my whirlwind travel to DETROIT was action packed and non-stop.
THE 12 ANNUAL DIRTY SHOW was huge, sold out ALL 4 NIGHTS to a capacity crowd of 4000. a big thanks to JERRY VILE and JEREMY HARVEY.
saturday afternoon i had a blast with my new detroit buddy GARY ANGLEBRANDT who chauffered me around in his
CHRYSLER DIPLOMAT accompanied by his 12 year old yorkie called RAISIN.
here's a few places we went....
THE HEIDELBERG PROJECT- is an outdoor art project in Detroit, Michigan. It was created in 1986 by artist Tyree Guyton and his grandfather Sam Mackey ("Grandpa Sam") as an outdoor art environment in the McDougall-Hunt neighborhood on the city's east side, just north of the city's historically African-American Black Bottom area. The Heidelberg Project is, in part, a political protest, as Tyree Guyton's childhood neighborhood began to deteriorate after the 1967 riots. Guyton described coming back to Heidelberg Street after serving in the Army; he was astonished to see that the surrounding neighborhood looked as if "a bomb went off", so he took the ruins and created art!
random images of detroit.
(the modern day ruins of detroit- locals call this "RUIN PORN."
sights & sounds of the motor city including
THE PAINTED LADY- a great dive bar is in the town of hamtramck.
all photos courtesy- RICK CASTRO
