Bedrock Manufacturing, an upstart company from Detroit, is attempting to reinvent Shinola, one of America’s most famous heritage brands. The brand revival started last year, when Bedrock set out to create a new line of high-end leather accessories. From the start, the venture was not only about the products themselves but where they would be [...]
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Charlie Leduff is a Detroit-based journalist, probably best known for his 2011 article Mother Jones about the death of Aiyana Mo’nay Stanley-Jones. His latest piece on Detroit is a bit lighter, but still worthy of your time. LeDuff golfed his way across Detroit, setting up a single, 18-mile long golf hole. t’s a par 3,168, 18-mile, single hole [...]
Entrepreneur Mark Siwak is trying to bring Detroit back to life by turning Motor City’s abandoned neighborhoods into the ultimate live-action zombie theme park. It’s as good as plan as any except there are no weapons. What the shit is that? How can you have a real-life zombie amusement park and have no weapons of [...]
Artist Evan Roth has been living and working in Detroit for the last month, for a solo exhibition titled “Welcome to Detroit“. His new series of artworks is called: Propulsion Paintings. They are simple, evocative, and yes, baffling. It’s equal parts “cool” and “what’s the point?” [via snarkmarket]
Ford Motors says it’s next generation of styling will mark “a significant transformation” for the Detroit automaker. Given that it was the one American motor company to not take bailout money and seems to be doing okay by pushing their car technology fast into the future, we’re intrigued to see where Ford is heading. At [...]
Mother Jones’s Charlie DeLuff examines what went wrong on the morning of May 16, 2010 when a SWAT raid, an A&E film crew and the smoldering death of a Detroit police officer converged in the murder of Aiyana Stanley-Jones, a seven-year-old girl. The SWAT team tried the steel door to the building. It was unlocked. [...]
From French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre for Time Magazine. These photos are stunning, haunting and ultimately depressing. What’s happened to the city? It should be also noted that the bias of the photographers is such that none of the city’s positive features were highlighted. Above: The United Artists Theater, a spectacular Spanish Gothic [...]
According to Megan McCardle at The Atlantic it’s only a matter of time before the Detroit automaker goes asunder. After today’s annual report, I don’t think there’s any question of GM’s staying out of bankruptcy. The company’s revenue fell from $180 billion in 2007 to $149 billion in 2008, with the worst crash in the [...]
So much so that The Raconteur and White Striper wrote a poem about it and sent it off to the Detroit Free Press.? “The following poem is the Detroit from my mind,” he said. “The Detroit that is in my heart. The home that encapsulates and envelops those who are truly blessed with the experience [...]
