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1 Thom __: shoe
brand
5 Greek Zs
10 This, in Spain
14 Poi source
15 Motionless
16 Like spider webs
17 __ the Impaler:
model for
“Dracula”
18 One of a 1492
trio
19 Ritual flammable
stack
20 They’re juiced in
Jacksonville
23 Anteater’s sound
in the comic
“B.C.”
24 Mobster’s gal
25 Hawaiian wreath
26 Flood-control
project
29 Garbage barge
puller
31 Odorless gas
33 They’re baked in
Boise
37 Disaster relief
org.
38 Put the kibosh on
39 Exec’s “By
yesterday!”
42 They’re boiled in
Bangor
47 Sets aside for
future use
49 __ and improved
50 Barnyard home
51 Suffix with transit
52 “Green __ and
Ham”
55 Knock sharply
57 They’re shelled in
Savannah
62 One-liner, e.g.
63 Make __: get rich
64 Dining table
expansion piece
66 Degree recipient
67 Guts
68 Year-end
clearance event
69 Office note
70 Deuce toppers
71 One-named Art
Deco artist
DOWN
1 Network that
once employed
VJs
2 Muscle prone to
cramps
3 Devastated
Asian sea
4 Caffeinated pill
5 “Be quiet!”
6 Oklahoma city
7 Early brunch hr.
8 “Star Wars”
droid, familiarly
9 Hollywood
hopeful
10 “College Football
Playoff” network
11 Crow’s-nest
telescopes
12 Deep serving
bowl
13 Infant’s bodysuit
21 __-Rooter
22 Voice above
tenor
26 “What’s the __?”:
“So what?”
27 Fruity cooler
28 “Li’l Abner”
matriarch
30 Departed
32 Furnace output
34 Lukas of
“Witness”
35 “Shop __ you
drop”
36 Neural impulse
conductor
40 Museum collection
41 Would-be social
worker’s maj.
43 “__ your pardon”
44 NFLer who plays
at the
Meadowlands—
in NJ, ironically
45 Scolds but good
46 Ugly duckling, as
it turned out
47 Lumber mill
blockage
48 Bump from which
cactus spines
grow
53 Xbox enthusiast
54 Cathedral
topper
56 Throb
58 San __, Italy
59 Jealous feeling
60 Rip
61 Word after sea or
before Lake
65 Doctor’s charge
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Tyree Guyton’s
‘Inextinguishable’
Heidelberg Project
I
t was almost 30 years
ago
when
Detroiter
Tyree Guyton had a
self-proclaimed epiphany. He
closed
his
eyes and he
saw
“it”
—
“it” being the
street of his
youth painted
with
bright-
ly
colored
polka
dots,
the
hous-
es
covered
in
records,
clocks hang-
ing from trees, abandoned
structures smothered under
sagging
stuffed
animals.
He wanted to create an art
installment that would make
the street safer by combating
blight, and serve as medicine
to his neighborhood. Guyton
made the Heidelberg Project
a reality, so that anyone could
visit Heidelberg Street and see
the “it” that he once only saw
in his head.
That is, until the arsons
started.
A rabbi and a prostitute
visit Heidelberg Street
In an event titled “Inex-
tinguishable: A conversation
with Detroit Artist Tyree
Guyton” on the fourth floor of
Rackham Auditorium on Fri-
day, Guyton made one of his
first public appearances since
the rash of arsons started
in 2013. Clad in a University
of Michigan hoodie and tan
cargo pants, he sat between
his wife Jennene Whitfield,
and his friend, Social Work
prof. Larry Gant.
A
group
of
Heidelberg
employees sat on the stairs
of
the
auditorium,
one
wearing a shirt that reads
“ART>ARSON.”
Whitfield
and
Guyton
explained
to
the audience and Gant that
the Heidelberg faced adver-
sity well before the arsons
began — back in the 1990s,
under orders from the city of
Detroit, several Heidelberg
houses were demolished.
“If you’re going to do some-
thing in this world,” Guy-
ton said whimsically, “you’re
going to have to pay a price.”
As they spoke, it was obvi-
ous that Whitfield works as
Guyton’s foil. Guyton spewed
artistic idioms and famous
quotes like he was recit-
ing slam poetry and Whit-
field would take those ideas
and bring them back down to
earth. The two spoke of the
project candidly, as if it were
alive.
“I know I talk about it like
a thing, but that’s what it’s
like to me now. It’s like a baby
I wish would grow the fuck
up,” Whitfield said, eliciting a
laugh from the audience.
“What are you drinking,
honey?” Guyton asked her.
The
Heidelberg
project,
despite
the
numerous
set-
backs, is a place where Guy-
ton hopes that art can bring
people from different cultures
together. Visitors from around
the world can be found driving
through Detroit’s East side to
see the renowned art install-
ment.
Whitfield
said
that
sometimes there are ten coun-
tries on Heidelberg street in
one day.
“The
Heidelberg
project
reaches so many different
countries, people, situations,
circumstances … I mean we
actually had a rabbi talking
to a prostitute,” Whitfield
said, making the audience
laugh again. “I do think it was
amazing that she felt comfort-
able on that street to talk to
him, and he felt comfortable
too.”
These things happen, Whit-
field explained, because art is
the great equalizer.
A city on fire
From 2013 to 2014, there
were 12 fires on Heidelberg
Street. Despite crowd fund-
ing efforts and extra security
measures, there are currently
no leads on the culprit that
has burnt down or severely
damaged several parts of the
installment.
“In order to get light you
need negative and positive.
There is something to be said
about accepting negativity as
a natural part of the process,”
Whitfield said. “We accepted
the fires. It was an unauthor-
ized transformation.”
With no leads, the Hei-
delberg
Project
has
faced
proposed
conspiracies
and
non-stop
questions:
Who
would want burn the houses
down? To what end? Does
the project’s staff know more
than they are letting on? Is
the city in some way involved?
The questions are endless and
the answers are unknown,
but this doesn’t bother Tyree
Guyton.
“Paige, I don’t even listen
to it,” Guyton told me during
a phone interview. “I listen
to what’s in me. Because if I
listened to that it would drive
me crazy and have me run-
ning around here like a mad
person. I’ve heard some of
everything.”
Though Heidelberg is just
one street, the arsons that
have plagued the project are
representative
of
a
larger
problem facing the city of
Detroit. According to a recent
Detroit News investigation,
there were more than 9,000
suspicious fires from 2010 to
2013, and at least 66 percent of
those burnt houses have yet to
be demolished.
Neighborhoods in South-
west Detroit and Detroit’s East
Side show the heaviest amount
of arson damage, with more
than 200 fires from 2010-2013
in the Heidelberg’s zip code
alone.
“I want to send love out to
the person that has been set-
ting this project on fire,” Guy-
ton said to the audience at
Rackham. “I want to do some-
thing a little bit different by
sending out love, and that’s
how you educate people.”
Professor Gant looked at
Guyton incredulously. “Could
we kick their ass a little bit
first though?” he asked. Whit-
field agreed.
“Well then you guys do
that,” Guyton said “and I’m
gonna’ love. And I’m gonna’
kick their ass by loving them.”
“Heidelberg rising
from the ashes”
Guyton and the project will
be celebrating their anniver-
sary with an exhibition at the
University of Michigan Muse-
um of Art called “30 Years of
Heidelberg” in August.
“After 30 years what do you
know now, Tyree,” Guyton
said of the exhibition. “I know
that I can do anything and
everything. And then some-
thing that Socrates said: I
know nothing. I’m still learn-
ing.”
Also in the works for Guy-
ton is a possible trip to Berlin,
along with some Detroit tech-
no legends that have yet to be
announced.
Whitfield said that while
the rest of the Project’s staff
continues to deal with secur-
ing funds and keeping the
project safe, Guyton’s sole
responsibility will be focusing
on his art.
“It’s just a new canvas,”
Whitfield said. “We will be
there. And we will continue
on.”
Pfleger is exploring new
canvases in Detroit. To contact
her, email pspfleg@umich.edu.
PAIGE
PFLEGER
Big Sean stays true
to himself on new LP
By KENNETH SELANDER
Daily Arts Writer
Big Sean’s third album, Dark Sky
Paradise, is an odd mix of classic
Big Sean explicitness and unex-
pectedly
deep
songs, present-
ing a collection
of catchy club
tunes and emo-
tional tracks.
First
and
foremost,
I
appreciate that
Big Sean stays
true to himself
on this album. It seems today that
all too many rappers are trying to
imitate the Atlanta sound that has
been dominating rap recently. If
Big Sean’s 2012 mixtape Detroit
isn’t enough proof, mentions of
Little Caesar’s on “All Your Fault,”
among other Detroit, Michigan
references in Dark Sky Paradise
make it clear that he’s not try-
ing to claim that Atlanta adopted
him. In “Paradise,” Big Sean raps
“I’m from the D, fuck your A-list.”
While this line means a number of
things, I like to think on some level
it’s a rejection of this trend.
The album’s musical content is
diverse, which sometimes reates
an odd juxtaposition. For instance,
in the record’s first song, “Dark Sky
(Skyscrapers),” Sean starts the sec-
ond verse with “Bitch, watch how
you speak to me,” but by the end of
the same verse makes an allusion
to police brutality (a theme also
brought up by his mentor Kanye
West on “All Your Fault.”)
Perhaps the epitome of Big
Sean’s self-absorbed, dirty talk
rap that is ever-present on Finally
Famous and Hall of Fame is his hit
single “I Don’t Fuck With You.”
The name says it all. In the cho-
rus, the line “I got a million trillion
things that I’d rather fuckin’ do,” is
just plain silly. Yet at the same time,
it’s hard to deny how catchy the
song is — a result of the production
just as much as the simple chorus.
Both DJ Mustard and Kanye West
produce the song, and Kanye’s
soulful sample meshes well with
DJ Mustard’s catchy driving beat.
Beyond “I Don’t Fuck With
You,” the album’s production is
solid. Samples like “How Much I
Feel” by Ambrosia and “Piece of
My Love” by Guy add interest to
songs otherwise dominated by
the monotone sound of Big Sean’s
voice.
Dark Sky Paradise’s features are
nothing new. Big Sean has done a
few songs with Kanye before (like
“Marvin and Chardonnay”) and
Lil Wayne (“Beware”). Big name
Drake is featured on “Blessings.” It
seems like he’s pulling on his big-
gest connections to boost record
sales. I can’t blame him when,
considering his emphasis on mak-
ing money, Hall of Fame didn’t sell
many more than 100,000 copies.
Looking back on Finally Famous,
while the album was aestheti-
cally pleasing, it was mostly void
of meaning. “Don’t Tell Me You
Love Me” is probably the only song
with some personal connection or
emotion, and it’s about cheating on
his girlfriend. Nasty club hits like
“A$$,” and “Marvin and Chardon-
nay” definitely drive the record.
His sophomore album Hall of
Fame gives off a laid back, stoner
vibe. There are a handful of more
thoughtful songs on the record,
particularly “World Ablaze” and
“Ashley,” which allows Hall of
Fame to separate itself from Final-
ly Famous. Yet, filthy songs like
“Mona Lisa,” “MILF” and the per-
verted skit “Freaky” are also pres-
ent on the record. What a mix.
While Dark Sky Paradiseand
Hall of Fame share a juxtaposition
of meaningful and explicit songs,
in the former the balance tips in
the direction of more meaningful
ones. Tracks like “Play No Games,”
and “Stay Down,” are void of much
depth, but “One Man Can Change
the World,” is extremely touch-
ing. Like “World Ablaze,” touch-
ing on his ex-girlfriends mother‘s
battle with cancer (on his sopho-
more album), the passing of Big
Sean’s grandmother provides a
great platform for him to elevate
the personal and artistic value of
his work. Better yet, “Outro” gives
off an uplifting feeling to finish the
album, an effective transition from
the heartache of “One Man Can
Change The World.” On the other
hand, “I Know” is also supposed to
be a deep song about heartbreak,
but lacks energy and I didn’t feel
the execution. I do appreciate the
concept, though.
It appears Big Sean chal-
lenges himself to progress a bit
on Dark Sky Paradise, likely with
the encouragement of Kanye.
The album features some the-
matically substantive lyrics and
music, but is still cautious about
deviating too far from the Finally
Famous mentality that got him
big label money – he’s testing the
bath water. If the record sells,
maybe we’ll see more emotional
songs from Big Sean. He has an
ultra-smooth flow and certainly
knows his way around a beat,
giving him the potential to make
hits that aren’t just meant to be
banged at a party. Just please
don’t write a grimy love ballad to
Ariana Grande.
DEF JAM
“I don’t buck with you.”
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Big Sean
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