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Cloud Cult – “Good Friend”
The new Cloud Cult video “Good Friend,” directed by John Burgess, premiered this morning on MTVu.
Claire Stewart – “Duluth, My Home Town”
A nifty animation by Dave and Jean Kirwan set to a 1961 jingle about our fair city. This took first place in the 2013 Playground Short Shorts Film Festival this weekend.
Boreal Owl Irruption
Video by Sparky Stensaas
Trampled by Turtles on Conan
Trampled by Turtles performed “Midnight on the Interstate” on Conan. The video was embedded on PDD via teamcoco.com when this post was published but it seems to no longer exist anywhere on the internet. (more…)
Nerd Nite MN Episode 1 – Scooby Doo!
Luke Moravec takes a look at the history of the Hanna Barbera gang of sleuths. Recorded at Nerd Nite 19 on Oct. 30, 2012, at Teatro Zuccone in Duluth.
Don Ness Gregnam Style
This was part of Rubber Chicken Theater‘s holiday sketch comedy revue A Flood of Christmas Cheer, which was performed in December. The sketch parodied the “Gangnam Style” Korean pop song and viral music video that has inspired uncountable memes. The premise of the Rubber Chicken bit was that cast member Greg J. Anderson’s new dance was sweeping the Twin Ports and this video was his proof. Even Duluth Mayor Don Ness was doing it!
Perfect Duluth Day’s Best Videos of 2012
Here it is: the best way to waste time in front of a computer during the New Year’s holiday — PDD’s compilation of the Best Videos of 2012. (more…)
Mont du Laps, Episode 2
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This video is a collaboration between Mont du Lac Recreation, Jambox Shred Gear and videographer Hunter Gulan, featuring riding by Dan Spooner, Kai Sandal, Paul Lavold, James Olson, Jackson Brown and Danny Kiolbasa.
Duck Duck Punch — “RGB”
Duck Duck Punch has a new video, a new album and a gig coming up in Duluth — where the band was formed.
Cloud Cult – All the Things We Couldn’t See
Cloud Cult has a new album, Love, coming out on March 5. The track “All the Things We Couldn’t See” is already available to those who preorder the album at cloudcult.com.
The video was produced by Jeff D. Johnson with help filming from Cody York.
The Murder of Crows at Sacred Heart
Gaelynn Lea and Alan Sparhawk performing an online concert, captured by Lakefront Films. Sound by Jake Larson and Eric Swanson.
Ol’ Yeller – “One Up”
Song from the new album Levels. Video shot in the Lake Vermilion area.
Low’s 2005 performance of “California” on Last Call with Carson Daly
This video was posted on PDD back in 2005 as a QuickTime Movie, but now it has been converted for YouTube, so here it is again. And here’s a link to Chris Godsey’s coverage of it all on mnartists.org.
Sparky vs. Coyote
Wrenshall’s Mark “Sparky” Stensaas is in Yellowstone. Things got interesting while he was photographing this coyote. He tells the full story on his Photonaturalist blog.
David Cowardin says: “No”
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Recorded live at Beaner’s Central last week.
Video Archive: Louis Jenkins reading in 1976
These clips are from the short film From the Museroom: A Sampler of Minnesota Poets, shot in 1976 during a Poetry Collective benefit at the Firehouse in Minneapolis, Minn. Above: “Violence on Television.” Below: “Dream of Wealth.” (more…)
Urban Climbing in Duluth
Whoopie Wall, First Steet Boulder and Ely’s Peak.
Teague Alexy – “All the Way Long Gone”
New video, directed by Joshua Priestley, from Teague Alexy’s album This Dance.
Thomas Angelo Dougherty, World War II U.S. Naval Aviator
Video by George Knowles.
Video: Trampled by Turtles on Late Late Show – “Walt Whitman”
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Trampled by Turtles has appeared once again on national television, joining comedian Ray Romano as guests on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on July 18 to perform the song “Walt Whitman.” (more…)
Vikings vs. Steelers — Nov. 26, 1972
Complete with commercials, in case you have more than two-and-a-half hours to kill.
Trampled by Turtles – “Alone”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfBLQMfdiXw
Another version of “Alone,” by Audio-Files Music. (more…)
Campaign for two Rivulets videos
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Video director Adam Barnick is running a crowd-funding campaign to produce two Rivulets videos.
Rivulets is the musical outlet of part-time Duluthian Nathan Amundson. (He still rents a place in Duluth, plays the Homegrown Music Festival every other year or so, and considers the Zenith City to be his “spiritual home.” Three Rivulets albums were recorded in Duluth, mostly at Sacred Heart Music Center).