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Ben

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About Me

I’m currently working as a freelance illustrator/animator in and around London. I have recently worked for the Bloomberg financial news channel, Orange Mobile, Friends Of The Earth, The Little White Witch (an alternative therapy and health food company in Baltimore Maryland) William Fitzsimmons (A musician from Pennsylvania) Red Bee media and the Poke London design agency. I'm currently working on a new project with Orange as well as a number of smaller projects for various people in the US and UK.'doo be doo doo', what else?I love sailing and travel down to Salcombe in Devon a couple of times a year to try and improve my immense capsizing skills and falling off boat skills!I'm a big fan of European cinema and even though some of the films I force Helen to see with me bore us both to tears occasionally a classic gem comes along and inspires and motivates me to get on with my work! ha!Thats about it anything else you want to know just ask!

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My Interests

Sailing Snorkelling Cycling phew! I'm out of breath already! What else? Karting is something I want to do more of! Film, in particular European cinema Traveling (but not in an annoying backpacker kind of way!) Music, lot's of it as I venture on my possibly endless quest to find the ultimate tune! A bit of Motor sport mainly F1 but some A1 and DTM action goes down rather well!

I'd like to meet:

I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

Music:

Stuff like, and including: Alison Krauss Death Cab For Cutie Iron & Wine The Postal Service Joshua Radin Josh Ritter R.E.M Schuyler Fisk Sufjan Stevens William Fitzsimmons The Weepies

Movies:

Amelie, Blood Diamond Broken Flowers City Of Lost Children The Constant Gardener Delicatessen Donnie Darko Downfall The Edukators La Haine Kontroll Lost In Translation The Mothman Prophecies Napoleon Dynamite Sideways The Squid And The Whale War Of The Worlds and pretty much all M. Night Shyamalan Films.

Television:

Band Of Brothers Carnivàle Friends Hustle Spooks Top Gear Without A Trace

Books:

Catcher In The Rye The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night TIme I Am Legend The Road

Heroes:

Tom Twyker, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Sophia Coppella, Michael Stipe.

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My Blog

To begin at the beginning

It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, cr...
Posted by Ben on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:53:00 PST

Molly the pirate cat!

Helen and I have a new cat! Her name is Molly!She wants to be a pirate!..........I don't want to be one of those people always posting pics of their fluffy friends but look! awwww! Sho Shweet! Ahem en...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 28 May 2007 10:51:00 PST

Coney Island

Here is a short film I recorded on the way to Coney Island. I put it to an Interpol track but in retrospect Coney Island by Death Cab For Cutie may have been a better choice but it didn't really fit. ...
Posted by Ben on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 02:10:00 PST

Entire movie in a photo!

I have been trying to find this guys work for ages but I never knew his name. And so it was very hard to track him down. I saw one of his photos once and was blown away by it! I would still not know ...
Posted by Ben on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:42:00 PST

Pigs Ear Folk Ale 2007

Here is a little thing I designed for my favorite event of the summer, which mainly consists of me sitting behind a sound mixing desk drinking Pints of Harveys ale!!!!Superb!So please come if you can!...
Posted by Ben on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:18:00 PST

I'm Native American on my Dads side.

So I was doing a bit of research the other day on my ancestry. I'm Native American on my Dads side. (which was apparently very clear when I was born as the Nurse's called me Little Chief Sitting Bull ...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:10:00 PST

Open Your Eyes

So have you seen the Snow Patrol Video for Open Your Eyes?Well I saw it for the first time last week and it blew be away! Bang!I thought it was awesome!When you start watching it you realize you are t...
Posted by Ben on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:05:00 PST

Kraken

Kraken scare the pants off me!The thought of something that big lurking under the waves waiting to swallow my ferry on the way over to France isn't a pleasant feeling I can tell you! It all started wi...
Posted by Ben on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 04:19:00 PST

Hungarian Girl's In Bear Suits!!

I saw a trailer for this film called Kontroll about a year ago on the internet and was blown away by it! The Budapest Metro, a girl in a bear suit, people getting squished by trains what more could yo...
Posted by Ben on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:10:00 PST

PLANS

Right, so I'm standing in a record shop looking through the usual piles of CD's not expecting to find anything that's new or remotely exiting, when I stumble across Plans by Death Cab For Cutie! Now I...
Posted by Ben on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:21:00 PST