Check out the website I made for Jonah's Seafood

I'm very excited about my first venture into paid work for web design: www.JonahsSeafood.com

I genuinely love these guys, they have great, food, atmosphere, bars, and banquet rooms. It's an excellent venue for many types of occasions from corporate meetings to wedding parties. Hand's down it's the best seafood in Peoria.

Here are some sections of the site I'm proud of:

http://www.jonahsseafood.com/banquets
http://www.jonahsseafood.com/reservations
http://www.jonahsseafood.com/banquets/banquet-menu-pricing
http://www.jonahsseafood.com/banquets/contact
http://www.jonahsseafood.com/waterfront-dining/tonight-s-menu

The Green Christian

http://www.thegreenchristian.org/

Fleet Foxes

I'm very excited about their upcoming album.

White Winter Hymnal from Grandchildren on Vimeo.

Recent Tracks

Recent Tracks by Jake Hartnell

These are some things I've been composing and working on in my spare time using just my guitar, my MacBook (and the pathetic microphone that comes with it [thank God for compressors]), and a midi-keyboard. I've preformed and engineered everything on these tracks and I think they sound pretty damn good considering my limited equipment. I'm looking to start producing bands soon, or perhaps doing sound editing in films.

The first is about my time in the Amazon Rain Forest. The second is about two lovers dancing in a zero gravity ballroom; one about to be crushed, the other about to do the crushing. Or that's the gist of it.

Website

Did I ever mention I had a website? Probably because I've been neglecting this blog while building it! www.JakeHartnell.com. Yes! I am the only one!

Unconscious Jungle do ABC's "The Look of Love"

My band was interviewed on the BBC last Sunday as part of Radio Manchester's '40 years of Manchester Music.' You can listen to the interview and our cover of "The Look of Love" by clicking here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p009tws2/BBC_Radio_Manchester_Introducing_Forty_years_of_Manchester_music_covered/

We come in at about 1:23.30. (I say "we" but I actually 3,000 miles away).

Your Brain on Computers

The New York Times have been doing an excellent series called "Your Brain on Computers." It looks at the side effects of computer usage, and how these machines that have become such essential parts of our lives that we are starting to be changed by them. It's very interesting reading:
  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technology/07brain.html?src=me&ref=general
  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/garden/10childtech.html