legends stood here: Exploring Detroit with Absolute Michigan
October 7, 2010
legends stood here, photo by buckshot.jones
All week on Absolute Michigan we’ve been featuring Detroit with fresh looks at Michigan’s largest city from a wide range of folks including Johnny Knoxville and David Byrne and topics that include Detroit’s art resurgence and movie-making in the Motor City.
About the photo, Scott writes:
At this very spot, some of the greatest to ever play the game, played right here. Under a blue Michigan sky they crafted their legend. From the deadball era of Ty Cobb to the steriod era of “My head didn’t get bigger, my hat shrunk” Barry Bonds, the greats of the game played.
I figure most of us folks in Detroit have a fond memory, or two, of this place. I saw Ron Leflore in the midst of a 30 game hitting streak, sitting down the first base line. Out in the left field stands I watched the Bird win a game sitting next to my brothers and our old man. I took my daughter to her first game in 1982. She was still an infant, it was early June and the old park was still as cold as a meat locker. In the last year of the park, my son and I attended a game. We moved all around the stadium, finishing up in my favorite part, the upper deck bleachers, right to the left of the flag.
I truly loved that place.
Check this out bigger and in his excellent Detroit Journal: Words & Pictures series (view slideshow).
Lots more Detroit Tigers and Detroit photos from Michigan in Pictures.
UM vs MSU: Wolverines and Spartans Play Saturday!
October 6, 2010
Vincent Smith – TD! by SDJ~Photography and msuVwmu1 by M.Hallowell
This Saturday at 3:30 PM the Michigan State University Spartans travel to the Big House for a date with the University of Michigan Wolverines. Our Michigan vs Michigan State Football Rivalry page on Absolute Michigan says:
The Paul Bunyan-Governor of Michigan Trophy is awarded to the winner of the game between the Wolverines and the Spartans. U of M holds the series edge at 67-30-5, but the Spartans have held the trophy for the past 2 years. Right now both teams are in the AP Top 25, with the Spartans at #17 and UM ranked #18.
If you’re looking for tickets, stubhub has them for $175 – $1422. If you can’t swing that, it’s on ABC with the pre-game at 2:45 PM. The .00007% of Lions fans who are missing Matt Millen will be happy to learn that Millen has been picked as an analyst for the game by ABC. Millen won’t be the only coach in the press box because MSU coach Mark Dantonio (recovering from a heart attack) will be in the box as well.
Click through for more on the game including videos highlighting both programs.
You can see more of the Wolverines in Steve’s Michigan Football 2010 slideshow and get your Spartan on with State News photographer Matt Hallowell’s football slideshow!
There’s more University of Michigan and Michigan State University posts on Michigan in Pictures!
Full Color in the Keweenaw and at Haven Falls
October 5, 2010
Haven Falls, photo by dcclark.
This morning the folks at Pasty.com emailed me to say that the Keweenaw doesn’t get much more colorful than this and that they’re:
…hearing that it’s peak or just past-peak with the changing leaves UP North here, but whatever you call it, our surroundings look like someone took out a paintbrush and went to work coloring the Copper Country. If you haven’t already had a chance to go for a color tour, you’d better hurry, because the show won’t last forever.
Click over to Pasty.com to see some photos from Joe Kirkish and check it out every day for great shots from the Pasty Cam!
GoWaterfalling.com says that Haven Falls is
…a very scenic falls located in a small county park near the shores of Lac La Belle. This waterfall is very symetrical. Haven Falls is very similar looking to Jacob’s Falls, but Haven Falls is considerably steeper. It is possible that there are more drops above Haven Falls just as the are additional drops above Jacob’s Falls, but I did not explore.
Visiting this waterfall is very easy. It is visible from the road and the falls is only a few hundred feet from the parking area…
Haven Falls is a bit out of the way. But then again, the entire Keewenaw peninsula is a bit out of the way. The park is on the north side of Lac la Belle Road on the north west shore of Lac la Belle.
David has thoughtfully posted this photo background boomtacular. Check out more photos from David in his Fall slideshow and on his photo-a-day blog, Cliffs and Ruins.
Michigan in Pictures has lots more Fall wallpaper and a sweet fall color tour of the The Keweenaw Peninsula (Houghton, Eagle River, Copper Harbor).
Job Shadowing: Glen Haven Canning Company
October 4, 2010
Job Shadowing, photo by Happyhiker4.
Looks like the old cannery at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is getting a fresh coat of paint as part of a renovation this fall. The Cannery Boathouse Museum is the largest public exhibit of Great Lakes small craft and features all kinds of historic boats used around Glen Haven and the Manitou Islands.
360 Michigan has a cool 360 degree panorama of the cannery and the beach at Glen Haven that you’ll want to check out.
Check this out bigger in Mark’s slideshow which features some outstanding fall photos!!
“Autumn Calm” Brockway Lake
October 2, 2010
“Autumn Calm” Brockway Lake, Lower Michigan (Front page Explore # 33 Sept 28, 2010), photo by Michigan Nut.
John says he saw several nice bass swimming around those lily pads.
Check it out background big or in John’s slideshow (click that link – he has some AMAZING shots of Michigan there!!).
Much more Michigan Fall Wallpaper from Michigan in Pictures!
Red Thread is in the ArtPrize Top Ten…
October 1, 2010
Red Thread, photo by stevedontsurf.
The Top 10 entries for ArtPrize have been announced! Click that link to see them all on Absolute Michigan and also to check out interviews with the finalists. Voting ends next Thursday and you can still head to ArtPrize in Grand Rapids to see the finalists and 1700+ more works of art!
Here’s the lowdown on Red Thread by Beili Liu (one of my personal favorites):
The ancient Chinese legend of the red thread tells that when children are born, invisible red threads connect them to the ones whom they are fated to be with. Over the years of their lives they come closer and eventually find each other, overcoming the distance between, and cultural and social divides.
Inspired by this legend, the installation makes use of thousands of hand spiraled coils of red thread suspended from the ceiling of the gallery. A disk may be connected to another, as a “couple”, and each pair is made from a single thread. Every coil is pierced in the center by a sewing needle, which enables the suspension of the disks from the ceiling.
Check this photo out background bigtacular and in Steven’s ArtPrize 9/26/10 slideshow.
Tons more ArtPrize on Absolute Michigan!
