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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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SF 2024

I'm off in San Francisco this week for some conferences. It's been at least a decade since I've been out here and I'm enjoying soaking it all in. Posts will be light in the meantime. Here's a smattering of things I've been looking at to tide you over:
  • Superculture - a network of podcasts and magazines "dedicated to the underobserved." Love the tagline, the mission and the website is mesmerizing. Do click through. Lovely.
  • Wordpress going after WP Engine - this deserves its own post as there are a slew of articles to round up but the TLDR is: Wordpress is going after WP Engine for, basically, building a business that looks like it's part of the Automattic family. It's a fascinating situation because Wordpress is open source, so WP Engine has the right to do what it is doing but they are absolutely being deceitful in their execution. At the moment, I'm siding with Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg.
  • Vector Halftone Maker - nice web tool for making some compelling images. Keeping this around for future projects.
  • Talking with Hands - I've been working with this artist for over a decade but they've really hit their creative stride in the last few. There's a new single coming out on Friday and a new album in October which I think speak to many of the topics that readers of this site will appreciate. The promo we are rolling out has been super fun.
  • Musee Mecanique - since I'm San Francisco, peering into a coin operated entertainment zone with relics "ranging from orchestrions, coin operated pianos, antique slot machines, and animations, down to small bird boxes" seems appropriate. "Orchestrions" is a fantastic word.
Talk soon. Take care.
Wed. September 25th, 2024, 7:20am

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