What they need to do is make huge tax cuts to tech industries like dallas, pittsburgh and LA. Bringing in a tech industry where you can get cheap company building's and housing for your workers can become a huge incentive if you don't get taxed locally so much.
Great video, was really interesting, I liked what the artists were doing and how others were transforming all that urban blight into farms, what a great idea. Good things can still come out of a mess even in Detroit.
I'm so happy to see that Detroit is given some life again. I'm saddened to see the city in this shape as it was the center of design and automotive advances. Pleace bring back the Cadillac building...
For all you dumb faggot cunts complaining about this you need to get your facts straight. Yes these are a bunch of artistic kids making Detroit look all colorful but it's because of them that big businesses are investing billions of dollars in Detroit now. Detroit is on the path of turn-around and in a few years we will be back on top.
@liljim4645 Dumbass, businesses do not invest billions of dollars of their own money because some hipsters throw paint on the side of buildings.
Your comment was possibly the stupidest thing I've read all month. Tell me genius, how much money do these kids make as artists living in abandoned buildings? What kind of fucking profit is there investing in kids having rave parties in crumbling basements. Educate yourself and grow the fuck up.
hmm i mean on the one hand i wanna say hey this is a great vid in the sense that it tries to show a positive side to Detroit, but at the same time it's johnny knoxville driving around with a bunch of artsy hipsters. All these guys have done is spruced up the place by painting their garbage, but until there's real investment in that city it's going nowhere.
@jackspro27 do your homework and google, that thing thing youre sitting in front of is called a computer, and youre on the internet, .....if you really give a fuck about something you can actually look up all sorts of facts about this thing you call real investment and see if it exist.
I am from a suburb of Detroit. My grandparents lived in Detroit in it's hay-day and often they reminisce about how great Detroit was. However like many others they moved to the suburbs in the mid 70's. After hearing their stories and see for my self some of the great cultural assets Detroit has to offer I am confident that Detroit can and will return to it's glory days. Get rid of the crooked politicians and start putting Detroit back together again.
that city looks shitty! and those artists that put crap and junk all over the abandonned houses and paint things strange colors make it look even worst ! detroit has gotten worst then it looked in the robocop movie !
Ok,this is total crap! I am one of these progresive whites that moved to detroit in 1996,this city is a cesspool! Trust me nothing is going on here at all,don't let this fool u,detroit is pathetic!and so are the backwards people! city and suburbs!
@mikemalibu1 And it's people like you which is why the city is going nowhere. Sorry but the city is being revived, I live there. I see what happens everyday. I don't think some idiot who lives out in the suburbs knows what's going on in Detroit.
@mikemalibu1 what you are is a small minded, michigan typical surburban pathetic. youre not progressive in the least. youre what most of the real citizens and the real people that have come here to make a difference refer to as a perpetrator. if your backwards ass hasn't left already, will you be leaving soon??? .....hope so.
Wow, can you interview anybody who's not a fucking 20 year old hipster. Why don't you interview the 58 year old people who have lived, worked and STAYED in the city for decades! They've been "saving" the city their whole lives, even after they've had their places shot up and been robbed. They're not just trying to create a steller rave scene. (don't get me wrong, the rave scene in detroit is great but it seems trivial).
Detroit is rapidly becoming a major Technology hub. Detroit finally has a mayor who knows what hard work is ahead of him, and isn't just sitting back waiting for the auto industry to fix itself.
I love how johnny made this documentary.It showed how Detroit is an inspiring place how it is kinda bad but people are on the process and are have that DIY attitude making it a better place.I grew up in Detroit and i love it.
@5:10, 1 hundred 20 year olds= 2000 years, two hundred 2 years olds= 400 years. Johnny got his math mixed up, he should have said two hundred 10 year olds.
@DMNDjake I did waste a half hour of my life watching this. It would be one thing if it was a documentary on the hipster culture in Detroit, but to call it the SOLUTION. Now their just high on crack.
Industry and jobs are NOT drawn to a city with a shrinking population, rotting infrastructure, extreme crime rates, extreme welfare, extreme unemployment, corrupt politians, terrible education, garbage property values, and much much more.
@metalslugxBTB you're completely focusing on the wrong aspects of this series slug. If you want to sit back and criticize the city, then by all means have at it. But as was said in the show slowly the city is turning the page and restructuring. Not to mention we haven't had the best history of politicians, namely Kilpatrick, but with the election of Bing a lot of improvements are being made where necessary. This change isn't expected to come overnight.
@bigtown oh i got it. This city is a beautiful place and its a shame its come to where it is now, but you'd have to be blind if you can't see the change that's happening. Detroit is a posterchild for urban decay, but so many don't realize the potential so many of these structures have. Namely and ESPECIAlLLY MCS. oh & before you go so hard on youtube @metalslugxBTB an start measurin dicks make sure you whipe the dribble from your chin 1st you fuckin ass clown.
@bigtown Don't get mad at me because your welfare check didn't come in the mail this week. I packed my bags and moved out of South East Michigan, best decision of my life. Now I make more money than your daddy does little boy.
@metalslugxBTB I have BSIT, that's A Bachelors Degree in Information Technology with a concentration in Security. I'm not going to tell you how much money I make (check it for yourself son) I'm no welfare case. BTW, we're glad you left, please STAY AWAY!!!
@metalslugxBTB detroit > new jersey. also, i bet if somebody asked you where you're from you'd act all hard and say detroit. you're the kind of person we're glad left. douche.
@DMNDjake I did waste a half hour of my life watching this. It would be one thing if it was a documentary on the hipster culture in Detroit, but to call it the SOLUTION. Now their just high on crack.
Industry and jobs are NOT drawn to a city with a shrinking population, rotting infrastructure, extreme crime rates, extreme welfare, extreme unemployment, corrupt politians, terrible education, garbage property values, and much much more.
@metalslugxBTB it just means fresh vibrant thinking from minds not tainted like yours asshole. Im sure you never got wind of it but thinking and being inventive and resourceful and casting into something larger than yourself is the true definition of Hip. Detroiters are already hip, we want more to join us, in the mean time would you please go shoot yourself?
@DONNIMETROPOLIS313 Detroiters are hip, if by hip you mean broke and occupying the worst city in the entire nation. If Detroit was such an awesome place to live, then why is the population steadily decreasing like a sinking ship? Typical hipster you are, the naive no-nothing. You mistake your inexperience and lack of knowledge as "fresh" and "cool." You're fucking stupid and fail to grasp basic economic principles, the ones Detroit is crumbling down on. I escaped Detroit :D
@metalslugxBTB HAHAHAH little girl i could wrap my "experiences " around you several times, the no nothing is you, youre a self centered life coward &i cant be mad at you, youre a follower, Detroit isnt good for people like you. Good riddance! If you YOU knew economics then you would know that there is no such thing as a city that REMAINS in the shape Detroit is in, leaders, Investors, Developers, Entrepreneurial spirit, strong honest citizenry, bring it back and its happening asswipe .
@DONNIMETROPOLIS313 I made over 70k last year and guess what city doesn't get to have my economic spending? Detroit. That's exactly the attitude that made Detroit the shithole that it is today. Don't cater to the individuals with above average incomes like myself. Cater to hipsters who don't have a dime to their name. It's DIY because hipsters have no money to pay anyone to do it. Coward? 3 combat tours in the middle east you pussy. What experiences you have? Shoveling snow? Locking your doors?
@metalslugxBTB and you of course dont think me or any other Detroiter made that or more?? you asswipe. get a life. youre still as coward. thanks for serving the country, but when youre at home not surrounded by machinery and your squad youre still the same punk ass coward you always were. I knew many of the people in this film i know for a fact they make more than 70k. Since that & hatred is your bitch ass claim to fame you might as well shoot yourself. Like i said, GOOD RIDDANCE!
@DONNIMETROPOLIS313 In 2009, more people were murdered in Detroit than soldiers killed in Afghanistan. That's right people. The citizens of Detroit pose a greater risk to your life than the Taliban. Your "leaders"? Like Kwame who had stripper parties at the mayors mansion and ordered a hit one of them so they wouldn't go public? Strong honest citizenry? LOOK AT YOUR FUCKING MURDER RATE. YOU ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE KILLED BY A CITIZEN OF DETROIT THAN ANY OTHER CITY. STFU kid and go back to school.
@DONNIMETROPOLIS313 You can try and insult me all you want but it doesn't change the facts. Detroit's population has been shrinking for decades, more and more people are leaving. Detroit's government is hundreds of millions of dollars in debt. Wayne county's politicians are corrupt scumbags elected by the people. Property values are fucking garbage. Crime rate is historic. These are facts, cry all you want but it's the truth, no matter what your faggot hipster friends say...
@metalslugxBTB we feed off this kind of negativity it may be the truth that our governing powers are corrupt inept and otherwise unable to function properly, but what they lack in decency we make up for in our creativity.. now if we could just get someone with a conscience to lead this city in the right direction.
@DONNIMETROPOLIS313 Don't forget your "leaders" are going to run out of money by April and the City of Detroit will be officially bankrupt. Bringing it back and it's happening eh? Your shithole is on the verge of being declared an emergency financial zone by the State and taken over. The rest of Michigan is tired of your shithole sucking away money. Jesus Christ, developers? Homes are being sold for $5. That's how much people DON'T want to own property in Detroit. Your state of mind is a joke...
@metalslugxBTB you are such a little crying bitch, you left, so stay away, and why are you here worried about the advances being made in this city. What assholes like you like to talk about is dilapidated homes in bad areas, you know nothing of the majority of homes in great neighborhoods, Homes have been foreclosed on all over the country not just detroit you dickhead, STFU and go back to your delusional state of crystal meth entitlement.
heres the thing about all the "we need more than just artists/hipsters and stuff": the unfortunate truth is that money/governmental interest in well being generally follows the appearance of white ppl (who often bring in money themselves) in previously run down areas (aka gentrification). gentrification isn't always good but in this case the people seem interested in preserving important parts of detroit. but "hipsters" or whatev aside detroit has produced great things and gets knocked too often
Maybe it's human nature to be so blind or you just don't care about yourself. It amazes me how much people allow other people the same as them to control their time on earth. Authority figures are in fact work of the devil. No-one s an authority in this place. Nothing can be explained in this place. Surely putting value on land and grass is the biggest lie ever. People will always feel the need to control and take from others, not me. I just want to wake up everyday is that so bad. GOD BLESS YOU
LAWS- They were made to stop good people from standing up for their right to not be controlled by any man. No-one on earth has a right to control another or harm others. So if your eveil you will harm people while good people stand by and watch. This all goes into the law. Maybe there are more evil people than good but good always wins in the end. So stand up and take our lives back for our children, not us. Why should they suffer like we have. GOD BLESS EVERYONE GOOD LEFT IN THIS WORLD OF SHIT
There are no communities just made up words for shit. I'm sooooooo sick to my stomach and angry at the way people act. Wake up or just die allready. Your lies won't work on me anymore and I'm gonna start this way. You tube is my voice and hopefully I get through to most good people left. Detroit s the beginning of a bigger problem. We as human beings have lost our way and forgotten the meaning of life has nothing to do with money and buildings. It's all about good and bad, that s it. GOD BLESS U
Lived here all my life. The past few years, there has been an influx of hipsters in downtown. Why? Because they just adore taking pictures of the central station for their 'art' classes.
@poopoo111222333 Because it fascinates people to see the bullshit, I live in Detroit and i live in a great neighborhood, never saw it on the news, just the bullshit.
According to Ko in this video, Tyree created the Heidelberg Project to attract attention to the neighborhood in order to discourage drug dealers. Literally the only time in my life that I've witnessed drugs being sold on the street was while standing among the Heidelberg Project.
why would you watch all the way to part III and still talk shit. the thing about detroit is that we dont care about what outsiders think about our city. we love it. nobody asked you to watch this film and nobody is asking you to come to detroit. we will do out thing and love it. go back to the gay suburbs and circle jerk your doper friends while you spend your parents money and officially suck at life
@mueygringo Bitch My woman lives in Shelby Twnshp. im outside of the 8mile any given day of the week, I have friends in every suburb within 100 miles. You need to bring that gay ass mouth of yours to the center of the city so someone can venture down your idiotic troll throat.
@DONNIMETROPOLIS313 Riding on the back of a garbage truck is no major accomplishment. Your Girlfriend? Oh Rue Paul! At lunch time, do you stop at the Seven Eleven to get a Colt 45? So go fuck yourself or let your girl RUE PAUL DO IT!!
I admire the positivity and the DIY attitude, but I didn't see much job creation. This will sound cynical, but how many of the people featured were actually getting paid? or how many were living on trust funds. What about seniors, didn't see many kids, will these people start families in Detroit, send their kids to the local schools? I know this is aimed at a young trendy market but you need more than organic farmers markets and bands to revive a city.
Oh cmon now. You all know Detroit needs a BIG GOVT. SOLUTION. If big govt. is good enough to intrude on me it's good enough to intrude on you. Only D.C. can save Detroit. We need more central economic planning. Perhaps the Federal Reserve can do something. I know call Wall Street they can issue Rebuild Detroit Bonds.
That's how we do it! Alanis signs with Motown and records Jagged Little Pill 2. Once the album is released there will be lines for miles on the freeways of people flocking from all over the country to be part of this miraculous rebirth. Somebody contact Alanis's people. We've got a corpse of a city to resurrect and she's going to be our matriarch. She will save this city by tapping into the abundant misery. Cleveland has a better skyline.
because you showed without specifying, what is Metropolitan Detroit. A city's metro area is a different thing than it's main locale.I wonder if anyone caught on to that trick. Exactly how many artists have emigrated to Detroit?! Do they move here because they think that in order to spark creativity that they have to be around misery. Alanis Morrisette should move hear. She would make a album 10x as good as Jagged Little Pill. If we get Alanis here and she makes the album everyone will come!
I would never move there. I have a friend who moved down there and hes already had his car broken into. I'm from the area and I'm moving to New Hampshire to take part in the Free State Project. Detroit's population needs to go down, not up. Everyone is so liberal around here with the unions. I used to be liberal until I heard basic e conomics explained by Ron Paul. Detroit is a city of economics flunkie. Btw when you said those 3 cities could fit into Detroit you we're deceitful......
@cacapoopoo2327 good luck. if you really want to learn about economics you might want to take a class or at least read a book, i wouldnt really put that much faith in a politicians speech.
Everybody on here who has any desire to pack up for the D do it! Seriously, for that matter just come to any city in Michigan, city's like Lansing, Flint, Benton Harbor, Saginaw, etc are all very similar to Detroit in that the level of decay is amazing, although crime is prevalent in every area of the state any violence is generally because of drugs or crime, not being a pedestrian. I am psyched to see a positive spin on the city finally.
You need to find away to get the black communities especially the youth involved. I think as thet decide to quit gang bangin and do something positive that detroit could be a great city again.
@ProvidentTools too much television media focusing on the negative, there is crime for sure, but gang banging?? been here most of my life and ive yet to see that. try Compton or chicago
I would like to see where the African American kids are. Where are the Black American in this documentary? Why aren't they in these lofts creating businesses? These are great videos but it is severely lacking in African American natives of Detroit!
I always call;ed Detroit a "post industrial wasteland" when I lived there. I guess now it's a post industrial wasteland with hipsters (as my children would call them). There has always been fun to be had in that city, though.
strikes me as an interesting place and worth visiting for sure.............a lot of potential, just needs backing and a bit of investment.............
@xAxiom720x Correct, which means that 1.89% of violent crimes happen in Detroit from the U.S.. This also means that the top 4 (which doesn't include Detroit) = 12.33% of the violent crimes in the U.S. Detroit is behind New York, Houston, L.A. and Philly, and Chicago (Detroit/Chicago are close, but there is no known amount of rapes in Chicago to get an accurate account of violent crimes). Add Vegas, Memphis, Baltimore, and Dallas if you want to include cities with 1% of US rate or higher.
NICE COMMENT WHO CARES WHO GETS SHOT THEIR, WE ARE ALL CONTROLLED AND IT SUCKS. THAT CITY GOT THE SHAFT FROM THE GOVERNMENT CAUSE THEY DON T CARE THAT S WHY DETROIT SUCKS. iT WILL SPREAD EVERYWHERE BUT i M PRETTY SURE YOU DON T GIVE A FUCK THOUGH RIGHT. MAYBE THIS TOUCHES YOUR HEART BECAUSE I LOVE THIS WORLD AND HATE SOME PEOPLE IN IT. thankyou and god bless you
I'm an artist but have worked most my life away because this world needs job titles and creative people always have a hard time making money. The systems set up to en-slave people so by the time they realise this they are old and dying. Seriously this worlds fucked and way to complicated now. We should revert back to the old ways of living and get with it. All necessities should be free for us. ELECTRICITY, FOOD, WATER AND GAS SHOULD BE FREE. A HOUSE SHOULD BE FREE. JOBS SHOULD PAY WITH RESPECT.
detroit isn't a city but I see it as a way to change the world for the better. It's a broken city were my idea of life may begin. People using each other for different talents of services without the government but instead their own thoughts and minds. I think that this low point for them could in fact change the way we all live. I hate governments because there is no need for them. They don't protect us as a people but instead as an object of financial gain. police call u suspects not people.FU
We need artists and thinkers and do it yourselfers...haha...you need an A bomb...last time I was in detroit some thugs were breaking in a house that had just caught fire the day before...I called the pd, waited an hour with the owner of the home, and nobody ever showed up to arrest the burglars...haha...I do like the urban farms though.
I think they really captured the essence of Detroit. Even through the tough times and all the flight from the city everyone longed for the days when life was so vibrant in Detroit. It is amazing what corrupt politicians can and did do to the City...but they never destroyed the desire to bring it back. It is truly great and will rise from the ashes as a people's city. As far as the negative comments let them go-don't waste the cycles. We are what matters - We are Detroit and proud of it!
@tool482002 it can be stated it is amazing what corrupt politician can do the reputation of a city, and to the moral of its citizens. but what happened in Detroit goes a lot deeper than the casual easy hating of a few lone black scapegoat dirty politicians, in a state thats rife with corrupt politicians, in a country of the same. Thats a childs mind to blame it on that. What happened to Detroit is a Michigan & American story.
If i were mayor i'd get property tax abolished.. It's sad that the leftovers are artists who think spending what little money they have on creating stuff out of paper and fabric is going to save them. You all say you don't want saving and then next scene you cry for it, we know you want saving, trying starting a business, get some money to create a factory. What resources can you bring to your city to create a product. That is, IF you truly want saving. Otherwise have fun and enjoy your lives!
As a native of Detroit all my life a few things stuck out in the documentary that are key points about Detroit in my opinion. The main point - Freedom - perhaps the reason we are ranked high on crime is because of our great freedom. You can pretty much do what you want here with no trouble from others and that includes law enforcement - If your not bothering anyone else you generally arent bothered...Yea my car has been stolen dozens of times and I have been robbed a few times but shit happens.
@germieb by "shit happens" I meant to say.....that is the small price we play for our freedom....for being part of a real community...I have been all over this country and I feel like here I have the most freedom
@germieb youre obviously living in a bad area and have been robbed due to night life hanging in the same. walking around high on life or whatever and not paying attention to your surroundings mixed with being an outsider to the populace will get you robbed very quickly in any state. i swear i think some of you people make this shit up, ...car stolen dozens of times? you do realize thats at a minimum 24 times right? or was it 36 times?
this movie is inspiring to say the least but in the end you can try but you dont have the large corporations having a business here or economy. Same is said for pittsburgh and cleveland,, these three cities dont have the set economy. Detrioit is a shithole, highest crime rate in the US, ill be honest in 20 years the city will still be a piece of shit. enough said
@napjohn88 You dont know that about Detroit, what it will be tomorrow or in 20, 25, 10, or 5 years even. What you do know is that your piece of shit mindset is pretty much going to still be a piece of shit mindset
Now that you've convinced me to move the city, please tell me about the schools my grade school children will attend, the fantastic 911 service, and the city government that provides the leadership and honesty that will guide my city to prosperity.
Greatplace to paint art that nobody wants, frequent raves that play music that will eventually be found to be trite and wear thrift shop clothing and clunky black glasses to be "unique" like everyone else who subscribes to this lifestyle.yawn
@joeyinny the place is becoming a haven for single, bondless, youths trying to seek like minded people and join the lotus eaters and stave off "I-feel-old" syndrome its not a place for kids or people who have them its a place to spend those "young and dumb" years
@marcuspinson I have yet to see a city whose core is constructed of 20-30yr old, single people flourish. Skate parks don't make the city money. Raves put money in the promoter's pockets and sometimes leave havoc after the event. Most artists don't have healthy incomes. And gardens feed only a few.
Detroit needs to attract tech companies with tax breaks, alternative power industries with land deals and bio-engineering firms with the keys to the city.
@joeyinny they only talked about a small part of what is going on (and skateparks aren't free they have to charge admission to cover the insurance and if someone makes any money in the united states through legitimate means you know that the government is going to get a peice) and there are hundreds of people who gain from raves you have to get noise permits (that money goes straight into the states pocket) you have the companies that produce the things served and sold and much more
@joeyinny and as far as the artist's are concerned they need to put together an agency that matches the peices to the clients and to watch the buyers market and see whats selling so they know what to put up on primary display
@joeyinny and on top of all that the core constructed of younger single people would flourish at an existential rate because they are young, and so full of life, and passion and they become very pasionate easily and when they're hearts are in something they do far more for far less (this sort of thing has happened before it always ends the same way (with a city wide comeback), look at all the cities that flourished in the sixties because of the hippies, its the same thing just a diferent time)
@marcuspinson I hope you're right. I would love to see the city flourish with life.
I loved riding the street car uptown on those long summer days after my shift at the Vernors plant. It was a great time to be a young man in a great city.
So you see, I hold the image of Detroit being a great city to a high standard.
I know a few caring people with good intentions can go a long way. But if it took 40 years to tear this city down, it will take much longer to rebuild it.
@joeyinny but we have more than a few good people we have many, and i have a hunch that if they banded together and EVERYONE involve put in a true full days work it would be rebuilt much faster than it fell, simply because all the things we need are already there we just need to clean it, and fix it
(if greed sank the city then a bit of kindness and alot elbow greese can get it back up to speed)
this is brilliant. ive been traveling the country for 2 years from boston MA to chico CA after graduating high school, working and trying to find out what to do with my life. im going to college to learn what i can do to help. you'll see me in detroit soon, i want a piece of this revolution.
@BabyYoshi6913 It's on Heidelberg Street. Between Gratiot, Mt. Elliot and Mack. It is one of my favorite parts of this city. Along with Lafayette Coney, the train station, and Baker's jazz club. BTW, I own a comic shop at the Russell Industrial Center, I had no idea that Johnny Knoxville was there filming.
Sorry folks, but a bunch of artsy hipsters aren't gonna save Detroit. Speaking as someone from Detroit I can honestly say that it is BEYOND redemption. Notice how they focus almost exclusively on the big huge abandoned buildings where white kids from the suburbs come to hold raves and art expos. They don't really show the rest of the city with it's lack of neighborhood business, high crime and jobless minority population. The city should just start over from scratch.
What they need to do is make huge tax cuts to tech industries like dallas, pittsburgh and LA. Bringing in a tech industry where you can get cheap company building's and housing for your workers can become a huge incentive if you don't get taxed locally so much.
Gondus 3 weeks ago
Artists are the saviours of Detroit? Johnny is gushing over artists? Really?
ammo021 3 weeks ago
@ammo021 Well you sure as hell ain't going to be the saviour of Detroit now are you? So why not.
renge99O9 3 weeks ago
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 is the ultimate troll piece of shit...
owenhump 3 weeks ago
I wear my Red Wings jersey with pride! And I'm not even from Detroit!!
DuecePiece 1 month ago
i think this is the future for many cities.i.e corporation's will fail,and people's spirit an creativity will prevail .
symbiosis23 1 month ago
All of that, and no mention of Detroit being the birthplace of Techno. Incredible,...
Kagemusha22 1 month ago
Great video, was really interesting, I liked what the artists were doing and how others were transforming all that urban blight into farms, what a great idea. Good things can still come out of a mess even in Detroit.
mrkrl 1 month ago
I'm so happy to see that Detroit is given some life again. I'm saddened to see the city in this shape as it was the center of design and automotive advances. Pleace bring back the Cadillac building...
MoFoFoRillDo 1 month ago
For all you dumb faggot cunts complaining about this you need to get your facts straight. Yes these are a bunch of artistic kids making Detroit look all colorful but it's because of them that big businesses are investing billions of dollars in Detroit now. Detroit is on the path of turn-around and in a few years we will be back on top.
liljim4645 2 months ago
@liljim4645 its not only because of them, not by a longshot. the story is massively larger than that.
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 1 month ago
@liljim4645 Dumbass, businesses do not invest billions of dollars of their own money because some hipsters throw paint on the side of buildings.
Your comment was possibly the stupidest thing I've read all month. Tell me genius, how much money do these kids make as artists living in abandoned buildings? What kind of fucking profit is there investing in kids having rave parties in crumbling basements. Educate yourself and grow the fuck up.
metalslugxBTB 1 month ago
Rad, great insight. I thought Detroit was dying...
jacked26 2 months ago
@jacked26 thank the media
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 1 month ago
hmm i mean on the one hand i wanna say hey this is a great vid in the sense that it tries to show a positive side to Detroit, but at the same time it's johnny knoxville driving around with a bunch of artsy hipsters. All these guys have done is spruced up the place by painting their garbage, but until there's real investment in that city it's going nowhere.
jackspro27 2 months ago
@jackspro27 do your homework and google, that thing thing youre sitting in front of is called a computer, and youre on the internet, .....if you really give a fuck about something you can actually look up all sorts of facts about this thing you call real investment and see if it exist.
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 1 month ago
their in slim shady's mind like the movie "the cell" lol
stalkertwolf 2 months ago
whats with the eerie song? yikes!
stalkertwolf 2 months ago
I am from a suburb of Detroit. My grandparents lived in Detroit in it's hay-day and often they reminisce about how great Detroit was. However like many others they moved to the suburbs in the mid 70's. After hearing their stories and see for my self some of the great cultural assets Detroit has to offer I am confident that Detroit can and will return to it's glory days. Get rid of the crooked politicians and start putting Detroit back together again.
Lunacy4ever 3 months ago
@Lunacy4ever start in lansing
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 1 month ago
I bet only marihuana is grown in those city farms....
Gabor123 3 months ago
that city looks shitty! and those artists that put crap and junk all over the abandonned houses and paint things strange colors make it look even worst ! detroit has gotten worst then it looked in the robocop movie !
HubertWolfen 3 months ago
@HubertWolfen YOUR MIND IS SHIT
killabreakz 3 months ago
Ok,this is total crap! I am one of these progresive whites that moved to detroit in 1996,this city is a cesspool! Trust me nothing is going on here at all,don't let this fool u,detroit is pathetic!and so are the backwards people! city and suburbs!
mikemalibu1 3 months ago
@mikemalibu1 And it's people like you which is why the city is going nowhere. Sorry but the city is being revived, I live there. I see what happens everyday. I don't think some idiot who lives out in the suburbs knows what's going on in Detroit.
swalte6325 2 months ago
@mikemalibu1 what you are is a small minded, michigan typical surburban pathetic. youre not progressive in the least. youre what most of the real citizens and the real people that have come here to make a difference refer to as a perpetrator. if your backwards ass hasn't left already, will you be leaving soon??? .....hope so.
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 1 month ago
Wow, can you interview anybody who's not a fucking 20 year old hipster. Why don't you interview the 58 year old people who have lived, worked and STAYED in the city for decades! They've been "saving" the city their whole lives, even after they've had their places shot up and been robbed. They're not just trying to create a steller rave scene. (don't get me wrong, the rave scene in detroit is great but it seems trivial).
MyKittenSmokesDaGanj 5 months ago
@MyKittenSmokesDaGanj thank you,
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 1 month ago
I'm an artist and I wouldnt mind spending a month in detroit checking things out.
twiztdupsmoke187 5 months ago
@twiztdupsmoke187 you would be pleasantly shocked. and probably stay.
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 1 month ago
Detroit is rapidly becoming a major Technology hub. Detroit finally has a mayor who knows what hard work is ahead of him, and isn't just sitting back waiting for the auto industry to fix itself.
bigtown 6 months ago
This is really awesome!
Satchel334 6 months ago
I love how johnny made this documentary.It showed how Detroit is an inspiring place how it is kinda bad but people are on the process and are have that DIY attitude making it a better place.I grew up in Detroit and i love it.
decoy313 6 months ago
@5:10, 1 hundred 20 year olds= 2000 years, two hundred 2 years olds= 400 years. Johnny got his math mixed up, he should have said two hundred 10 year olds.
MrHorizontm 6 months ago
I wanna go!
bleedingfly 7 months ago
Cure for Detroit = More hipsters...?
What kind of fucked up logic is that?
metalslugxBTB 7 months ago
@metalslugxBTB if that's what you've concluded from this than you've wasted a half hour of your life watching this
cure for detroit = diy'ers who are willing to be drawn into the city rather than the people who believe the propaganda that detroit is a snake's nest
DMNDjake 6 months ago
@DMNDjake I did waste a half hour of my life watching this. It would be one thing if it was a documentary on the hipster culture in Detroit, but to call it the SOLUTION. Now their just high on crack.
Industry and jobs are NOT drawn to a city with a shrinking population, rotting infrastructure, extreme crime rates, extreme welfare, extreme unemployment, corrupt politians, terrible education, garbage property values, and much much more.
Detroit = Shit.
metalslugxBTB 6 months ago
@metalslugxBTB you're completely focusing on the wrong aspects of this series slug. If you want to sit back and criticize the city, then by all means have at it. But as was said in the show slowly the city is turning the page and restructuring. Not to mention we haven't had the best history of politicians, namely Kilpatrick, but with the election of Bing a lot of improvements are being made where necessary. This change isn't expected to come overnight.
You=shit
DMNDjake 6 months ago
@DMNDjake Tell these morons brother! "This is Detroit, and this is what we do"
bigtown 5 months ago
@bigtown oh i got it. This city is a beautiful place and its a shame its come to where it is now, but you'd have to be blind if you can't see the change that's happening. Detroit is a posterchild for urban decay, but so many don't realize the potential so many of these structures have. Namely and ESPECIAlLLY MCS. oh & before you go so hard on youtube @metalslugxBTB an start measurin dicks make sure you whipe the dribble from your chin 1st you fuckin ass clown.
DMNDjake 5 months ago
@metalslugxBTB Fuck you moron!
bigtown 6 months ago
@bigtown bigtown is actualy right ur the fucking moron metal slug
xST3ALTHYxBOYZx 5 months ago
@metalslugxBTB fuck you moron, you're shit for brains!
bigtown 6 months ago
@bigtown Don't get mad at me because your welfare check didn't come in the mail this week. I packed my bags and moved out of South East Michigan, best decision of my life. Now I make more money than your daddy does little boy.
metalslugxBTB 6 months ago
@metalslugxBTB I have BSIT, that's A Bachelors Degree in Information Technology with a concentration in Security. I'm not going to tell you how much money I make (check it for yourself son) I'm no welfare case. BTW, we're glad you left, please STAY AWAY!!!
bigtown 5 months ago
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LAN04H 5 months ago
@metalslugxBTB detroit > new jersey. also, i bet if somebody asked you where you're from you'd act all hard and say detroit. you're the kind of person we're glad left. douche.
LAN04H 5 months ago
@DMNDjake I did waste a half hour of my life watching this. It would be one thing if it was a documentary on the hipster culture in Detroit, but to call it the SOLUTION. Now their just high on crack.
Industry and jobs are NOT drawn to a city with a shrinking population, rotting infrastructure, extreme crime rates, extreme welfare, extreme unemployment, corrupt politians, terrible education, garbage property values, and much much more.
Detroit = Shit.
metalslugxBTB 6 months ago
@metalslugxBTB it just means fresh vibrant thinking from minds not tainted like yours asshole. Im sure you never got wind of it but thinking and being inventive and resourceful and casting into something larger than yourself is the true definition of Hip. Detroiters are already hip, we want more to join us, in the mean time would you please go shoot yourself?
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 1 month ago
@DONNIMETROPOLIS313 Detroiters are hip, if by hip you mean broke and occupying the worst city in the entire nation. If Detroit was such an awesome place to live, then why is the population steadily decreasing like a sinking ship? Typical hipster you are, the naive no-nothing. You mistake your inexperience and lack of knowledge as "fresh" and "cool." You're fucking stupid and fail to grasp basic economic principles, the ones Detroit is crumbling down on. I escaped Detroit :D
metalslugxBTB 1 month ago
@metalslugxBTB HAHAHAH little girl i could wrap my "experiences " around you several times, the no nothing is you, youre a self centered life coward &i cant be mad at you, youre a follower, Detroit isnt good for people like you. Good riddance! If you YOU knew economics then you would know that there is no such thing as a city that REMAINS in the shape Detroit is in, leaders, Investors, Developers, Entrepreneurial spirit, strong honest citizenry, bring it back and its happening asswipe .
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 1 month ago
@DONNIMETROPOLIS313 I made over 70k last year and guess what city doesn't get to have my economic spending? Detroit. That's exactly the attitude that made Detroit the shithole that it is today. Don't cater to the individuals with above average incomes like myself. Cater to hipsters who don't have a dime to their name. It's DIY because hipsters have no money to pay anyone to do it. Coward? 3 combat tours in the middle east you pussy. What experiences you have? Shoveling snow? Locking your doors?
metalslugxBTB 1 month ago
@metalslugxBTB and you of course dont think me or any other Detroiter made that or more?? you asswipe. get a life. youre still as coward. thanks for serving the country, but when youre at home not surrounded by machinery and your squad youre still the same punk ass coward you always were. I knew many of the people in this film i know for a fact they make more than 70k. Since that & hatred is your bitch ass claim to fame you might as well shoot yourself. Like i said, GOOD RIDDANCE!
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 1 month ago
@DONNIMETROPOLIS313 In 2009, more people were murdered in Detroit than soldiers killed in Afghanistan. That's right people. The citizens of Detroit pose a greater risk to your life than the Taliban. Your "leaders"? Like Kwame who had stripper parties at the mayors mansion and ordered a hit one of them so they wouldn't go public? Strong honest citizenry? LOOK AT YOUR FUCKING MURDER RATE. YOU ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE KILLED BY A CITIZEN OF DETROIT THAN ANY OTHER CITY. STFU kid and go back to school.
metalslugxBTB 1 month ago
@metalslugxBTB thats a half ass statement just like you were a half ass soldier if you ever were one at all.
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 1 month ago
@DONNIMETROPOLIS313 You can try and insult me all you want but it doesn't change the facts. Detroit's population has been shrinking for decades, more and more people are leaving. Detroit's government is hundreds of millions of dollars in debt. Wayne county's politicians are corrupt scumbags elected by the people. Property values are fucking garbage. Crime rate is historic. These are facts, cry all you want but it's the truth, no matter what your faggot hipster friends say...
metalslugxBTB 1 month ago
@metalslugxBTB OMG shoot yourself and do the world a favor
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 1 month ago
@metalslugxBTB we feed off this kind of negativity it may be the truth that our governing powers are corrupt inept and otherwise unable to function properly, but what they lack in decency we make up for in our creativity.. now if we could just get someone with a conscience to lead this city in the right direction.
dougebfresh1 1 month ago
@DONNIMETROPOLIS313 Don't forget your "leaders" are going to run out of money by April and the City of Detroit will be officially bankrupt. Bringing it back and it's happening eh? Your shithole is on the verge of being declared an emergency financial zone by the State and taken over. The rest of Michigan is tired of your shithole sucking away money. Jesus Christ, developers? Homes are being sold for $5. That's how much people DON'T want to own property in Detroit. Your state of mind is a joke...
metalslugxBTB 1 month ago
@metalslugxBTB you are such a little crying bitch, you left, so stay away, and why are you here worried about the advances being made in this city. What assholes like you like to talk about is dilapidated homes in bad areas, you know nothing of the majority of homes in great neighborhoods, Homes have been foreclosed on all over the country not just detroit you dickhead, STFU and go back to your delusional state of crystal meth entitlement.
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 1 month ago
johnny is just worried about holes the whole movie.
SuperFistpumper 7 months ago
@SuperFistpumper lol, its the dope.
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 1 month ago
SO.many. Hipsters!!! @.@
AngelFireXI 7 months ago
i dont know why, but that woman @ 9:11 IRRITATES me! stupid hippy vegan chick!
goofpoop2 7 months ago 2
heres the thing about all the "we need more than just artists/hipsters and stuff": the unfortunate truth is that money/governmental interest in well being generally follows the appearance of white ppl (who often bring in money themselves) in previously run down areas (aka gentrification). gentrification isn't always good but in this case the people seem interested in preserving important parts of detroit. but "hipsters" or whatev aside detroit has produced great things and gets knocked too often
grenaderock 8 months ago
Maybe it's human nature to be so blind or you just don't care about yourself. It amazes me how much people allow other people the same as them to control their time on earth. Authority figures are in fact work of the devil. No-one s an authority in this place. Nothing can be explained in this place. Surely putting value on land and grass is the biggest lie ever. People will always feel the need to control and take from others, not me. I just want to wake up everyday is that so bad. GOD BLESS YOU
6095jimmy 8 months ago
LAWS- They were made to stop good people from standing up for their right to not be controlled by any man. No-one on earth has a right to control another or harm others. So if your eveil you will harm people while good people stand by and watch. This all goes into the law. Maybe there are more evil people than good but good always wins in the end. So stand up and take our lives back for our children, not us. Why should they suffer like we have. GOD BLESS EVERYONE GOOD LEFT IN THIS WORLD OF SHIT
6095jimmy 8 months ago
There are no communities just made up words for shit. I'm sooooooo sick to my stomach and angry at the way people act. Wake up or just die allready. Your lies won't work on me anymore and I'm gonna start this way. You tube is my voice and hopefully I get through to most good people left. Detroit s the beginning of a bigger problem. We as human beings have lost our way and forgotten the meaning of life has nothing to do with money and buildings. It's all about good and bad, that s it. GOD BLESS U
6095jimmy 8 months ago
Is that Deastro at 7:00?
vanillacokeclock 8 months ago
Lived here all my life. The past few years, there has been an influx of hipsters in downtown. Why? Because they just adore taking pictures of the central station for their 'art' classes.
but no joke, slows is fucking delicious.
junitono1 8 months ago
@junitono1 I know, if i see one more picture of Central Station im going to puke.
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 1 month ago
Hipsters
mondeost2202008 10 months ago
Why didn't they show where real people live - at night?
poopoo111222333 10 months ago
@poopoo111222333 Probably couldn't see very well.
jayjayjames2332 10 months ago 3
@jayjayjames2332 oh really? so Detroit doesnt have streetlights?
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 1 month ago
@poopoo111222333 Because it fascinates people to see the bullshit, I live in Detroit and i live in a great neighborhood, never saw it on the news, just the bullshit.
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 1 month ago
According to Ko in this video, Tyree created the Heidelberg Project to attract attention to the neighborhood in order to discourage drug dealers. Literally the only time in my life that I've witnessed drugs being sold on the street was while standing among the Heidelberg Project.
dork432 11 months ago
It's beautiful to see pride and forward thinking being depicted. That is what this city was built on...
daheath2002 11 months ago
why would you watch all the way to part III and still talk shit. the thing about detroit is that we dont care about what outsiders think about our city. we love it. nobody asked you to watch this film and nobody is asking you to come to detroit. we will do out thing and love it. go back to the gay suburbs and circle jerk your doper friends while you spend your parents money and officially suck at life
trentdavid23 11 months ago
Still looks like a shit hole. Only now its full of young white douchebags tuggin' on each others wieners.
Peccatore666 11 months ago
@Peccatore666 and this is something that you know a lot about i can assume?....
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 1 month ago
@DONNIMETROPOLIS313 Damn ghetto boy. You should venture outside of 8 Mile,
mueygringo 3 weeks ago
@mueygringo Bitch My woman lives in Shelby Twnshp. im outside of the 8mile any given day of the week, I have friends in every suburb within 100 miles. You need to bring that gay ass mouth of yours to the center of the city so someone can venture down your idiotic troll throat.
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 3 weeks ago
@DONNIMETROPOLIS313 Riding on the back of a garbage truck is no major accomplishment. Your Girlfriend? Oh Rue Paul! At lunch time, do you stop at the Seven Eleven to get a Colt 45? So go fuck yourself or let your girl RUE PAUL DO IT!!
FAGBOY.
mueygringo 3 weeks ago
@mueygringo like most whores that come from whores, youre living in a dream world,
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 3 weeks ago
@DONNIMETROPOLIS313 Jump back on the truck all the garbage hasn't been picked up!
mueygringo 3 weeks ago
Most Detroit residents spend their days with loaded guns looking to shoot asians as revenge for the demise of their auto industry
Simonjblake 11 months ago
@Simonjblake or you for being an idiot.
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 1 month ago
Hahahaha, at the comment at uploaders comments :D
ClownHouseProduction 11 months ago
Knoxville is such a great guy.
andiclimb 11 months ago
DEPORT ALL HIPSTERS TO DETROIT!!
crotchshotradioshow 1 year ago 7
The best way to eliminate crack houses is to knock them down.
DONGOE 1 year ago
I admire the positivity and the DIY attitude, but I didn't see much job creation. This will sound cynical, but how many of the people featured were actually getting paid? or how many were living on trust funds. What about seniors, didn't see many kids, will these people start families in Detroit, send their kids to the local schools? I know this is aimed at a young trendy market but you need more than organic farmers markets and bands to revive a city.
Dubwise78 1 year ago 26
@Dubwise78 Need investors and entrepreneurs
swalte6325 2 months ago
@Dubwise78 I live here and i can agree with you on this point, yes your words do sound cynical.
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 1 month ago
I've seen lots of Deroit...but I cant help but wonder what Windsor is like?
korahaplayas 1 year ago
Oh cmon now. You all know Detroit needs a BIG GOVT. SOLUTION. If big govt. is good enough to intrude on me it's good enough to intrude on you. Only D.C. can save Detroit. We need more central economic planning. Perhaps the Federal Reserve can do something. I know call Wall Street they can issue Rebuild Detroit Bonds.
UtubeAdminSucksAss 1 year ago
That's how we do it! Alanis signs with Motown and records Jagged Little Pill 2. Once the album is released there will be lines for miles on the freeways of people flocking from all over the country to be part of this miraculous rebirth. Somebody contact Alanis's people. We've got a corpse of a city to resurrect and she's going to be our matriarch. She will save this city by tapping into the abundant misery. Cleveland has a better skyline.
cacapoopoo2327 1 year ago
because you showed without specifying, what is Metropolitan Detroit. A city's metro area is a different thing than it's main locale.I wonder if anyone caught on to that trick. Exactly how many artists have emigrated to Detroit?! Do they move here because they think that in order to spark creativity that they have to be around misery. Alanis Morrisette should move hear. She would make a album 10x as good as Jagged Little Pill. If we get Alanis here and she makes the album everyone will come!
cacapoopoo2327 1 year ago
I would never move there. I have a friend who moved down there and hes already had his car broken into. I'm from the area and I'm moving to New Hampshire to take part in the Free State Project. Detroit's population needs to go down, not up. Everyone is so liberal around here with the unions. I used to be liberal until I heard basic e conomics explained by Ron Paul. Detroit is a city of economics flunkie. Btw when you said those 3 cities could fit into Detroit you we're deceitful......
cacapoopoo2327 1 year ago
@cacapoopoo2327 good luck. if you really want to learn about economics you might want to take a class or at least read a book, i wouldnt really put that much faith in a politicians speech.
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 1 month ago
1 guy really hates Detroit,
TheWholeFNGuy 1 year ago
Everybody on here who has any desire to pack up for the D do it! Seriously, for that matter just come to any city in Michigan, city's like Lansing, Flint, Benton Harbor, Saginaw, etc are all very similar to Detroit in that the level of decay is amazing, although crime is prevalent in every area of the state any violence is generally because of drugs or crime, not being a pedestrian. I am psyched to see a positive spin on the city finally.
WorthwhilePat 1 year ago 3
So much inspiration! I need to visit Detroit ASAP
andrezx 1 year ago
I see a lot of potential but also a lot of work.
ProvidentTools 1 year ago
You need to find away to get the black communities especially the youth involved. I think as thet decide to quit gang bangin and do something positive that detroit could be a great city again.
ProvidentTools 1 year ago 3
@ProvidentTools too much television media focusing on the negative, there is crime for sure, but gang banging?? been here most of my life and ive yet to see that. try Compton or chicago
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 1 month ago
all those people who dont like this video you don't know this culture so just piss off
LAYZUHNINJA 1 year ago
I would like to see where the African American kids are. Where are the Black American in this documentary? Why aren't they in these lofts creating businesses? These are great videos but it is severely lacking in African American natives of Detroit!
NickMat1 1 year ago 4
I always call;ed Detroit a "post industrial wasteland" when I lived there. I guess now it's a post industrial wasteland with hipsters (as my children would call them). There has always been fun to be had in that city, though.
rrpostalagain 1 year ago 2
strikes me as an interesting place and worth visiting for sure.............a lot of potential, just needs backing and a bit of investment.............
corcaighrebel 1 year ago
what a hole, but i want to go and see it. do asians get shot in detroit often?
brucecheewai 1 year ago
@brucecheewai No one gets shot in Detroit often.
jayjayjames2332 1 year ago 29
@jayjayjames2332 not true at all. The city had the sixth highest number of violent crimes among the 25 largest U.S. cities in 2007
xAxiom720x 5 months ago
@xAxiom720x Correct, which means that 1.89% of violent crimes happen in Detroit from the U.S.. This also means that the top 4 (which doesn't include Detroit) = 12.33% of the violent crimes in the U.S. Detroit is behind New York, Houston, L.A. and Philly, and Chicago (Detroit/Chicago are close, but there is no known amount of rapes in Chicago to get an accurate account of violent crimes). Add Vegas, Memphis, Baltimore, and Dallas if you want to include cities with 1% of US rate or higher.
ItsKenKonarzewski 4 months ago
@brucecheewai
NICE COMMENT WHO CARES WHO GETS SHOT THEIR, WE ARE ALL CONTROLLED AND IT SUCKS. THAT CITY GOT THE SHAFT FROM THE GOVERNMENT CAUSE THEY DON T CARE THAT S WHY DETROIT SUCKS. iT WILL SPREAD EVERYWHERE BUT i M PRETTY SURE YOU DON T GIVE A FUCK THOUGH RIGHT. MAYBE THIS TOUCHES YOUR HEART BECAUSE I LOVE THIS WORLD AND HATE SOME PEOPLE IN IT. thankyou and god bless you
6095jimmy 8 months ago
I'm an artist but have worked most my life away because this world needs job titles and creative people always have a hard time making money. The systems set up to en-slave people so by the time they realise this they are old and dying. Seriously this worlds fucked and way to complicated now. We should revert back to the old ways of living and get with it. All necessities should be free for us. ELECTRICITY, FOOD, WATER AND GAS SHOULD BE FREE. A HOUSE SHOULD BE FREE. JOBS SHOULD PAY WITH RESPECT.
6095jimmy 8 months ago
detroit isn't a city but I see it as a way to change the world for the better. It's a broken city were my idea of life may begin. People using each other for different talents of services without the government but instead their own thoughts and minds. I think that this low point for them could in fact change the way we all live. I hate governments because there is no need for them. They don't protect us as a people but instead as an object of financial gain. police call u suspects not people.FU
6095jimmy 8 months ago
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@brucecheewai You will you fucking gook!
bigtown 5 months ago
@brucecheewai only the ones with stupid shit to say.
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 1 month ago
We need artists and thinkers and do it yourselfers...haha...you need an A bomb...last time I was in detroit some thugs were breaking in a house that had just caught fire the day before...I called the pd, waited an hour with the owner of the home, and nobody ever showed up to arrest the burglars...haha...I do like the urban farms though.
usamarshal 1 year ago
What a disgusting neighborhood that is. Acid dropping hippies decided to board up crack houses and turn them into a junkyard.
ejp0421 1 year ago
Thank you Johnny Knoxville. All th nay sayers in the world cant kill the spirit of Detroit.
Detroit what!
acidwashed1 1 year ago
great location for a fallout movie
BrickBardo05 1 year ago 3
what kind of phone does johnny have in 8:45-8:49 is it the black iphone 4?
i like it!
IssabellaFranco 1 year ago
@IssabellaFranco It's an iCock 12"
johan404 1 year ago
this whole documentary was kick ass. i love my city and i always will.
EmceeGeek 1 year ago
Now with medical marijuana leagal in MI, Detroit should be the weed capital of the world.
ThirtytoOne 1 year ago
@ThirtytoOne na weed capital of the world is, and will always be, British Columbia
jokelle123 1 year ago
@jokelle123 Dont tell him that, it s a michigan thing to always point fingers toward Detroit.
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 3 weeks ago
I think they really captured the essence of Detroit. Even through the tough times and all the flight from the city everyone longed for the days when life was so vibrant in Detroit. It is amazing what corrupt politicians can and did do to the City...but they never destroyed the desire to bring it back. It is truly great and will rise from the ashes as a people's city. As far as the negative comments let them go-don't waste the cycles. We are what matters - We are Detroit and proud of it!
tool482002 1 year ago
@tool482002 it can be stated it is amazing what corrupt politician can do the reputation of a city, and to the moral of its citizens. but what happened in Detroit goes a lot deeper than the casual easy hating of a few lone black scapegoat dirty politicians, in a state thats rife with corrupt politicians, in a country of the same. Thats a childs mind to blame it on that. What happened to Detroit is a Michigan & American story.
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 3 weeks ago
damn i want to move to detroit!
haze9five1 1 year ago 4
i live right outside detroit. im 5 minutes away. i been in and out detroit and plan to move there. i wonder if i can help out like these people.
CallMeBQ 1 year ago
@CallMeBQ If you're looking to volunteer look into the Motor City Blight Busters. They tear down or repair crack houses and clean lots.
yojimbo81 1 year ago
@yojimbo81 hmm sounds good ty ill look into it
CallMeBQ 1 year ago
is that matt and kim at 6:53?
shaller77 1 year ago
Love the history...great documentary.
WHN 1 year ago
Great set of vids, and the skinny blonde girl at 9:12 and elsewhere is HOTT!!
gianthairysasquatch 1 year ago
Johnny Knoxville and Detroit...what could be better? Love it.. .This is MY TOWN... Hello 313!
freehugs1966 1 year ago
If i were mayor i'd get property tax abolished.. It's sad that the leftovers are artists who think spending what little money they have on creating stuff out of paper and fabric is going to save them. You all say you don't want saving and then next scene you cry for it, we know you want saving, trying starting a business, get some money to create a factory. What resources can you bring to your city to create a product. That is, IF you truly want saving. Otherwise have fun and enjoy your lives!
offyam 1 year ago
As a native of Detroit all my life a few things stuck out in the documentary that are key points about Detroit in my opinion. The main point - Freedom - perhaps the reason we are ranked high on crime is because of our great freedom. You can pretty much do what you want here with no trouble from others and that includes law enforcement - If your not bothering anyone else you generally arent bothered...Yea my car has been stolen dozens of times and I have been robbed a few times but shit happens.
germieb 1 year ago
@germieb by "shit happens" I meant to say.....that is the small price we play for our freedom....for being part of a real community...I have been all over this country and I feel like here I have the most freedom
germieb 1 year ago
@germieb youre obviously living in a bad area and have been robbed due to night life hanging in the same. walking around high on life or whatever and not paying attention to your surroundings mixed with being an outsider to the populace will get you robbed very quickly in any state. i swear i think some of you people make this shit up, ...car stolen dozens of times? you do realize thats at a minimum 24 times right? or was it 36 times?
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 3 weeks ago
i feel the suden urge to recycle a large open industrial area into a steampunk apartment complex
marcuspinson 1 year ago
this movie is inspiring to say the least but in the end you can try but you dont have the large corporations having a business here or economy. Same is said for pittsburgh and cleveland,, these three cities dont have the set economy. Detrioit is a shithole, highest crime rate in the US, ill be honest in 20 years the city will still be a piece of shit. enough said
napjohn88 1 year ago
@napjohn88 You dont know that about Detroit, what it will be tomorrow or in 20, 25, 10, or 5 years even. What you do know is that your piece of shit mindset is pretty much going to still be a piece of shit mindset
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 3 weeks ago
Hipsters might not save the city but they're trying harder than you are
wolfdragon8211 1 year ago 2
@wolfdragon8211 they are a part of the solution, not a part of the problem.
DONNIMETROPOLIS313 3 weeks ago
what type of car where they driving?
fishcrazy104 1 year ago
Cool.
Now that you've convinced me to move the city, please tell me about the schools my grade school children will attend, the fantastic 911 service, and the city government that provides the leadership and honesty that will guide my city to prosperity.
Greatplace to paint art that nobody wants, frequent raves that play music that will eventually be found to be trite and wear thrift shop clothing and clunky black glasses to be "unique" like everyone else who subscribes to this lifestyle.yawn
joeyinny 1 year ago
@joeyinny the place is becoming a haven for single, bondless, youths trying to seek like minded people and join the lotus eaters and stave off "I-feel-old" syndrome its not a place for kids or people who have them its a place to spend those "young and dumb" years
marcuspinson 1 year ago 2
@marcuspinson I have yet to see a city whose core is constructed of 20-30yr old, single people flourish. Skate parks don't make the city money. Raves put money in the promoter's pockets and sometimes leave havoc after the event. Most artists don't have healthy incomes. And gardens feed only a few.
Detroit needs to attract tech companies with tax breaks, alternative power industries with land deals and bio-engineering firms with the keys to the city.
joeyinny 1 year ago 2
@joeyinny they only talked about a small part of what is going on (and skateparks aren't free they have to charge admission to cover the insurance and if someone makes any money in the united states through legitimate means you know that the government is going to get a peice) and there are hundreds of people who gain from raves you have to get noise permits (that money goes straight into the states pocket) you have the companies that produce the things served and sold and much more
marcuspinson 1 year ago
@joeyinny and as far as the artist's are concerned they need to put together an agency that matches the peices to the clients and to watch the buyers market and see whats selling so they know what to put up on primary display
marcuspinson 1 year ago
@joeyinny and on top of all that the core constructed of younger single people would flourish at an existential rate because they are young, and so full of life, and passion and they become very pasionate easily and when they're hearts are in something they do far more for far less (this sort of thing has happened before it always ends the same way (with a city wide comeback), look at all the cities that flourished in the sixties because of the hippies, its the same thing just a diferent time)
marcuspinson 1 year ago
@marcuspinson I hope you're right. I would love to see the city flourish with life.
I loved riding the street car uptown on those long summer days after my shift at the Vernors plant. It was a great time to be a young man in a great city.
So you see, I hold the image of Detroit being a great city to a high standard.
I know a few caring people with good intentions can go a long way. But if it took 40 years to tear this city down, it will take much longer to rebuild it.
joeyinny 1 year ago
@joeyinny but we have more than a few good people we have many, and i have a hunch that if they banded together and EVERYONE involve put in a true full days work it would be rebuilt much faster than it fell, simply because all the things we need are already there we just need to clean it, and fix it
(if greed sank the city then a bit of kindness and alot elbow greese can get it back up to speed)
marcuspinson 1 year ago
this is brilliant. ive been traveling the country for 2 years from boston MA to chico CA after graduating high school, working and trying to find out what to do with my life. im going to college to learn what i can do to help. you'll see me in detroit soon, i want a piece of this revolution.
KjRaOsNoInC 1 year ago
@KjRaOsNoInC me to (im in charlotte NC can i catch a ride lol)
marcuspinson 1 year ago
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KjRaOsNoInC 1 year ago
does anyone know were that spotted house is at?? i would like to go see it... 8:11 thanks so much to anyone who replys
BabyYoshi6913 1 year ago
@BabyYoshi6913 It's on Heidelberg Street. Between Gratiot, Mt. Elliot and Mack. It is one of my favorite parts of this city. Along with Lafayette Coney, the train station, and Baker's jazz club. BTW, I own a comic shop at the Russell Industrial Center, I had no idea that Johnny Knoxville was there filming.
easyjoe55 1 year ago
Sorry folks, but a bunch of artsy hipsters aren't gonna save Detroit. Speaking as someone from Detroit I can honestly say that it is BEYOND redemption. Notice how they focus almost exclusively on the big huge abandoned buildings where white kids from the suburbs come to hold raves and art expos. They don't really show the rest of the city with it's lack of neighborhood business, high crime and jobless minority population. The city should just start over from scratch.
CrazyWu88 1 year ago 5
@CrazyWu88 I'm in Detroit too (not meaning outer detroit) and though the hipsters can't save the city, the can bring attention to us.
MrWiiPS360 1 year ago