Selective Focus: Run, Smelt, Run!
Select Instagram photos from the Run, Smelt, Run! Parade and Party.
Select Instagram photos from the Run, Smelt, Run! Parade and Party.
Select Instagram photos from night seven of the Homegrown Music Festival.
Select Instagram photos from night six of the Homegrown Music Festival.
Select Instagram photos from the fifth night of the Homegrown Music Festival.
Select Instagram images from day three of the Homegrown Music Festival.
Select Instagram photos from opening day of the Homegrown Music Festival.
We all know living on Lake Superior is epic, but these images from @fathersfigures take landscape photography to a whole other galaxy. Be sure to check out the behind-the-scenes Instagram stories.
Photojournalist Derek Montgomery and MPR News bring amazing images of the annual breaking of the ice on the Duluth Harbor.
Like a bunch of old timers stuck in some newspaper-era, schedule-oriented, deadline-consumed mindset, the brain trust at Perfect Duluth has been locked for several years in the notion that every Friday we need to publish our Selective Focus feature and every Saturday we need to publish our Saturday Essay. No more. It was fine for a while, but we’re done with that rigid scheduling.
Justin Christopher Ayd has a close relationship with movies and film. He is working on a feature documentary project shot on the North Shore on super 8 and 16mm film, and explains why in a very digital age, celluloid is the right medium for this project. If you’d like to help out with the project, links are included below.
JCA: I work professionally in two fields simultaneously – filmmaking and film projection. Both aspects of film were introduced to me at a young age, filmmaking and the exhibition side, and by 1992 I knew I wanted to not only make movies, but be the person in the shadows running motion picture film for audiences.
