Detroit pics
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- ylanse0
srr, have I missed something? What's/was wrong there?
- Corvo20
The way of all flesh.
- kgvs720
I only went to Detroit once; I was shocked. It looks like the city was bombed. A lot of the buildings are either abandoned, falling apart, for sale, lease or rent. Or to burn them http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dev…
- boobs0
We have a building burning party here once a year!
- d_rek0
I work in Detroit 5 days a week and can honestly say in the last 5 years the decline has only gotten worse. People should take note of Detroit and use it as an example of what not to do with your city.
- ********0
fucking cool pics.thanks
http://www.kevinbauman.com/100ab…- it's a shame, some of those old Victorians are beautiful and would cost top dollar if rehabbed in other cities.fooler2
- kgvs720
Quick revival of Detroit. Make some type of zombie sitcom. They had a cavemen show, why not zombies.
- _me_0
"For the artist Julie Mehretu, who grew up largely in East Lansing, Mich., the Detroit Institute of Arts and other vintage downtown landmarks have the cast of magnificent relics.
“For me the issues that come up with Detroit — as this Modernist city that is in many ways abandoned or erased, all the changes it’s gone through and the very different kinds of communities that have affected that — are really interesting,” she said in an interview at her studio in New York.
Today the institute is in the process of unerasing itself. On Nov. 23 it is to reopen to the public after a $158 million expansion by the architect Michael Graves. Curators are reinstalling the museum’s encyclopedic collection, remolding the way the public experiences the art in the hope of attracting new visitors.In tandem with the opening the museum invited Ms. Mehretu, 36, to address Detroit in some way by creating work for galleries adjacent to the Rivera frescoes.
She produced five new paintings, joined by seven other recent Mehretu works called “City Sitings.” “Diego’s murals also deal with these issues — in a very different time — of what Detroit was,” Ms. Mehretu said. “That overlap and conversation make it an exciting place to do a show.”Ms. Mehretu’s personal history is entwined with the exhibition as well. Born in Ethiopia to an American mother and Ethiopian father who is an economic geographer, she lived the immigrant’s experience when her family moved in the late 1970s to East Lansing for her father’s teaching position at Michigan State University. She was 7 years old."
- i saw these when they were on exhibit at the DIA - BEAUTIFUL work.d_rek
- _me_0
the photos of detroit, saddening as they are, are simply comparable to many a town or city all over the world of when production fails to meet desire of consumption and just pumps out the same shit as the rest of the world moves on and the government doesn't give a shit...
check out what 12 years of Thatcher did to the UK.
- megE0
yeah ive been there a few times and just astounded at how horrible it has gotten
- doesnotexist0
I love detroit in all its decaying glory. I lived there for 3.5 years when I was at school, and the best times were always the weird confrontations with the homeless and breaking into abandoned buildings.
- SigDesign0
lived in Detroit for 6 years, and experienced quite a bit of the abandoned properties.
One time, my band played in this abandoned skyscraper downtown...the bottom floor was a restaurant that went out of business and some artists started renting it to try to turn it into some sort of venue. Well, when we got there it smelled like a sewer and the electricity was poorly wired, so I kept getting shocked by the mic.
You had to go down to the basement to use the bathroom, and when I went down there it was this GIANT cavern with ceilings similar to the photo sikma posted above ^^
Apparently it used to be some sort of concert hall, but the sewer overflowed and the whole place completely decayed over the years.
I've been to a lot of cities, but none have neighborhoods in as worse shape as Detroit. Maybe New Orleans after Katrina?
- mg330
Looks like eastern Europe. Really amazing photos, sad, but beautiful. I've been in an old theater before in downtown Fort Worth, TX, that we had to shimmy up the side of an air conditioner vent that was inside a parking garage to get into. You'd never know it was there at all. I wish I'd had a camera; from inside the actual theater (not unlike the picture in the set above) there were hundreds of wires going up 20, 30, 40 feet holding ceiling tiles in place above the parking garage or some office building. It would have made for an incredible low light photo. We were scared with every turn we took and I think only had one flashlight. It was pitch black, but just completely awesome.
- doesnotexist0
some old factory
- version30
heroin can do that to a city
- ok_not_ok0
Robocop is from Detroit.
