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Benknight

I am the world, I am the future...

About Me

Human, living on the planet earth...dreaming of being a true artist like the widely acknowledged, Bruce Nauman.

My Interests

art, arting, retarting, snogging, musica, dancing, painting, driving late at night/early morning, world's fair/expo ruins, drawing, snowboarding, typography, typographie, suspension, tt:track team, exchange, design management, the moment, new leadership paradigm, Ella DuBois, Zoe Rose, triple bottom line, triple top line, perception, memory, bbc worldnews, reading non-fiction books (typography, philosophy, etc...), telling shawn where to go, architecture, giving rhett false ideas that i'm actually going to chill, ssx (- tricky), being mysterious, risk gd - ps2, peter saville, graf, 3Es, 3Ps, tagalog, archaic greek, concept, psychonauts, physicality, phenomenology (merleau-ponty), professing, aliasasses, california light and space art movement, mts, reid miles, grid, anti-grid, the body, abstraction, lacan (ink), pb, omniglotta, todd james, telling nicky negative about conquests in korea/china town astoria, john cage's hpschd, spoken/oral languages, kuku?, solid form of languages (scripts of the world), xbox1080, sustainability, body language, ayo, installation art, layers, levels, prognosticating, to, nature preserves, the delegate's lounge, tops, international civil service, making fun of crispin glover of g-unit, last but far from least: rachael berezin, etc...

I'd like to meet:

I have many Human Interests, much like these great ones: Mirage KDM, Eleanor Roosevelt, Maury Merleau-Ponty, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Emily Dickinson, Ali Ibrahim "Farka" Touré, Franklin Delano Bluth, et al.

Music:

EVERYTHING...hmmm...to name a few (alfabetikally)____ _Ali Farka Toure, Beautiful Skin, CR, Drive Like Jehu, EPMD, Four Tet, Garden Variety, Heligoland (Tim Friese-Greene), Ink and Dagger, J.S. Bach, Kraftwerk, LCD Soundsystem, Manic Street Preachers, Nation of Ulysses, Ol Dirty Bastard, Pulp, Quicksand, Regular Fries, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Underworld, The Verve, The Wipers, X Busted X, Year Future, et al

Movies:

being there, the new world, way of the gun, local hero, the life aquatic with steve zissou, breaking away, city of god, concert of wills, nada, north by northwest, style wars, bob roberts, heist, city of the lost children, 32 short films about glenn gould, heat, the search for one-eye jimmy, le fabuleux destin d'amélie poulain, trzy kolory: bialy, etc...

Television:

what's this? ...well maybe, hbo's the wire

Books:

typographie, emil ruder; being and circumstance, robert irwin; difference and repetition, gilles deleuze; phenomenology of perception, maurice merleau-ponty; motel chronicles, sam shepard; etc...

Heroes:

most likely: YOU.

My Blog

Pragmatic Leveraging of Systemic Design Problems in the World.

The value of design management is within the design manager, for if the design manager does not manage via design; then almost always the bad design, manages the manager.
Posted by Benknight on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:09:00 PST

The Al Gore Weather Machine

So I have got some details of The Gore's new weapon.Contact me and I'll tell you more about the infamousmachine that just won't stop.
Posted by Benknight on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:46:00 PST

Dutch plan orangutan web dating

A zoo in the Netherlands plans to set up a webcam to help its orangutans form long-distance relationships with potential mates in Indonesia.The Indonesian orangutans are kept in small cages at a centr...
Posted by Benknight on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:25:00 PST

i'm back

canada was great... i can see why robert bringhurst and glenn gould make/made it their home.
Posted by Benknight on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

tales-from-the-parkside.blogspot.com

Ah Tales from the Parkside... so it seems as if onebloggg isn't enough for me. I am branching out. This one will be a bit more specific, but withmore randomness about Brooklyn... and moreinternat...
Posted by Benknight on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 07:31:00 PST

The new Heligoland album; Pitcher, Flask & Foxy Moxie

wholly brilliant. I suggest it to ALL. more info and samples from the super Talk Talk producer (the later stuff): http://www.heligoland.co.uk/main.htm  ...
Posted by Benknight on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:47:00 PST

1964 bazooka incident

In 1964 Guillermo Novo bought a bazooka, a portable rocket launcher, for $35 in an Eighth Avenue shop and rebuilt it. He planned to use it to kill Che Guevara, who was scheduled to address the UN Gene...
Posted by Benknight on Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:23:00 PST

Excerpt from: Boats is Saintlier than Captains... by Robert Bringhurst

If boats is saintly, what shall we say of the sun, on whose benefactionsall of usall things and creatures who inhabit the earthare utterlydependent? The world we live in cannot last forever. It is r...
Posted by Benknight on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:02:00 PST

plenty for all.

Hello fans and fannettes,Not much news; more work, less time. I wish the reverse was happening. In the meantime, just keep listening to Plenty for All by Hot Snakes; It canget you through even the har...
Posted by Benknight on Wed, 26 Oct 2005 02:30:00 PST

typographia omniglotta - myspace test blog

Nederlands (Dutch)typografieFrançais (French)typographieDeutsch (German)n. - Typographie, BuchdruckerkunstΕλληνικ&# 942; (Greek)n. (τυπογ`...
Posted by Benknight on Tue, 30 Aug 2005 08:17:00 PST