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
something dark but funny, i read a LOT of anne rice but its ..not really my thing... something like blade is a lil better- alot darker and funnier, biographies, psychology books and fuck loads of them, obviously; Ian (m) banks, george orwell 1984!!, shakespear, POETRY- especially written by friends like rachel :) and other friends, Edgar Allen Poe-try + short stories, Robert Anton Wilson, the dictionary?!!
University of Dublin - Trinity College
Dublin 2, DUB
Graduated: N/A
Degree: In Progress
Major: Psychology
Minor: Art and society
Clubs: Netsoc, art society, literary society, film society.
2005 to Present
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
About me:
I being a final year psychology student I do psychology related things and I make art... and thats me on a very superficial level.
Please, please, please do my survey! Its for my dissertation- but could actually have real life implications :P. So please give it a go.
I like to think I am a very mentally healthy person, although I have had perlonged bouts of both mania and depression in the past. However I feel now that I am a much more capable person, am able to express my self far better nowadays.
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.
..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: Anyone for socialising, especially people that like my art!!. For collaborating, particularly voice actors, musicians capable of writing a soundtrack, and paperless animators.
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.
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???
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
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! ;)
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?
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
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!
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
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
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.
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!
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
pretty gay, havent been able to make anything cause i havent got the equipment... im stuck writing for now... but soon i'll have a new film 4 ya to watch...
My artwork programmed sell death.
