User:Knackmintosh

Austin Michael Findley (13 August 1997), is an American musician, record producer, writer, actor, and an internet personality known as Knackmintosh. He made an album called, Life Speed Ahead. It featured many aspects of folk, Shoegaze, Neo-psychedelia, and several other styles of music. He made a handful of books: The Masquerade, The Lawyer From St. Louis, and Mirror of Death.

Early life
Austin was born in [Columbia], [Missouri], [United States] on August 13th, 1997. He was raised in Mid-Missouri for most of his life. He went to school to various schools in Mid-Missouri, ranging from the hills of [Vienna], to the flatlands of [Jefferson City]. He got into singing when he was very little. But it wasn't until he took a trip with his dad that his life began to change.

When he was in the truck with his dad, he played, [Vampire: The Masquerade: Redemption], the battery ran out on the laptop that Austin was playing his game on, so he decided to listen to Eminem, because he was wondering what had happened to the famed rapper of detroit. That was when he was twelve or thirteen. He also decided to listen to Fall Out Boy. At the time, he was into Fall Out Boy, which he listened to; like Eminem, he was wondering what had happened to them.

What got Austin Findley on Youtube, was no one other than...[Tobuscus], if it weren't for [Eminem] or [Tobuscus], Knackmintosh would've never been on Youtube, Austin Findley would've never released music, Austin would've never wrote the books that he wrote.

2011: Early Video Game Walkthrough Career
In 2011, Austin got on YouTube, and like [Tobuscus], decided to do a walk through on Dead Island; at that time, was a game about zombies and survivors defending themselves. He bought an adapter on the internet for twenty dollars, so he could record Dead Island from his Xbox 360. He started off awkwardly, because he never did that kind of work before. He took on the name of Mr. Comic, or Mr. Comicful; that was short lived. He decided to make another channel, which is known as Knackmintosh.

2012: Year of the Knacky
It was in April 12th, 2012, when Knackmintosh became the man that he would be. He started off releasing High-Resolution versions of lyrics videos that he would listen to. Unfortunately, that also cost him his monetization. But his music career started, when he learned about LMMS, free daw software that he began to experiment with sound and music all together. His first song was named, "Dance Parade," a simple song that used synthesized guitar rifts to get the sound from the program. His music started out from being very simple, to being very complex.

In the same year he was listening to various [Emo] bands such as: [The Promise Ring], [Texas is the Reason], [Built to Spill], [Braid], [The Get Up Kids], [Hot Wire Circuit], [Jets to Brazil], [Fugazi], [Rites of Spring], and [Jawbreaker]. He would also listen to fellow rappers such as: [Common], [Ludacris], [Dr. Dre], [Snoop Dog], [Notorious B.I.G], [2Pac]

2013: Planned Albums
After Year of the Knacky was released, Austin adopted a more industrial sound for his planned albums: Code Blue, and Code Red; none of those albums ever happened because of technical difficulties. He still got the music out but not in the same way that Year of the Knacky did.

==2014-2016: Knackmintosh is Back Knackmintosh started making new music inspired by [Shoegaze] and [psychedelic rock]. He listened to My Bloody Valentine, which inspired him to make other songs. His sound became more British by the minute. He also started back on his video game walkthrough career.

==Present: Present Austin Findley plans to make less modified electronic music inspired by Folk. He also plans to go to school to work on computers in the summer. He might start back on Video Game Walkthroughs.

Acting career
Austin Findley was involved with several plays in high school. These included: The Death of a Saleman, Edipus, Our Town, and several others.

Musicianship
Austin Findley's inspired by David Bowie. He owes his vocal delivery to him. My Bloody Valentine couldn't be thanked enough for their influences to his sound engineering.

Legacy and influence
Bowie's songs and stagecraft brought a new dimension to popular music in the early 1970s, strongly influencing both its immediate forms and its subsequent development. A pioneer of glam rock, Bowie, according to music historians Schinder and Schwartz, has joint responsibility with Marc Bolan for creating the genre. At the same time, he inspired the innovators of the punk rock music movement. While punk musicians trashed the conventions of pop stardom, Bowie moved on again—into a more abstract style of music making that in turn became a transforming influence. Biographer David Buckley writes, "At a time when punk rock was noisily reclaiming the three-minute pop song in a show of public defiance, Bowie almost completely abandoned traditional rock instrumentation." Bowie's record company sought to convey his unique status in popular music with the slogan, "There is old wave, there is new wave, and there is Bowie". Musicologist James Perone credits him with having "brought sophistication to rock music", and critical reviews frequently acknowledge the intellectual depth of his work and influence.

Buckley writes that, in an early 1970s pop world that was "Bloated, self-important, leather-clad, self-satisfied, ... Bowie challenged the very core belief of the rock music of its day." As described by John Peel, "The one distinguishing feature about early-70s progressive rock was that it didn't progress. Before Bowie came along, people didn't want too much change." Buckley says that Bowie "subverted the whole notion of what it was to be a rock star", with the result that

Buckley concludes that "Bowie is both star and icon. The vast body of work he has produced ... has created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture. ... His influence has been unique in popular culture—he has permeated and altered more lives than any comparable figure."

Through continual reinvention, his influence broadened and extended. Biographer Thomas Forget adds, "Because he has succeeded in so many different styles of music, it is almost impossible to find a popular artist today that has not been influenced by David Bowie." In 2000, Bowie was voted by other music stars as the "most influential artist of all time" in a poll by NME. Alexis Petridis of The Guardian has written that Bowie was confirmed by 1980 to be "the most important and influential artist since the Beatles".

Numerous figures from the music industry whose careers Bowie had influenced paid tribute to him following his death; panegyrics on Twitter also came from outside the entertainment industry and pop culture, such as those from the Vatican, namely Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, who quoted "Space Oddity", and the German Foreign Office, which thanked Bowie for his part in the Fall of the Berlin Wall and referenced "Heroes". At the 58th Annual Grammy Awards, Lady Gaga performed a medley of nine Bowie songs.

Awards and recognition
Bowie's 1969 commercial breakthrough, the song "Space Oddity", won him an Ivor Novello Special Award For Originality. For his performance in the 1976 science fiction film The Man Who Fell to Earth, he won a Saturn Award for Best Actor. In the ensuing decades he has been honoured with numerous awards for his music and its accompanying videos, receiving, among others, two Grammy Awards and three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male Artist twice and in 1996 the award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.

In 1999, Bowie was made a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. He received an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music the same year. He declined the royal honour of Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2000, and turned down a knighthood in 2003. Bowie later stated "I would never have any intention of accepting anything like that. I seriously don't know what it's for. It's not what I spent my life working for."

Throughout his career he sold an estimated 140 million albums. In the United Kingdom, he was awarded 9 platinum, 11 gold and 8 silver albums, and in the United States, 5 platinum and 7 gold. Five of Bowie's studio albums appear on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

In the BBC's 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons, he was ranked 29. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him 39th on their list of the 100 Greatest Rock Artists of All Time. Bowie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 17 January 1996 and named a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in June 2013. In 2016, Rolling Stone proclaimed Bowie "the greatest rock star ever".

In 2008, the spider Heteropoda davidbowie was named in his honour. On 5 January 2015, a main-belt asteroid was named 342843 Davidbowie. On 13 January 2016, Belgian amateur astronomers at MIRA Public Observatory in conjunction with radio station Studio Brussels created a "Bowie asterism" of seven stars which had been in the vicinity of Mars at the time of Bowie's death; when appropriately connected they form the lightning bolt on Bowie's face on the cover of his Aladdin Sane album.

Discography
Studio albums


 * Year of the Knacky (2012)

Filmography
Selected film roles


 * The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) as Thomas Jerome Newton; received Saturn Award for Best Actor
 * Just a Gigolo (1978) as Paul Ambrosius von Przygodski
 * Christiane F. (1981) cameo as himself
 * The Snowman (1982) narrator in re-released version
 * Baal (1982) as Baal
 * Yellowbeard (1983) the sailor wearing shark fin – The Shark
 * Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) as Maj. Jack 'Strafer' Celliers
 * The Hunger (1983) as John Blaylock
 * Jazzin' for Blue Jean (1984) as Vic and Screaming Lord Byron
 * Into the Night (1985) as Colin Morris
 * Labyrinth (1986) as Jareth the Goblin King
 * Absolute Beginners (1986) as Vendice Partners
 * The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) as Pontius Pilate
 * The Linguini Incident (1991) as Monte
 * Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) as Phillip Jeffries
 * Dream On (TV series) (1991) as Sir Roland Moorecock
 * Basquiat (1996) as Andy Warhol
 * Gunslinger's Revenge (1998) as Jack Sikora
 * Everybody Loves Sunshine (1999) as Bernie
 * Mr. Rice's Secret (2000) as William Rice
 * Zoolander (2001) cameo as himself; nominated for MTV Movie Award
 * The Prestige (2006) as Nikola Tesla