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Ben Olson

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I just like painting scary monsters all the time. And get drinks with friends sometimes. Other than that I guess I just collect art books, listen to public radio and maybe go to a show once and a while. Math or hardcore or something... I like funk too.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Other artists, illustrators or creative people. Anybody who is up for a show once and a while. xxxxxxxxx xx xx xx xx xxThis is supposed to be These Arms are Snakes. I'm proud of this one.......

Music:

Fear before the march of flames, Botch, Man or Astroman?, Breather Resist, These Arms are Snakes, Wesley Willis, Skerik, Don Cabelero, Dillinger Escape Plan, Johny Cash, The Oxes, The Locust, Pleaseasaur, Bear vs Shark, Booker T and the MGs, Curtis Mayfield, James Brown, Tom Waits, Mike Patton, Andre Wiliams, Sweep the Leg Johny, ..tired, I'm still working on this.

Movies:

Time Bandits, Blue Velvet, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf, Scarface, The Big Lebowski, Fight Club, Brazil,

Television:

my tv doesn't work. Well that is my tv fucking sucks. Never buy a Magnovox. I hate it every day.

Books:

The Third Chimpanzee, Guns, Germs and Steel, Good Omens, Geek Love.

Heroes:

This is where i should list my favorite artist types, cool? Francis Bacon, Vincent Van Gogh, Marshall Arisman, Al Columbia, Matt Lines, Taylor McKimmens, Jose Clemente Orozco, Eiko Ishioka, Henry Darger, Adolf Wolfi, Francisco de Goya, Paul Gauguin, N.C. Wyeth, Frederic Remington, Travis Charest, Mike Mignola, Justin Sweet, Craig Mullins, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Arther Rackham, Kiki Smith, Ralph Steadman, Daniel Clowes, Jeffry Jones, Kent Williams, Toulouse-Lautrec, John Singer Sargent, Frank Frezetta, Pablo Picasso, Heinrich Kley, Dean Cornwell, Winsor McKay, I'm not done with this yet...