Houston sightings

[AtticaFlinch]

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.

[sevfiv]

Good catch - here is the image from the web site flier:

[citizen4rmptown]

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/

[citykid09]

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.

[citizen4rmptown]

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.

[citykid09]

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?

[rsb320]

I just saw it on NBC. Sure looks like Rice to me.

[citykid09]

I just saw it on NBC. Sure looks like Rice to me.

I just saw it again on MTV, I'm sure its Rice.

[citizen4rmptown]

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.

[sevfiv]

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

[citykid09]

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

[citykid09]

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.

[citykid09]

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.

[AtticaFlinch]

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.

[20thStDad]

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.

[kylejack]

48 Hours Mystery tonight is about a murdered Humble mother and there's a bunch of Houston shots in it, especially around the courthouse.

[Subdude]

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.

[JLWM8609]

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

[citykid09]

Houston is being featured on the 1st episode of Undercover Boss on CBS now! Waste Management CEO.

[kylejack]

Houston is being featured on the 1st episode of Undercover Boss on CBS now! Waste Management CEO.

Came to post this.

[OkieEric]

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

[citizen4rmptown]

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

[citizen4rmptown]

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

[JLWM8609]

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

[N Judah]

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.

[fatesdisastr]

The Onion video was freakin funny

[citizen4rmptown]

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.

[IronTiger]

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.

[AtticaFlinch]

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.

[crunchtastic]

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.

[Subdude]

Stumbled on to this old album today:

[lockmat]

It looks unfinished, right? The top of it

[Subdude]

It looks unfinished, right? The top of it

Can't tell but I suppose it could be. The album came out in 1971, the same year the chapel opened.

This from today's Guardian:

Houston, do we have problem? This night time image shows the lit-up 60-mile wide Texas city. Houston is home to five million people and is the largest area in the US without formal zoning restrictions on where and how people can build. This freedom has led to a highly diverse pattern of land use. The city has been called the energy capital of the world due to its role as a major hub of oil and power industries.

[lockmat]

Do you have a link? What does it say is our problem?

This from today's Guardian:

[Subdude]

Do you have a link? What does it say is our problem?

Here's the link, but it's not an article on Houston, it's just a series of satellite photos.

Guardian

[citykid09]

Just saw a Rosacea commercial that zoomed in to a few cities n the US. They zoomed in to Houston on the map to talk about someone with Rosacea and they showed the Bank of America Center looking down from the sky.

[Subdude]

Business Week visits Houston

A Free Day in Houston Texas

America's fourth-largest city has more than sprawl and humidity. A guide to the good stuff

By Lisa Gray

BW Magazine

Petrochem capital of the Americas, sprawl capital of the universe: Houston can seem like a city you can't escape fast enough. That's because you don't really know it. Start your crash course with a visit to sculptor David Adickes' studio—actually to his studio's parking lot, jammed with 18-foot busts of all 43 U.S. Presidents. The giant heads of state were intended for a $600 million suburban redevelopment project that tanked with the economy; in April, Adickes repossessed the busts he'd already delivered. Reunited, the heady crew embodies Houston itself: oversized, earnest, subject to wild financial swings, and peculiar as all get-out. If the Lone Star spirit carries you away, Texan POTUSes Lyndon Johnson and George W. Bush are available for $50,000 apiece.

Business Week link

[Porchman]

Mayor Parker is in The 2010 TIME 100 - The World's Most Influential People .

[Subdude]

The History Channel (I know, I know) was showing a program called "Life After People", about how cities would decay over time if people suddenly vanished. Part of the episode was about Houston, particularly the Chase Tower and Astrodome, the latter of which was forecast to become a giant bat sanctuary. Graphics from the show:

[KinkaidAlum]

Very late to the game, but that Jack in the Box commercial looks like UCLA's campus to me. The trees scream West Coast and the bldgs look like Westwood.

[Highway6]

Chevy commercial. Saw this on ESPN - MLB just now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTXHTtAmW04

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTXHTtAmW04

[shasta]

^^^^^

Can't ask for more of a 'money shot of downtown' than what is shown in that commercial. Good find

[dbigtex56]

This past weekend COPS broadcast two incidents filmed in Houston. The first was a traffic stop (W Dallas - Taft area) in which a motorist had been observed buying drugs nearby. The second was also a drug bust, Spur 527 at W Alabama (Skylane Apartments) - just two blocks from da Mayor's house. There's a couple of nice, if typical, ariel shots of downtown.

"Cops" Season 22 Ep:32 can be viewed at Hulu.com

[JLWM8609]

The History Channel (I know, I know) was showing a program called "Life After People", about how cities would decay over time if people suddenly vanished. Part of the episode was about Houston, particularly the Chase Tower and Astrodome, the latter of which was forecast to become a giant bat sanctuary. Graphics from the show:

I know I'm a month late with this reply, but that sounds like the best idea for the dome yet!

[ricco67]

This past weekend COPS broadcast two incidents filmed in Houston. The first was a traffic stop (W Dallas - Taft area) in which a motorist had been observed buying drugs nearby. The second was also a drug bust, Spur 527 at W Alabama (Skylane Apartments) - just two blocks from da Mayor's house. There's a couple of nice, if typical, ariel shots of downtown.

"Cops" Season 22 Ep:32 can be viewed at Hulu.com

On the first arrest, I just like how they simply refer to "Freedmen's town" as "The Neighborhood." Don't know if that was intentional or not, but interesting. I wish they'd just raid the area more often.

[little frau]

Ouch! The very first apartment I ever lived in was at 219 W. Alabama. I don't think they were called Skylane at that time but might have been. At any rate, I had a little efficiency with twin 'daybeds' which served as living room during the day and bedroom at night. Small kitchen, under counter fridge and two burner stove. Bathroom and closet. Still, the apartments were about 10 years old then (about 1966) and rented for $99 month furnished and all bills paid. I worked at Gulf Oil downtown and could almost roll out of bed and to the bus stop.

Of course, there was no Spur 527 then and if memory serves me, Travis ended about there and fed onto 59 south.

They were actually pretty nice back then and suited me.

[Subdude]

From Autoblog!

That's a 1955 Maserati.

[Subdude]

The Clark's shoe store chain is using assorted pictures of Houston, with shoes and models in front, for their in-store displays, shop window decoration, and website. One poster features my old favorite the Sheraton-Lincoln building. The windows have been thoughtfully photoshopicly darkened so you can't tell the building is just a shell.

Take a look - Clark's website

[lockmat]

That new ipad commercial shows Houston twice. Once when it shows the baseball game, that's the Astros. And when they show the video game, it's the Colts vs. the Texans at Reliant Stadium ;P

[JLWM8609]

I was watching the season premiere of "Fringe" and noticed that they used an exterior shot of the UHD Commerce St. building as the Department of Defense Hospital.