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We at MNFX recently created everything you see in this commercial in less than two weeks! Great Production Design by David Weiberg! Built the entire circus in the old Theatre de le Jeune Leune space in one feverish night, the entire circus existed for less than 24 hours. BOOM!

Human Cannonball We'll give everything we've got to get you to ditch your bank for Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union. When you become a member, you'll see we really do help ...

No matter what you may have heard, MNFX had nothing to do with this. We've been too busy making giant Easter candy.

RUSSIA HIT BY METEORITE | FOOTAGE Russia was just hit by an undetected meteorite

Driving in Downtown Minneapolis on Hawthorne, between 10th and 11th Street? Of course you are! Look up! MNFX just installed another billboard! Giant cardboard boxes. It's harder than it looks, we wouldn't want these to become soggy when spring hits!

How many boxes from your last move are still unpacked?

Ever have one of those days, where you feel like . . . . ?

Friends of MNFX, we'd like to announce that there’s a TV show about MNFX co-founder Michael Berglund, that will air starting this Sunday on TPT!

The series, MN Original, profiles local artists from every walk of life.

This half-hour episode focuses on the creation of a piece of sculpture, through conception, research, sculpting, molding, casting, painting and finishing. It’s a piece of ‘Paleo-Art’, a somewhat forensic reconstruction of a bust of the T. rex specimen, STAN. Along the way, we talk about the company Michael founded with David Weiberg, MNFX, and some of the recent fun we've had with Surly Brewing Company.

We haven’t seen the show yet, but we'd be grateful if you gave it a look!

We are indebted to the courtesy and professionalism of Amy Melin and her crew from TPT, and of course, the talents and patience of everyone at MNFX helped with the project and put up with the filming.

The episode, and additional content and video, will also be available on www.mnoriginal.org, after the initial showing of the piece.

Here’s the airing schedule for the show.

Date Time Channel

1/13/2013 6:00 PM 2
1/13/2013 10:00 PM 2
1/14/2013 4:00 AM 2
1/14/2013 1:00 AM SW MN
1/14/2013 7:00 AM SW MN
1/14/2013 7:00 PM SW MN
1/17/2013 9:30 PM Life
1/18/2013 3:30 AM Life

Thanks for tuning in, folks!

Michael

MN Original Visual artist Dougie Padilla’s work reflects his Norwegian Mexican heritage and the ideals of the 1960’s. Hand carved wooden sculptures and moving parts come together in Cecilia Schiller’s interactive automata. Native American bead artist Greg Bellanger is dedicated to keeping Native American craft ...

We're moving.

Honestly don't remember when we moved into our building. It's been something like 20 years . . . until now. Big changes, new space. We'll post pics of the snazzy new digs when the giant pile has been somewhat sorted. Everything's a mess right now!

Even with all that two big projects going out the door from the old shop later this week. These will be the last at that location . . . . .

Stay tuned next week for info on where the future will be built . . . .

RAW BACON SHAMPOO and more! For a series of commercials for the chain Kwik Trip, Production Designer David Weiberg transformed a neighborhood grocery store into a "big box" behemoth. Along the way, we had some fun with product mockups.

Yeah, we'll pretty much create anything. :)