Last Saturday Simon and I dared downtown Detroit. We have heard that it's the worst ghetto in the U.S. and we have heard that it's a treasure trove of art and culture. Turns out, it's both. Here is one famous art deco building, the Guardian, built in 1928. That's Simon outside, waiting for me to take a picture and cross the road. The photo doesn't do it justice as it is 36 stories tall and gets sillier and fancier the higher up you look. Turns out I really do need one of those fancy-pants (a mere $2400) tilt lenses I have been reading about...
Here is the inside of the building, which seems to contain various banking offices and a strange souvenier shop that had MANY varieties of the "I Heart Detroit" sort of t-shirt. We didn't buy any.
And here we are, 3 miles to the west, at the Detroit Institute of Arts. That's Simon on the step--The Little Thinker.
The many burnt out factories and empty apartments with smashed out windows (we saw one with a filthy and torn sign with the words "Move in Today!" dangling from a bit of string from an upper floor) were an eye opener. I was a bit too overwhelmed to photograph them but intend to on future sojourns, so stay tuned.
Here is the inside of the building, which seems to contain various banking offices and a strange souvenier shop that had MANY varieties of the "I Heart Detroit" sort of t-shirt. We didn't buy any.
And here we are, 3 miles to the west, at the Detroit Institute of Arts. That's Simon on the step--The Little Thinker.
The many burnt out factories and empty apartments with smashed out windows (we saw one with a filthy and torn sign with the words "Move in Today!" dangling from a bit of string from an upper floor) were an eye opener. I was a bit too overwhelmed to photograph them but intend to on future sojourns, so stay tuned.
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Sounds like a terrible contrast.
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