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Old 04-06-2006, 06:43 PM   #1
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Default "Longoria writ large — in Nevada desert"

Maxim creates 110-foot magazine cover with help from Vegas officials

"For air travelers flying over southern Nevada this week, the view offers more than miles of dusty desert.

A giant, bikini-clad Hollywood star perched on the desert sands isn’t a mirage, but a recreation of a Maxim magazine cover.

The cover is made of a vinyl-mesh screen and reads, “THE ONLY MAGAZINE BIG ENOUGH TO BE SEEN FROM SPACE — AND ONLY IN VEGAS!” A barely dressed Eva Longoria, star of ABC’s “Desperate Housewives,” graces the 75-by-110-foot display just outside Primm, near the California state line."

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Old 04-06-2006, 11:08 PM   #2
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Old 04-07-2006, 03:09 AM   #3
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They may indeed have built that magazine cover in the desert, but it's NOT visible on GE. The linked file is an overlay of a JPG.
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Old 04-07-2006, 11:09 AM   #4
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Well yes, It isn't from Google Earth because those images could be a few years old, Therefore there would be no other way to do it.
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Old 04-07-2006, 03:43 PM   #5
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They may indeed have built that magazine cover in the desert, but it's NOT visible on GE. The linked file is an overlay of a JPG.
what...did you think those images were updated daily?
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Old 04-08-2006, 03:01 AM   #6
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Here is an overlay with the image provided in the Yahoo! News article. (http://tv.yahoo.com/news/ap/20060406/114435252000.html)
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Old 05-04-2006, 05:58 PM   #7
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I can do even better than Maxim, here is what I found on the runway at TTR-51.
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Old 08-09-2006, 07:24 PM   #8
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I can do even better than Maxim, here is what I found on the runway at TTR-51.
Man I didn't even know they were using them yet!
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