Jay Ackley
@jayackley.bsky.social
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Couple of my more recent songs got recorded at Bang Zoom! Studios when we had some spare time in Los Angeles!
Check 'em out here!
jayackley.bandcamp.com/album/broken...
Check 'em out here!
jayackley.bandcamp.com/album/broken...
Broken Toe/Life's So Fun (Split-Singles), by Jay Ackley
2 track album
jayackley.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Couple of my more recent songs got recorded at Bang Zoom! Studios when we had some spare time in Los Angeles!
Check 'em out here!
jayackley.bandcamp.com/album/broken...
Check 'em out here!
jayackley.bandcamp.com/album/broken...
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Excited to announce that Geronimo Was A Beaver, my first puppet film with @jayackley.bsky.social will be making its big screen premiere as part of DOC LA's film festival!!
We're on Saturday 10/25 at 5pm as part of their short films block!
Tickets: filmfreeway.com/DOCLA/tickets
We're on Saturday 10/25 at 5pm as part of their short films block!
Tickets: filmfreeway.com/DOCLA/tickets
October 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Excited to announce that Geronimo Was A Beaver, my first puppet film with @jayackley.bsky.social will be making its big screen premiere as part of DOC LA's film festival!!
We're on Saturday 10/25 at 5pm as part of their short films block!
Tickets: filmfreeway.com/DOCLA/tickets
We're on Saturday 10/25 at 5pm as part of their short films block!
Tickets: filmfreeway.com/DOCLA/tickets
We're in the final stretches of fundraising for this really awesome marionette musical about choosing to be together in community in the face of imminent doom!
Join the fun!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...
Join the fun!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...
The Last Fifteen Minutes
A marionette opera and short film about having dinner together before a giant kaiju steps on you.
www.kickstarter.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
We're in the final stretches of fundraising for this really awesome marionette musical about choosing to be together in community in the face of imminent doom!
Join the fun!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...
Join the fun!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...
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After completing our 30-part Dark Universe saga, we’ve set out to do something new - an all-original cinematic universe of imaginary movies, written, workshopped, and performed on all podcatchers and YouTube.
You are now entering… THE POD UNIVERSE!
Debut episode streaming everywhere now
You are now entering… THE POD UNIVERSE!
Debut episode streaming everywhere now
September 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
After completing our 30-part Dark Universe saga, we’ve set out to do something new - an all-original cinematic universe of imaginary movies, written, workshopped, and performed on all podcatchers and YouTube.
You are now entering… THE POD UNIVERSE!
Debut episode streaming everywhere now
You are now entering… THE POD UNIVERSE!
Debut episode streaming everywhere now
One of my favorite parts of working with @shing.bsky.social is the emphasis on transparency in process! Here's a really fun recap of how our opening number came together for the marionette musical!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...
Update 2: a peek into the songwriting process · The Last Fifteen Minutes
We met our crowdfunding goal last week, thanks to some generous friends, and we are so delighted and happy! I’ve taken a pretty chill approach to pushing this crowdfunding because I have a lot of trus...
www.kickstarter.com
September 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
One of my favorite parts of working with @shing.bsky.social is the emphasis on transparency in process! Here's a really fun recap of how our opening number came together for the marionette musical!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...
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Everyone’s making jokes. I don’t get how you aren’t moved by the pathos of a woman trying, however clumsily, to find one good friend.
How many other ways did she try to find connection before now?
How many other people tossed potato chip money back in her hopeful face?
But she keeps searching.
How many other ways did she try to find connection before now?
How many other people tossed potato chip money back in her hopeful face?
But she keeps searching.
August 21, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Everyone’s making jokes. I don’t get how you aren’t moved by the pathos of a woman trying, however clumsily, to find one good friend.
How many other ways did she try to find connection before now?
How many other people tossed potato chip money back in her hopeful face?
But she keeps searching.
How many other ways did she try to find connection before now?
How many other people tossed potato chip money back in her hopeful face?
But she keeps searching.
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It is true, most of our fabrication process is achieved with tools invented prior to the 19th century.
support a human carving all their actors from wood:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...
support a human carving all their actors from wood:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...
August 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It is true, most of our fabrication process is achieved with tools invented prior to the 19th century.
support a human carving all their actors from wood:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...
support a human carving all their actors from wood:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...
I'm overjoyed to be doing songs for this project! It's gonna be wonderful!!
The Last Fifteen Minutes is a marionette opera and short film about neighbors choosing to have dinner together fifteen minutes before a giant kaiju eats them.
This is a project I'm so excited to make happen, and I hope you will be part of on this journey!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...
This is a project I'm so excited to make happen, and I hope you will be part of on this journey!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...
August 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I'm overjoyed to be doing songs for this project! It's gonna be wonderful!!
This gig is tonight! Try and stay dry out there!
Impending gig! Thursday 7/31 at Young Ethel's in Park Slope. Music starts at 6:30 and I'm on at 7:15!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN7j...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN7j...
Halloween in July - Summon Satan
YouTube video by Jay Ackley
www.youtube.com
July 31, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This gig is tonight! Try and stay dry out there!
Impending gig! Thursday 7/31 at Young Ethel's in Park Slope. Music starts at 6:30 and I'm on at 7:15!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN7j...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN7j...
Halloween in July - Summon Satan
YouTube video by Jay Ackley
www.youtube.com
July 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Impending gig! Thursday 7/31 at Young Ethel's in Park Slope. Music starts at 6:30 and I'm on at 7:15!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN7j...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN7j...
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Here is a little 30 second sneak peak at the work @jayackley.bsky.social and I have been doing for this film.
And our first music preview! This has been a joy, and I hope you get that vibe from seeing this.
And our first music preview! This has been a joy, and I hope you get that vibe from seeing this.
July 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Here is a little 30 second sneak peak at the work @jayackley.bsky.social and I have been doing for this film.
And our first music preview! This has been a joy, and I hope you get that vibe from seeing this.
And our first music preview! This has been a joy, and I hope you get that vibe from seeing this.
Impending Gig Alert!!
youtu.be/oysx7BU49dI
youtu.be/oysx7BU49dI
Gooberfest Promo - Bad Decision
YouTube video by Jay Ackley
youtu.be
May 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Impending Gig Alert!!
youtu.be/oysx7BU49dI
youtu.be/oysx7BU49dI
$190 for 13 years of running red lights on bike (Idaho stop style)? Not the worst
January 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
$190 for 13 years of running red lights on bike (Idaho stop style)? Not the worst
This is one of the coolest projects I've ever gotten to work on! Shing is a brilliant artist and now I know way more about an absolutely absurd and magnificent episode in Idaho's history. Enjoy!
presenting, in collaboration with the inimitable @jayackley.bsky.social, a five minute folk musical documentary, about the time Idaho Fish and Game parachuted 76 beavers out of a plane. www.youtube.com/watch?v=adDE...
geronimo was a beaver
YouTube video by sawdustbear
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2024 at 3:48 PM
This is one of the coolest projects I've ever gotten to work on! Shing is a brilliant artist and now I know way more about an absolutely absurd and magnificent episode in Idaho's history. Enjoy!
This is such an incredible project - can't wait for the release
coming soon - a musical puppet documentary about transporting beavers via parachute and airplane, featuring the catchiest damn beaver song by @jayackley.bsky.social
December 6, 2024 at 6:35 PM
This is such an incredible project - can't wait for the release
This is where my music lives!
jayackley.bandcamp.com
jayackley.bandcamp.com
Jay Ackley
Minnesotan in Brooklyn by way of London; having a sing-song through the dystopia.
jayackley.bandcamp.com
December 6, 2024 at 6:31 PM
This is where my music lives!
jayackley.bandcamp.com
jayackley.bandcamp.com
Every time I see somebody who looks like @davecolon.bsky.social biking around Brooklyn I shout out “Dave Colon!” as an expression of my appreciation for his stellar transit journalism and hopefully sometimes it is actually him.
June 26, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Every time I see somebody who looks like @davecolon.bsky.social biking around Brooklyn I shout out “Dave Colon!” as an expression of my appreciation for his stellar transit journalism and hopefully sometimes it is actually him.
come catch Dylan’s set! And mine’s right after!
I’m playing a unique solo set this Friday for a really cool event that will take place at Wonderville and in a bespoke VR space. My set will be just me and my MIDI keyboard and laptop and will feature some of my orchestrated songwriting, including stuff I’ve never published or performed live.
June 5, 2024 at 1:12 AM
come catch Dylan’s set! And mine’s right after!
Happy Anniversary to @koltreg.bsky.social and @yesabbyyes.bsky.social! One of the most fun times I could have ever imagined having in Columbus!
April 29, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Happy Anniversary to @koltreg.bsky.social and @yesabbyyes.bsky.social! One of the most fun times I could have ever imagined having in Columbus!
March 16, 2024 at 6:22 PM
New Dracula stories are always like "what if Dracula lived in the modern world?" and never like "what if Dracula lived in the modern world & has a big city career & goes back to his hometown to sell his castle to a big corp & falls in love with the village castle preservationist trying to save it?"
March 10, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Made a little Chordulation Station explainer in Downpour! Really cool little point and click choose your own adventure game maker!
downpour.games/~JayAckley/s...
downpour.games/~JayAckley/s...
"So, what is a Chordulation Station?" by Jayajamin
A Downpour game by Jayajamin
downpour.games
March 10, 2024 at 12:45 AM
Made a little Chordulation Station explainer in Downpour! Really cool little point and click choose your own adventure game maker!
downpour.games/~JayAckley/s...
downpour.games/~JayAckley/s...
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Last week on @dohmancedawn.bsky.social we had @jayackley.bsky.social who got to experience One Piece in the most confusing way - a feudal Japan AU where the main character is a cop instead of a pirate! Check it out!
Cover art by @pattenpending.bsky.social
www.dohmancedawn.com/2024/02/19/a...
Cover art by @pattenpending.bsky.social
www.dohmancedawn.com/2024/02/19/a...
February 26, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Last week on @dohmancedawn.bsky.social we had @jayackley.bsky.social who got to experience One Piece in the most confusing way - a feudal Japan AU where the main character is a cop instead of a pirate! Check it out!
Cover art by @pattenpending.bsky.social
www.dohmancedawn.com/2024/02/19/a...
Cover art by @pattenpending.bsky.social
www.dohmancedawn.com/2024/02/19/a...
I would like to invent an instrument that uses the Doppler effect for pitch control
February 26, 2024 at 12:42 PM
I would like to invent an instrument that uses the Doppler effect for pitch control