Astro Coffee on Michigan Ave. #Detroit (Taken with instagram)
somehow this feels more honest than all of the abandoned building photos.
I can honestly say that this is my favorite piece at the DIA. There is something magical about this painting. I think often of my BFF and I spending quite sometime at the museum talking about this painting.
Magic. Magic. Magic.
NOCTURNE IN BLACK AND GOLD, THE FALLING ROCKET
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American 1834-1903)
Date 1875 Medium Oil on panel Dimensions 23 3/4 x 18 3/8 in. 60.2 x 46.7 cm Framed: 36 3/4 x 30 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. Department American Art before 1950
(via livinginthed)
Thanks to Detroit Lives I saw Detroit SOUP used as an idea of co-creative collaboration on the Fast Company blog.
photo: vanessa miller
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As a design student in Detroit, Veronika Scott was keenly aware of the increasing numbers of homeless people suffering deeply during the relentless winters. At the tender age of 21, she created The Detroit Empowerment Plan not to solve homelessness, but to provide much-needed warmth to the city’s 20,000 street dwellers.
Woodward Avenue, near Puritan Avenue, in Highland Park. 1956
(Source: det-riot)
Sketch books and signs.
Thrift store finds!
