Our friends at VG Kids have been hired to create new banners for along Michigan Avenue, in downtown Ypsi. Before they get started, though, they’re asking for community input. If you have an opinion, leave them a note… My suggestion would be a series on local heroes, which is was what we were hoping our Iggy Pop t-shirt project would evolve into. Our plan, when we made that first t-shirt, was to follow up with shirts featuring Elijah McCoy, Preston Tucker and Winsor McKay. All four were brilliant visionaries, and I think they represent what’s best about this little town of ours. We challenge convention. We create. We don’t just sit on our asses and consume… But no one hired me to create banners.
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We are Mavricks.
Ypsilanti: Fried Chicken Capitol of The World
Marie Tharp, pioneering mapmaker of the ocean floor, was born in Ypsilanti in 1920:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/06/08/tharp.html
wow i had no idea of winsor mccay’s ypsilanti connection. that guy is amazing. one of my favorite artists of all time. we should start a winsor mccay museum here. or at least an exhibit somewhere.
Isn’t Ypsi home to that Revolutionary War reenactor who rides around on a Segway? That would be great as a banner.
Ypsilanti: Realer than Ann Arbor, not as real as Detroit. Just right real.
“Please buy our houses so we can leave.”
In giant red letters.
“Celebrating Straight Shame”