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benji

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About Me

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I am a graphic artist from Huddersfield. I have been a director of 2 companies by the age of 26 and gave up on them both due to my own obsessions with art and partners obsessions with money. Neatly fits under the statement business ethics.Last year I took the whole year out worked all over the UK with my best friend Andy (doing the electrics for a chain shop)and did about 3 graphic jobs in total. just restarting my career propperly with my own company, with no partners to get in the way. working on art work and marketing for the music industry.When I was 24 I set up my own fashion and music magazine getting it across the north of england and establishing connections with record labels, fashion houses, live venues and clubs.currently developing my own fashion brand and advertising, marketing and design company. The Marketing company is called Soti Standing for my philosophy on design being "sweet on the inside"Websiteclient information

My Interests

art and design. books and stuff about the human condition....ok and girls

I'd like to meet:

me, have a quick chat about the past. tell myself to not forget to be good

Music:

to much to list really all of it that isnt rubbish. rubbish is anything that isnt interesting or good to dance to one way or another

Movies:

Eastern cinema, Independents from all over the world.My favourite movie is hana-bi (fireworks) by Beat takashi (Takeshi kitano)

Television:

cartoons only oh and sometimes lost

Books:

so many you couldnt even begin to write a list see heroes for authors

Heroes:

Beat Takeshi, Picasso, Dega, Gustav Moreau, Klimt, Van Gough, Mira, Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin, Leonardo, Manet, Gerrald Scarfe, Bill Murray, Jason Lee,Daft Punk, Quannum, Tricky, Portishead, Massive Attack David Mitchell!!!!- best british writer alive today, Ian Anderson-TDR, Peter Saville, James Sommervile- Attik Haruki Murakami, M/M paris, Paul Auster, Prince, Dave Mckean, David Bowie, RZA, John Darnielle, MF Doom, Yohji Yamamoto The Neptunes,Sound Garden, Pearl Jam, Jay-z, Chuck d, James Dean, Hunter S Thompson. Dostoyevsky, Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Mos Def, Muhammad Ali, Danger mouse. All of the Groundwurq collective.

My Blog

The lack of finery in my life leads me to more illustration less poetry and a fear of arrogance

Last week my sensei taut me the word for humble in Japanese, I know it begins with a D other than that the word will have to be rediscovered on Wednesday. I will have to ask "sensei mo ichido, onegai...
Posted by benji on Mon, 05 May 2008 02:37:00 PST

idle thoughts.

Old sketchbooks stacked 10 high, half a year in each. Accurate feeling I have expressed in private all my life. I pick them up when it is time to clean and the temptation to read them is unbearable. ...
Posted by benji on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:35:00 PST

The fields of Elyssum will have to wait.

  Ok so I guess to put thoughts on the screen I was sort of lost for a while with not much to say. I recently read ’Sputnik Sweet heart’ by Murakami Haruki. About half way through ...
Posted by benji on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:02:00 PST

update.

It feels like the last 8 years of my life are a blur. I remember clearly leaving university at 22, I remember most of the details of that year. It began with me graduating university feeling disappoi...
Posted by benji on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:30:00 PST

A story that could end badly

A story that could end badly ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />  Last year I did not do much work. In fact I had basically retired for a while. I was just ...
Posted by benji on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:33:00 PST

nonesensual logic

The heat is stifling. The water condenses on the side of the plastic bottle, another container for the plastic microbes to digest whenever they evolve. The sun shower lasted for several hours and now ...
Posted by benji on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:23:00 PST

A beautiful dream

  I am not who I know I am but I see through these eyes as if they are my own. The light is limited but at the edges I can make out the details fractured ideas sounds muffled and distant and some...
Posted by benji on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:18:00 PST

update fever pitch

Fever pitch I have not written anything in a while outside of my sketchbook. Couple of reasons for this, First I have decided computers are overall boring and destroy creativity in its freeform. Sec...
Posted by benji on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:16:00 PST

just a random rant

The light of day penetrates the window sill and the darkness of night drifts past into history. "Now that I am older, my hearts colder." An arcade fire lyric swirls around my head. The lyric makes ...
Posted by benji on Tue, 15 May 2007 12:46:00 PST

life death and the here after

On the 22nd of march i was in a work van. I was working all the hours of the week at the time. I had a design contract just completed and was working extra nights with Andy on shop refits. I have nev...
Posted by benji on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 02:21:00 PST