Videos
Transworld Snowboarding video contest – Vote for your local shop!
Damage Boardshop over on 1904 W. Superior St. submitted a quick shop edit to Transworld Snowboarding‘s website for its Neff: East vs. West shop video contest. For all of you metal fans they used a song by Class of ’86 and edited without all the foreplay, getting straight to the point and making it last a little over 2 minutes (which is totally normal for most of those guys.)
Everyone can vote one time (tracked by I.P.) so if you really like it and you’re at work go make your rounds on all the desktops! If you don’t like it STFU and make your own last-minute edit.
Place your vote at snowboarding.transworld.net.
I also heard a rumor if you vote and run into the owner at any local establishment that serves alcohol (e.g. Carmody, Lucé, Black Woods) he’ll buy you a shot of Patron.
Spirit Mountain Snowboard Video
Some shots up at Duluth’s local hill, Spirit Mountain.
Video Sessions with Charlie Parr and the Fontanelles
New local videos from North Shore Sessions featuring Charlie Parr & Lane Prekker, and the Fontanelles.
UMD Bulldogs Hockey on wild.com
[This post originally contained an embedded video that is no longer available at its source.]
Highlight video of the Frozen Four Championship Game 2011 at Xcel Energy Center.
The doctor is in, and he is 11
The Black-eyed Snakes, featuring 11-year-old percussionist Andrew Olson, performing “Chicken Bone George” on April 15 at Jefferson Pub & Grill during the Mid West Music Fest.
Low – “Try to Sleep” featuring John Stamos
[Previously on PDD: Low and Uncle Jesse?]
A Bloody Good Time
Renegade Theater Company presents Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutentant of Inishmore. (more…)
“I Can’t Make You Love Me” by Caroline Smith and Jesse Schuster
Enjoy Caroline Smith and Jesse Schuster (Caroline Smith and the Goodnight Sleeps) as they cover “I Can’t Make You Love Me” by Bonnie Raitt.
Video directed and produced by Ryan Dahlberg and made possible with support from Beaner’s Central Concert Coffee House. Special thanks to Jason Wussow.
Where in Duluth? The video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB-e_c_AJ88
This is an actual “Where in Duluth?” since I cannot tell exactly where it is. I have a couple of guesses but the PDD brain trust will know for sure, and I’m hoping you’ll have a little color or perspective to add, too. (more…)
Homegrown Music Video Festival
Call for music!
Call for filmmakers!
We’re doing another Homegrown Music Video Festival this year. Filmmakers draw a song at random from a beautiful top hat, then make a music video from said song.
Here is the PDD link to last year.
Would you be willing to donate a song or two to the cause?
Would you like to make a music video for a free pass to Homegrown?
(more…)
Spin Collective at Clyde Iron Works with Paul Broman and Kevin Craig
Video by Timothy Johnson
Rachael Kilgour – “He’ll Save Me”
[This post originally contained an embedded video that has been removed from YouTube.]
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
“Take Me Out To The Ball Game” was written by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer in 1908. These images were shot the same year to help sell the song to the public.
The singer in the video is Edward Meeker, one of Thomas Edison’s technicians. This is how they sold music (sheet music, specifically) back in the day — kind of an early form of music video. These were called illustrated songs. An “illustrator” would stand on stage and sing the song while glass slide images portraying the song’s storyline were projected on a screen. Anywhere from 12 to 16 slides were produced for a song. The last slide was usually the chorus text so audience members could sing along. In this version, I’ve enhanced the chorus with slides from other baseball songs. Illustrated songs were often part of vaudeville and early movie theater programs. Notice the giant wad of Cracker Jacks Katie Casey is enjoying. That’s how it was sold back then.
It’s opening day!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDQPPtIS6-0&feature=player_embedded
Duluth Surfing Footage from CBS News
[This post originally contained an embedded video that no longer exists.]
The Black-eyed Snakes — Bo Diddley
Shot by Rich Narum on March 11 at R.T. Quinlan’s Saloon in Duluth.
Kayaking the snowy banks of Minnesota’s Blue Earth River
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vogk-yth1Z4
Might as well go ahead and try this at home.
Documentary Film Passing Through
Passing Through is a documentary about a man from Northern Minnesota who has struggled with the HIV/AIDS virus for 20 years. I finished the film in 2007 as a senior in the video production program at UW-Superior. The film won the jury award in the student category at the Wisconsin Film Festival in ’08. Since then I haven’t been sure what to do with it, so last night I uploaded it to Vimeo for the public to view. If you have 20 minutes please check it out.
[The video embedded in this post has been removed from Vimeo.]
Colbert takes on Pawlenty’s dramatic ads
At PDD, we compared Pawlenty to Superman, among other things, for his chest-puffed image on his book cover. Stephen Colbert one ups us by comparing him to Brawny Man.
At PDD, we called Pawlenty President of the United States of Apocalypse after viewing his book trailer. Colbert says Pawlenty is “running for President of the next Transformers movie.” That one could probably go either way.