Posted: February 28, 2010 at 1:08 pm | Tags: bing, Detroit, eminent domain, Fail, neighborhoods, Police, population, representation, security, survival, work
Nobody is perfect, mayor Dave Bing included. And making arguments for the need to downsize what was once America’s fastest growing city is, well, nothing short of radical. No surprise, people are getting angry and confused at a proposal that will re-locate residents and will change the structure of the city as we know it. It’s not going to be easy, but if we want any shot at saving Detroit, it has to be done.
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Posted: December 11, 2009 at 9:27 pm | Tags: culture, Detroit, infastructure, transportation, urban villages
So my group for my Thursday night urban planning course finally presented all of our research data on turning Detroit into Urban Villages last night. Keeping in step with making sure data is free to be shared with the masses, here’s what we came up with. The download is in PDF format, I can’t really put a 53 page report with videos into HTML without it taking entirely too much effort. So the PDF is less than 3mb, download, and enjoy. Keep in mind that this is not a recommendation of should we or shouldn’t be, just how the topic is to be explored and what would the best ways to implement a village strategy would be.
Feel free to let me know if you have any questions.
Posted: December 11, 2009 at 8:44 pm | Tags: Auto, Car, cars, Clinton, country, Election, elections, Government, History, movies, Music, news, Random, space, trash
We started off the new millennium with lots of hopes. The whole “Year 2000″ thing sounded so exciting and futuristic, and we were all expecting great things to come. Instead, this decade has been an awful start that hopefully won’t set the stage for the next 90. While some areas had wild amounts of success and made our lives better (like all these fancy new cell phones), just about every part of our lives has suffered some kind of step backwards in the 2000s.
Here’s why I can’t wait for the month to end and will be welcoming 2010 with open arms.
The Music of the 00’s
It all started off with this and has just gone downhill.
Linkin Park: Pure awful on a disc
In 2000 the #1 album was “The Beatles: 1″, and by 2005 it was a 50 Cent album. That’s how fast things went downhill. The rest is history. Year after year we are treated to another piece of repetitive trash, a new Britney comeback album, or something else that just makes you dumber every time you hear it. It’s gotten so bad that we now consider a song who’se only lyrics are “Tonight’s gunna be a good night” to be perfectly acceptable. Excuse me while I go barf.
It’s ridiculous how much 90’s music I listen to now just because today’s “artists” have driven me in another direction so rapidly.
The music industry as a whole became something we all hated. Nothing like hearing record labels cry poor from piracy only to find out now that they use unauthorized recordings in compilations all the time.
Cars and The Auto Industry
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Posted: October 29, 2009 at 3:19 pm | Tags: barb dempsey, dave bing, detroit ballot 2009, elections, jeff lamarand, lisa howze, macomb county ballot 2009, mike simmons, pete rubino, roger bunton
With elections coming this Tuesday, I figured it’s as good of a time as any to make my election endorsements for the Metro area. Some of these people I’ll be able to vote for, others I won’t. But if I could, here’s the direction I’m heading.
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Posted: October 17, 2009 at 10:42 pm | Tags: Detroit, east side, Heidelberg Project
A shot I took the other day of a house that’s part of the Heidelberg Project on Detroit’s East Side, on Heidelberg Street by Mt. Elliott. . You can view all of the pictures I took over in the photos section, but here’s one of my favorites that came out of the HDR batch. Enjoy.
The Polka-dot house, part of the Heidelberg Project
Posted: October 17, 2009 at 9:14 pm | Tags: college, comment, Detroit, free press, journalism, Macomb County, macomb daily, news, sarah cormier, school
Unlike many of my comrades, I usually take it easy on the mainstream media. After all, they’re just people trying to do their jobs, usually. Particularly, I’ve shied away from making comments about news outlets that gave me positive press during the past school board elections.
However the other day, I finally hit my breaking point The Macomb Daily is not news. It is fluff, bullshit, and the most half-assed reporting I have ever seen in my life. It’s amazing the things that this paper considers to be the most important news items of the day.
For example, take a look at the coverage from the other day. This was the front page of their website. :
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Posted: October 15, 2009 at 10:46 pm | Tags: Detroit, detroit opera house, detroit orientation institute, wayne state
Today I did the first of three days as part of the Detroit Orientation Institute. You can learn more about it here, and if you get the chance I highly recommend doing it sometime.
Anyways, we were in the Opera House for a tour and a panel discussion on the Arts, and while in the lobby I snapped this shot of a chandelier in the lobby. It really shows how amazingly colorful the place is, and standing there is an experience in itself.
A Chandelier at the Detroit Opera House
