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An internet waystation.

it me - michael eades

👋 Hi, I'm Michael Eades; a long time Internet dweller, design dabbler, dangerously amateur developer, online social experimenter and frequent curator.

Currently working as a Product Manager at Mosaic. I also keep the lights on at a boutique record label called yk records, a podcast network called We Own This Town and a t-shirt shop called Nashville Galaxy. Previously, I built things for Vimeo OTT, VHX, KNI and Spongebath Records.

This site is an archive of ephemera I find entertaining; tweets, videos, random links, galleries of images.

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find me elsewhere

 

contact

Reach out via twitter or good ole email if you have anything to discuss. I do my best to reply in a timely manner.

for the record: "yewknee" is a nonsensical word with no literal meaning but a unsurprisingly nerdy etymology. It is pronounced, "yoo • knee."

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ongoing projects

yk Records →
started in 2009 as a conduit for music that friends had no plans on releasing. now it's a full fledged boutique label focused on releasing quality music from a variety of styles. you know, like a label does. Here's a sampler on Soundcloud and a different one on Spotify. Options.

We Own This Town →
Originally a Nashville area music blog, this site has grown into a full blown podcast network as of 2018. It's an attempt to bring together creative folks about a variety of interesting topics.

I host this show all about Nashville local music outside the expectations of the city. I'm biased but all the shows are good.

Nashville Galaxy →
An online t-shirt shop featuring beloved and defunct Nashville area businesses. Very niche audience on this one but I tend to think niche is good.

some noteworthy other things

Chris Gaines: The Podcast →
published along with co-host Ashley Spurgeon; a limited series podcast that takes an absurdly researched deep dive into the time that Garth Brooks took on a fictional personality named Chris Gaines.

Garth Brooks Chris Gaines Countdown →
to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the time Garth Brooks took on the fictional personality Chris Gaines and appeared on Saturday Night Live in character, I GIF'ed the entire episode. It's a lot of GIFs; please use them.

Whiskerino →
a social network built around communal beard growing for four months. yes, it was as weird as it sounds but equally fascinating and enjoyable.

Moustache May →
an offshoot of the beard growing contest mentioned above. equal amounts of oddball fun but only a month long.

Summer Mix Series →
before all music was streaming everywhere, Internet music fans would swap zip files of music. it was truly a strange and wonderful time.

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The Oatmeal on Piracy

I Tried To Watch Game Of Thrones And This Is What Happened

I assume you've seen this comic from The Oatmeal entitled I tried to watch Game of Thrones and this is what happened. It's been making the rounds this week and has likely been featured on plenty of the sites you read every day. However, if you have not read it please do so now because it perfectly captures the mentality and rationale involved with pirating TV shows and movies. Stealing is stealing but at least there is usually a reasoning behind it... however loose.

Even more fascinating than the comic is the follow-up discussions regarding the issue - such as. Heavy Hangs The Bandwidth That Torrents The Crown from Andy Ihnatko. He eloquently nails two substantial thoughts from the comic - 1) torrentors are largely impatient and feel some sense of being owed instant gratification for their desires and 2) Content providers are missing a huge opportunity by not having media available in a more timely fashion (look to the way the UK puts out DVD's for a better idea of this).

Anyway, this is a whole lot of text for a silly comic strip but it's a subject worth the time to think about. You'll never defeat piracy entirely but it could be substantially curbed if the old model of content delivery was rethought and made more immediate. Right?
Fri. February 24th, 2012, 7:31am

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