Music Entries ~
The Kick Awesome Show: Episode 1
Welcome to The Kick Awesome Show! That's right, Nate and I have decided we need to hang out more, so why not in front of a camera? We're going to attempt to talk about cool and interesting things every week so go hit that subscribe button now.
Being that this is our first shot the format's still up in the air a bit. But that's ok, we know you'll tell us what you love and don't love …
Keep Reading
DesignersMusic.com: Find & Share Great Music with Other Designers
First off, let me say that we're psyched to finally be able to share this project with you. We believe that side projects don't work unless you're passionate about them. Well, guess what? We love music and we love design. They go hand in hand, really. So we decided that there should be a place where designers can find new music recommended by other designers: DesignersMusic
Go play with it now …
Keep Reading
What Happens When We Try to Make a Video
One of our super cool secret projects is very, very close to launching so we decided we would make a short video promoting it. The problem is that we can’t keep our lines straight for more than two seconds, especially me (Nate). I am pretty sure I screwed up every single line I had. We thought it would be fun for all of you to see the stuff that doesn’t make the video.
More Dirty Spy Rock! - The Problem Solver
Jump into your Aston Martin and don’t forget the cuff link grenades because there’s more huge riffs and mumbly rad rhythms headed your way! See yourself walking calmly through a hail storm of enemy fire while unleashing your own semi-automatic barrage of cooly menacing munitions only to stop, raise an eyebrow, and then shoot the sniper out of the window behind you without looking. Oh yeah, it’s that kind of a song.
What are you waiting for? Get your Dirty Spy Rock! Download …
Keep Reading
Dirty Spy Rock! - Free Music
One night, as I sat in the office/studio, I was overcome with the desire to write a song. A spy song. I grabbed my guitar and began to pound out the sneakiest riffs and rhythms I could muster. Yes, yes, this would do.
If I were a spy this music would play every time I was chasing a car around the winding Swiss mountain roads, or single handedly besting the brutish thugs of my arch nemesis.
Spy dialog motto: it doesn’t matter what you say as long as you sound cool …
Keep Reading
Things Troy Said - New Music
I’ve tried a couple of times to start this post because it is quite difficult to describe our friend Troy, much less his music. Up until the last two years, he was that guy that you knew who popped into town, you hung out and he told you about his unbelievable adventures and hijinks, and then disappeared for another 8 months. Now, he’s still that same guy, but he just stays in town.
During all that time while he was in and out of …
Keep Reading
The Gory Details! - Recording Little Rooms
Up until a few days ago, you probably only knew FortySeven Media as those guys that make kick-awesome websites. But before there was a FortySeven Media, there was rock! (Insert Jack Black-like air guitar solo here.)
You see, back before Jon and I started FortySeven Media, we started a band with a couple of our friends. We wrote lots of songs, played more shows than we could keep track of, and didn’t record nearly enough. In fact, only one full length album and …
Keep Reading
FREE Song Download from Heroes or Ghosts New Album
It’s been one crazy year here at 47m, and we’re doing our best to go out with a bang! It may come as a surprise to you, but we do more than design cool websites. We also make the rock and roll. And we finally have some of the rock and roll to share with you. Now between the two of us, I’m not the engineer so I’ll leave the gory technical details to Nate, but I can honestly …
Keep Reading
New Music From Apryl Lynn
If you’ve been reading the blog, you might remember us posting about some of our top secret media projects. Apryl Lynn’s With This Breath is the first of those projects that we are releasing out into the wild.
Apryl isn’t your average singer/song writer. She avoids the whiny artist who complains over a couple of chords stereo type, and gets straight to into the soaring rock choruses. Or was that electro-disco-rock beats? She isn’t afraid to give the song what it asks for. …
Keep Reading
Blog
Categories
- Design
- Business
- Tutorials
- Design Hope
- Apple
- Kick Awesome Show
- Music
- ExpressionEngine
- Personal
- category archives
Recent Articles
- The Kick Awesome Show: Episode 4
- Tips for Freelancer Websites - Making Your Site Awesome
- The Kick Awesome Show: Episode 3
- The Kick Awesome Show: Episode 2
- Tips for Freelancer Websites - The Groundwork
- archives
Popular Articles
BestChristianDesign is helping give churches inspiration for their next project. Good call, guys.
Seth Godin reminds us to enjoy and take advantage of the uphills.
Stop announcing your new project. Just do it.
Rock and Roll people, Rock and Roll.
To all you staff designers out there, here’s a link for you. (via @ryanlascano)
Fascinating look into the music business.
Derek Sivers posts some great advice about balancing your life.
Apryl Lynn
With This Breath
@ryanirelan Hate that, too. Was hoping it would grow on me but too many panes all over the place. Too much like my desktop :D
I've noticed I'm not noticing my spelling errors. I need more sleep.
ExpressionEngine
The best Content Management System for designers. Feature rich, completely customizable, and easily extendable.
Basecamp
Basecamp is the smarter, easier, more elegant way to collaborate on your internal and client projects.
