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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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What Is Blog?

Over the past year I've done quite a bit of thinking about this site, yewknee.com. Its original purpose was to showcase various findings from across the Internet and share them. These days, I rarely spend time casually browsing for visual inspiration and, frankly, platforms like Twitter or Instagram are far better at surfacing that content. A blog like this was always a bit of a curatorial role to surface interesting content but social media helps to remove that need. That's not to say my opinion on what is neat isn't important but it's not a service that is necessary per se.

My day job at Vimeo takes up a great deal of time and I'm generally juggling various projects for We Own This Town and yk Records when I do have some spare time. Beyond that, I'm looking to spend time with my fiance and, ya know, relax a little. It seems that this site has been pushed to the far back burner. If you're a regular reader, I'm sure you can tell.

I'm not sure what this little rant will yield but I'd like to make this site useful or interesting in some way; even if that means scaling it back. I'm 95% convinced the Twitter Likes are going to be removed as we stroll into 2021 and I hope to reduce the visual anchors for most posts. Overall, a bit of a shruggie in terms of what's next here but just know that if you're still reading, something is brewing. If you have preferences on what that might be, let me know.
Wed. January 6th, 2021, 6:54am

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