March 30, 2007

Ruby Isle: "Teenage Riot" video

Everybody's talkin' bout the stormy weather. They're also talking about the weird new Low video, but Mark Mallman is just as creepy in this video for Ruby Isle's Sonic Youth cover.

BONUS VIDEO: Ruby Isle performing "Into the Black" @ SXSW

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March 29, 2007

Eating for the Dead

Sloppy Films auteur John Akre writes: Eating for the Dead is a long distance telephone cartoonversation between my friend Marla who lives in Montana and myself (calling from Minneapolis). We talk and animate about eating, life, and death.

Akre's animated feature film Wargoon Flishe will screen at the Bedlam Theatre, on Sunday, May 20th at 7 p.m.

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March 28, 2007

Minnesota Oddity Road Trip

The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota - of course that's here. But how about the giant chicken statue in Delano? Or the two-story outhouse of Belle Plaine? Take a roadtrip of Minnesota oddities, courtesy of YouTube user zlorfik2.

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March 27, 2007

I C Shanty

We've had a blast of summer weather, and it's so nice. Seems like only yesterday all the lakes were frozen and the ground covered with snow. Need proof? Here's a video by Jane Scott about the Art Shanty Projects, with detailed info about many of the shanties.

Got a Minnesota-related video to share?
Send it to story [at] mnstories.com.

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March 26, 2007

Her River

HER RIVER is a short documentary by 2007 IFP Access Grant winner, Valerie Duvernet.

Minnesota native Sheila Grogan stays true to the deep values of her roots despite brutal betrayal by her husband, IBM's CFO. What does it mean to win? "It doesn't matter whether you win or loose; it's how you play the game that counts." OR "The ends justify the means."

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March 25, 2007

SXSW: Buck 65 with Sage Francis

Alt-hip-hop artist Buck 65 performs his hit "The Centaur" with a little help from Sage Francis.

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March 23, 2007

SXSW Exclusive: The Stooges in-store

Iggy Pop and the Stooges performed a short live show at Waterloo Records. The line outside was insane. Did Chuck get inside? (Hint: Yes)

Digg it

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March 22, 2007

1894 Tornado Hit Cold Spring

Herbie Theis, the oral historian of Cold Sring, MN, passed away on February 19, 2007. His stories will live on thanks to the videos of Duane Kuss from DigElog ROCORI - you can find many of them here.

In this story, Herb talks about the tornado that hit Cold Spring on June 27, 1894. His great grandmother was standing, holding the front door shut as the tornado wiped out the barn not more than 200 feet just to the south of the house.

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March 19, 2007

SXSW: Mallman on Mary Lucia

Mark Mallman tells a street in Austin, TX what he thinks of Mary Lucia. This is short and hilarious - you must watch!

There's more MN-related SXSW music video in the pipeline, plus some awesome non-MN video: The Stooges playing a packed in-store show, and Lee "Scratch" Perry refusing to stop playing when the cops show up.

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SXSW: Dosh

Surprise - more Minnesota music from South By Southwest! Here, Anticon artist Dosh explains his musical process ("electronica with mistakes") and talks about the diversity of the Minneapolis music scene.

Interview by MSPmag's Megan Wiley.

BONUS VIDEO: Dosh performance with Andrew Bird on violin

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We'll continue with SXSW video this week, and back to our regularly unscheduled programming next week. Thanks for sending in your videos! If you have a story to share, send it to story [at] mnstories.com .

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March 17, 2007

SXSW: Brother Ali on 89.3 The Current

Our friends at The Current had a great stage at SXSW this year, which they documented on their music blog. Even better in video though eh? Here's our man Brother Ali performing a few songs and getting interviewed by Mary Lucia.

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March 16, 2007

SXSW: Slug + Brother Ali

MSPmag's Megan Wiley nabs an interview with Minneapolis rock royalty: Slug and Brother Ali from Rhymesayers Entertainment. Slug is hilarious. Brother Ali is sincere. Together they are unstoppable.

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SXSW: The Deaths

Despite their name, The Deaths are not remotely goth. American Gothic, maybe. I had to go all the way to Austin, TX to see this Minneapolis-via-Fargo band play for the first time and I liked what I heard: Lots of 60's influences and a sense of mourning in the fields.

MSPmag's Megan Wiley has more thoughts in her Wednesday writeup.

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March 15, 2007

SXSW: Solid Gold

Solid Gold dropped their sweet electropop on SXSW Wednesday night. MSPmag's Megan Wiley gets the interview.

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SXSW: Pete Townshend excerpt

We were allowed to film the first few minutes of rock legend Pete Townshend's keynote at SXSW. The really good stuff came after those minutes, of course: Keith Moon, playing with new musicians, playing a song for one person over the internet. It was certainly more engaging than Dan Rather's keynote a few days earlier.

MSPmag's Megan Wiley posts her thoughts.

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SXSW: Publicity babes

I have no idea what's going on here, but I know it had to be documented. Welcome to MTV's Spring Break 1993, WOOOOOOOO!

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March 14, 2007

Dan Rather interview

In case you missed it, here's Andy Carvin's Dan Rather interview for Rocketboom.

On today's Rocketboom you can catch my own interview with the creators of Lonelygirl15.

The SXSW Nusic festival is officially underway! Pete Townshend's keynote is starting soon, and we're hoping to catch Solid Gold and/or The Deaths playing down here, and more....stay tuned. Or stay blogged. Something like that.

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March 13, 2007

Dan Rather behind-the-scenes

Andy Carvin interviewed a legend in our own time at SXSW in Austin, Texas: Dan Rather. I taped and edited the interview which is slated to be on today's Rocketboom. As usual, I'm just as interested in the "in-between moments." Here are some little slices of reality before the proper interview started.

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March 12, 2007

Signal jammin' @ SXSW

Make magazine's Phil Torrone and Limor Fried temporarily jam cell phone signals at SXSW 2007. You can too, at your own risk: Wave Bubble.

Digg this!

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March 09, 2007

How do you watch Internet TV?

Here's my entry into the Network2.tv contest. Features cameos by Lorika and Mooki. Wee!

NOTE: The Quicktime link was wrong before but now fixed.

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March 08, 2007

Chambers Ice Bar

They say the Chambers ice bar is "first outdoor urban ice bar in the United States," perhaps inspired by the Absolut Ice Bar in Sweden. This ice bar has a nice open fire pit next to it. Fire and ice, Minnesota nice - I think there's a bad rap song here somewhere.

Disclaimer: I made this for the Chambers web site.

I'd hoped to post a "Director's Cut" of this video, where the manager talks about how some lady customers desire to imprint their bosoms on the ice bar. But alas, time is short, so let your imagination run wild.

RELATED VIDEO:
Chambers Kitchen review

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March 07, 2007

SXSW, Here we come!

That's right friends, I'm heading to South By Southwest Festival in Austin, TX in a few days. The weather is sunny and approaching 80 - ahhh.

I'll be there for the entire festival, hanging with the geeks during the Interactive portion, then hopefully talking to the MN filmmakers behind Dirty Country at the film's world premiere. Finally, I'll be rocking non-stop with Minnesota bands along with MSP magazine's Megan Wiley. Check back here and mspmag.com for updates, including interviews and clips from the live shows.

It's gonna be "off da hook." Am I saying that right?

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March 06, 2007

Rerun: Welcome to the Future

Hey kids! If you've got any videos to share, send 'em to story (at) mnstories.com. Meanwhile, here's an oldie but goodie from 2005.

This video is my experience shooting some video clips of a Soundtrack of Our Lives show at a certain local rock club. I like to say that cellphone cameras have replaced lighters at rock shows. You see them as far as the eye can see. Photos, video, audio – people capturing moments. We're living in an age of personal media explosion. Unfortunately there's friction between that reality and those with an overzealous desire to control and protect commercial copyright. So here's me, caught in the friction.

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March 01, 2007

Form+Content Gallery

That's right friends - more art video! It's crazy how much art is happening in this town. Crazy, I tell you.

Saturday evening, get out of the house and check out a new gallery downtown: Form + Content Gallery. In this video, Mpls.St.Paul Magazine's Claire Joubert talks with gallery co-founder Howard Oransky and the Walker Art Center's Doryun Chong about the inaugural exhibition.

More art happenings on Friday night:
Creative Electric Studios: Mark Mothersbaugh's Postcard Diaries
Altered Esthetics: (scientific) aesthetics

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