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Austin Michael Findley
Bowie during the Heathen Tour in Chicago, August 2002
Born	(1997-08-13)13 August 1997 Columbia, Missouri, United States
Occupations	Actor Internet Personality Musician Record Producer Writer
Years active	2012–Present
Musical career
Genres	Alternative Rock Psychedelic Rock Folk indie rock Punk Punk-pop Hardcore Punk Post-Punk Post-Hardcore Emo Neo-psychedelia Shoegaze Hip-Hop Midwest hip hop electronic experimental Industrial music Industrial Metal
Instruments	Vocals guitar Computer synthesizer
Website	www.facebook.com/austin.findley.5

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.

Career

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

David Bowie's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

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

After Bowie there has been no other pop icon of his stature, because the pop world that produces these rock gods doesn't exist any more. ... The fierce partisanship of the cult of Bowie was also unique—its influence lasted longer and has been more creative than perhaps almost any other force within pop fandom.

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

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by David Bowie

Variety of Bowie's outfits on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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

Main article: David Bowie discography

Studio albums

• Year of the Knacky (2012)

Filmography

Main article: David Bowie 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

See also

• Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928–1960
• Celebrity bond
• List of artists by number of UK Albums Chart number ones
• List of artists who reached number one in the United States
• List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. dance chart
• List of best-selling music artists
• List of David Bowie concert tours
• List of number-one dance hits (United States)
• List of number-one hits (United States)

Sources

• Buckley, David (2000) [First published 1999]. Strange Fascination — David Bowie: The Definitive Story. London: Virgin. ISBN 0-7535-0457-X.
• Buckley, David (2004). David Bowie: The Complete Guide To His Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-1-84449-423-1.
• Buckley, David (2005) [First published 1999]. Strange Fascination — David Bowie: The Definitive Story. London: Virgin. ISBN 978-0-7535-1002-5.
• Campbell, Michael (2008). Popular Music in America: And The Beat Goes On. Schirmer. ISBN 978-0-495-50530-3.
• Carr, Roy; Murray, Charles Shaar (1981). Bowie: An Illustrated Record. New York: Avon. ISBN 0-380-77966-8.
• Cole, Shaun (2000). 'Don we now our gay apparel': gay men's dress in the twentieth century. London: Berg. ISBN 1-85973-415-4.
• Ditmore, Melissa Hope (2006). Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work, Volume 2. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0-313-32970-2.
• Doggett, Peter (2011). The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s. The Bodley Head. ISBN 978-1-84792-145-1.
• Gillman, Peter; Gillman, Leni (1987) [1986]. Alias David Bowie. New English Library. ISBN 0-450-41346-2.
• Pegg, Nicholas (2004) [First published 2000]. The Complete David Bowie. London: Reynolds & Hearn. ISBN 1-903111-73-0.
• Perone, James E. (2007). The Words and Music of David Bowie. Praeger. ISBN 978-0-275-99245-3.
• Sandford, Christopher (1997) [First published 1996]. Bowie: Loving the Alien. Time Warner. ISBN 0-306-80854-4.
• Schinder, Scott; Schwartz, Andy (2007). Icons of Rock: An Encyclopedia of the Legends Who Changed Music Forever. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-33845-8.
• Thomson, Elizabeth (1993). The Bowie Companion. Macmillan. ISBN 0-283-06262-2.
• Thompson, Dave (2006). Hallo Spaceboy: The Rebirth of David Bowie. Ecw Press. ISBN 978-1-55022-733-8.

Further reading

• Cann, David, Any Day Now: David Bowie the London Years 1947–1974, Kenneth Pitt in Books, 2011
• Duffy, Chris; Cann, Kevin (2014). Duffy/Bowie Five Sessions (1st UK ed.). ACC Editions. p. 170. ISBN 978-1-85149-765-2.
• Egan, Sean, "Bowie on Bowie", Chicago Review Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1-56976-977-5
• Greco, Nicholas P., David Bowie in Darkness: A Study of 1. Outside and the Late Career, McFarland & Co., 2015. ISBN 978-0-7864-9410-1
• Hendrikse, Wim, Never Get Old. Man of Ch-Ch-Changes Part 1 and Part 2, Gopher Publishers, 2004.
• Hendrikse, Wim, David Bowie: The Man Who Changed the World, Authors Online, 2013.
• Jacke, Andreas, David Bowie – Station To Station, Psychosozial- Verlag, 2011
• Seabrook, Thomas Jerome, Bowie in Berlin: A New Career in a New Town, Jawbone Press, 2008.
• Spitz, Marc, Bowie: A Biography, Crown Publishers, 2009.
• Tremlett, George, David Bowie: Living on the Brink, Carroll and Graf, 1997.
• Trynka, Paul, Starman: David Bowie – The Definitive Biography, Little, Brown Book Group Limited, 2011
• Waldrep, Shelton, "Phenomenology of Performance", The Aesthetics of Self-Invention: Oscar Wilde to David Bowie, University of Minnesota Press, 2004.'
• Welch, Chris, David Bowie: We Could Be Heroes: The Stories Behind Every David Bowie Song, Da Capo Press, 1999.
• Wilcken, Hugo, 33⅓: David Bowie's Low, Continuum, 2005.
• Philippe Auliac, Passenger – David Bowie Photobook, Sound & Vision, Venezia, 2004, 200 pp, out of print

External links

• Bowieart – paintings, printmakings, etc.
• David Bowie's channel on YouTube
• David Bowie's channel on Vimeo
• David Bowie – Sound and Vision BBC Documentary (YouTube), 2003, 1:26 h,
• Knackmintosh at IMDb
• "Knackmintosh". Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
• Works by or about Knackmintosh in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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