Over the past year I've done quite a bit of thinking about this site, yewknee.com. Its original purpose was to showcase various findings from across the Internet and share them. These days, I rarely spend time casually browsing for visual inspiration and, frankly, platforms like Twitter or Instagram are far better at surfacing that content. A blog like this was always a bit of a curatorial role to surface interesting content but social media helps to remove that need. That's not to say my opinion on what is neat isn't important but it's not a service that is necessary per se.
My day job at Vimeo takes up a great deal of time and I'm generally juggling various projects for We Own This Town and yk Records when I do have some spare time. Beyond that, I'm looking to spend time with my fiance and, ya know, relax a little. It seems that this site has been pushed to the far back burner. If you're a regular reader, I'm sure you can tell.
I'm not sure what this little rant will yield but I'd like to make this site useful or interesting in some way; even if that means scaling it back. I'm 95% convinced the Twitter Likes are going to be removed as we stroll into 2021 and I hope to reduce the visual anchors for most posts. Overall, a bit of a shruggie in terms of what's next here but just know that if you're still reading, something is brewing. If you have preferences on what that might be, let me know.
Just wanted to drop a quick humblebrag on my own site that I'm embarking on my third year of extremely regularly publishing of my We Own This Town Music podcast. Over the course of the previous two years, I've published an episode every single week. That's 104 episodes. That may not seem like a lot but I'm the only person curating the music, recording the VO, editing the episodes and making the artwork. I'm not complaining but I am proud of keeping it up for so long. I may have even earned myself a break! Maybe.
I realize that keeping up with the fringes of the local Nashville music scene is a niche bit of content but if you're interested, you can subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Google and anywhere else. Please do, I need that validation!
For as long as I can remember, I am in a constant struggle with my laptop to have enough disk space to do the work I need to do. I'm also constantly baffled by this because there's no reason I shouldn't have enough space. With that in mind, I recently came across this quick tutorial on clearing out Adobe Cache files; temporary files buried in the ~Library structure of your machine that can take up tons of space and are, essentially, trash.
While I'm sure they serve a purpose, they don't need to be around forever and if you're struggling with diskspace like I have been, it's not a terrible idea to clear them out. I regained hundreds of gigs of space. While this was a massive relief, it came with a bit of frustration that there doesn't seem to be any way to do this natively. Premiere offers a "clear cache" option per project but who is going to open up every project they've ever worked on clear a cache? You'd think the Creative Cloud app would have an option for this but nope, it doesn't!
TLDR: if you're struggling with disk space, try out the above instructions, you may find supreme relief.
I think more people should do this, and I plan on doing it in the days ahead.
I enjoy “detoxing”, of all things. Clothes. Shoes. Various Things. We spend so much time online, you need to be actively making it a more enjoyable place. Keep what serves you. Discard the rest. https://t.co/sk4XgmvXgB
2020: MY YEAR IN REVIEW: This was nobody’s favorite year and yet, it was a good year for my endeavors. Here’s everything I produced this year. I think some of my very best work is in this lot.
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While we're on the subject of wrapping up 2020, I would be remiss to not point out all the good work done over at We Own This Town, the podcast network I run. We posted 221 episodes over 171 hours of podcasts. It's kind of a lot! I know there are a ton of podcasts out there but we seem to be finding an audience for ours, so we keep going.
Much like the struggle of celebrating music releases, promoting podcasts during a good chunk of the year felt quite frivolous. People being evicted, bars and restaurants shut down, music venues on the constant brink of closing.. it was (and continues to be) daunting. Fortunately, resources like Nashville Free Store sprung up to help - literally - give away aid to communities and we did our best to promote and support endeavors like that.
I wrote a big lengthy We Own This Town Wrapup if you're interested. I'm happy with the progress we have made and hope to figure out a way to make it more beneficial to the community in 2021.
