Welcome to the debut of Detroit Metro Mashup at www.detroitmm.com and our first blog post! We plan for DMM to be an organic ant farm of virtual tunnels leading to stashes of photos and information about Metro Detroit’s events, people, places and things. We don’t intend to be a local news site, of the classic and fairly overrun genre, but a pastiche of things that the news sites might have missed. We plan to report on events that others might have mentioned but not really covered and have photos that will jump out at you and paint your brain with memories and expectations. We want to depict the huge swath of Michigan that is “The Big D” area in a way that will make you want to get out and explore it and attract tourists to it. We want to mash it all up into a Gestaltland (descriptive word mashup) that we hope will give a feel for how we have seen the D, how we now see it, how we will see it, and how we hope you can envision it.

We plan to keep growing detroitmm.com in all directions that the rapidly crystallizing dendrites of technical progress allow, provided the changes meet our continuously refined/defined/curated creative approach. To start, we will have lots of photos, with descriptions and discussions, some videos, and whatever else seems right for the topic. Our goal is to have a high quality site that will make you want to keep coming back to see what we’ve done recently.

We’ve loaded up a number of events from 2012, with more to be added, in the “Past Events” drop-down menu, and the events we’ve covered so far in 2013 are in the “Recent Events” dropdown. These include the Eastern Market Flower Day, Dlectricity Detroit, Peacefest in Waterford, the North American International Auto Show and more. We have a historical Fort Wayne narrative with lots of photos in the “Historical Metro” drop-down. Events we hope to cover are “Upcoming Events,” so you’ll know what  we’re going to be doing that might interest you. But spontaneity will require that we cover happenings that come up organically and unexpectedly, that aren’t in our pre-planned list…so we will certainly post things you weren’t expecting. In fact, this might become more of a train-of-happenings site than a well planned journey, so let us know what people, places, events, and things you would like to see us cover (use our “Contact Us” link or reply here on the blog). And check back often, because we expect the spring and summer months will bring lots of event photos and coverage to detroitmm.com. Please stay tuned.