The Great American Pixel

Just sent this out to some friends and inchvestors, have a look-see and get your idea for Michigan Central Station up on the site for the owners and others to see:

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LOVELAND’s excited to announce a brand new web project at http://talktothestation.com .

Built in 1913 and vacant since 1988, Michigan Central Station is Detroit’s most iconic historical landmark, and a second city skyline unto itself. LOVELAND has been commissioned to create a website that makes it super simple for people to submit ideas for the preservation, reactivation, and redevelopment of the space.

On the site you can learn about and see the building, and type, text, or call in with your ideas. Yes, you can now call Michigan Central Station on the phone. Who’dathunk?

The building’s owners are part of the commissioning team and will be actively watching what comes in through the site. They’re currently cleaning out the building, installing new windows and a new roof, and seeking your input on what should come next.

Again, the site is at http://talktothestation.com .

Please have a look and have your say on what you think should or could happen to this out-of-this-world 500,000 square foot landmark that’s just as important to Detroit’s future as it was to Detroit’s past.

Happy Sunday!

-Team LOVELAND

Just sent this email to the inchvestor list. If you’re not on that, consider it sent to you, too! <3

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At LOVELAND we love getting into creative collaborations with our friends and discovering new ways to crowdsource magical things into reality. We’re happy to announce a very cool new collaboration that could use some lovin’. Please see http://bit.ly/oPMedd .

Our friends James and Miguel are hustling to raise $3,500 to put one of Miguel’s paintings up on a prominent billboard near downtown Detroit. They’re using a brand new crowdfunding service called LoudSauce that makes it easy for people to collectively purchase advertising channels (billboards, print, TV, radio, etc). Once the fundraising goal is hit, LoudSauce will work with the billboard company to automagically print and install the image where it will live for 30 days.

Our friend Chris made a great trailer for the project, dubbed “Imagine Detroit Together”, and everything is accessible from the splash page at http://imaginedetroittogether.org. Please have a look and drop some quarters, tweets, and hearts into the machine if the spirit moves you.

Once the art is up on the billboard we’ll also write up a little case study about using LoudSauce so you’ll have a better idea of how it works if you want to try it. It’s exciting to be in a world where there are new and simpler ways to get messages and beauty into channels that formerly seemed inaccessible like, oh, giant expensive billboards. But this billboard doesn’t have to be expensive to any one person, and that’s part of the magic.

We’ve been hard at work as usual. If you want to see some other recent happenings check the blog: http://makeloveland.com/blog .

We hope you like,

Jerry & Team LOVELAND

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