Lucy Michelle & The Velvet Lapelles - Just A Kid
Some of you may be aware of my most recent project, Slum Lord.
For those not already apprised, it is an independent, single-camera comedy series about a Minneapolis landlord who looks like—and happens to be named—Jesus.
We’ll begin shooting in the Spring, and airing episodes in the Fall—provided we can meet our Kickstarter goal of $5,000 by the new year.
That’s where you come in. Every contributor to Slum Lord gets the opportunity to extra in an episode, and we’ve included loads of other rewards for backers: stickers, t-shirts, downloads—even Associate and Executive Producer credits!
We’d love for you to get involved with our little show. Please give whatever you can. (Pledges make great gifts!)
Visit the Slum Lord Kickstarter page to watch a preview pilot, make a contribution, and become a part of this exciting new local production.
So, tonight I’m launching a Kickstarter and premiering the preview pilot for Slum Lord—the single-camera comedy I’ve been flogging for the last few months and change.
I’d love it if you could be there. I even booked all the best bands in town just to coerce you into coming: UMAMI, MAYDA, VAGUE-À-BONDE, and THEEVES. So… it’s going to be legit.
If you can’t be there, that’s alright. I still love you…
…so long’s you check it out on Kickstarter tomorrow.
Military Special’s farewell blow-out at the Entry last November was probably one of the best things ever. We put this video together with the dudes from Northern Outpost and John Empty to commemorate the insanity.
(via militaryspecial)
This Thursday! Are you coming?
This poster by Brian David Downs.
Other poster by Eva Rose Cohen.
Presented by MPLSSTPL.
From stuffaboutminneapolis:
Northern Spark: a nuit blanche
Northern Spark is a new MN Festival modeled on a nuit blanche or “white night” festival—a dusk to dawn participatory art event along the Mississippi and surrounding areas. It will take place the evening of June 4 (sunset 8:55 pm) till the morning of June 5, 2011 (sunrise 5:28 am).
Northern Spark will include a diversity of art forms and projects including multi-story projections, audio environments with vistas, floating works on barges, houseboats and paddleboats, headphone concerts, and the use of everything from bioluminescent algae and sewer pipes for organs to more traditional media such as banjos and puppets.
There is magic in the night, when the familiar, like the city skyline, becomes majestic, and a starry sky can transport the imagination. One’s senses are heightened, attuned to the slightest noise or even the smell of the nearby river in a way that seems not so common in daylight. One’s regular bus ride or walking over the threshold of a building visited hundreds of times before becomes exotic and otherworldly at 3 am.
It is in this context that more than 200 artists are presenting 100 installations and performances for Northern Spark from the top of the Foshay Tower to boat rides along the Mississippi to light sculptures and projections to performances galore, including car horn and brass band fanfares, color guards, river dancing, sewer pipe organs, lullabies, and storytelling. Perusing this site will introduce you to the rich variety of offerings that will bloom for one night only. It is not our goal to take over the night like some giant big top tent, but to join it. We meet the city halfway. As you walk or ride a bike or take the bus from one venue to another, see and appreciate your surroundings with new eyes and ears. Celebrate one of the great rivers of the world through two magnificent cities and enjoy the next artistic intervention you come across. It’s an adventure. You make your own journey.
I’m helping out as a volunteer and artist assistant for Andréa Stanislav’s Nightmare project: the illusion of a white horse galloping on the Mississippi. Look out for it (Zone D, St. Paul) if you’re heading out.
It’s going to be a really fun night for our cities. Things like this are so rare.
We live in an incredible place.
Now someone from Minneapolis has to take Portland’s signature food and bastardize it and start selling it in a food truck and… oh wait, Portland doesn’t have a signature food—they have to steal other people’s!
Also, I am proud of how hard we’re defending our hamburger; depending on who you ask, that truck might as well be hawking “Original” Portland Cheesesteaks. So…
Good on ya, Minneapolis. Good on ya.
(via liquidchroma)
(Source: johnblue)
GPOYW - Ten year-old t-shirt edition!
I spoke at and helped curate (and design the shirt for) this event—”Creating a Scene”—which occurred ten years ago today. I was sixteen.
At the event, students from around the Twin Cities showed and discussed their video and multimedia work. It was one of my earliest forays into the TC arts/media scene.
The shirt still kind of fits, too… kind of.
