25.7.11

DETROIT

For almost a half century last century, Detroit was a boom town. Between 1910 and 1950, few cities grew faster, were wealthier, were more attractive to those seeking success than what became known as the Motor City.
But for the past 60 years, the decline has been long and relatively slow -- until the year 2000. Since then, Detroit has lost one-quarter of its population.

Motown left Detroit in 1972, but its spirit hangs on

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Factory records ... Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye at the microphone in Motown's Detroit recording studio in 1965. Photograph: Gilles Petard/Redferns
Excited teens scream as Elvis performs at the Fox Theatre, his first time in Detroit.

 These lucky teen winners of a Detroit Times essay contest got to meet with Elvis Presley backstage at the Fox on May 25, 1956.


Andy Warhol in Detroit, 1985

Artist Tyree Guyton adjusts shoes at his "Street Folk" installation on Edmund Place in Detroit, Thursday, April 7, 2011. Guyton says "the shoes are a reflection of people, all going in different directions and yet they are all in the streets." (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

DETROIT


The Heidelberg Project is an outdoor community art environment located in Detroit. The elements of the canvas contain recycled materials and found objects, most of which were salvaged from the streets and each work of art is carefully devised to tell a story about current issues plaguing society. As a whole, the Heidelberg Project is symbolic of how many communities in Detroit have become discarded.
 Artists on the Juxtapoz project in front of the Treasure Nest are from left Ryan Doyle, 31, wife)Zarah Ackerman, 27, daughter Dynamite Violet Doyle, 9 months, Ryan Carmichael, 29, Sarah Simeon, 24, Monica Canilao, 27, and boyfriend Harrison Bartlett, 27. (Donna Terek / The Detroit News)

DETRIOT

Noah’s Ark.

Two empty houses transformed by Tyree Guyten at the Heidelberg project in Detroit, a massive art installation that integrates artifacts and debris from the city's many abandoned buildings.
Artwork by Tyree Guyten fills a formerly vacant lot at the Heidelberg project in Detroit, a massive art installation that integrates artifacts and debris from the city's many abandoned buildings.
 
One of the houses of the Heidelberg project in Detroit, a massive art installation that integrates artifacts and debris from the city's many abandoned buildings.
Abandoned homes on one block in East Detroit, published by Mother Jones in November 2010.

DETROIT

DETROIT | Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swaths of this now-blighted, rusted-out city back into the fields and farmland that existed before the automobile.
read morehttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/09/detroit-looks-at-downsizing-to-save-city/

21.7.11



japanese style
japanese streets style full of imagination

Harajuku style!
 
STYLE  from TOKYO
Japanese fashion street
Roque Santeiro style
smell´s Brazil

carmen style
smell´s brazil
@ Flair magazine

New Ravers
street style
swizzy

street large

19.7.11

studio
Keith Haring
studio
Paula Rego
studio
Francis Bacon
Perry Ogden, “Francis Bacon’s Studio at 7 Reece Mews, London” (2001) (image from askyfilledwithshootingstars.com)
David Lynch x Interpol
David Lynch, "Change the Fucking Channel"

NECKFACE






12.7.11

installation by Takehiro Ando