put something on there if we can find no other place. Granted, its not a very tall or grand rooftop deck but it could be a second option if no high rises want to lend us their roof.
I Blazersedge daily, nightly and ever so rightly.
I live in the Pacific Tower on 4th and Flanders
Yes, I’m poor as hell.
It’s probably the closest residential highrise to the west of the Rose Garden, but I don’t think it would necessarily show up on TV. It’s got good roof access, though.
Either way, I’m putting a pinwheel in my window.
Made one of these a few months ago (although much much smaller)
I made it out of red and white rope lights that I got from Home Depot, and I zip tied them to a 2×2′ piece of plywood that I painted black. The template wasn’t too hard to make. I just had to blow up a logo and then print it out to the right size (this would be hard for the size of a rooftop). It turned out REALLY well and I proudly display it out my living room window.
Back in ‘03 playoffs we drew a huge logo with ’GO BLAZERS’ around it on my culdesac (with chalk). It was freaking sweet.
A large scale version could be easily done with regular christmas lights. I don’t live downtown, but I would be willing to pitch in to make this happen.
I think this is a great, perfectly rational idea
But then Im crazy
by southern oregon on Apr 22, 2009 12:38 PM PDT reply actions
If someone really decides to do this
I can get the measurements off our cad system to make the layout to whatever size roof you choose I’m sure. I to am crazy and would be glad to help!
If we could get the network to roll some pre-recorded footage,
I could easily digitally composite the Pinwheel anywhere and on anything. Probably the easier way to go, though not nearly as cool.
RUDY! RUDY! RUDY!
Or we could just do things like put a Blazers jersey
On the rain man statue in Pioneer Square….
Proud member of Duck nation!
easier said than done.
try fitting the jersey over his head? Nope, there’s an umbrella in the way. You would have to cut it along the seams and then sew it up on him. I’m sure people would be willing to do this. Just make sure these people show up with the right materials.
I Blazersedge daily, nightly and ever so rightly.
YES
L-TrainFTW! ftw
I got 6 years of playoff blue balls going on, and I'm ready to release. GO BLAZERS. ~Mortimer
by Philthyanimal on Apr 22, 2009 10:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Slighty OT but still crazy
I have gone back to work as a luthier in a part time sort of way and for a while have had an evil idea in the back of my mind to do a pinwheel inlay in red abalone and white pearl. Inspired by this post I scrounged trough my stash, found some suitable material and have it pretty well laid out.I will have to order the pearl but I need to do a parts order anyway
by southern oregon on Apr 22, 2009 1:50 PM PDT reply actions
Going to do the first article on a piece of ebony
and size it for a guitar headstock
by southern oregon on Apr 22, 2009 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Isn't Wells Fargo a corporate sponsor of the Blazers?
As long as somehow they got their mention, you might be able to pull it off on the tower they have. (And isn’t it the tallest one downtown?)
You could lay it out on the ground in waterfront park on game night, kind of a
guerilla theater thing. ll you need is lights and a generator, or maybe in pioneer square, the city might even approve it.
since they always show live footage of the rose garden
from a birds eye view. a very large pinwheel on the roof of the rg would be most likely to happen as far as logistics, and no advance advertising of the thing would be nessessary .nor talking some real estate entity into going along.
That's kind of missing the point
It took my two years to come up with an avatar and sig
and this is the best I could come up with.
A little ominous?
Might look bad if we lose.
by BlazerBen on Apr 23, 2009 1:31 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
could somebody please get rid of these obnoxious cell phone ads that are blocking the top half of the screen?
Please and thanks.
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"Clear" may be a werewolf or a full body tattoo
but get in the way of my Bedge, and you’re out of the running!
Diet. Dr. Pepper.
C'mon Ben.. think Bigger
Pinwheel on one Bridge…. BE logo on another,,,…. no network could resist showing it multiple times
Could be done with flowers instead of lights.
What does a Blazer do? He blazes! Where? Up the trail. Why? Portland dunks the ball! Believe RubiOden will happen.
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