Detroit's Graffiti Goldmine

Watch for what the Abandoned In Detroit fashion showcase project does with this spectacular location. www.AbandonedInDetroit.com for information about the project. Music is "We Enter" by Deep Forest, Aphrodite remix. NEWS: The Dequindre Cut has been transformed into an activity path, portions of what is shown are gone.

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Travel & Events

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• graffiti
• detroit
• abandoned
• fisheye
• fuzzytek
• Davey Jones
• railway
• overpass
• Deep Forest
• Aphrodite
• Dequindre Cut

[sfballer59]

I think you guys who are puttin up the graffiti are also the ones making these videos

nice work if you can get it, ain't it

[Fuzzytek]

@sfballer59 Actually I don't create graffiti, I'm a photographer and this video clip is a scouting of a location for future photoshoots. The "advert" content surrounds the clip.

[sfballer59]

@Fuzzytek Maybe next time you can find something other than graffiti to photograph in Detroit. And never mind abandoned buildings either. Folk who left Detroit, left the buildings. Nobody else could get loans to start up business or mortgages to buy houses. Detroit is HUGE with many beautiful areas. Yes some are depleted and left fallow. The city and others are looking to capitalize, very soon, on all of the vacant land. You can bet long time Detroiters won't see any of those profits.

[Fuzzytek]

@sfballer59 if you judge what I do from a single video it would appear you are looking through a very small window. I work with people more than buildings. This was a scouting trip to evaluate a location for a fashion shoot that followed... actually a number of shoots followed from summer 2007. The space has been redeveloped into an activity path. I'll be petitioning AGAIN to hold an event series in the space to reveal the changes. I don't create videos too often, but that will change.

[confuzdlif]

this is actually some good drum and bass does anyone know who this is?

[Fuzzytek]

@confuzdlif Song is "We Enter" by Deep Forest (Aphrodite mix)

[TizzNasty]

This is very cool. Yesterday I went down to the Dequindre Cut and took some photos myself. You can see the layers of graffiti and the city itself down there. Turning into a bike path is a great idea, but it still needs to be more accessible for people to get down to. This and the Old Train Station are total places or inspiration and imagination.

[seksiersist]

detroit graff is dope

[Bulldogmasta]

Nice

[ThomasMazzulla]

my name is Thomas Mazzulla and I'm a film maker. i've been filming the midwest in hopes of making a movie about the history of the heart of america. my goal is to have every child who ever doodled in class to stand up, grab a can. but I need help. hit me up if your willing to help the cause.

[lindsaysw]

This is fantastic!

[sfballer59]

@cottonmouth919 Idiot, what the f*ck are you talkin', about? If I want anymore out of you, I'll squeeze your head. This is and A and B conversation, see your way out of it. In other words, when grown folks are talkin', YOU need to shut up!!!! and that ani't no lie, idiot.

[RoyalUndisputed]

the first one was best

[cottonmouth919]

@sfballer59 Why not raze all that delapidation and turn it into cropland, then all the illegals can farm it and the africans can move on to another nice city,run off the honkies and sh*t all over it?this is such a failure of democrat governance,it's pathetic.either the 50 years of libtard b.s. are to blame,50 years of libtards looking the other way as the "fatcat" corporations got rich-which is it?and yes,50 years of liberal democrat mayors is a FACT.hope your heads don't explode...

[beckaboo313]

hahaha i been their befor..lol

[HodeSchaukler]

basel rules ! hall of fame

[sfballer59]

If everybody thinks it's so cool and dope and it's the shite...put it up on your house. Of course, you wouldn't even want it anywhere near your neighborhood (graffiti, that is). Much less circulated as a represention of your community or the city where you live. Y'all betta think, think about what chou tryin' to do to us! I'm sure you can find stuff in your own backyards to skeez out on, leave Detroit out of the mix, please and thank you. Graffiti is not the face of Detroit, nor our goldmine.

[sfballer59]

@Fuzzytek If you are speaking of Dequindre cut, I KNOW IT WELL, I have walked the cut and also the Detroit River front, I am no stranger to the city, eastside, westside all around the town. There is very little you can tell me about the city that I don't all ready know. The subtle gentrification of Detroit, lofts, exclusionary areas, etc. will come back to bite the exploiters in the butt.