Happy Easter!

Easter 

It's never too late for well wishes, so here is a late in the day Happy Easter to all that celebrate the holiday. Detroit Video Daily was in Chicago over the weekend and here is a photo from the trip. I was told that the lights that are planted around town in Chicago change depending on the holiday. For example green lights for St. Patrick's Day. Even though Chicago is nice and has the cool Crown Fountain, it's still good to be back in Detroit. 

Easter themed lights

Granite Ball Fountain

The Floating Sphere

Shopping?
You're busy. Almost everyone has a lot going on nowadays. At times we rush about from one task to the next with barely a break in between. And then again, sometimes we have breaks imposed upon us for whatever reason. A while back I needed some service work done to my Mac laptop, so I took it in to the Apple Store at Somerset mall. It ended up that they needed to keep the laptop for about 45 minutes to complete their work on it. The Apple Store guy said I could wait at the Genius Bar counter or go shopping and come back. Well, I'm definitely not a fan of shopping, but the prospect of sitting at the counter while other people brought in their Apple toys to be worked on really didn't appeal to me either. So, I headed out into the mall to wait.

Time
I found a quiet bench, sat down and started browsing some books on my Ipod touch. I looked up and saw this interesting sculpture/fountain. I had my newly purchased digital camera with me, so I decided to try out its video feature. I was intrigued by the brass plate affixed to the art that stated that the granite ball floating on water weighs over two tons! Sorvikivi Oy, a company based in Finland, made the sculpture in 1996. I later found out there are two of these floating granite sculptures at the mall. Where the other one is, who knows, but the one in the video is fairly close to the Apple Store, in case you're wondering which one I filmed.

Not Detroit
So, even though this video isn't from Detroit, the piece of art was just too good to pass up. And, it served a purpose to keep me from shopping. At any rate, take a minute from your busy schedule and feast your eyes on a two ton rock floating on a jet stream of water. Complimentary background mall music adds to the ambience for your viewing pleasure. ;)

Xtranormal Video

Not Detroit, but Still a Video
There's a lot happening in Detroit, but DVD has been busy studying over at Wayne State University. And that's the reason for the lull in posts.  Anyways, for a class project I created this video using the site Xtranormal.  So even though it's not a Detroit theme, I thought I'd share it with you all.  Next post we'll be going back to a Detroit based topic :)

The Most Change?
by: detroitvideodaily