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
The Day People Discovered the Gap
Posted by David | Filed under Artwork, Drawing, My stuff
Here is a clip of a short narrative Ive been experimenting with lately called “The Day People Discovered the Gap”. Leave a comment and let me know your thoughts.
Tags: audio, black and white, Drawings, line drawings
Tentative Step Into Tees
Posted by David | Filed under Artwork, My stuff
Here are a couple t-shirts with my designs you can purchase online in various sizes (click the shirts for access to my webshop courtesy of the excellent www.spreadshirt.net)
design front, text back
Tags: clothes, design, graphic design, line drawings, shirt, t-shirts
More drawings and more thanks
Posted by David | Filed under Artwork, Drawing, Links, My stuff, News
Firstly a big thanks to everyone who came along to my exhibition in Godt Brød and who gave me feedback.
As those pictures and drawings come down, I’ve put up 12 new line drawings up on flickr. The drawings date from the end of summer to yesterday evening and the themes are somewhat disparate rannging from Kissing to Kerouac to Cancer Research to Leonard Cohen to Ikea and The Dance. You can also browse my pics using this very nice flash gallery by airtightinteractive.
They Said Repent Repent
Beauty And Comfort In A Twisted Logic
Yet When He Called Out Not Even An Echo Replied
Tags: B&W, Cancer Research, concepts, Exhibition, Ikea, Kerouac, Kissing, line drawings, Loenard Cohen, new drawings, The Dance, Themes
A Sunday Evening Ditty – Reaction to…
Posted by David | Filed under Artwork, Music
“Reaction to the things that have recently come before”
click play below to listen
A short, first-takes, Sunday-evening song
mp3 download
Tags: David Shanks, download, free, mp3, Music, postrock, reaction, Reaction to the things that have recently come before, song
Godt Brød Exhibition
Posted by David | Filed under Artwork, Drawing, News, Personal, Photography, Uncategorized, Writings
Facebook event link
Info/Price List
As of today I have a selection of my pictures and drawings on display in Godt Brød ecological bakery/café, Trondheim.
Godt Brød Trondheim
Thomas Angells gate 16
7011 Trondheim
73 53 61 40
Click here for a map
Opening hours are 8am-6pm everyday except Sunday.
It’s an excellent bakery/café right in the city centre so please drop in, have something to eat, take a look around and leave a note in the guestbook!
The exhibition is a mix of things old and new. On display are my previous black & white photographs from France and Scotland, a more recent surreal/dark series on loneliness and solitude and also a few of my line drawings that are fresh off the press.You can also look at/buy postcards and my collection book Times Beyond the Tree.
You can browse my photos and drawings here
If you are interested in buying any photos/drawings/prints just get in touch for a price and details on size and framing: davidmichaelshanks@gmail.com
Thanks,
David
Tags: David Shanks, Drawings, Exhibition, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Trondheim
More going on over there
Posted by David | Filed under Artwork, Drawing
emotional eviction, originally uploaded by David Shanks.
More recent line drawings and photos from Cuba are now available over on my flickr page
Tags: art, black and white, David Shanks, Drawings, line drawings, Pictures
“Times beyond the tree” is available online
Posted by David | Filed under Artwork, Drawing, My stuff, News, Personal, Photography, Writings
A collection of my recent photographs, line drawings, texts and song lyrics are available in the form of a book portfolio called Times beyond the tree (hardback and softback!) Click the cover below where you can find out about the book, preview it and order it online.
Times beyond the tree is a short portfolio selection of my recent photographs, line drawings, texts and song lyrics.
Loneliness, solitude, emptiness.
Awareness, connections, excitement.
Beauty.
A tiptoed journey that turns dead-end glances to next door’s shadows
An awkward, onward struggle that can never be as expected
A couple lie in bed and listen to one another breathe
An old woman is reassured as a flag signals her death
Two strangers find out they have already met and spoken without words
And a windowsill sunset somehow connects it all together in perfect harmony
The title is a reference to Chris Marker’s photomontage La Jétée . A man travels back in time to save civilisation and find his former love. While in a park, the couple stare at a cut cross-section of a giant sequoia tree that is marked with historical dates. The man points somewhere beyond the tree and says “This is where I come from”.
- Preview a low quality selection of the book directly here
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