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Benny's Interests
General
Making stuff, playing guitar, playing synths (turning the knobs in all the "wrong" directions), making noise, singing random jibbling stuff, respecting ambiance, composing, jamming, learning how to make more stuff, meeting new people without realising it, watching mundane things and thinking how eloquent they are, analysing form, light and shadow and then drawing it months later, being artistic AND technical (bitches), drunken adventures through the town with friends, fixing stuff, thinking up hypothetical configurations and inventions absent mindedly without ever actually making them, pubbing (when I have money), house parties, quiet nights in with mates (well playing Burnout and cards), the Marina at 5am, occasionally being quite camp and eccentric, not making enough stuff because of worrying about not making enough stuff, reminiscing, musing, talking about something for ten minutes after everyone's stopped listening, being bemused when so few seem to care about some things I think are the best thing ever and deserve better, sleeping, questioning the man, walking above the subverted masses, using my mind, thinking about what I am and what to do. Music, guitar, synthesisers, art, bands, gigs, theatrics, expressionism, sculpture, media arts, animation, 3D modelling, photography, film, philosophy, psychology, existentialism, chaos, subconsciousness, anarchy, nature, reptiles, technology, audio engineering, custom PCs, video games, Guinness, curry...
Music
Anything I like or anything that is clever. Rock, Alt Rock, Prog Rock, Art Rock, "Indie" Rock, Rock and Roll, Punk, Funk, Ska, Folk, Salsa, Dance, Electronica, Drum and Bass, DJ, Experimental, Jazz, Blues, Fusion, Classical...
AC~DC, AFI, Alice Cooper, Aphex Twin, Antonio Lauro, Bill Bailey, Berlioz, Coldplay, C-Toan, Chopin, Daft Punk, David Bowie, Deep Purple, Deftones, Depeche Mode, Dirty Vendetta, Eels, Eric Roche, Fatboy Slim, Feeder, Foo Fighters, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, John Martin, Jack Johnson, Franz Ferdinand, Gipsy Kings, Goldie Lookin Chain, Hawkwind, I Monster, Infected Mushroom, Iron Maiden, Kasabian, Kings of Convenience, Kraftwerk, Litz, Led Zeppelin, Leom Jelly, Less Than Jake, Levellers, Massive Attack, Muse, Neil Young, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, NOFX, Oi Va Voi, Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Reel Big Fish, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Sam Richardson, Scissor Sisters, Schubert, System Of A Down, Tenacious D, The Cure, The Futureheads, The Go! Team, The Mars Volta, The Prodigy, The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Who, Verve, Jimmi Hendrix, Pascals, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Fernando Sor, Matteo Carcassi, Villa Lobos, Mauro Giuliani, Sergei Rachiminov, Albert Hammond Jr., The Killers, Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Miles Davis, Schubert, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead...
I've been playing guitar for eleven years, with a mostly acoustic folk and classical repertoire, and I've been playing rock guitar for about five years. Now I play both pretty much equally, with an alternate rock style inspired by Tom Morello, Matt Bellamy, Jimi Hendrix, Steve Vai, David Gilmour, ... and Benhood Danesh-Kazemi.
Looking forward to: the next Conspirators gig,WOMAD.
Movies
Most things.. I like things to be eventful, but besides that.. most things. Wallace & Gromit, Jurassic Park, Team America, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ice Age, The Matrix, Alien, The Lord of the Rings, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Finding Nemo, Shrek, Monsters Inc., My Left Foot, As Good As It Gets, The Labyrinth, A Clockwork Orange, Muppets, Dark Crystal, Transformers, James Bond, Pulp Fiction, Withnail and I, The Green Mile, Trainspotting, Being There, Butterfly...
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Television
Whatever looks interesting but I can't be arsed with staring blankly being hypnotised by repetitive mindless crap. I hit myself when that happens! I like documentaries on people and ways of living, nature and comedies like The Office, Spaced, Peep Show, The Mighty Boosh... Cartoons like The Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, American Dad. Creature Comforts, Transformers, Thunderbirds, ...
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Books
Interesting or inspiring, fact and friction. The Lord of the Rings, Jurassic Park, The Dolphins of Pern, Calvin and Hobbs, Batman, Spiderman, The Wind in the Willows, The Art Book...
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Heroes
and Heroines on all levels. Far too many to mention - mostly friends and artists (as in everything).
City College Brighton and Hove
Brighton, United Kingdom
Graduated: N/A
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: Media: Video Games Development
Clubs: Course Representative
2007 to 2008
Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College
Hove, United Kingdom
Graduated: 2007
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: Fine Art, Media Studies, Computing
Minor: Music, Digital Art
2005 to 2007
Priory School
Lewes, United Kingdom
Graduated: 2005
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Other
Major: Art and Design, Music, DT: Graphics, French
Clubs: Er, can't remember doing much apart from one off thingies.
2000 to 2005
Benny's Companies
Green Gecko Productions Lewes, East Sussex UK Creator
About me:
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I ought to draw attention to OUR BAND, "The Basement Sessions". Check us out!! Whiskey and chocolate-fuelled musical mentality explosion-motion-notion! Or SOMETHING.
OMFG I am Benny often known as Mobbsy. The purpose I've made for myself is making and building stuff; I'm handyman of many crafts from deliberating whether to use procion dye or ink, to whether to use a Dm or Dm7 or that inversion, to whether I should crop 1cm or 3cm, whether I should use tables or divisions, whether to pay for active or save with passive, choosing between an Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 and E6400 amongst other crazy things. On the weekends I like nighttime, topcoats and Guinness. I enjoy being useful but not being a dick about it, and trying to enjoy this short life with some great friends. My main disadvantage is I have a totally random energy complex, where one day I'll have the attitude of a hibernating badger and the next day I might as well have snorted 20 lines of sherbet and a pint of flaming sambouca. Passion rocks, I try to find it as often as I can and think about stuff a lot...
Any computery questions? Ask me!! And I will be understandable, help a lot of people.. usually without pay.
Currently freelancing I NEED MONEY:
Web Design: Save yourself a few hundred bob here before I actually need money. £100-£500 depending on amount of graphic and programming work. Basic static promo pages = bugger all. 3-4 years experience, a handfull of A-Cs at A-level computing, NCFE Digital Art, currently studying multimedia software like Flash.. Latest missions: www.mysteriouscat.com Site for Corin Hardy (Director/Animator) http://www.thegreengecko.co.uk/mind/ Content Management System for Mind mental health charity.
Custom PC Builds and Case Art: PCs built to any requirement and style, possible high street savings, free maintenance, upgrades, viruses/malware removal and so on, 1-3 year warranty on individual parts (as provided by component manufacturers). Can build computer-based recording studio PCs, and very small PCs e.g. size of DVD player, or cuboid-shaped. One week wait for ordering of parts, 8 hour build time at £5 per hour = £40.
I also occasionally set up wireless networks and other stuff people need a geezer to do for them without the £5 per hour of tea drinking.
Guitar Recital: Might be available to play (mostly Spanish, African, South American, Cuban etc. folk) guitar at gigs/events. Huge repertoire, 11 years private tuition, A for GCSE, A for AS-level music performance recital.
Who I'd like to meet: People rather than puppets or meat. Inspiring people. Happy or sad, like or unlike, as long as they're.. nice... ..
hey man! long time no speak. looks like your doing well on the gig front. I'll be along to one of them this month for def - prob 20th at pp. thanks for the kind words - yeah did the recording/ mixing at my house so pretty happy how it turned out. Any new songs you guys working on? Jed
Ooo yeh Neville bonfire! I should be able to go me thinks, not working that evening so looks promising. You still got the same number? I'll be in touch. xxx
ohhhh i seeee. i almost forgot what the whole subject of the conversation was. well im sorry, i shall correct it in future. if you have a problem with it?? i didn't mean to.
YAY and i actually have a job now which means ofcourse i need to spend my earnings on worthwhile things like getting drunk. Come pubbing whenever u want me lovely just message me the mobly number xxx
Hey BENNY BOY~ josh and i missed you all very very much~ all is well here in the states~josh is about to leave to go to temple university~ sorry to hear that life is not as crazy any more you guys should go camping and go on huge walks in the downs ~going to england was one ofthe most memorable experiences of our lives~ cheers to you guys for making it that~ i hope all of you come to the states next year~
Yo Ben, need some help getting the ol' 'puter functioning properly and the internet on the family computer has stopped working... Been trying to get hold of you for days but haven't managed it, get hold of me if you're free. Hope all is well
Ben! GIVE ME A CALL WHEN YOU GET THIS YOU DIFFICULT FUCKER! Your mobile appears to be permanently switched off and there is no-one at home... Need to talk about this gig, I don't know if I have your correct e-mail address either so I cant send you the tunes... Speak asap... Tom x
did you ahvea fun band practice on saturday? sorry i couldn't come . my freind's street party was happenin and i promised i would attend. it was actually pretty good. despite being in bugger's hole.
yeah, I was looking into doing that BTEC course as well, even went for the interview but decided against it when this degree in journalism popped up which is what I'm gonna be starting at Northbrook in October - can't wait!
I like my Wii but I still haven't finished Zelda, since easter I haven't really had time to actually play many games (although I have been playing a fair bit of DS) due to exams and things as well as trying to keep up the website
Custom PC Builds and Case Art: PCs built to any requirement and style, possible high street savings, free maintenance, upgrades, viruses/malware removal and so on, 1-3 year warranty on individual parts (as provided by component manufacturers). Can build computer-based recording studio PCs, and very small PCs e.g. size of DVD player, or cuboid-shaped. One week wait for ordering of parts, 8 hour build time at £5 per hour = £40.
I also occasionally set up wireless networks and other stuff people need a geezer to do for them without the £5 per hour of tea drinking.
Graphic/Multimedia Design: Logos, posters, flyers, animations (traditional, 3D, Flash), video editing etcetera.
