AtticaFlinch Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 It's tough to tell from this photo, but the GPS maps are of downtown Houston. Spotted in a Love's Truck Stop ad outside of McComb, Mississippi. Sorry about the quality of the photos. The ad was situated above a urinal in the mens room, so I didn't have a er... second hand available to hold my phone steady. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 Good catch - here is the image from the web site flier: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citizen4rmptown Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 Is the commercial online somewhere?I searched youtube. Nothing.Googled it, and went to the jack in the box commercials' site. Nothing.But i only hit that site.http://www.jackinthebox.com/commercials/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citykid09 Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 I searched youtube. Nothing.Googled it, and went to the jack in the box commercials' site. Nothing.But i only hit that site.http://www.jackinthebox.com/commercials/I haven't seen that commercial since the day I posted that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citizen4rmptown Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 I haven't seen that commercial since the day I posted that.I saw it either yesterday or the day before. And i think it was FOX, maybe the CW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citykid09 Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 I saw it either yesterday or the day before. And i think it was FOX, maybe the CW.So you saw it as well and say it was Rice University, correct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsb320 Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 I just saw it on NBC. Sure looks like Rice to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citykid09 Posted January 9, 2010 Share Posted January 9, 2010 I just saw it on NBC. Sure looks like Rice to me.I just saw it again on MTV, I'm sure its Rice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citizen4rmptown Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 So you saw it as well and say it was Rice University, correct?Saw it again, and it looks like Rice, but it could've been another university. There are tons of univ. and many are just as nice as Rice, so im not sure, there wasn't something enough that made it distinguishable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 Is this it? If so, I don't recognize that building or the walkway - plus, I'm sure we would have heard something about it on campus..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1aSkd1HZiI 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citykid09 Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 Is this it? If so, I don't recognize that building or the walkway - plus, I'm sure we would have heard something about it on campus.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1aSkd1HZiI Yeah thats the commercial. I saw it like 3 times yesterday so I did a search on rice university and the brick looks different. And a closer look shows differences. Rice University 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citykid09 Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 I'm watching America's Best Dance Crew AKA ABDC on MTV and in the intro to the new season (season 5) a dance crew is on top of one of the old Enron skyscrapers dancing. This show always has Houston represented. Many seasons like the current one is a competition between the North, South, East, and West. Houston usually always represents the South, but this year if you look at the stage they have Houston and Atlanta written into the stage for the South. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citykid09 Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 5 crews from the south, 2 from Houston 3 from Atlanta. And During today's regionals the 2 Houston teams lost to the 3 Atlanta teams. So no Houston this year on America's Best Dance Crews. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtticaFlinch Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 5 crews from the south, 2 from Houston 3 from Atlanta. And During today's regionals the 2 Houston teams lost to the 3 Atlanta teams. So no Houston this year on America's Best Dance Crews.Great. Now I won't be able to get any sleep tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20thStDad Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 National Geographic (March 2010) has a nice page and a half on Houston Heights, sort of a walkable spot in the big city thing. They highlight 20 or so things in the area and have a little cartoon tourist map for them. Neat stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 48 Hours Mystery tonight is about a murdered Humble mother and there's a bunch of Houston shots in it, especially around the courthouse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 In "Up In the Air" the wall in one scene has a picture of the old terminal at Hobby and an aerial shot at IAH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLWM8609 Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 (edited) One of the newest episodes of "The First 48" on A&E followed the Harris County Sheriff's Department as they investigated the murder of a homeless man whose body was found in a field on I-45 near West Rd. I passed by there last week and since the episode has been filmed, a new building has been built atop the old crime scene. They also showed some footage of a neighborhood which looked to be in the Spring area and the Sheriff's Department building over on Lockwood. Edited February 7, 2010 by JLWM8609 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citykid09 Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 Houston is being featured on the 1st episode of Undercover Boss on CBS now! Waste Management CEO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 Houston is being featured on the 1st episode of Undercover Boss on CBS now! Waste Management CEO. Came to post this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OkieEric Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 National Geographic (March 2010) has a nice page and a half on Houston Heights, sort of a walkable spot in the big city thing. They highlight 20 or so things in the area and have a little cartoon tourist map for them. Neat stuff.You got me curious - here's a link to the story on their website: Houston Heights: Small Town in the Big City Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citizen4rmptown Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 (edited) They just did a great shot of DT Houston by Chevy that I'm sure was a national ad because it was showed during the commercials by NBC during the Winter Olympics just now. And there's a great photo from around the same location on Flickr, but I can't find it, so I had to settle for these 2 images that that basically show the angle of where the skyline was seen from. The actual commercial was around evening time, and it must've been recent, because it showed OPP and Hess Tower u/c(well it still is, but you get the point) It was really a great shot of DT, and I recall the scene about some father and son playing baseball in some undeveloped, wild field, and then constructing a baseball diamond. It showed DT at least 4 times. Has anybody else seen it? Got the photos from here: http://www.flickr.co...hoto/347352059/ http://www.flickr.co...N07/4000096384/ Edited February 16, 2010 by citizen4rmptown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citizen4rmptown Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 I recorded the commerical, since it appeared again, on my cheap little old camera. So yeah, no need for the compliments on the amazing, stellar vid. quality. I expect my nomination from the Academy for best director any day now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLWM8609 Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 (edited) The Onion has a video using satellite imagery of Houston. The location of the laundromat they refer to on the map is actually the point where the old Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral is. Edited February 21, 2010 by JLWM8609 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N Judah Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 That Chevy commercial is idiotic. Only in auto-centric Houston would somebody park their pickup in the middle of a baseball field where kids are playing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatesdisastr Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 The Onion video was freakin funny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citizen4rmptown Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 That Chevy commercial is idiotic. Only in auto-centric Houston would somebody park their pickup in the middle of a baseball field where kids are playing. A commercial on the idiot box being idiotic? Go figure BUT, a great view of DT. First, it was just a kid and his dad playing catch in an empty field, and then they turned it into a baseball field so the kids could enjoy it. They parked the truck there to show it, it was a CHEVY commercial after all, not a little league ad. Nothing to do with Houston being auto-centric. Guess you didn't get the point. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 Not really a sighting per se but on Burn Notice (USA) there was a character on an episode whose backstory was that he worked as a cop in Houston trying to catch child abductors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtticaFlinch Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 The movie Crazy Heart had a substantial portion of its running time set in "Houston". I use the quotations because excepting the establishing shot of the main character's Suburban driving down Memorial with a shot of the skyline in the background, I don't think any of the rest of Houston was actually featured. I think the actual filming was done in Los Angeles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunchtastic Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 Not really a sighting per se but on Burn Notice (USA) there was a character on an episode whose backstory was that he worked as a cop in Houston trying to catch child abductors....speaking of Burn Notice, the completely awesome Bruce Campbell is at the Houston ComicPalooza next month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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