editor Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 I had two Houston sightings today. First, on Apple's web site there's an area which talks about how all the big cell phone companies use Quicktime for their streaming video. Well, in the big banner at the top of the page, does the image in the cell phone look familiar? It should. It's Smith Street, looking past 1500 to the Wedge International building. Second sighting -- I didn't have my camera with me for this one -- but there are giant posters at many of the Chicago Transit Authority bus shelters advertising some Jeep. The Jeep in question is parked in Eleanor Tinsley Park with the Houston skyline featured VERY prominantly in the ad. I'll try to take a snap some time this week and post it here. And here's an earlier sighting that I forgot to post -- In an April issue of Crain's Chicago Business, the Houston CVB took out a half-page full color ad with a nice picture of the skyline trying to convince Chicago businesses to move to Houston. I scanned it before I threw it away, but seem to have lost the file. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimberlySayWhat Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 That's very observant. I don't even pay attention to ads, much less the image being used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citykid09 Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 Second sighting -- I didn't have my camera with me for this one -- but there are giant posters at many of the Chicago Transit Authority bus shelters advertising some Jeep. The Jeep in question is parked in Eleanor Tinsley Park with the Houston skyline featured VERY prominantly in the ad. I'll try to take a snap some time this week and post it here.I have seen that Jeep add in a few Magazines, and I noticed that that was Houston in the background, but I never got to posting about it.Also a few months ago I was watching TV and this Verizon Business Comercial came on that was shoot in downtown Houston. I ment to tall yall about that also but never got around to it. I haven't seen the commercial lately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brijonmang Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 I just saw the Jeep ad yesterday in a Car & Driver magazine. I was going to actually say something about it...but you beat me to it. I've seen a couple of car commercials using our city as a backdrop as well. Most notably the Lexus SUV (I forget which one) driving through downtown and the former Enron complex and going over some chunks of torn up road. I guess you CAN go offroad in the city. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skwatra Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 i saw the jeep ad in Maxim as well. i was shocked when i didn't see "Houston area Jeep dealer" somewhere on the ad. pretty cool, except the people running around look superimposed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 I may have mentioned this before, but I've seen Houston 3 times on accident on one day in Koln (Cologne), Germany. The first time, there was a photoshopped picture of American Skyscrapers in this tiny indoor mall, around this central food court. Houston's skyline took up half of it, with the Bank of America Center in the middle. (And the biggest/tallest of all the other buildings). The second time was a picture of the Houston skyline in the window of a traveling agency. The third was in the huge Saturn Records store, It was on the wall. I didn't have my camera. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GovernorAggie Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 I noticed Houston in the Verizon Business commercials with Kiefer Sutherland's voiceover. They quickly flyover the night skyline and you can see the top of Wells Fargo and Reliant (or is it Centerpoint?). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citykid09 Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 I was watching Jimmy Kimmel Live Last night and the star of the new movie Accepted had on a T-Shirt in some pictures that he showed that said "Theres No Place Like Houston"I thought it was cool and I want one now. It's kind of like New York's I Heart New York T-shirts. There was a big bull head between the rest of the words and Houston. That should be Houstons new slogan. I really like it. Its really like saying there is no place like home, but with Houston in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston1stWordOnTheMoon Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 There was a big bull head between the rest of the words and Houston.Hey, i didnt give them permission to use my portrait on t-shirts!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaTrain Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 I 4get the name of car brand but I saw a car commercial where an SUV was driven by a stuntman thru the streets of Downtown Houston, and I bet U saw it too. It was going over Smith Street under reconstruction, and I knew this cuz I saw the ped ring linking Fourteen Hundred Smith and Fifteen Hundred Louisiana. Does anybody remember the car name brand in the commercial? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 I 4get the name of car brand but I saw a car commercial where an SUV was driven by a stuntman thru the streets of Downtown Houston, and I bet U saw it too. It was going over Smith Street under reconstruction, and I knew this cuz I saw the ped ring linking Fourteen Hundred Smith and Fifteen Hundred Louisiana. Does anybody remember the car name brand in the commercial?It was that Lexus SUV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trae Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 In the Matrix Revolutions, the Texaco Heritage Buildings in smack in the middle of the huge skyline on that car fighting chase secene. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 In the Matrix Revolutions, the Texaco Heritage Buildings in smack in the middle of the huge skyline on that car fighting chase secene.Wells Fargo Plaza, 1 Shell Plaza, 3 Allen Center, & Continental Center 1 too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trae Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 Wells Fargo Plaza, 1 Shell Plaza, 3 Allen Center, & Continental Center 1 too.Where? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 I noticed the Houston skyline is used in a print ad for Samsung NV10 cameras. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamHouston Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 There's a USDOT add out there about drunk driving...it starts something like, "All around the country police are coming out" and cuts to a shot of a policeman (not HPD, since he is wearing all dark blue/black) circling checkpoints on a dry erase map. You really need tivo to catch it, since it goes by pretty quickly, but if you pause it, you can clearly see Beltway 8 and the 610 loop. Funny they picked us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houstonian in Iraq Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 (edited) i saw the jeep ad in Maxim as well. i was shocked when i didn't see "Houston area Jeep dealer" somewhere on the ad. pretty cool, except the people running around look superimposed.I'm really late. I saw that add a cuople weeks ago in Maxim aswell. I don't really look at ads either, but it just hit me "Hey, that's Houston!" I let a buddy take the mag to the porta-john and that was the last I saw of it, if not I would post the ad. Was expecting something about "Houston area Jeep dealer" too. The park is Sam Houston park in the foreground if I'm not mistaken. Tinsley park is a bit further down Allen Parkway. Edited September 6, 2006 by Houstonian in Iraq Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citykid09 Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 There's a USDOT add out there about drunk driving...it starts something like, "All around the country police are coming out" and cuts to a shot of a policeman (not HPD, since he is wearing all dark blue/black) circling checkpoints on a dry erase map. You really need tivo to catch it, since it goes by pretty quickly, but if you pause it, you can clearly see Beltway 8 and the 610 loop. Funny they picked us.i see that comercial all the time and I was going to report here about it but you bet me. I waited to long!Also, the new Nationwide Macy's Commercial has part of Houston's downtown in the background. The buildings are all white. I thought that was neat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimberlySayWhat Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Houstonian in Iraq:I'm really late. I saw that add a cuople weeks ago in Maxim aswell. I don't really look at ads either, but it just hit me "Hey, that's Houston!" I let a buddy take the mag to the porta-john and that was the last I saw of it, if not I would post the ad. If I wanted something back I wouldn't have let someone take it into the porta crapper in the first place. It's contaminated now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houstonian in Iraq Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 (edited) If I wanted something back I wouldn't have let someone take it into the porta crapper in the first place. It's contaminated now.Don't really care much for Maxim, didn't really care if I got it back(read all there was to read in it). The only reason I got it was because it was the only thing that wasn't a porn, workout or gun magazine in the mini PX. But if I did have it I would of posted the picture here for those who haven't seen it.Oh Well Edited September 7, 2006 by Houstonian in Iraq Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimberlySayWhat Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 (edited) citykid09:Also, the new Nationwide Macy's Commercial has part of Houston's downtown in the background. The buildings are all white. I thought that was neat. I just now saw that one. I wasn't really paying attention and then I recognized the Houston buildings in white and remembered seeing something on here about it. So I rewound it on my DVR and yep, it was us. The commercial is playing the song "Dancing in the Street" and people are dancing through various cities morping into one another. When it gets to Houston they menion something about the Lone Star State and of course there are some goobers line dancing with cowboy hats, but whatever. Link to commercial:http://www1.macys.com/campaign/macystv_bra...l%20footer%20ad Edited September 10, 2006 by KimberlySayWhat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Marty Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 (edited) I saw a H.A.I.F. ad in a magazine i bought almost a year ago does that count? Edited September 10, 2006 by Marty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 I just now saw that one. I wasn't really paying attention and then I recognized the Houston buildings in white and remembered seeing something on here about it. So I rewound it on my DVR and yep, it was us. The commercial is playing the song "Dancing in the Street" and people are dancing through various cities morping into one another. When it gets to Houston they menion something about the Lone Star State and of course there are some goobers line dancing with cowboy hats, but whatever. Link to commercial:http://www1.macys.com/campaign/macystv_bra...l%20footer%20adHAHAHA But don't we all dress up in our cowboy atire and dance in the street every once in a while? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 (edited) whoopsie, double post. Edited September 10, 2006 by Montrose1100 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted September 10, 2006 Author Share Posted September 10, 2006 HAHAHA But don't we all dress up in our cowboy atire and dance in the street every once in a while?Every February, as I remember it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BayouCityGirl Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 That's Hilarious!!! The "Macy's Dancing in the Street and the people dancing in the street with their line dancing!! OMG!!! :-XAt least it wasn't like in the typical desert people think of us as being in or on horse back or something! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimberlySayWhat Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 Montrose1100:HAHAHA But don't we all dress up in our cowboy atire and dance in the street every once in a while? You do have a point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 This might not be much, but Houston is mentioned in an even more sterotypical way then line dancing...Anyone see the new Nike Commercial with the little Astronauts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimberlySayWhat Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Yeah, but I thought it was for Adidas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 It is Addidas.And we all know the only place that still line dances is Buffalo.But what the heck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WesternGulf Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 (edited) This may be a little extreme but I notice it everytime I see the commercial. I forgot what company it was for but has anyone seen a commercial with Park IV and V buildings on Montrose shown from the outside at night and there are like three or four people on a couch watching TV for something? It was far from a local commercial if you all were wondering. Edited September 12, 2006 by WesternGulf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 Yeah, but I thought it was for Adidas. Forgive me, I don't usually watch TV and the little bouncing astronauts had me in a trance. So much for that advertising scheme, I could have sworn it was Nike! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citykid09 Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 Do any of you use Yahoo Avatars? Well their Jeep Avatar has Houston's downtown skyline as the background for the Jeep compass. I guess Houston is the showcase city for that SUV because everytime I see one in the media, I always see Houston in the background. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumapayam Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Do any of you use Yahoo Avatars?I like your old avatar better, this one is squished, you should edit it to accomodate HAIF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 Just caught the end of the Dr. Phil show (not a big fan) this afternoon. The jist of the show was that he had hired private detectives to hunt down someone pulling telephone scams here in Houston. Lots of local shots, mostly of freeways and tarot card/palm reading establishments. Tomorrow Dr. Phil promises to kick some scammer butt, so if seeing Houston on national TV trips your trigger, tune in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 (edited) Lots of local shots, mostly of freeways and tarot card/palm reading establishments.Well, at least he caught the local flavor.Speaking of Houston sightings, there is a New York Stock Exchange commercial that discusses all of the various companies on the exchange. As they talk, a caricature of a light rail train winds across the screen with 'Siemens' across the top of the train. The train is METRO's light rail train, even though it does not say Houston on it.EDIT: Well, looky here! They have the ad on their website.http://www.nyse.com/Frameset.html?nyseref=...10262006ontrack Edited November 9, 2006 by RedScare Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted November 10, 2006 Author Share Posted November 10, 2006 Isn't Siemens the company that made the Houston light rail trains? It looks similar to a promotional video they made before any of the Houston trains were delivered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citykid09 Posted December 7, 2006 Share Posted December 7, 2006 This is from a play thats based out of Houston along with the production company "Im Ready Productions" which is also based in Houston. http://www.imreadyproductions.com/ They are doing for Houston what Tyler Perry is doing for Atlanta. I wonder when they will sart movies and TV shows based out of Houston like Tyler Perry did for Atlanta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted December 9, 2006 Share Posted December 9, 2006 The BBC has been running a series called "The Power of Art". Last night's episode was about Mark Rothko, so leading up to the Rothko Chapel there were a lot of shots of downtown (including Enron bldg) and Houston freeways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinoda28107 Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 I saw a show on the Food Network dedicated to explaining Houston's diverse food culture (from tex-mex to bbq, to soul food, to Houston's veitnamese culture). They spent a lot of time on Main Street downtown showing the Rail splashing its way through fountains. Anyone watching from outside of Houston may have had the impression that our city is densely populated city united by mass transit. They also showed Downtown's retail and dining scene (it over stated it significantly). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citykid09 Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 You get a nice view of the Transco Tower and some of the Uptown area in the begining of Trae's "In the Hood" video. I wonder where that part was shoot from? Thats an amazing view! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citykid09 Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 This video also show more of uptown from what I think is the Hotel Derrik. You also get to see the West Loop (610). Please excuse the language. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest danax Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 You get a nice view of the Transco Tower and some of the Uptown area in the begining of Trae's "In the Hood" video. I wonder where that part was shoot from? Thats an amazing view! It's a bad thing when glamour thug low-lifes like that mention Houston. It's no wonder we've got kids killing people over dogs, they're brains are filled with that sort of evil influence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrbaNerd Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 (edited) Well, at least he caught the local flavor.Speaking of Houston sightings, there is a New York Stock Exchange commercial that discusses all of the various companies on the exchange. As they talk, a caricature of a light rail train winds across the screen with 'Siemens' across the top of the train. The train is METRO's light rail train, even though it does not say Houston on it. EDIT: Well, looky here! They have the ad on their website. http://www.nyse.com/Frameset.html?nyseref=...10262006ontrack Well, looks like they have a few Houston buildings in the skyline at the end (BOA, THP I think, etc...) Edited December 23, 2006 by UrbaNerd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 A big Houston sighting, currently in progress on CNN. It is a special report entitled "How to Rob a Bank", set in Houston. They've got a whole lot of short clips around town, especially downtown, but also heavily in the 77057 zip code, including the HEB on Westheimer and the apartments along Fountainview, just south of San Felipe.For some strange reason, they even had a few short seconds filmed within my condominium complex over in 77054, where the mailwoman opened up a whole set of mailboxes as the reporter looked on. Very strange, since they didn't mention anything at all about their locale and mailbox-opening shots should be pretty easy to come by. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citykid09 Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 A big Houston sighting, currently in progress on CNN. It is a special report entitled "How to Rob a Bank", set in Houston. They've got a whole lot of short clips around town, especially downtown, but also heavily in the 77057 zip code, including the HEB on Westheimer and the apartments along Fountainview, just south of San Felipe.For some strange reason, they even had a few short seconds filmed within my condominium complex over in 77054, where the mailwoman opened up a whole set of mailboxes as the reporter looked on. Very strange, since they didn't mention anything at all about their locale and mailbox-opening shots should be pretty easy to come by.I saw it and was going to reply on here about it. They also went to some really nice shopping area that I had never seen, I think one of the criminals spent a lot of money there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted September 17, 2007 Share Posted September 17, 2007 Can you spot BofA and The Enron Building? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChannelTwoNews Posted September 17, 2007 Share Posted September 17, 2007 There's a commercial that airs fairly regularly on the cable news channels for Stanford Financial Group. It shows their building in the Galleria area as well as a few other shots around town, and at the end someone is crossing a street with the old Federal Land Bank in the background. Nice production values since it is a nationally aired commercial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalparadise Posted September 17, 2007 Share Posted September 17, 2007 Can you spot BofA and The Enron Building? I think Hogg Palace is in there, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GovernorAggie Posted September 19, 2007 Share Posted September 19, 2007 The Rock's new movie ("The Game Plan" or something like that) has a Houston flyover in its full trailer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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