Barefoot On Spotify and iTunes (to buy, ahem!)
Posted by David | Filed under Music, My stuff, Uncategorized
and on iTunes
Tags: band, Baref, Barefoot, Music, punk
The Nightowlers Videos
Posted by David | Filed under Music, My stuff, Video
A couple of videos of The Nightowlers acoustic duo songs. See last.fm to download some of our original tracks
Tags: Cocoon, Music, The Nightowlers, Videos, Youtube
The Nightowlers
Posted by David | Filed under Music, My stuff, News
The Nightowlers is the late-night mini acoustic folk/lo-fi duo project of David Michael Shanks and Lynzi Wang. Coming about in a shared kitchen in London during scrake of dawn procrastination sessions, the sound is maybe somewhere in and around Damien Jurado, Cat Power and Nouvelle Vague. With no expense spared, all songs were made and recorded using a found acoustic guitar and a laptop.
2 free songs for download over at our new last.fm page.
Please do leave some feedback here, or on last.fm if you have an account.
The Nightowlers
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Nightowlers
When cabin fever sets in over Christmas holidays: Valen comes to town
Tags: acoustic, download, free, mp3, Music, nightowlers
Writings Update
Posted by David | Filed under Uncategorized
I’ve pulled together a few different text based pieces I’ve done over time and put them all under Writings
Tags: line drawings, stories, text, writing, Writings
Linear Living
Posted by David | Filed under Artwork, Photography, Video
New camera + new places + new inspiration = more video and photos
Ciudad Lineal from David Michael Shanks on Vimeo.
Tags: art, Canon IXUS 100 IS, figures, metro, shadows, spain, Video
Un Día Importante
Posted by David | Filed under Artwork, My stuff, Video
Un Día Importante (23 rowing boats) from David Shanks on Vimeo.
Thanks to Stefan for the Music
Tags: art, Canon IXUS 100 IS, colour accent, inspirations, soundtrack, spain, Video
Drawing Again
Posted by David | Filed under Artwork, Drawing, My stuff, Personal
More drawings thanks to a gifted Moleskin and some inspiration
Tags: art, B&W, Black and, david michael shanks, Drawing, flickr, line drawings, pen and paper
The Best Camera is the One You Have With You
Posted by David | Filed under Artwork, Photography
My interest in photography has recently been rekindled thanks to Chase Jarvis and the nifty iPhone Best Camera app. The idea behind the app and the user upload project at thebestcamera.com is to open up impressive, quality photography to the masses. Makes sense given that camera carrying mobile phones are almost ubiquitous in modern society.
See the video for more details and below some of my bestc.am shots – all taken, edited and uploaded to various social networks on the go in a matter of seconds.
Tags: App, Best Camera, Chase Jarvis, iPhone, Photography
Dabbling in Video
Posted by David | Filed under Artwork, Music, My stuff, Video
Christmas toys have given rise to the opportunity to make a few videos to accompany some of my music. Early days of testing the Kodak Zi8. I hope to have some more story driven videos and better recordings come January.
Tags: david michael shanks, HD, lo-fi, Music, nightowlers, Video, Zi8
Find the Gap on Wix.com
Posted by David | Filed under Artwork, Drawing, My stuff, Personal
I’ve been playing with Flash on the excellent free site builder at www.wix.com. Flash is renowned for being bloated, cumbersome and incompatible and I must admit it generally is, but visually and playfully it really is the way the web should be: just plain slick.
Here is a Flash website made in wix, to a house a short illustrated narrative I recently drew.
Click the screen cap to see my story in its little Flash nest
Tags: art, black and white, Drawing, flash, gap, life, line drawings, narrative, story, the day people discovered the gap, wix, wix.com
