On a cold, surreal day in March 2011, Ashley star Tony Lee Gratz and I drove to the Motor City for some relatively inexpensive, apocalypse-esque production design, courtesy of capitalism and the death of the American Union. Suffice to say, the location is perfect for an End-Of-The-World feel; depressing as it may be. The middle building in the B/W picture directly below this text was used by us a shooting site for two reasons: One, it was adjacent to the abandoned, but picturesque Michigan Central Train Depot (one of the primary set pieces in the film) and Two, it was absolutely bizarre. Apparently made out of cork and hand painted by a pastel-crazed schizophrenic, this was only one in a long series of breathtakingly strange images provided to us, free of charge, by Motown.T he Hotel on the left still stands but these two homes were demolished in July, 2013. This serves as a fitting tribute to one of the many Ashley shooting sites that have since been destroyed.
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