Watch: German filmmaker makes Detroit look like an adorable little toy model

By Lee DeVito on Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:33 am

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Watch: German filmmaker makes Detroit look like an adorable little toy model

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No, the above isn't a photo of Dan Gilbert's miniature model of Detroit. It's a still from German filmmaker Joerg Daiber's "Little Big World" series, which uses tilt-shift photography and time-lapse effects to make its subjects appear smaller than they actually are. Much smaller. In fact, we think it makes Detroit look like an adorable little model from a Wes Anderson movie.

Watch the video, which was uploaded Monday, below.

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Leyland "Lee" DeVito grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, where he read Metro Times religiously due to teenaged-induced boredom. He became a contributing writer for Metro Times in 2009, and Editor in Chief in 2016. In addition to writing, he also supplies occasional illustrations. His writing has been published...