Monday, December 12, 2011

This Week in (Uploaded) Pictures

Paper Antler snaps Sims riling up the crowd at Doomtree's final night of Blowout week at 1st Ave. Massive!

City Pages gives us a tasty tour of the Donut Cooperative. Full slideshow here.


Erica Rivera snaps a frosty window pane. Pretty!


Shon Troth and Alana Gordhamer of Pull Jewelry shill their wares at CO Exhibitions' World (craft) Fair on Saturday.


Mason Meisch gets an arty shot of his MOAB (The MOAB is, apparently, a movie projector/popcorn maker/BBQ/Karaoke machine/tandem bike).


Tom Riggle has lost his marbles.


Janey Winterbaur and fam trim the tree.


Steven Vander Horck shoots a terrifying photo of god knows what.


Marc Mastel finds #nokings on an East Hennepin sidewalk.


Brandon Jay Sutton finds some "art" at his bus stop.


Mark Jackson snaps a crazy shot of the window blinds at Peavey's Spices in Uptown. Our brain hurts looking at this.


Who says you need lessons? Photo by Karl Pearson-Cater.


Anne Tonolli Cook went to the Santa Crawl in St. Paul!


Ronnie Cooper spots a huge weiner.


Beth Bowman makes meat.


Sohail Akhavein and friends play...holiday strip Sorry? We can dig it.


Damon Thrift gets nerdy with his holiday baking!


Dirk Duane snaps a colorful photo of friends at the Uptown VFW's Ugly Sweater Party. That's one epic Cosby sweater!


Lea Anderson captures an adult human pyramid at a holiday party. We can't imagine this ended well!


We LOOOOOVE Michael Gaughn's dog, Toby.


Mandi Roberts makes some fancy Christmas balls. Festive!

Upload a cool pic this week? Send us a link for consideration in next week's edition to omg@letoilemagazine.com.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

The special guest for Cecil Otter's Doomtree Blowout set tonight is...

...Ira, First Avenue's mascot! (AKA @FirstAveBoss)



Aww!

Submitted by @jahnapeloquin

Gawker Rips On Minnesotans

Well, if this isn't the most offensive thing we've ever read about Minnesota, we don't know what is.

News anchor Annie Stensrud of KEYC-TV Mankato, Minn., had some trouble getting through her broadcast on Sunday. Like, could-barely-get-through-a-sentence, slurring-every-third-word trouble. I figured she was drunk, until someone reminded me that most Minnesotans talk funny and have difficulty forming simple thoughts, and that Stensrud's inner Lena was coming out. The most likely scenario, to be honest, is that she's both drunk and Minnesotan, which is a fairly common state of affairs in Minnesota.



Thanks @165harvester for the tip
Submitted by @marrina.

Video of the Day: Socializing with @Kareemy

Socializing with Kareem Ahmed, a video by Chris McDuffie.


Via @kareemy

Submitted by @marrina.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Tweet Of The Day

This.
Via @hannibalburess.
Submitted by @marrina.

Working out with Bon Iver

Now you too can work out the Bon Iver way!


In all seriousness, this is pretty damn charming.

Via Daniel Weekly Huiting
Submitted by @jahnapeloquin

Doomtree's "No Kings" gets frosted

We're at the halfway point of #BlowoutVII (AKA Doomtree Week) and we're starting to get hungry. Cue cake decorator extraordinaire - and MPLS.TV contributor - Hannah Silk Champagne and her cake in honor of Doomtree's #NoKingsalbum:


Via @hsilkchampagne
Submitted by @jahnapeloquin

Local director's video for Kathleen Edwards premieres

The music video for Kathleen Edwards' "Change the Sheets" premiered today, and it comes courtesy of prolific local director Dan Huiting. Huiting's the man behind City of Music (which recently partnered with Pitchfork) and was also a major contributor to the Time.com-lauded video version of Bon Iver's self-titled album. (The sort-of local connection: Edwards is Justin Vernon of Bon Iver's girlfriend.) Bonus: Erik Hess, a super talented local photographer, also helped shoot some of the time lapses in the video.



Via Daniel Weekly Huiting on Facebook
Submitted by @jahnapeloquin

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Chris Strouth kidney saga lands a spot on Twitter's Stories of the Year

One of the most inspiring local stories of the year came as a result of a Twitter exchange between Chris Strouth, local musician/filmmaker/producer and a man called Scott Pakudaitis who gave him his kidney. The story got a significant local coverage, and now it's getting the national recognition it deserves. Chris's story is currently featured on Twitter Stories, a new website about people who have used Twitter in an interesting way.

Do you remember how it all started? With a single tweet saying: "Sh*t, I need a kidney."


Via @caerickson
Submitted by @marrina and @jahnapeloquin

Monday, December 5, 2011

Weekend Twitterings

Hello and welcome to Weekend Twitterings. This edition is literally packed with LOL's and OMG's, and also a lot of L.O.V.E. Scroll down and see..

How do you drop your pants during a PPT presentation??



Yep.


Classy.


Hey, it could be worse. You could have a White Castle hangover.


!!


Where was this??


Congrats Christopher!


LOL.


You're the man!


Congrats you guys!!


Ugh.


We do loove to party.


This exchange is hilarious.


NO!


So, it begins


A lot of you wanted the premiere of Virgin Diaries. How about that kiss?


Cute.

Submitted by @marrina.