Brian Barber, Author at Perfect Duluth Day

Halloween banners

Oct 15, 2012 No Comments

Got any good Halloween photos? It’s the annual call for Halloween banners on PDD. Remember, not every photo makes a good PDD banner.

Some basic rules:
The image must be 960 pixels wide by 167 pixels high. The Perfect Duluth Day logo will be added by PDD’s art department.
The lower portion of banner photos serve as background to the navigation bar, so crop your image with that in mind. Make sure essential elements are not in the area that will be obscured. Don’t stretch the photo to make it fit the ridiculously horizontal proportions. That always looks poopy, and will probably disqualify the photo from bannerdom.

If all of this is too much to wrap your head around, or you don’t have the right image editing software, e-mail the uncropped photo, and we’ll do our best to crop it so it looks good.

Send them to [email protected].

Art, Photos, R.I.P. Creepy

PDD on your TV

Sep 24, 2012 1 Comment

You might start seeing two ads for the Perfect Duluth Day Calendar on the teevee. Thanks to the people and businesses around town that helped us out.

Trampled by Turtles and Adult Swim – “Walt Whitman”

Aug 07, 2012 3 Comments

The first Duluth band to be cartooned?

Art, Music, Videos Trampled by Turtles

Rocket, man.

Aug 01, 2012 7 Comments

So if anyone in the Chester Creek Cafe neighborhood finds a model rocket in their tree / backyard / roof, I know who it belongs to. Orange parachute, dark rocket with Ryan T written on it. Launched from the baseball fields, ended up somewhere S SW of there tonight. Thanks.

Uncategorized Lost and Found

R.I.P. Tom Davis

Jul 19, 2012 2 Comments

Tom Davis, one of the first writers on Saturday Night Live, died of cancer today. He was 59.

During the 1980s he appeared with his comedy partner Al Franken in three television commercials promoting Duluth.

New York Times Article

PDD Tee

Jun 28, 2012 29 Comments

Perfect Duluth Day T-Shirts are available at the Laughingstock/Happyspace store, 324 W. Superior St. Shirts are $15, $17 for XXL.

Get yours today to wear to the PDD 9th Anniversary Party at Tycoons Friday night. Or you can wait and hope to be one of the lucky few that might win a PDD shirt or another fabulous prize Friday. Prizemaster Lundgren is still compiling the list of fabulous prizes, but rest assured, it’s a fabulous list of prizes.

Recommendations PDD Shop Talk

Rhubarb re-do

Jun 21, 2012 1 Comment

The rhubarb for CHUM’s Rhubarb Festival was destroyed in the flood, so they’re looking for donations of more immediately. If you have some to donate, drop it off at First Lutheran Church, 11th Ave. E. & London Road today.

The 8th annual Rhubarb Festival is June 23 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Events, News and Current Affairs

Jambox – Tune it in

Jun 04, 2012 4 Comments

My 14-year old told me about this this weekend as we were walking the dog around the neighborhood. “There’s a video of a guy snowboarding off this wall, then down into the creek and into that tunnel.” We got an e-mail at PDD headquarters this morning with this link, sure enough, the last shot is just as my kid described. Produced by local clothing company Jambox and filmed at familiar sites all over Duluth.

Music, Outdoors, Sports, Videos Skiing and Snowboarding, Where in Duluth?

Darin Bergsven – “Out of Nowhere”

Jun 02, 2012 1 Comment

A video shot while Darin Bergsven was recording his CD at Sacred Heart this spring. The CD will be available at shows, and he’s playing tomorrow morning, June 3, 10:30 am at Luce.

Music, Videos Darin Bergsven

PDD Shift: Dan Neff / Lake Superior Art Glass

May 17, 2012 2 Comments

This is the last of four videos in the PDD Shift series. This profiles Dan Neff, one of the winners of the Greater Downtown Council’s Go Downtown / Grow Downtown contest from last year. At the end of this month Dan is opening a new store, Lake Superior Art Glass, at 202 E. Superior St. The shop will feature classes, various glass artwork, as well as front window demos.

The grand opening is May 31.

Art, News and Current Affairs, Videos Lake Superior Art Glass, PDD Shift

PDD Shift: Tara Lieberg, Great Lakes Aquarium

May 16, 2012 1 Comment

Our third video in the PDD Shift series is an interview with Tara Lieberg from the Great Lakes Aquarium.

Music: “Improv” by Andy Immerman.

Outdoors, Videos Great Lakes Aquarium, PDD Shift

PDD Shift: Kenspeckle Letterpress

May 15, 2012 7 Comments

Next up in our series of people at work, Rick Allen and Janelle Miller of the Kenspeckle Letterpress.

We interviewed Rick and Janelle while they were working to get pieces ready for their current show at Siivii’s Gallery in Canal Park.

Music: “Gone from Minnesota” by Loup-Garou.

Art, Music, Videos Kenspeckle Letterpress, PDD Shift

PDD Shift: Mark Bartel, Frost River

May 14, 2012 No Comments

This semester, UMD journalism student Jamie Merideth has been working at Perfect Duluth Day on a series of interviews with people at work. Monday through Thursday of this week, we’ll present four videos that profile five people and their jobs.

Homegrown banners on PDD

Apr 23, 2012 2 Comments

I’m a little late this year, but here is the annual call. We’re looking for your Homegrown photos! The guidelines are the same as always. We’ll rotate Homegrown images in that extremely horizontal and hard-to-fit-a-photo-into space at the top of the page during next week’s festivities.

Art, Events, Music, Photos Homegrown Music Festival, Weird

Stage Diving Mayors

Apr 12, 2012 2 Comments

[This post originally contained an embedded video that is no longer available at its source.]

I forgot to mark my calendar, but yesterday was Trampled by Turtles Day in both Duluth and Minneapolis. Here’s Don and RT Rybak crowd surfing at First Ave last night after making the proclamation.

Events, Music, Politics Don Ness, First Avenue

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