I Love this.

[selector.dub.u]

this is a picture of an abandoned building in downtown detroit. taken from here:

http://www.detroitblog.org/

I strongly suggest reading through this blog.

a large portion of DOWNTOWN Detroit is abandoned. so there are large skyscrapers like this dotting the landscape. this particular building was decorated cleverly by some artist/person.


"art" of this sort is both encouraging and inspiring to me.

transforming decay and decline into new forms. accepting and incorporating what is, even if it is deemed ugly - into something new.

taking something that is seemingly dark,depressing, negative or a seeming loss and making the best out of it and learning from it.

[paolo]

Intriguing and inspiring reading. Good find!

[misk]

that website has some really beautiful insights in it. thanks for the link man.

[selector.dub.u]

you are welcome gentlemen. I spent about 2 hours reading it last night. the archives are really fascinating as well.

[selector.dub.u]

This is just astounding- detroit was once a thriving and very populated city. houses can be purchased there for the price of a moderately priced new car.

After steadily losing residents like the rest of the city over the years, State Fair lost a full 25 percent of its remaining population in the ’90s alone, and the outward rush hasn’t stopped. Of course, the neighborhood is varied like any other, and not all blocks are disasters. Some parts of it, particularly those streets just off Woodward south of Seven Mile Road, are dense and have well-maintained, old, architecturally unique homes. Other streets still have more homes than space, but a lot of the houses are boarded up, some torched, some crumbling bit by bit as they sit ignored. The roads are cratered and hazardous.

Still other parts of the area, though, especially along Oakland or John R near Six Mile, are devastated, with whole blocks devoid of all but one crumbling structure or piles of debris dumped illegally. By midsummer, the empty blocks become a thriving prairie, growing thicker each year, with game birds and wildflowers flourishing a mere half-mile from the city’s main artery.
http://www.detroitblog.org/?p=405

[ms a bourdain]

thanks for the heads up selector, this blog is brilliant, feeds my detroit addiction

do you know anything about the author?

[selector.dub.u]

thanks for the heads up selector, this blog is brilliant, feeds my detroit addiction

do you know anything about the author?

you are welcome.
as for the author -hmm not really. i think it is just some average guy who decided to start blogging about detroit a few years back.

Here is another really good one:

http://www.detroitfunk.com/


There are great photos on that one of the exterior's of bulidings.