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Selective Focus: Kip’s Praslowicz’s video blog

Brian Barber Oct 19, 2018 No Comments

This week in Selective Focus, we’re going to tune in to Kip Praslowicz’s YouTube channel. You may remember Kip from such films as “Memory Card Dump #14,” “Memory Card Dump #11” and “The Story of Homegrown 2016.” He’s a prolific photographer, and his YouTube feed is a combination of tutorials on working with film photography, behind the scenes documentaries about his ongoing photo projects, and photographic experiments. Even if you’re not really needing instruction on loading 120 roll film into a decades-old camera, there’s plenty of other wisdom and fun. Here are a few samples along with a brief bit of background from Kip. Take a look, and then “smash that subscribe button.”

KP: Before I did photos, I was into making music. Before I was making music, I was into making weird videos. This was also when I was about 11 and used a big VHS camera with the only concept of editing being by starting and stopping the tape.

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Duluth featured on Supernatural again

DECk37 Oct 19, 2018 No Comments

Last night’s episode of Supernatural took place Duluth, as seen in this featured clip. The episode “Gods And Monsters” aired on the CW network.

This isn’t the first time Duluth has been featured in the long running show. The second season’s “Born Under a Bad Sign” episode had a character who was working at a Duluth bar. Several episodes have featured other Minnesota towns, such as Hibbing and Stillwater.


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PDD Calendar Index: Minnesota Ballet Season Opener

PDD Activities Director Oct 18, 2018 No Comments

Friday: Rite of Spring and Other Dances
Friday: Dinner Jazz Show with Sam Miltich
Saturday: Sawtooth Mountain Challenge
Saturday: Orchestra Story Hour
Saturday: The Dames, Total Fucking Blood and Wolf Blood
Monday: Superior’s Northern Brewing Co.
Tuesday: Take it with You
Wednesday: Boo Bash Skate and Scare
Thursday: Uncorked and Tapped for Conservation
Thursday: 122 Conversations

For a complete look at what’s happening today, tomorrow and on into infinity, visit perfectduluthday.com/calendar.

To start planning your haunted mischief, peruse the events in the Halloween category.

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Duluth Fall Colors Video (from before the storm)

PDDTV Oct 18, 2018 No Comments

Video by Zack Lowenstein of Twin Cities-based North Skye Aerial Imaging.


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Duluth Ship Canal in Storm and Calm

Paul Lundgren Oct 17, 2018 No Comments

This postcard is either from a century ago or last week.


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Duluth Trivia

David Beard Oct 17, 2018 2 Comments

Below are more items from an old trivia deck I bought at Savers.

1. How far out onto Lake Superior can the light atop Enger Tower be seen?

2. Who was the first postmaster for the Duluth region?

3. How man grain elevators were on Duluth’s waterfront at the turn of the twentieth century?

4. When was the Duluth Peony and Iris Society founded?

5. In what building did JFK speak in Duluth?

6. Who began conducting the DSSO in ‘seventy-seven?


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Elevators at Duluth

Paul Lundgren Oct 16, 2018 No Comments

Date unknown, artist unknown.


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Video: Freshwater Fury from Oct. 10, 2018

PDDTV Oct 15, 2018 No Comments

Sparky Stensaas captured this footage last week at Crystal Bay in Tettegouche State Park.

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They Might be Giants – “Rabid Child”

Paul Lundgren Oct 15, 2018 No Comments

The alternative rock band They Might be Giants dropped a reference to Duluth on its self-titled debut album in 1986. Whether “the Big Duluth” mentioned in the lyrics to “Rabid Child” is supposed to be a clothing store or the nickname of a person or what, well, that’s up to the listener.

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PDD Quiz: Creepy Northland

Alison Moffat Oct 14, 2018 No Comments

In honor of the upcoming Halloween holiday, this edition of the PDD Quiz tests knowledge of the Northland’s creepy places, events and history.

The next quiz, on headlines from October 2018, will be published on Oct. 28. Please email question suggestions to Alison Moffat at [email protected] by Oct. 24.

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The Wilbury Index

Paul Lundgren Oct 13, 2018 3 Comments

There are certain dignities and indignities that come with old age. Most of us would like to be considered wise, but we also want to run fast and be sex symbols. All of that is relative, of course. There are plenty of intelligent teenagers and elderly imbeciles. I ran a half marathon when I was 31 and people twice that age were passing me.

The word “old” is as relative as the attributes associated with it. You can join the American Association of Retired Persons at age 50, collect Social Security at 62 and retire from your job at a wide range of ages or never. I think I was 27 or 28 the first time one of my friends seriously commented that we were “getting old.”

Well, sure, we’re all getting old. But when are we actually old? Do our looks and physical/mental fitness have anything to do with it, or is “old” just a number?

I say it’s just a number, because I can’t, in seriousness, walk up to more wrinkled people my age and ask, “what’s it like to be so old?”

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How Enzie Flu In

Paul Lundgren Oct 13, 2018 No Comments

The day after the Fire of 1918, this hilarious sendup of the Spanish influenza outbreak appeared in the Duluth News Tribune. At the time there were a couple dozen cases in the city, and commissioners had adopted an emergency order closing public buildings to halt the spread. Within a couple weeks the disease would no longer be a joking matter; it killed 7,521 Minnesotans in 1918 alone.

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Nominations for Arrowhead Arts Awards

David Beard Oct 12, 2018 No Comments

Help the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council celebrate the best artists and arts advocates in the region. Many of us know an artist or arts advocate who deserves a little more recognition. Nominate that special artist for the Arrowhead Arts Awards. ARAC wants to recognize those who contribute to the arts in the region with two prestigious awards, which include cash awards. The deadline to nominate an individual is Dec. 7.

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Selective Focus: Laura Goodman and Karen Owsley Nease

Brian Barber Oct 12, 2018 No Comments

On Oct. 19 and 20, Laura Goodman’s sensuous and powerful new ballet, “Curl, Uncurl and…” will be performed as part of the Minnesota Ballet’s fall performance, The Rite of Spring and Other Dances. Basing her choreography on the wave paintings of Karen Owsley Nease, Laura explores the elemental and generative forces depicted in Karen’s artwork. Karen’s paintings will be projected as the back drop during the performance.

On Friday, Oct. 26, 6 p.m., at Joseph Nease Gallery, Laura and Karen will present an artist’s talk discussing their work during a mini-exhibition of the paintings that were included in the performance. “Elemental Forces and Other Work” is the mini-exhibition of Karen’s paintings and will be on display from Oct. 19-27.

What was the origin of your collaboration?

Karen: Over dinner last year, Laura and I were discussing our respective work as artists, particularly her experience as a professional dancer and choreographer, which led me to suggest how cool it would be to have her “interpret” my wave paintings into motion.

Laura: Growing up in Duluth, Lake Superior has been a place for reflection and awe. It has been a backdrop that I have missed when living elsewhere. I first saw Karen’s wave paintings at her show “As Above, So Below” at the University of Wisconsin, Superior in 2017. The idea of choreographing a piece based on her paintings was exciting to me, and so I worked to find a way to do that. After a few conversations and studio visits with Karen, I approached Robert Gardner at the Minnesota Ballet. With his support of the project I applied and was awarded an Arrowhead Regional Arts Council (ARAC) Career Development grant.

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Opening Sam Ali

PDDTV Oct 11, 2018 1 Comment

Duluth News Tribune: “Fox 21 banter-gone-bad lands on Jimmy Fallon“


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