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
Billy Spring Band: on Myspace and Demo in the mix
Posted by David | Filed under Music, Personal
Billy Spring Band and we are now active on Myspace! Have a listen and become our friend @ www.myspace.com/billyspringband
We are currently finishing up a 2 song demo that we will be giving away very soon. Just get in touch for a copy and Ill be happy to send you one. The sound is in and around the indie rock/country genres. Possibly somewhere between Neil Young and Bonnie Prince Billy with some special female vocals in there. The 2 demo songs are definitely on our rockier, less laid back side. I play guitar on the tracks and have designed the demo’s artwork. Let us know what you think.
Tags: Artwork, Billy Spring Band, Demo, Myspace
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
“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
David & Johnny Demo Track
Posted by David | Filed under Music, Personal
David & Johnny: The highly original (thus far) name of the acoustic “home studio” project of David Shanks and Johnny Fulton. Hailing from sunny Larne, Northern Ireland and based in Glasgow, Scotland. Lo-fi melodic acoustic. Influences including Iron & Wine, Great Lake Swimmers, Turin Breaks, Bright Eyes, Daniel Johnston, Moutain Goats etc…
Listen to “Please Don’t Die”
(right click and “save target as” to download)
or simply click play below
Please let us know what you think by posting in the comments section at the bottom of this page.
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