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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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Infrasound

Infrasound

So, the other night I saw Don Hertzfeldt speak about his short films and some of the techniques he uses when crafting every part of the production. Off-handedly he mentioned that he works in samples of Infrasound - sound that exists in a frequency range below what the human ear can audibly hear but, apparently, can still be sensed by the human body. While the existence of this kind of sound isn't really news I was unaware of all the fascinating facts that go along with it. Such as:
  • Infrasound is emitted naturally by avalanches, volcanoes and other severe weather phenomena
  • Infrasound is used by a number of animals - whales, elephants, rhinoceros, giraffes - to communicate over long distances.
  • When felt by humans, the frequencies can (and often do) invoke a feeling of fear, anxiety and a generally heightened emotional state.
  • It has been attempted to be deployed in a weaponized state in actual warfare and for crowd control.
  • Researcher Vic Tandy claims that these waves may be the cause of people seeing ghosts, as the resonant frequency of the human eye exists in the same range. Though there are skeptics, he still wrote a paper about it called The Ghost in the Machine.
There's more on the topic but that's a nice broad overview of the Wikipedia. I'll let you dive in more from there if you're curious. It can lead to some interesting destinations.
Wed. April 18th, 2012, 7:24am

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