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
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
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
Revivalist Music
Posted by David | Filed under Music, My stuff, Video
I found some videos of my old band Barefoot from Glasgow . Head over to the my music section to check them out. You can also find more Barefoot songs at our Myspace
Tags: band, Barefoot, glasgow, Music, punk, revivalist music, scotland, scottish punk, Video
