alright there is a DIY Street Fair this
weekend with art music food and a Kids
Zone it's in Ferndale and we've got a
sneak peek preview thanks to our friends
at Metro Detroit Chevy dealers
Christopher Gorski is owner of Detroit
GT and Paul Wiedeman is president of
Mirror Lake organic thanks guys for
being here thank you very much thank you
we're gonna start with you Christopher
how are you I'm great be good today
good so tell us about your company and
what you have here well Detroit GT is my
graphic design and illustration business
and I've different products Detroit ET
stands for graphic technology so I put
my graphics illustrations and designs
and I put them on different products
apparel mugs awesome coasters and Ardex
artistic prints very nice so I got this
I have people I did I got it that's a
gift that's really cool so what draws
you to the DIY Street faire well I live
in Ferndale okay I work in Ferndale
that's where my studio is at so when I
go to the downtown Ferndale to the event
at this event I get to see friends
family I could see the mayor I get to
see other artists that are for creative
fernbird aliens so yeah so yeah so I
just love I can walk down the street I'm
at work absolutely getting back together
with friends the last block party of the
year so you have a partnership with
Metro Detroit Chevy dealers how does
that fit in with being a DIY artist well
I'm kind of unique because I have a I
was bringing a classic chevy vehicle to
vend out of the in my in my space and
the Metro Detroit Chevy dealers found
out that I have Chevy vehicles so they
came to my studio and did like a little
tour and let me test drive a Chevy
Colorado to kind of tease me to get a
new car so if you come down to the
festival you'll get to see one of which
one you'll get to see which chevy
vehicle I decided to vend out of this
give the car back I did give the car
back
tell us about your organic body products
well a few years ago when I gave up
advertising you know when the economy
took a dive
I am by a farm and I said let's see if I
can make this farm work so I got into
herbs and kind of learned it as much as
I could and we've always had kind of
organic and healthy soaps in the home so
I thought I'm gonna give it a go I've
always wanted to do it so I started
making soaps and then I went through the
house when my kids were little and just
threw out everything that had you know
manmade or synthetic chemicals in it and
I realized well now I need a face lotion
that's not gonna break up my face now I
need lip balm and now I need I want
shampoo and now I'd like a deodorant
that actually works it's all organic
right so I started just it just kind of
started here and just went crazy I've
got 49 different SKUs now that's amazing
that's insane I mean you know it's all
certified organic ingredients and it
actually works yamo free hypoallergenic
most expensive thing of course I bet
that's just what I always do you created
this giant art piece behind and it was
all part of a contest tell me about it
well this is um
this is a piece that I did for the Chevy
contest for the Metro Detroit Chevy
dealers and it gave me the opportunity
to kind of just show off a little bit
I've always wanted to do a car based on
kind of might you know where I started
in advertising I started at an
advertising agency working on Chevy okay
so I had a soft spot and so I ran out at
the time I ran over to the Gratiot
cruise and this is the first one I found
in the corner of the parking lot in the
Chevy parking lot on Gratiot and I took
a picture and the owner was just giddy
he's like how cool you know and then I
went home and figure I'll just knock
this out in a couple days for the
contest great that's like me ridiculous
four is like a week spirit of Detroit
right here yeah that's a good it's a
good I
let's bring in dusted Leslie with the
DIY street fair you've got something
special with you what is this actually
we have a gift for our winning
submission here for Paul this is not
what half of yes we were so happy with
your submission and and frankly it's
amazing and on behalf of the Metro
Detroit Chevy dealers and DIY street
fair we like to present you with a big
check
sold it to WDIV right to me the atrium
we did I heard I heard a transaction
take place I heard a transaction take
place no surprise for me to that all
right yeah we're having a secret service
super fun well it worked
yeah I don't know what we're happy to
have you here and Chris as well so thank
you guys for everything it's our
pleasure pleasure
all right guys well you know thank you
for being here and make sure you head
out to Ferndale this weekend and check
out all the great DIY artists that will
be there it is on the east side of
Woodward between 9 Mile Road and East
Turei street for more information on the
DIY festival and all the fun things
happening around town does it
clickondetroit.com slash in the d