Detroit Metro Mashup Blog

Vibrant Photos from Event Opposites; Lightboxes and Press Releases

Since my last post on Friday we’ve attended and posted photos and coverage of the Detroit Music Awards and Bordines Fiesta of Color Spring Exposition. Near opposites in event and attendee style, both of these were fun happenings and we took a lot of extremely colorful photos of the Detroit music scene, rock stars, and spring flowers. If you like vibrant photorealism and a rock fan with our business card in her mouth, you ought to go check out these two events; look in the Recent Events area on the home page or the “Events > Recent Events” drop-down menu.

We’ve also been busy adding upgrades to the website. We’ve successfully installed lightbox windowing capability for displaying press releases and similar types of content. In fact, two press releases have just been added for this Friday’s Detroit Area Art Deco Society's (DAADS) Michigan Modernism Exhibition Preview Party and for the 18th annual Michigan International Women’s Show, which begins May 2nd and runs through the 5th. The press releases can be viewed in the Upcoming Events area at the bottom of our home page or under the Events>Upcoming Events drop-down menu.

The DAADS Preview Party tickets are $65 in advance and can be purchased now at www.daads.org or by calling 248-582-3326. Attendees will be able to get early access to purchasing collectibles and fine arts as well as enjoying complimentary wine and hors d’oeuvres. Proceeds from the preview party will benefit the DAADS scholarship. Since 2000, the DAADS has been able to provide Eastern Michigan University’s historic preservation students an opportunity to study 20th Century architects, building materials and architecture. Check out the press release for more information. On Saturday and Sunday the Modernism Exposition is open to the public.

The Michigan International Women’s show at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi features “realty show stars, shopping, cooking, fashion shows, makeovers and hundreds of exhibitors displaying cosmetics, fragrances, lingerie, purses, shoes, gifts, décor items, food, fashion, accessories, travel information, arts and crafts, and more.” There is a huge amount of show information in the press release to help you make plans for that weekend, so try out our new lightbox feature and read it!

We’ll keep upgrading the website, adding coverage, and improving your experience. We have quite a few things in the pipeline, both short-term and long-term, and I hope some of them prove both surprising and interesting to you. So keep checking back.

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.

Vibrant Photos from Event Opposites; Lightboxes and Press Releases

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