Surprise Party

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For Noah, on his birthday in January of 2007.

Blizzard

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In Minneapolis, in February of 2007.

Kid's Section

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Kiddie utopia, clean and colorful and bright, on a Saturday afternoon at the new Central Library in Minneapolis, in February of 2007.

Road Salt

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My car, in Minneapolis in February of 2007.

Rush Hour

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The view at dusk from the Hixon Whitney footbridge over the 94 freeway, Hennepin Avenue and Lyndale Avenue, one of the main traffic nodes of Minneapolis, in February of 2007.

Chase Memory

My good friend Chase Korte died in a car accident last weekend, in Los Angeles. He was 24.

I was lucky to know him, lucky to work with him, and lucky to have all this super-8 footage of him still on my hard drive, from a short film I shot for him last summer.

So, even though he was the writer, director and producer of that film, I took the creative liberty of appropriating his footage and cutting together something of my own, to hold onto and remember him by.

Hope he doesn't mind.

It's a big file, and it doesn't follow any of the video haiku rules. Fair warning.

Hot Dog Rollers

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Hypnotic.

In Minneapolis, in February of 2007.

Porte Saint-Denis

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Pigeon traffic and human traffic, seen through the window of one of my favorite cafés, in the 10th Arrondisement in Paris, in October of 2006.

Department Store

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There's something very reassuring to me about Sears - as all the other department stores work continually to make buying socks and other necessities a hipper and more glamorous experience, Sears just doesn't bother. From the ugly fluorescent lighting to the brown carpet, I don't think it's changed a bit since I was a kid.

Filmed in St. Paul in January of 2007.

Midwinter Thaw

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It's really cold here right now. But about ten days ago there was one gorgeous warm day, when it seemed like spring was coming early... in Minneapolis, in January of 2007.

Supermarket

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Grocery stores are such a normal part of our lives in this day and age that I rarely remember to stop and think about how bizarre and amazing it is, that we have fresh fruits and vegetables shipped from around the world and attractively arranged in refrigerated displays for our culinary convenience.

A hundred years ago, a scene like this really would have been far-out science fiction. With Amy, in Minneapolis in January of 2007.

Foosball

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It can be hard to follow the ball in this video, but I was far more interested in the way the light reflected off the metal poles and the plastic players.

At Stasiu's bar in Northeast Minneapolis, in January of 2007.