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  • Benjamin Michael Mathews

  • 22 / Male
  • Dublin, Dublin, IE
  • Last Login: 11/2/2009

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Interests

  • General

    Animation, illustration, sequential art, film direction, film production, writing articles in: psychology, medicine, and comedy. My research interests lie in the study of the placebo effect.

  • Music

    My choice in music is changable, and can I no longer can say I like "this band" or "that band". I like certain songs the artists, because not everything they do is great. I like feelings that reflect how I am feeling or want to feel. I also like messages that confirm my beliefs. Music that is sexy, interesting, progressive, intelligent or creative can also be enjoyable simply through being so. I can also admire something for its emotive merit even if I dont want to feel that emotion, or dont usually feel it. My selection of music is international and goes across genres, though it is heavily littered with gothic, japanese, shock, guitar based, and progressive types.

  • Movies

    ..I like surreal anime directed at adults (e.g. neon genesis evangelion: the end of evangelion, Paprica). I like fantasy action films (e.g. underworld, resident evil 2) I like art house and foreign films (e.g. sante sangre).

  • Television

    ..Don't watch TV

  • Books

    Mostly academic and foreign stuff. I prefer to write rather than read, if I am reading I really have to be able to learn from it, or get something from it.

Details

  • Status: Single
  • Here for: Networking, Friends
  • Hometown: dunno
  • Orientation: Straight
  • Body type: 5' 11" / Average
  • Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
  • Religion: Agnostic
  • Zodiac Sign: Pisces
  • Children: Someday
  • Smoke / Drink: No / No
  • Education: In college
  • Occupation: psychology student and artist

Schools

  • University of Dublin - Trinity College

    • Dublin 2, DUB
    • Graduated: N/A
    • Student status: Alumni
    • Degree: Bachelor's Degree
    • Major: Psychology
    • Minor: Art and society
    • Clubs: S2S, Peer support network, TAW (trinity arts workshop), Japanese society, filmmakers, players, Chinese students and scholars association, Netsoc, literary society
    2005 to 2009

  • Institute of Education

    • Dublin 2, DUB
    • Graduated: 2005
    • Student status: Alumni
    • Degree: High School Diploma
    • Major: Art, maths, physics, german, English, applied maths
    2004 to 2005

  • Ardee Community School

    • Ardee, LOU
    • Graduated: 2004
    • Student status: Alumni
    • Degree: High School Diploma
    • Major: Art, maths, physics, german, English, applied maths
    • Minor: irish
    1999 to 2004

Networking

Companies

  • ICC Sprachschule

    • Görlitz, DE
    • Teacher of English
    November 01 2009 onward

  • BenBau

    • Berlin, DE
    • Security Guard
    October 1st - Oct 31st 2009

Status and Mood

Activity Stream

Blurbs

About me:

I like to make artistic projects and projects related to psychology. I am eccentric.

michaelmathewsart.com

michaelmathewsart.com is my website- though while it displays my art in a way much more to my liking than deviantart does, I put up more of my work on my DA account. click for My deviant art page (old, for the new one click on the picture above)

Life is incomprehensibly short.
Don't fear taking risks.



My artwork programmed sell death.
The name is a pun on programmed cell death, a condition in which neurons or other cells tell another to kill themselves. The work also touches on the themes of the environment, being fragmented in personality, being dysfunctional, and dead on the inside... not exactly feelings that I want to foster- but I was once taught that one way of getting people to take action is to induce fear and then give a practical way of alleviating fear. so the message is be energy efficient or suffer. An animated short film I made called Division A music video made for a band called "fanny pack" the song is called crazy bunny.
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..TR> ..
Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have had to lay waste to our own sanity. We begin with the children. It is imperative to catch them in time. Without the most thorough and rapid brain-washing their dirty minds would see through our dirty tricks. Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.s if possible.

- Laing, R.D. 1990a. The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise. London: Penguin Books Ltd.

(pogo qoute) 'I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning'

"the worst kind of censorship is when people censor themselves"Marilyn Manson

"an artist needs to change daily in order not to become a parody of himself" Marilyn Manson

"we will sell our shadows to those who stand within it" Marilyn Manson

"If you die when there is noone watching, then your ratings drop and your forgotten. if they kill you on the TV, your a martyr and a lamb of god."Marilyn Manson

"where your talent and the needs of the world overlap, here lies your purpose" Patrick/ aristotle

"In heaven all the interesting people are missing."Nietsche


..TR> ..
"why then believe in God? Why not simply believe in man, society, the world? Why in God and simply not in human values:liberty, fraternity, love? Why add trust in God to trust in ourselves, prayer to work, religion to politics, the bible to reason, the hereafter to now? What is belief in God supposed to mean anyway? What can it mean today?"
- english translation of KUNG, H. 1928. EXISTIERT GOTT?

Who I'd like to meet:

Eccentric people, normal people, and everything in-between. People that like my art!! People who dislike my art (I am often included in this group :) )!! People who enjoy watching film. People who want to be part of the film-making process. Voice actors, musicians capable of writing a soundtrack, animators, actors, graphic designers, people who are interested in sound.

Comments

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  • Anto

    Sep 20 2009 7:42 PM

    Yoyo! Yes I remembers you. How's Berlin and why so far from home? I'm in New York.
  • Mila Magaritha

    Jul 10 2009 9:11 AM

    hi ben, I am sorry, but I am not in Berlin from 12th-15th of July. So we can not meet at DarkMarket on Sunday. But it is great that you will try to stay in Berlin, so we have enough time to meet again. And yes, my mobile number is still the same. Looking forward to hear from you, all the best, Andrea
  • Mila Magaritha

    Jul 5 2009 5:27 PM

    C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S ! ! !
    Lets meet in Berlin! We will be on Duncker on Monday night. Maybe you will be there?
  • fRe@k B*tCh

    May 6 2009 1:57 AM

    hey benny!
    nothing new really. just about to finish up the semester so finals week is next week. yay :(
    otherwise ive just been going out and having fun for a change.

    good to hear from you. miss you <3
  • DAVID RATdavidrat .org

    Apr 26 2009 7:21 AM

    hey ben great to hear from you...yep i'm married to a brit and we just had a little boy...
  • mimi_dirumimi diru

    Apr 7 2009 2:20 PM

    omg it has been sooo loooong>__< *hug* how r u??
    wowww......i guess u have alot of things to do...u must be excited xD imagine it sell BIG xD
    well yes the cosplay party is over but u wana go to the cinema on the 18th????
    aah well mayb just go out for one day please^^ i havnt see u for so long

    im good yes^^ 5th year is much better than the junior cert but it is a lot of works...and so many tests >__< exams jeez!!!!!!...well college must be even harder........O__O
    im gettin it the end of may^^ u???
    well my mum say if i finish school she guna let me go to vietnam so....for this summer im guna work to save up for it and im guna study!!! hard!!! ..oh and lol im guna go to china aswellxD yaaaay i want to go too shanghaixD
    wat about u???
  • mimi_dirumimi diru

    Mar 22 2009 6:05 PM

    hey ben sorry i didnt have any credit to txt u back>__<'...how r u???
    u wana meet up on saturday?? there is a cosplay birthday party, wana cum^^
  • Zaldania Mauvais

    Jan 12 2009 3:42 AM

    I've completed the survey. I like to stay ambiguous these days because everything is always up in the air, and things change from moment to moment.
    I like to try to stay positive, even with all that is going on =P
  • Zaldania Mauvais

    Jan 6 2009 5:42 AM

    Things are interesting. That's the term of the year for me. "Interesting" is such an ambiguous word. I love it.
    I'm just trying to keep busy enough to stay out of trouble! ;)
  • Zaldania Mauvais

    Dec 28 2008 10:25 PM

    Hey! How are you? You seem to be pretty productive! I can't log onto dA anymore- it does something strange to my computer each time, and I can never be on long enough to even check messages as a result.
    How is life treating you these days?
  • Mila Magaritha

    Dec 26 2008 9:40 PM

    Hi Ben, I wish you wonderful days and a very happy new year. I hope you will continue your artistic life, I wish you a lot of new and exciting projects.
    Maybe will we meet next year in Berlin again? All the best for you, Andrea
  • Ariane

    Dec 31 2008 12:08 AM

    hey! sorry about the long delay in reply, I'm rarely on this.

    Yupp, I'm in first year now, and its going alright. Its a lot of work thoguh! Doing Science in UCD. Its pretty generalised at the moment but next year I will be going on to specialise a bit more in genetics, microbiology and environmental biology. Its actually all so interestesing, though its kind of funny, me doing science and not art or english, I guess.

    What were your projects on? Still do that life drawing classes? I was thinking of starting again, got a sort of reknewed urge to get back into art recently, but I'm so out of practice! Its been months, if not even half a year, since I last did anything even vaguely serious in terms of art :(

    I will def check out your film, sounds interesting at any rate :)

    Oh and thanks about the hair, its quite a change huh? lol

    So any other news?? Its been *so* long since I last saw you!
  • Sandra<3

    Sep 28 2008 9:58 AM

    hiyaaaa poppet! deadly yeah im totally up for that! remind me tho right? x
  • Mila Magaritha

    Aug 14 2008 10:09 AM

    Hi Ben, your German is really good! I understood everything. And I really like your art. You made progress and maybe you better should study fine arts instead of psychology. Is there a reason that you mainly deal with Asian characters in your animations? It would be fine, to see you next year in Berlin.
    But I am very curious about your work, so lets stay in contact until then! Sunny greetings from Berlin, Andrea
  • Mila Magaritha

    Jul 26 2008 11:00 AM

    hi, how are you? nice artwork on your website.
    what was your last project? do you plan to come to berlin this summer? bye, andrea
  • Sandra<3

    Jul 20 2008 3:13 PM

    heya hun! yeah sure we were just heading off home then but as ya say, ocaon bridge not the best time for a chat! im sure ill see ya around college anyway - although didnt see ya much this past year weirdly! fair play for backing outta that other thing tho, didnt sound like it was going your way at all! any new art coming my way? love seeing the new stuff! thanks bout the hair, i was my hairdresser friends guinea pig so she just kinda did her thing! re-doing the whole red thing soon i think , not sure! any other news? x
  • The Ultimate Comment

    Apr 25 2008 8:37 AM

    Hey man, have you got a copy of the zine yet? I emailed you but not sure if you got it....

    shane T
  • Syren

    Apr 16 2008 1:55 PM

    here you! how are you? I see a few of your poasters around trinity for time to time and i say "hey! i know that guy" I'm good myself, working away and learning lines, i started singing again, i'm studying under an opera singer... it's lots of happy fun. also at the moment in the gsa we're doing alot of antonin artuad stufff, you should read somethings by him, they're brilliant and insane.
  • ProteusAutisticus~Fibon…

    Apr 16 2008 1:20 PM

    Tired? Why tired?

    When are your exams? How goes the study?

    You know how i prefer to evoke moods n stuff, was seeing if i could do that with colour.

    The most recent ones are the ones where you can't see my face, again it creates a mood, but not directly...kinda. I think. BLEH!

    Productive instead of destructive!

    What's new in world of ben,huh huh? You been recording....?
  • ProteusAutisticus~Fibon…

    Apr 14 2008 12:27 AM

    Inspired by your new pic, i put up some more of mine :p

    -tree ones and everything, BLEH!

    How's ben these days?
  • LauraLaura Glasscock

    Apr 12 2008 7:30 PM

    Thats crazy...glad I could assist you with the knowledge that your room is "pinkish"! Yes, I am engaged and planning the wedding for August 30th of this year. I'm trying to keep it low key...thats why I haven't written about it yet...Still trying to break in the feeling, I guess. I'm also being deployed to Iraq in October of this year. That part sucks thought, and I'm not looking forward to it at all! But I hope you are having fun with your art, music, videos, and of course...your school!
  • ~dschenny~

    Apr 1 2008 2:42 PM

    keine farbe... wird schwarz weiß grau bleiben...
  • ProteusAutisticus~Fibon…

    Mar 7 2008 2:47 PM



    Loads of love to you :D

    BIRFDAY!

    If you wanna do something let me know, BIRTHDAY! :D

    XXXXXX


    hAVE A GREAT ONE BEN!
  • Sandra<3

    Jan 13 2008 1:24 PM

    eugh tell me bout it!!
    im so screwed, got a 5000 word assignment due wednesday and only starting it, its goddamn impossible!! :(
    on the plus side, going to rome at the end of feb!!!! yuss! :D
    hows thing starshine its been ages!
    xx
  • Gav

    Jan 13 2008 1:40 AM

    lol thats alot of random information... i rarely use soya to tell ya the truth... but its good to know, thanks =D