Time’s Detroit correspondent, Steven Gray, presents EL’s answers to reader inquiries in a choice of formats:

Text: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1973280,00.html

Video (6:33): http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,72611207001_1973233,00.html

Looks as though the sun-splashed video was shot in the author’s stylish den or living room, though I’ll leave that for Gregg to confirm or debunk. (It may have been a house in Detroit’s West Village neighborhood, rented by Time for a year-long Assignment Detroit project.