AUSTIN | Photos & Videos Thread - Page 113

Andrew2001 · #**2241** Posted **Jan 12, 2020, 4:05 PM**

I love your city

the Genral · #**2242** Posted **Jan 12, 2020, 5:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by Andrew2001

I love your city

Me too

clubtokyo · #**2243** Posted **Jan 14, 2020, 5:10 PM**

Lyft new office off 290. More at Austin LGBT chamber facebook page: https://austinlgbtchamber.com/?fbcli...0v4zQK87p5r9VM

I love that model of the city!

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Jdawgboy · #**2244** Posted **Jan 15, 2020, 2:05 AM**

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Originally Posted by clubtokyo

Lyft new office off 290. More at Austin LGBT chamber facebook page: https://austinlgbtchamber.com/?fbcli...0v4zQK87p5r9VM

I love that model of the city!

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Yes because we all know that the biggest, bulkiest and most iconic building on the skyline is the San Jacinto Tower, and the UT Tower is on Congress Avenue and that we have a super tall in the shape of a guitar! (would make for an awesome observation Lounge on the top floor)

I'm not even going to mention the 360 Bridge... Other than mentioning it in the prior sentence....

clubtokyo · #**2245** Posted **Jan 15, 2020, 2:42 AM**

Is there already guitar shaped building elsewhere? That could make for a fun observation tower lol

Jdawgboy · #**2246** Posted **Jan 15, 2020, 2:44 AM**

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Originally Posted by clubtokyo

Is there already guitar shaped building elsewhere? That could make for a fun observation tower lol

Honestly I don't know but would be interesting if we were the first.

We vs us · #**2247** Posted **Jan 15, 2020, 3:37 AM**

I give you the newly opened Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood, FL.

clubtokyo · #**2248** Posted **Jan 15, 2020, 4:34 AM**

Ugh what a waste. No offense to anyone but I can’t stand hard rock hotels.

Sigaven · #**2249** Posted **Jan 15, 2020, 7:22 AM**

Please no. Tacky AF

wwmiv · #**2250** Posted **Jan 15, 2020, 10:41 AM**

to me, that’s awesome. Add a guitar neck and observation deck and presto: supertall y’all.

ahealy · #**2251** Posted **Jan 15, 2020, 2:11 PM**

I always cringe when I see anything guitar related with Austin....usually those airport "sculptures" trigger it. So contrived and non-existent.

Jdawgboy · #**2252** Posted **Jan 15, 2020, 2:41 PM**

https://youtu.be/lK178U-3-ic

Well I give them props with the lighting at least. My dream is to have a lighted Austin tower only half that brilliant. (which would still be more impressive than anything we currently have)

https://youtu.be/qIHwh7TVJ0o

The ATX · #**2253** Posted **Jan 15, 2020, 2:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by Jdawgboy

https://youtu.be/lK178U-3-ic

Well I give them props with the lighting at least. My dream is to have a lighted Austin tower only half that brilliant. (which would still be more impressive than anything we currently have)

Ha. you beat me to it. I was going to post some photos of the impressive lighting and say Jdawg would approve.

Jdawgboy · #**2254** Posted **Jan 15, 2020, 2:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

Ha. you beat me to it. I was going to post some photos of the impressive lighting and say Jdawg would approve.

Haha I added another link too lol

I prefer the dance segment of the vid of course as well..

Sigaven · #**2255** Posted **Jan 15, 2020, 3:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by ahealy

I always cringe when I see anything guitar related with Austin....usually those airport "sculptures" trigger it. So contrived and non-existent.

Agreed!

Also, you can put cool lighting on a building without making it look like a literal guitar

the Genral · #**2256** Posted **Jan 15, 2020, 7:10 PM**

Damn! I think that is cool as shit!!! Maybe more so at night with the lighting. I'm partial because I have been playing guitar since I was 4. I would like to see a Fender Strat (what I play) but I guess the Les Paul has more body hence more rooms than a Strat would offer.
My only complaint is the chopped off neck. If they completed the guitar with a full neck, they could have added exterior elevators that go up and down the strings to an observation deck in the headstock. Sure the whole thing is kind of tacky, but I like it. It would be fitting for Austin unless 'Music Captital Of The World' isn't synomynous with guitars anymore. My only admiration for Hard Rock Cafe or Hotels is the memorabilia displayed within them. Its my Mecca, or at least, used to be.

hookem · #**2257** Posted **Jan 15, 2020, 8:21 PM**

Yep, I like it too. And a casino can totally get away with architecture like that.

The Austin version would definitely need to be a Strat (SRV, Eric Johnson, etc) and have the full neck!

KevinFromTexas · #**2258** Posted **Jan 15, 2020, 11:49 PM**

Not a fan of that. What happens in Vegas really should stay in Vegas.

Tyrone Shoes · #**2259** Posted **Jan 22, 2020, 5:02 AM**

Since we're all about skyscrapers here and
just incase anyone wanted to see what downtown
looked like in that 911-Lonestar
I did a couple of screen shots...

Mopacs · #**2260** Posted **Jan 22, 2020, 5:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Shoes

Since we're all about skyscrapers here and
just incase anyone wanted to see what downtown
looked like in that 911-Lonestar
I did a couple of screen shots...

Great screen caps! I caught those as well. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by the scenery and the show itself. You have to take it for what it is. Though I was half expecting them to portray Austin as a flat, shrubby desert, which they didn't (for the most part)