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.
this is a really well done documentary , It's a very inspiring look at a place that gets trashed by the news media(the pieces that they run are are not what i would call journalism) I thoroughly enjoyed learning what this series offered about Detroit
This 3 part video changes my attitude about Detroit..I'm 26 now..By the time I'm 40 I bet Detroit will be one of the most interesting & inspiring places to visit. The fact that rev jackson, sharpton couldn't cause as much of a problem as they & the media would have liked over this Zimmerman stuff..only makes me believe that we as a nation of free civilians are beginning to throw aside political propaganda BS & are starting to come together. We can rebuild a city without the help of politicians.
I'd love to watch 2 hours of this type of Detroit coverage, such an awesome place to go and see, my favorite place to go skateboarding, been plenty of times to many different areas around there and never encountered any "criminals".
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'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...
Well done, over due examination or Detroit. My only complaint is I'd like to see more. The idea the one guy brought up @5:55 about Detroit being a city of reinvention and creative lawlessness is very attractive and I hope inspires more young, self-sufficent, creative people to check the town out. Maybe this is what happens after corporate greed and carelessness collaspes in on itself.
Detroit changed history and when it needed help the most the world abandoned it. Imagine how things will be in the U.S.A.'s darkest hour. But. If Detroit can somehow make a comeback then just imagine if the U.S.A. made a comeback. Just food for thought.
As a community we need to help these people break the cycle of hopelessness. If we want things to be better. Anyone can be low income at any given moment. This was a very large industrial city that has came to it's demise. We were hard working blue collar people at one time. Lets build are people up than to throw them under the bus.
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.
My son just moved to Detroit a few months ago (knows some of the people in this video). He says that though Knoxville is a tool, but the message is correct (urban farm, community venues).
@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
@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
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.
@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)
@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
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.
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.
@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)
Unfortunately these are generational "curses" that are hard to break. If you don't know any better then you will continue to faultier. There lives are set for failure at birth. How can you have determination if you were not taught to persevere.
You have taken my allusion to the fictional Mordor to heart. Amusing. I minored in European history and we studied--grip your seat firmly--the wars[all of them] and their consequences. Gasp! You are not even attempting to reject my assertion of your being a Shock Doctrinite. The reasons for this can be only that: a.) you don't know what that means; or b.) you know what it means but don't care. Either option means this is discussion is doomed to be fruitless.
Finally a story that goes beyond just portraying Detroit as a bunch of abandoned buildings. Oh wait almost the whole movie is hipsters crawling through abandoned buildings, if 100 more move in every year we should be good.
As nice as it is to imagine Detroit being such a nice and inspiring place to live this is NOT the reality of the city I grew up in. It is not a place to live crime is insanely high and people will randomly approach you and pull a gun on you in broad daylight maybe not downtown or midtown but go down 6 mile or 7 mile and tell me you aren't inspired to make sure the safety is off.
I cant say about Russia but farming in backyard in Estonia was big turning Soviet Union and slowely went out of fashion after the collapse of SU. But there are still blenty of people who try to use their yard for something more useful than mowing.
Our remora-like private sector? Ha! No, it was over-regulation, over-taxation, and greedy unionization that led to the downfall of American industrialization. Remember, the US Army wanted to control EVERY aspect of German and Japanese re-industrialization. However the Japanese and the Germans pleaded to Congress to allow them to create their own industries. It worked remarkably well.
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!
@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.
@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.
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.
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.
Thank you Johnny Knoxville. All th nay sayers in the world cant kill the spirit of Detroit.
Detroit what!
this is a really well done documentary , It's a very inspiring look at a place that gets trashed by the news media(the pieces that they run are are not what i would call journalism) I thoroughly enjoyed learning what this series offered about Detroit
This 3 part video changes my attitude about Detroit..I'm 26 now..By the time I'm 40 I bet Detroit will be one of the most interesting & inspiring places to visit. The fact that rev jackson, sharpton couldn't cause as much of a problem as they & the media would have liked over this Zimmerman stuff..only makes me believe that we as a nation of free civilians are beginning to throw aside political propaganda BS & are starting to come together. We can rebuild a city without the help of politicians.
I'd love to watch 2 hours of this type of Detroit coverage, such an awesome place to go and see, my favorite place to go skateboarding, been plenty of times to many different areas around there and never encountered any "criminals".
excellent 3 part posts. Thanks for promoting the best of the D.
Thanx Johnny,truley nice video of Detroit!!
Good for you Johnny!! Detroit City is a wonderful place!!!!!
Thank you, Johnny!
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So much inspiration! I need to visit Detroit ASAP
great video guys lets bring the city back to where it needs to be
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.
Love the history...great documentary.
All of that, and no mention of Detroit being the birthplace of Techno. Incredible,...
This is really awesome!
great job guys
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...
All this just makes me want to go there, and try to finish my novel. Heck with New York.
really get the Berlin vibes from Detroit. really want to go to experience some Detroit techno music at one of these abandon buildings.
those houses were awesome!
awesome!
Ive been in these place so many times.
Well done, over due examination or Detroit. My only complaint is I'd like to see more.
The idea the one guy brought up @5:55 about Detroit being a city of reinvention and creative lawlessness is very attractive and I hope inspires more young, self-sufficent, creative people to check the town out.
Maybe this is what happens after corporate greed and carelessness collaspes in on itself.
Rad, great insight. I thought Detroit was dying...
we totally threw a rave in the basement in the north end building. the very one that he spoke of! it was great!
Detroit changed history and when it needed help the most the world abandoned it. Imagine how things will be in the U.S.A.'s darkest hour. But. If Detroit can somehow make a comeback then just imagine if the U.S.A. made a comeback. Just food for thought.
As a community we need to help these people break the cycle of hopelessness. If we want things to be better. Anyone can be low income at any given moment. This was a very large industrial city that has came to it's demise. We were hard working blue collar people at one time. Lets build are people up than to throw them under the bus.
I'm an artist and I wouldnt mind spending a month in detroit checking things out.
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.
Love Johnny Knoxville, the best.
Where will the city of Detroit be in 15 years?
(In total rubble).
Detroit would be a perfect fit for The Venus Project!!
strikes me as an interesting place and worth visiting for sure.............a lot of potential, just needs backing and a bit of investment.............
Thanks Knoxville
what type of car where they driving?
there's one in downtown Ann Arbor, which is like an hour away.
My son just moved to Detroit a few months ago (knows some of the people in this video). He says that though Knoxville is a tool, but the message is correct (urban farm, community venues).
st.louis is kinda like this..its pretty rad how you can do alot here and not be bothered..
im moving there in a bit
There is one on Woodward, just north of the city.
I wanna go!
Who is the guy giving Johnny the tour in the 3rd segment?
Detroit is the set for many movies due to being an urban area with low pedestrian counts.
@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
is that matt and kim at 6:53?
@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
Detroit needs to develop community, the it will be safer for investors to coming in.
@liljim4645 its not only because of them, not by a longshot. the story is massively larger than that.
damn i want to move to detroit!
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.
they still use the lower left side of that Cadillac building as offices
@jayjayjames2332 oh really? so Detroit doesnt have streetlights?
i feel the suden urge to recycle a large open industrial area into a steampunk apartment complex
@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)
Ive been in these place so many times. and where that rave was, yea my friends did that, yea we tagged that shit up Muhahhaa
I wear my Red Wings jersey with pride! And I'm not even from Detroit!!
SO.many. Hipsters!!! @.@
@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
9:41: "You build it and they will come." Did this guy really just quote Field of Dreams?
@MyKittenSmokesDaGanj thank you,
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.
@Dubwise78 I live here and i can agree with you on this point, yes your words do sound cynical.
Ah, young optimist.
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.
@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)
Actually the opposite has happened. Midtown and Downtown have now a 97% residential occupancy rates. And corktown is also gaining ground.
@junitono1 I know, if i see one more picture of Central Station im going to puke.
@jacked26 thank the media
Unfortunately these are generational "curses" that are hard to break. If you don't know any better then you will continue to faultier. There lives are set for failure at birth. How can you have determination if you were not taught to persevere.
@SuperFistpumper lol, its the dope.
@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.
@KjRaOsNoInC me to (im in charlotte NC can i catch a ride lol)
berlin was like this in the 90,s
You have taken my allusion to the fictional Mordor to heart. Amusing. I minored in European history and we studied--grip your seat firmly--the wars[all of them] and their consequences. Gasp!
You are not even attempting to reject my assertion of your being a Shock Doctrinite. The reasons for this can be only that:
a.) you don't know what that means; or
b.) you know what it means but don't care.
Either option means this is discussion is doomed to be fruitless.
Finally a story that goes beyond just portraying Detroit as a bunch of abandoned buildings. Oh wait almost the whole movie is hipsters crawling through abandoned buildings, if 100 more move in every year we should be good.
As nice as it is to imagine Detroit being such a nice and inspiring place to live this is NOT the reality of the city I grew up in. It is not a place to live crime is insanely high and people will randomly approach you and pull a gun on you in broad daylight maybe not downtown or midtown but go down 6 mile or 7 mile and tell me you aren't inspired to make sure the safety is off.
Right what about 48234
Cities are always bombed....
He includes Berlin and Tokyo. What rebuilt those cities was industrialization.
@Peccatore666 and this is something that you know a lot about i can assume?....
@brucecheewai No one gets shot in Detroit often.
im suprised he didnt fuck the car up
@KingDBoi88 I think you're responding to the wrong person. lol.
Hahahaha, at the comment at uploaders comments :D
Black Yogurt is a great name for a rapper
Great set of vids, and the skinny blonde girl at 9:12 and elsewhere is HOTT!!
@ThirtytoOne na weed capital of the world is, and will always be, British Columbia
@poopoo111222333 Probably couldn't see very well.
@jokelle123 Dont tell him that, it s a michigan thing to always point fingers toward Detroit.
I cant say about Russia but farming in backyard in Estonia was big turning Soviet Union and slowely went out of fashion after the collapse of SU. But there are still blenty of people who try to use their yard for something more useful than mowing.
@Lunacy4ever start in lansing
Our remora-like private sector? Ha!
No, it was over-regulation, over-taxation, and greedy unionization that led to the downfall of American industrialization.
Remember, the US Army wanted to control EVERY aspect of German and Japanese re-industrialization. However the Japanese and the Germans pleaded to Congress to allow them to create their own industries. It worked remarkably well.
@KingDBoi88 are houses cheeper
@wolfdragon8211 they are a part of the solution, not a part of the problem.
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!
@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.
johnny is just worried about holes the whole movie.
@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.
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.
@twiztdupsmoke187 you would be pleasantly shocked. and probably stay.
@ScottfromTexas I keep a texas flag in my bathroom for emergency shit paper. That big ass stars kinda ruff on the ass tho.
I think their perception of beauty is pretty weird ( for the part of Heidelburg Project).