sharky h. towers.com

I'm an artist, photographer and musician living in Santa Barbara County, California. I have several music projects including "Jaws", a rock project with former and current members of RKL, Lagwagon, Bad Astronaut, Mad Caddies, King City & others. I also have a solo project tentatively called "1976". I record in my home studio which consists of gear & instruments I've collected in the past couple decades. Sometimes I produce, record, mix and write songs for other artists and friends. I shoot pictures using my Mamiya 6, Nikons D70 & F100 and a variety of esoteric 120 & 35mm film cameras (Agfa, Braun, Holga, Lomo). I also shoot moving pictures on a Canon HV20 and on my collection of 8mm cameras. I'm involved with several Websites/RSS feeds. A few of them are Liberation Media, Jaws Attacks!, Drunken Audible and SharkyTowers.com.

April 20

Let's Review: Politics

I’ll try and break this down since I am notoriously verbose:

The media shapes public opinion in political campaigns (especially Presidential campaigns).
The traditional media has been marginalized by the Internets (and is getting more and more marginalized).
Old narratives are therefore weaker, and candidates who truly represent change can rise up without playing into the tired gutters in which traditional media narratives tend to flow.
Barack Obama (and to a degree John McCain) is the first Presidential candidate to truly take advantage of this new paradigm.

Thanks Internets! You continue to make the world a better place.