The New Yewknee

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yewknee.com

An internet waystation.

👋 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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So, if all went as planned, you should be seeing a freshly redesigned version of yewknee (those of you reading from the RSS, please check it out). I promised myself I would have it done before I departed for XOXO and I'm on my way out the door. Is the site 100% complete? No way. Is it a vast improvement over the prior design that had been in place since 2007? Yes, I believe so. I'd rather go ahead and "ship" this rather than try to tie up all the loose ends.

Please note the addition of, for lack of a better name, the Syndicated Feed in the right hand sidebar. It's a combination of links from Twitter, Delicious, Vimeo, Youtube and, eventually, more. It was inspired by the likes of Andy Baio, Robbie Player and Stellar.It will allow me to be adding new content to the site throughout the day - even if I'm not actively blogging (or if I'm out of town).

There are, undoubtedly, bugs present in this design but I wanted to go ahead and get it out there rather than try to perfect every single little thing. The rough spots will be smoothed as we move forward. I hope you like it. I'm proud to finally have something new for you.

Thu. September 13th, 2012, 4:28am — #blog

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