Jim Richardson (aka Lake Superior Aquaman) Posts

Found Lake Paraphernalia

I was freediving Duluth’s amazing rock beach one afternoon, and started finding pot-smoking paraphernalia in a few feet of water just off shore. I realized I was reassembling some poor stoner’s fully stocked stash tray which he/she must have set too close to the waves. Within a relatively small radius I found pieces of two glass pipes (one largely intact), pokie tool, rolling tray, grinder, cigarette roller, and a broken glass jar. Archeological evidence of a beach culture of leisure.

Northern Pike Swims By

A brief encounter with a Northern Pike in several feet of water. It looks injured as if by a propeller across its back.

Kids Playing on Logs at the Beach

Tischer Creek Whirlpool Revisited

Went back the next day when the sun was higher in the sky and got this additional footage, which I set to music.

Jackass Falls, Duluth

Tischer Creek Whirlpool

A Guide to Hiking Tischer Creek

Cute Baby Chicks Fighting Over a Worm to “Dueling Banjos” (UPDATED)

Hillside Duluth.

(UPDATE: Now with slomo technopop remix.)

Duluth Got Me Like

I have released a rap track about Duluth.

Music by Tdack.

Ice Skating Brighton Beach

Carved Stone Project Placement Experiment

Stoneworker Sean MacManus and I hatched a plan to use his Celtic stonework pieces to fashion an underwater stone garden, geocache, and/or orienteering course. This video is footage of my experiment to test the feasibility of lashing the stones around the base of a boulder. I had two of the stones, each identical with backing mounts affixed with mortar, and I had two ropes. I found this project much more difficult than I imagined, and it failed as a proof of concept as the mortar weakened and would not hold the ropes. This was in addition to simply being deucedly difficult to accomplish even in just a few feet of water. The shot of the stones towards the end by the green leaf is after the mortar failure when I decided to abandon the attempt. I was beat and so left one the stones overnight. The final shot is me retrieving it. After this, I experimented with trying to wedge the stones in place but that didn’t work either. The entire project (still evolving towards this summer) generated a lot of footage of me swimming around enigmatically with these stones, which has already been released here.

Moving the Infinity Stone

Raising the Celtic Mandala Stone

Diving with the Triquetra Stone

Summer 2014 placement experiment with MacManus Stoneworks’ triquetra stone, towards an eventual permanent placement in an underwater orienteering course or geocache concept. More deets in summer 2015.

Underwater Carved Stone Portraits

Collaborating with Sean MacManus of MacManus Stoneworks, our plan was to create an underwater geocache or orienteering course of his carved stones in Lake Superior. The summer of 2014 saw me performing initial placement experiments. This failed to yield any permanent way to affix the stones underwater, but it did generate several video portraits of the stones in situ. A follow-up video will detail the work I did to try and place these stones underwater. Summer of 2015 will see more progress and additional ideas. Meanwhile, enjoy~

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