In the latest installment of his Pure Michigan-style parody videos, Detroit filmmaker John Kerfoot slaps back at outsiders making cracks about Detroit.
This is among images in John Kerfoot's new video.
"Detroit is a joke to a beautiful state like California . . . that doesn’t realize their cities are next," an announcer says in the video below. "And it’s not surprising when their major industry only produces awful crap in 3D, which is like putting cologne on a turd.”
Other pushbacks, accompanied by the type of soothing music in Michigan tourism commercials:
“New Yorkers chuckle at Detroit while their mayoral candidate is busy taking pictures of his junk at this very moment.”
“The nearby Chicago: they think they’re so much better because they have an elevated train, and a few more white people. The truth is, Chicago sucks too.”
The tape, which runs just over a minute, earns attention from the Wall Street Journal. In an interview with Katherine Rosman, the 37-year-old creator says:
Kerfoot made the video, he says, to stick up for a city that he loves despite its obvious troubles. “You kept hearing about the bankruptcy in the news, with everyone bashing on Detroit. I felt like saying, ‘Listen, every city has problems.’”
More videos by Kerfoot are at his Not So Pure Michigan site.
