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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

Writings Update

David — Tue, 25 May 2010 13:03:15 +0000

I’ve pulled together a few different text based pieces I’ve done over time and put them all under Writings

Linear Living

David — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:37:06 +0000

New camera + new places + new inspiration = more video and photos

Ciudad Lineal from David Michael Shanks on Vimeo.

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

The Best Camera is the One You Have With You

David — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:52:05 +0000

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.

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.