Click through the image above for a few cool jottings the UrbanSketchers Twin Cities folks did while at the 1968 Exhibit. Above the Trudell Guerue Huey helicopter piece I edited together is immortalized with pen and paper.
Only a few more weeks until the ‘68 Exhibit packs up and heads out to sunny Oakland, CA. So if you’re in the MSP area, get on over to check it out.
Just learned that Martha Reeves of Martha and the Vandellas will be touring the 1968 Exhibit today. I hope she sits down with the Music Trip I helped put together and has a little fun.
For those who, unlike Martha, cannot get to the exhibit in St. Paul before it closes in February, TPT’s Almanac produced this handy walkthrough.
New Pictures 5, featuring Jason Fulford’s ’The Mushroom Collection’ is now on view at the MIA. This was one of my favorite exhibition promo pieces I’ve worked on, mostly because I think the idea behind the project is so odd and compelling.
From the New Pictures site:
Fulford’s pictures appear to be unremarkable shots of commonplace objects, people, and places. Yet a closer look reveals humorous and subtle oddities. Fulford’s images reveal themselves through repetition, sequences, and relationships between form and shadow, abstraction and reality.
Fulford is giving his talk on the collection next Thursday, December 1st over at the Institute in the Pillsbury Auditorium, so make sure to come check out the ‘shrooms.
My buddy and erstwhile roommate Christopher Jopp is nearing completion on his first non-student short film, The Well.
During shooting, Chris appointed yours truly as the documentarian of the process, resulting in this piece which I shot and edited. (My voice also crops up in it once and awhile.)
It was really fantastic fun to make and brought me right back to my days of filming Behind The Scenes docs of my high school theatre productions.
So if anybody needs/wants some BTS action, you now know who to call.
The fantastic Ryan Lee & myself in the MIA gallery whilst filming some shots of Jason Fulford’s ‘The Mushroom Collection’, now on view as part five of the New Pictures series.
Well, The 1968 Exhibit is up and running. We had a fantastic opening party last Thursday evening, with hundreds of patrons coming through to check out the show. The crowds continued coming all through the weekend, giving all the media pieces I worked on a good work out.
Pictured above are the introductory lobby, the projections in the Huey helicopter, the Chicago DNC piece, and the 1968 Music Trip quiz show, respectively.
The whole project was a great joy to work on and gave me the chance to meet and produce work alongside a fantastic crew of people. I also learned a thing or two about history, which I suppose is always a plus.
So if you’re in the area, groove on over to The Minnesota History Center and check out the exhibit. Your vibes will thank you.
The 1968 Exhibit timeline, for which I edited all the video content is now live and viewable online! Click-through the image above to experience the events of ‘68.
This was a fantastic and fun project to work on, getting to sift through hours and hours of archive footage and crafting these events into concise bursts of video. The bulk of my time working on the ‘68 Project has been on these short videos, so I hope you enjoy them!
Now, I need to get back to working on the Music Quiz! The show opens in less than a month!
The 1968 Exhibit is beginning to take shape at the History Center.
Our Huey helicopter arrived yesterday. I’ve been hard at work on the media pieces we will be projecting in the empty body of the aircraft.
Above is a time-lapse video of the helicopter being installed in our gallery. Can’t wait!
Had a lot of fun rolling though the MIA’s vast collection to find all the faces featured in this video. Part of their ‘Come As You Are’ promotional extravaganza. You’ve maybe seen the billboards.
This is getting some pretty heavy play during KARE 11 evening newscasts, so make sure to tune it and check it out!
