Videos Posts

PDD Videolab: Christmas 1974

Another audio-less home movie from the Emil Praslowicz archives. Pick your soundtrack below.

Drone crashes behind skier. Safety first!

A multirotor drone crashed on live TV behind skier Marcel Hirscher in a slalom event on Tuesday. It shattered on the icy slope a few seconds after the Olympic silver medalist started his second run.

The Phenomenal Mr. Claus

This video by Max Fierek depicts how Mr. Claus delivers all those mountain bikes for Christmas.

Senator Al Franken roasts Duluth Mayor Don Ness

Duluth Mayor Don Ness held his “Final Mayoral Address and Concert Celebration” at the DECC’s Symphony Hall on Dec. 16. Senator Al Franken was not able to attend, but sent this video in order to, “once and for all tell Don what I really think about him.”

Duluth Pack on Minnesota Bound

[The video originally embedded in this post is no longer embeddable and can only be viewed directly on YouTube.]

Duluth Pack was featured on Minnesota Bound last week in their Minnesota Bound Classic segment at the end of the show. Check it out.

The Gentlemen’s Anti-Temperance League: “(The Cabinet of) The Count of Cagliostro”

First video for The Gentlemen’s Anti-Temperance League by Adam Wold.

The Boomchucks – “It’s Good to be a Rolling Stone”

New music video from Duluth band the Boomchucks. The ‘Chucks play the free party in the DECC’s Palucci Hall tonight at 9 p.m., after the big mayoral farewell concert.
 
The Current: Duluth’s musical all-stars to play Don Ness goodbye concert

Succulent

A new Duluth skateboard video by Cody Paulson, shot entirely on an iPhone and Death Lens. Featuring Stephen Pestalozzi and Colton Maddy with Justice Cameron Simmons, John Schneider, Carter Nguyen, Nicholas Tanski, Andy Pearson and Nate Hynum.

Slow TV! Coming Soon from the Food Farm

Have you ever wondered how the Food Farm in Wrenshall grows such delicious and wholesome food? In 2016, you’ll get to feast on a bumper crop of incredibly-detailed-but-somehow-mesmerizing-behind-the-scenes videos shot at the farm in the style of Norwegian public television’s Slow TV documentaries. Here’s a small taste.

PDD Videolab: 8mm Dance Party

A box of 8mm home movies discovered at a Piedmont Heights estate sale provides the content for this video mash-up.

Video Archive: President Clinton and Donny Ness

President Bill Clinton was in Duluth on Nov. 4, 1994. Eyewitness News’ Colleen Mahoney interviewed three Duluth gawkers who were hanging out across the street from the Downtown Holiday Inn, where the president spent the night. One of the two unnamed UMD students interviewed was future Duluth Mayor Don Ness.

“Holy Night”

As Duluth weighs the pros and cons of allowing people to keep small farm animals within city limits, I thought it would be appropriate to share this recording. Just think … you could wake up some frosty winter night and be serenaded by your neighbor’s singing goats.

Mary Bue – “Veal”

This weekend, Mary Bue held a premiere party for her latest video, “Veal” from her album, Holy Bones. Video by Jon Hain.

A Bentleyville Story

Video by UMD student Heidi French, produced as her college writing final.

Video Archive: Jim Wilferling – “Don’t Let it Bring You Down”

Jim Wilferling covers Neil Young’s “Don’t Let it Bring You Down” during open mic night at R.T. Quinlan’s Saloon on Sept. 16, 1995.

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