Ned Hurley: Film Editor / Media Producer

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It's a goddamn crime that the Coca-Cola version of this song slaps 1000 times harder than this studio version. But the Coke version was never mixed into quad so I'll take what I can get.

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Good things are coming. Dessa, Lazerbeak, & P.O.S spoke with us today about First Avenue & 7th St Entry and MOUNTAIN, their erstwhile tour van that will on display in our First Ave exhibit at the Minnesota History Center starting May 4th.

Now we just need to get the damn thing finished.

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I don't usually take pictures of myself on a shoot, but then again I don't usually spend the day shooting interviews on the First Avenue stage.

Good things are coming soon. Keep your eyes peeled for the First Avenue Exhibit at the Minnesota History Center. Mere months away!

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The 1968 Exhibit is back at the Minnesota History Center for the 50th anniversary of the year. To commemorate it, we’re doing a series highlighting the reverberations of ‘68 all these years later. 

It was an absolute honor to meet Rob Eller-Isaacs and to put this piece together about his time at Resurrection City and his continued efforts to bring back the Poor People’s Campaign today.

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All of October we were rolling out these amazing and untold stories of African Americans in Minnesota during the WW1 era. I’m immensely proud to have shot and edited these.

Check out all four episodes here.

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Rethinking Public Spaces Soapcasts

August 2017 will definitely go down as one of the busiest months the Soap Factory has ever programmed. As a result, I got to spend the second half of July meeting with and interviewing a whole host of fascinating artists with astounding upcoming work.

So see below to have a listen to these four recent episodes and learn about these amazing projects.

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Rethinking Public Spaces: Juxtaposition Arts

Listen to the latest Soapcast in which artists, Cameron Downey and Namir Fearce talk about their role in Juxtaposition Arts’ newest Mural which will be unveiled on July 29th as part of FLOW.  

ABOUT THE PROJECT

This summer Juxtaposition Arts (JXTA) will build on the momentum they’ve created over the last 3 years around the celebration of Black August by combining the respective placemaking and art-based engagement skill sets of JXTA’s Public Arts, Tactical, and Environmental Design studios; using these skills to bring 2017 Black August programming outdoors on the intersection of Emerson and West Broadway Avenues in North Minneapolis. To set the stage, in celebration of black life, JXTALab’s Public Art & Mural Teen apprentices are creating a new on-site mural. This new mural imagines black life beyond surveillance and policing, while referencing the aesthetic style of Aaron Douglas.

PUBLIC ART APPRENTICES:

Namir Fearce, Jahliah Holloman, Nya Jones, Kyla McCuren-Porter, Maná McBurnie, Savitri Mann, Imani Gates, Cameron Downey, and Salem Anderson-Murre.

JUXTAPOSITION ARTS

Juxtaposition Arts (JXTA) is a youth development organization and a social enterprise located in North Minneapolis. JXTA envisions the youth of North Minneapolis entering the creative workforce as dynamic innovators and problem solvers with the confidence, skills and connections they need to accomplish their educational and professional goals, and to contribute to the revitalization of the communities where they live and work.  

This project is supported and presented as part of Here & There: Rethinking Public Spaces, The Soap Factory’s 2017 public programming. Rethinking Public Spaces presents artist projects that enliven underutilized spaces throughout Minnesota, rethinking public space and considering what it means to place-make through a contemporary, celebratory, and critical lens.

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‘The Wall’ by Lamia Abukhadra and Leila Awadallah

Check out the latest Soapcast with artists, Lamia Abukhadra and Leila Awadallah as they discuss their Rethinking Public Spaces project, The Wall. The installation will be on view at Prospect Park Community Garden from August 5th through August 20th.

FEATURING ARTWORK AND PERFORMANCES BY:

Martin Gonzales, Alec Lossiah, Ananya Dance Theatre, Lula Saleh, Joel Valdez, Sagirah Shahid, Karmel Sabri, Oscar de la Luna, Nailah Taman, Bella Yaga

Improvisation piece: Leila Awadallah, Louie Darang, Essma Imady, Marggie Ogas, Sarah Abdel Jalil, Colin Walker Wingate, Veera Vasandani, Itly Thayieng, Khadija Siddiqui, Seng Xiong, Pedro Pablo and Jordan Lee Thompson.

DATES OF PERFORMANCES/ACTIVITIES:

Opening Ceremony August 5TH, 6:30PM – 8:30PM Performances, 6:30PM – 8:30PM

Paint The Wall August 13TH, 2:00PM – 5:00PM

Performance Night August 13TH, 6:30PM – 8:30PM

Closing Reception/Destroy The Wall August 20TH, 6:30PM – 8:30PM

LOCATION:

Prospect Park Community Garden

2909 4th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414

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Maria Cameron: Is Your Rebellion Sitting Still?

Check out the latest Soapcast with artist, Maria Cameron as she discusses her Rethinking Public Spaces project, Is Your Rebellion Sitting Still?, a series of installations throughout the city of Rochester, Mn. 

Join Maria for a walking tour of the installations on August 19th at 10am at one of the installation sites at 14 4th St SW, Rochester, MN 55902.

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Andy Sturdevant and Sergio Vucci: Common Room

Check out the latest Soapcast with artists, Andy Sturdevant and Sergio Vucci as they discuss their Rethinking Public Spaces project, Common Room, a series of artist-led tours throughout the Twin Cities. 

Common Room is a series of artist-led tours of Twin Cities sites, with each tour themed around a specific concept that the group uses as a lens to explore facets of the urban geography — in the past, these themes have included cats, alleys, skyways, fishing, freeway construction, weather, community kitchens, personal memory, and many more. Common Room is the work by Sergio Vucci and Andy Sturdevant, along with a rotating lineup of contributors. Now in its eighth year, is using the occasion of the Rethinking Public Spaces project to expand the scope of its programming for this summer to travel beyond The Soap Factory, and various neighborhoods of the Twin Cities by foot, bicycle and bus. Common Room’s themes in 2017 will include silence, moving images, sacredness, islands, neighborhood music, and more.

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At the start of May, I was lucky enough to attend the NEH’s Digital (Age) Storytelling Workshop in NYC, hosted by the Lower East Side Tenement Museum.

It was an incredible experience: a keynote with Laurie Anderson, dialogues with media mavericks Amelia Wong, Jake Barton, Phillip Tiongson and many others.

Getting to meet a range of museum folk from across the country was immensely rewarding and something I rarely get to do in my position, so this was a fantastic opportunity to get out and be an ambassador for MNHS.

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MAY 4, 2016 - 125/366 THIS TUNNEL UNDER THE PILLSBURY “A” MILL

Today I got a tour of the Pillsbury “A” Mill, which, upon completion in 1881, was the world’s largest flour mill: a title it held for the next 40 years. Water from the Mississippi River was diverted from St. Anthony Falls, and forced through this tunnel, which turned a turbine and provided power for the mill. (The pipeline on the ground is a recent addition.) You can’t walk through the tunnel, but you can at least look down it, and imagine the water rushing through, helping to make Minneapolis the flour milling capital of the world.

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Very cool down there. Editing the promo for the upcoming tours right now.

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I had a killer time shooting Behind The Scenes footage on my longtime friend Chris Jopp’s newest horror short MEOW. 

Click here to see if you can spot me in this spherical image by Kari Jo Skogquist.

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Heavy hearts all around the MHC today as we remember Prince.

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We got word this week that our multitouch table experience that debuted in the Suburbia exhibit at the Minnesota History Center has won a MUSE award! We won’t know until the award ceremony exactly what that award is, but it’s pretty exciting news.

This definitely makes me feel better about the hours I spent in Photoshop painstakingly stitching decades-old aerial photographs together.

More info on the table here. Photos by Jim Spadaccini of Ideum, that’s me with the many chins on the left edge of the top photo.

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Visit Original Link

This marks the fourth year I’ve been interviewing art(ists) for the Soap Factory and Northern Lights’ collaboration Art(ists) on the Verge. The ongoing fellowship has brought to light many fascinating and intriguing tech-savvy artists and works and this year is no exception.

Click above to listen to Meredith Lynn discuss her project West Fargo, Minnesota, which spawned from a geographic glitch in Facebook’s location services, effectively annexing a section of Fargo, ND and “giving it back” to Minnesota.

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Out on the road in Marine on St. Croix, frontrunner for most adorable town in Minnesota, interviewing the men who helped save and restore the site of the first sawmill in the state.

This is Chuck Arnason, whose law office sign still hangs next to Marine's very authentic general store. He's been retired for several years, but it seems like no one wants much to change around here. I don't blame them. They've cultivated and maintained a beautiful little town and I would hate to see it ever change too much.