February 2011
4 posts
Funding A RoboCop Statue In Detroit
“They’ll fix you. They fix everything.” - RoboCop
If you told me 48 hours ago that I’d be helping to fundraise for a statue of RoboCop I’d have told you you were nuts. But now you can tell me I’m nuts, because that’s exactly what’s happening. You can donate to the project on Kickstarter, or share the link detroitneedsrobocop.com with your...
Detroit Super Bowl Ad Remix: The Chrysler Cycle...
Last night, Detroit and the internets blew up when a new Detroit-centric Chrysler ad featuring Eminem played during the Super Bowl. Fists were pumped, chips were dumped, and 180 characters were somehow squeezed into Twitter messages when people hung their eyeballs over this:
While I’d like to see Detroit stop threatening to punch other cities in the face and play nice in the greater...
The Curious Case of Inchvisible Houses
I’m not sure what the exact percentages are, but “pretty much every” vacant lot in Detroit tells the story of a house (or building) that’s disappeared. Actually, there’s a decent chance the house is still there buried in the ground. One of the preferred demolition methods is to just push the-artist-formerly-known-as down into the basement and cover it with dirt. The...
Map Attacks, Parcel Wars, & The Detroit...
Now that we’ve got a parcel-based starter map of Detroit up at livinginthemap.us and are beginning to work on filling out the Corktown neighborhood at corkstarter.com we’ve got an awful lot of options for how to proceed in displaying city information visually, and making it useful to interact with.
Today my inbox blew up with people pointing me to a map the Detroit news put out...
