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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 3rd, 2015

Lots going on this week! Namely, more goodness from Makeup and Vanity Set. Really excited for Wilderness to be released next week. I know everyone is gonna love it.
  • mirror. - big thanks to Chris for reminding me how weird the Internet can be (delightfully).
  • Y'all got a cigarette? - Is this real? Probably not. Do I care? Absolutely not.
  • Christopher G. Brown's Teletubbies Joy Division Edit - I ran across this late last week so it's probably old news to everyone but high-contrast, black-and-white Teletubbies set to Joy Division is awesomely scary.
  • AAA Teen Driving Distractions - do you have a child? Watch this and really bathe in the fear that one day this could be your kid. I've never seen a more effective campaign against texting and driving - this is it.
  • Viner baby dance loubia bled - this little dude is the BEST. via Becky.
  • Amazing Dancing Guy during Music Festival - pretty generic title but stick with it.. this dude has some serious moves. My favorite is what I call "Tiny Feet".
  • Drunk guy sings 'Bohemian Rhapsody' inside police car - you'd think this would be a sloppy clip of a drunk guy singing a part of the Queen classic but, nope, it's the entire song and it's actually pretty accurate. The man is a fan.
  • Raiders of the Lost Archives - apparently lots of the Lucas classic pairs up extremely well with several old adventure films and an old Scrooge McDuck comic. I had no idea. via Austin.
  • Cocktails & Dreams - Mike Upchurch took the Tom Cruise movie Cocktail, re-edited it as a sitcom and inserted new actors all over the place. It's actually brilliant (albeit a bit long) and I'd actually love to see this sort of thing become more of a reality. It's awkward but it works.
  • The Musical Chair - this is Art, right? Why am I drawn to this? I can't explain it but I watched the whole thing.
That's it! Have a great weekend and if you need some further distraction please queue up the Talking Heads Stop Making Sense and enjoy it from start to finish. It's a wonderful thing.
Fri. April 3rd, 2015, 7:16am

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