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The Nightowlers Videos

David — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:14:49 +0000

A couple of videos of The Nightowlers acoustic duo songs. See last.fm to download some of our original tracks

The Nightowlers

David — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:24:24 +0000

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

Un Día Importante

David — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:12:47 +0000

Un Día Importante (23 rowing boats) from David Shanks on Vimeo.

Thanks to Stefan for the Music

Drawing Again

David — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:19:15 +0000

More drawings thanks to a gifted Moleskin and some inspiration

Dabbling in Video

David — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:18:25 +0000

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.

Find the Gap on Wix.com

David — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:33:49 +0000

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

The Day People Discovered the Gap

David — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:32:22 +0000

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.

Tentative Step Into Tees

David — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:42:33 +0000

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

More drawings and more thanks

David — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:08:59 +0000

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

Revivalist Music

David — Sat, 24 May 2008 13:20:22 +0000

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