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Detroit Ice House Is Up! (And Introducing Detroit Ice Potato)

Well, the awesome crazies did it. The Detroit Ice House has been frozen and it looks beautiful. Read about it on the artists’ blog and visit it at the corner of McCllelan and Mack if you’re in Detroit (while it’s still froze). These are just a couple of my dinky pics:

I had the pleasure of meeting and becoming friends with one of the artists, the photographer Greg Holm, randomly, on a Craigslist rideshare from Detroit to New York months back when this was but a glimmer in his and his collaborator Matt Radune’s eyes. As such I got to follow along some on the process and poke around the site as they froze over the course of a week and lit it for their photo (in development). It was an inspiring thing to see and I’m super proud of them.

In fact, as art has a way of doing, I was inspired enough by the ice house to try my own hand at Detroit Ice [blank]. My mind raced: Detroit Ice Shoe? Detroit Ice Tooth brush? Ah! Ladies and gentlemen, if you head to the corner of Bagley and Brooklyn streets off Michigan Avenue in Corktown, next to the fire hydrant you will see the [drum roll… drum roll… wait for it… wait for it…] Detroit Ice Potato:

lol Greg and Matt, serious congratulations on a job well done, and for forcing me to meme-ify you. Detroit Ice Everything! :D

1 day ago

February 8, 2010

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2 More Detroit Projects On Kickstarter, All In Together Now

I met Greg Holm on a Craigslist carpool from Detroit to New York. It’s the ’90s, that’s how it works. He’s a photographer from Detroit who spends time between Detroit and Brooklyn. Here’s his photo site, and here’s the rain and lightning storm that kept us from hanging out in Brooklyn (seriously).

Greg has an idea for a new photo series that involves freezing an abandoned house in Detroit. Like, spraying a house with layers of water in the winter, lighting the ice, and literally picturing the housing freeze. More beautiful evidence to check out on Kickstarter here.

I’ve mentioned my friend Steve’s radio station project before. Amongst other things, he and his wife Hillary have a home full of awesome DIY projects and run the locally influential Hamtramck Star blog (for y’all outsiders, Hamtramck is another little city inside the city of Detroit, not to be confused with LOVELAND ;) /spits into spitoon). They also have an AM and web streaming radio station that they want to update and expand. You can read about it and back it on Kickstarter here.

All these projects need to be networked together. And I don’t mean a frozen radio station made out of inch-sized ice cubes, although that would be very cool too. As LOVELAND advances I want it to be a platform for projects like these. All in time. Stay tuned.

4 months ago

September 18, 2009