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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 VP of Product at Smarter Apps. 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 threads 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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Friday Videos - April 22nd, 2016

The heat is on for the May 1st Reboot. There is just over a week left to get my act together and relaunch the site. Fingers crossed that this kind of pressure fuels the fire and I deliver something that everyone enjoys as a needed upgrade and fulfills some of my own personal goals that I wished to accomplish. I guess we'll find out in about a week, huh?

Enjoy!
  • Alice in Wonderland via Google Dream - you know that Deep Dream processor that Google has? Well, someone paired Alice in Wonderland with some classic paintings for the Tea Party scene and the results could not be more wonderful. Stunning to say the least.
  • While My Guitar Gently Weeps - I don't know a ton about Prince. I am familiar with the hits and I certainly appreciate his penchant for flair but I don't have a deep well of mind-blowing videos to draw from to pay the man some tribute. However, this Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame inductee video features the man himself taking the solo and, as usual, he absolutely destroys it. Be sure to stick through to the very end where he nonchalantly catapults the guitar from his body, never to be seen again.
  • Makin' My Way Downtown - I absolutely don't want to know any back story here. It's weird for weird's sake and that's fine by me.
  • My Name is Bady - you're welcome. This kid is a gem.
  • SF2 Gun Cat - making mods to videogame weaponry for hilarious results is nothing new but this particular mod is lightyears above and beyond what you've come to expect.
  • Swimming Robot Snake - I know I've seen this before but something about revisiting it recently really creeped me out and fascinating me. Can't look away.
  • Titantic Sinks in Real Time - it's funny that there's a 2hr 40min video of a ship sinking but it's also kind of tragic to think about how brutal and scary it would have been to actually experience this mind-numbingly slow death.
Also, revisit Batdance when you have a chance, it's a legitimately awesome piece of work.

One last thing, you must watch this. Hasbro recently hosted a weird Facebook event where three of their mascots played Hungry Hungry Hippo's but weren't allowed to speak.. so Topher Chris put some Eyes Wide Shut music behind it and made it ultra weird. Very creepy.
Fri. April 22nd, 2016, 7:29am

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