Category Archives: Television & Internet Video

Take a ride with the 1964 Ford Mustang

October 29, 2009 – 8:33 am

The Ford Mustang was introduced 45 years ago, and in The Mustang Takes the US by Storm: Michigan Radio Remembers, Michigan Radio's Jack Lessenberry and Charity Nebbe explore the shot in the arm that the Mustang delivered to Ford - and our national psyche. They also ask if it's possible that another single car model [...]

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Detroit Pistons 2009-2010 Season Preview

October 27, 2009 – 12:21 pm

Pistons Shoe by Kevin.Ward
The almost completely revamped Detroit Pistons open the 2009-2010 season tomorrow night at Memphis (who will possibly be sporting their brand new Allan Iverson). On the subject of the dramatically changed Pistons including the not-so-dearly departed AI,  Natalie at Need4Sheed (repping the D regardless of where Sheed is now) had a great [...]

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Even the Ghosts are Gone

October 26, 2009 – 6:51 am

Jeff Westover put together this great montage of photographs from the greater Irish Hills area with the music of The Buzzrats from Ann Arbor to start off Halloween week on Absolute Michigan. (Buzzrats on MySpace)

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Seeking Michigan: Salmon sport fishing in Michigan

October 14, 2009 – 10:50 am

Silver Immigrants is a 1970s film from Seeking Michigan that documents various aspects of salmon sport fishing in Michigan. The film relates how the introduction of Coho and Chinook salmon transformed Michigan's sport fishing industry. Now, with invasive species eating into the food chain, salmon and other sport fish populations are on the verge of [...]

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Winners of the 2009 Grand Rapids ArtPrize

October 10, 2009 – 10:05 am

ArtPrize 09-Open Water no.24 by deviant_anomaly

ART PRIZE 2009-0032 by RichardD72

AND THE WINNER IS... by rkramer62

DETAIL FROM WINNERS CANVAS by bitsorf

The first-ever ArtPrize in Grand Rapids has ended with Open Water no. 24, a 6' x 19' oil painting by Ran Ortner being chosen as the winner by public vote from 1,262 artists who exhibited at [...]

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Michitwitter October 2009

October 5, 2009 – 12:51 pm

Read a good article or blog post about Michigan? See a cool picture or video? Listen to a great podcast? Attend a fun event or find a new web site?
Scroll down to tell folks in the comments. Please keep them brief and friendly! Subscribe to Michitwitter via RSS or check out Absolute Michigan on Twitter!
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Detroit Tigers Pennant Panic

October 4, 2009 – 9:33 am

Monday morning update: Well, the Tigers (finally) took care of business last night with a convincing 5-3 handling of the White Sox thanks to 7 shutout innings by Verlander. They head to Minneapolis tomorrow (Tuesday, Oct 6 @ 5:10 PM) for a one game playoff with the Minnesota Twins. Check the comments for details!
I thought [...]

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Snapshots from the Grand Rapids ArtPrize

October 1, 2009 – 8:12 am

Here's a video produced by Absolute Michigan featuring audio from Brad Aspey of Interlochen Public Radio along with photographs from the Absolute Michigan pool and the Creative Commons. The music is Octopussy by Juanitos. There's so much more to see - definitely go to Grand Rapids if at all possible to check out ArtPrize [...]

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Michigan vs Michigan State Football Rivalry

October 1, 2009 – 6:08 am

This Saturday the University of Michigan Wolverines travel to East Lansing to play the Michigan State University Spartans at Spartan Stadium. The rivalry between the two teams and their fans is intense and the Lansing State Journal takes note of this in their article "Rivalry ingrained in players from families - Intense feelings have bubbled [...]

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350 is something you need to know, Michigan

September 29, 2009 – 7:54 am

This weekend, some folks with TC 350 headed out to the Dune Climb at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore to help raise awareness about a very important number for Michigan and the rest of the world. It's set to the music of Getdown to 350 by May Erlewine. The song will probably tell you [...]

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