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In an exploration called ‘Detroit Lives,’ actor Johnny Knoxville puts on Palladium boots and checks out the city, which was once the fourth largest city in America but is now in the midst of a transformation from abandoned urban landscape back to a vibrant community. The trailer for the video showcases the young people who are taking back the city and their community.

This is an ongoing film series about the material and artistic byproducts of a supposedly declined city, and how the creative thinkers who traverse its everyday challenges have learned to harness this energy to create seemingly incongruous works of a celebratory or humorous nature. Young artists and curators working with and influenced by the social fabric of the city have learned to embrace Detroit’s potentially negative facets, and I believe their work is so enmeshed with the city’s fabric that it is the only place their current modes of artistic research and production could occur. In short, Detroit seems to produce strong artists who take risks, both physically and socially. This film is a labor of love, an outcome of my fieldwork as an artist and a folklorist. It will continue to grow and mutate with no fixed idea for its final outcome. Two additional segments are in the editing process, and I hope to continue to fly home to film other segments as my meager budget allows. Future installments will include the work of Stephen Schudlich, Alana Bartol-Vince, and Nathan Vince.

The newly restored Lotus 38 returns to Henry Ford Museum!

Wayne State University hosts Student Forum for Detroit with First Lady Michelle Obama http://wayne.edu/studentforum/

Trailer for a documentary told through the eyes of Detroit firefighters.

We shot this teaser in 5 days last fall ... Distributors and networks are interested. But these things take time, and Detroit's story is happening NOW. We need to raise the money ourselves to get back there and start shooting the actual documentary as soon as possible! Please donate $10 or more if you can. To support this important project visit http://www.documentary.org/fsp/3563 and make a TAX DEDUCTIBLE donation. For more info visit www.detroitfire.org or email us at detroitfirefilm@gmail.com Thank you, Brenna Sanchez Tom Putnam SUPPORT! SHARE! ASK QUESTIONS! LET'S DO THIS! Find us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/BURN-One-Year-on-the-Frontlines-of-the-Battle-to-Save-Detroit **You're welcome to embed the video on your website, but please credit it and encourage people to support the project. We're still fundraising.**

LOUDER THAN LOVE is the story of the Grande Ballroom in Detroit Michigan. The Grande Ballroom was the birthplace of the Detroit Rock Music Scene. Bands like MC5,Iggy & The Stooges,Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes,Alice Cooper and many more got their start here. The Grande not only influenced local Detroit musicians but inspired bands from all over the US & from Europe.Legendary acts like Led Zeppelin,The Cream,BB King,Janis Joplin,Pink Floyd and the Who graced the stage at the Grande on a regular basis.
While the west coast was groovin' to the sounds of the "Summer of Love" in 1967, Detroit was pumping out a hard driving,gritty and raw sound that was "LOUDER THAN LOVE"

In the Motor City, Jason Britton and his team hit Heidelberg, Metro Station, the Packard factory, Zugg Island, Belle Isle, and Greektown. Only on SPEED.

Excerpts from 1996 French documentary Universal Techno featuring Jeff Mills, Derrick May, Abdul Haqq & Ken Ishii

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New Music Video for the song Sing It To Me by Carolyn Striho

Become a Motor City Blight Buster today

lecturesHAA is dedicated to creating a broader creative discourse through open and collaborative dialogue. The program includes lectures and discussions throughout the year that will consider important contemporary design issues associated with the urban environment. The 2010 program for is titled, “Challenging Detroit: (Re)generating Urbanism.” This program provides an important platform for consideration of innovative, multidis...ciplinary strategies designed to help the city not only create reinvestment and redevelopment, but also begin to regenerate the social, economic and environmental attributes that define it. Now, more than ever, we need to come together to understand how we can effectively participate in the thoughtful, creative regeneration of Detroit.

Imagination Station Founder Jeffrey Paffendorf gives us a tour of his work in process, transitioning two heavily blighted homes in the shadow of Michgan Central Station into an art space and a green-renovated home.

Black Irish "Time Will Tell Me" The Park Bar Detroit, MI January 8, 2010 Paul Barning - Vox / Organ Elliott Moses - Guitar / Vox Shane Sanders - Guitar Tony DeNardo - Bass Tony Diecello - Drums www.myspace.com/blackirish .

Heather & Brittany are in Royal Oak, at the Woodward Dream Cruise, interviewing attendees about their passion for classic cars! Learn more about the Dream Cruise at http://www.woodwarddreamcruise.com