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Name: Ben G.
City: Atlanta, GA

Ben was born and raised in Atlanta.  He went to the University of Georgia in Athens, where he studied English Literature, and then returned to Atlanta.  Ben describes his social world as “mainly artists, music people, bike kids, and a few punks.”


Ben operates in two documentary worlds, both as a photographer and as a writer/editor.  His photography tends to showcase everyday life in Atlanta, which he exhibits at local galleries.  On the cultural front, he writes music and art reviews for a variety of publications and websites – including an art review site he started called burnaway.org.  Additionally, he is the official music writer for several arts organizations and festivals including the Atlanta Subterranean Arts and Music Festival.


posts by this scout:

The Lion King’s Ready For a Comeback, Right?

(Aug 20, 2010) I’ve always found it strange that so many children of the mid-80’s define their lives around Speilberg movies like th...
File Under: Movies
City: Atlanta

But Does It Float: A Less Precious Booooooom.com

(Jun 30, 2010) I like Booooooom, but I’m occasionally frustrated by the predictability of the site’s curation, which tends to focus o...
File Under: Web
City: Atlanta

Brandon Rosenbluth’s Dark Arts

(Jun 18, 2010) Brandon is a 24 year old multi-disciplinary artist living between Berlin, Los Angeles and New York. He primarily creates video in...
File Under: Web
City: Berlin

Germans Have Never Sounded Less German

(Jun 17, 2010) Four guys with glasses from Wiesbaden discover, reconfigure and reinvent the landscape of Trip-Hop and Bristol Sound. Mogwai, Sig...
File Under: Music
City: Berlin

Germany’s Next Dancing Queen

(Jun 16, 2010) Despite her young age (born 1994) Maria-Victoria Dragus is one of the biggest upcoming young artists in Germany. Maria was born i...
File Under: Movies, T.V.
City: Berlin

Film Is Claudia Eisinger’s Stage

(Jun 09, 2010) Claudia Eisinger was born in Berlin, where she also graduated from the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch. After school ...
File Under: T.V.
City: Berlin

Brands and social networking

(Jun 09, 2010) Q: What good and bad examples have you seen of brands using social networking sites/applications/services? A: Good campaigns R...
File Under: Socializing

Lips, Hips and Tits – Fashion’s Rising Star

(Jun 07, 2010) Christina Berger is about to become the biggest thing on the German fashion scene since Karl Lagerfeld got skinny. After study...
File Under: Fashion
City: Berlin

Das Kind der Stadt

(Jun 04, 2010) Stadtkind, founded back in 2001 by Liza and Dominic who remain the anonymous figures behind the blog and online city handbook, i...
File Under: Web
City: Berlin

Endless communication

(Jun 04, 2010) Q: How do you feel about social networking sites/applications/services? Why do you feel this way? How does it affect how you use ...
File Under: Socializing

The efficient socializing

(Jun 04, 2010)   Q: How do you tend to socialize with your friends? A: After-work dinners, drinks, mainly bars and restaurants, occasional dinne...
File Under: Socializing

Facebook, my network hub

(Jun 03, 2010) Q: What’s your current perspective on Facebook? Are you and your friends still using it, if so what for and how has this change...
File Under: Socializing

Werner Herzog: More Prolific Than God

(May 28, 2010) Werner Herzog is such a gratifying director to be getting into now. More and more of his movies and documentaries are coming out ...
File Under: Movies
City: Atlanta

Inspiration from professional creatives

(May 25, 2010) While I still find a good portion of my photography inspiration through Booooooom, I’ve been spending a lot more time on th...
File Under: Web
City: Atlanta

Cut Up Yer Pants

(May 24, 2010) Disclaimer: This post isn’t about a new fashion. It is about a change in fashion. As an old fogy, I remember a few years b...
File Under: Fashion
City: Atlanta

Party Down Keeps Being Excellent

(May 24, 2010) Before comedian Jane Lynch played Sue Sylvester on Glee, she was Party Down’s Constance Carmell. While she made the show fa...
File Under: T.V.
City: Atlanta

Holy Fuck Holy Fuck Holy Fuck

(May 18, 2010) I’m listening to Holy Fuck’s 2005 self-titled LP as I write this sentence. Amazingly, their five year old debut albu...
File Under: Music
City: Atlanta

Protected: No more fake identities online

(May 03, 2010) “Q. What do you expect to be the ‘next big thing’ or ‘next big trend’ in social networking? Give at least 3 things...
File Under: Socializing

Protected: Facebook upgrades my profile

(May 03, 2010) “Q. Facebook:  What’s your current perspective on Facebook? Are you and your friends still using it, if so what for an...
File Under: Socializing

Protected: New network sites struggle against Facebook

(May 03, 2010) “Q. What new social networking sites/applications/services have you heard of recently? What do you think of them? How do y...
File Under: Socializing

Protected: Addicted to Facebook

(May 03, 2010) “Q. How do you feel about social networking sites/applications/services? Why do you feel this way? How does it affect how ...
File Under: Socializing

Protected: Socializing: More Location-based than Activity

(May 03, 2010) Most of my real-world socializing is based around locations rather than activities – on a typical day out of the house I...
File Under: Socializing

Goth’s Back

(Apr 28, 2010) Designer Drugs play remix-ready dance music supported by dark, dark beats. Aesthetically, their music (and videos and shows) borr...
File Under: Music
City: Atlanta

The Man With a Movie Camera

(Apr 27, 2010) Per my girlfriend’s request, I recently watched Dziga Vertov’s Man With a Movie Camera. The film is a fantastic explo...
File Under: Movies
City: Atlanta

Kyle, FTW

(Apr 25, 2010) Kyle posts an eclectic collection of music mixes, fashion photography, shots of her hand-crafted jewelry, and quotes from mid-2...
File Under: Web
City: Atlanta

The Sound Table

(Apr 25, 2010) Photos courtesy Carlos Bell. I’ve visited The Sound Table at least a half dozen times since they opened three weeks ago. The...
File Under: Places
City: Atlanta

I Haven’t Seen Treme, but I Want To.

(Apr 22, 2010) Treme, premiering April 11 in the US, is the brainchild of David Simon and Eric Overmyer, the creators of both Homicide: Life O...
File Under: T.V.
City: Atlanta

Can Twilight Be Tolerated?

(Mar 18, 2010) In preparing to answer this question, I watched the first Twilight movies with my two roommates. Though our tastes vary, all thre...

Movies With Skinny Black Ties

(Mar 17, 2010) Specifically: A Serious Man, An Education, and Nine. Each of these movies feature, as their main character, a magical time occu...
File Under: Movies
City: Atlanta

Graveyard Is The Best Bar In the Universe

(Mar 13, 2010) Proof: I took these two pictures at Graveyard on New Years Eve. The entire place was packed with the hippest (and drunkest) peopl...
File Under: Places
City: Atlanta

Linus de Paoli – 16 mm Rockabillies

(Mar 11, 2010) Born in Hamburg in 1982 Linus was always fascinated by movies. So it was no wonder that he started very early on his career as a ...
File Under: Movies
City: Berlin

Kaviar Gauche

(Mar 10, 2010) Exclusive but also suitable for day to day life – that‘s how you can describe the extrordinary fashion of designer Alexan...
File Under: Fashion
City: Berlin

Hipster Architecture

(Mar 08, 2010) I started reading ‘Sup Magazine this fall, when they ran interviews with a few of my recent favorite bands (Neon Indian, Wa...
File Under: Web
City: Atlanta

Amelie Kiefer-German TV

(Mar 05, 2010) Despite her tender age of just 22, Amelie Kiefer has been a feature of the German television landscape for over a decade. Born i...
File Under: T.V.
City: Berlin

View on the river – Spreeblick

(Mar 04, 2010) Way back in 2002, when the internet was still a fresh tool for bloggers, Johnny Haeusler conceived Spreeblick. A fresh and new ap...
File Under: Web
City: Berlin

Bongout-French Art in Berlin

(Mar 03, 2010) When Christian Gfeller and Anna Hellsgård decided to open up the doors to the Bongout gallery in February 2008, they created a p...
File Under: Places
City: Berlin

Berlin Power Pop – Chuckamuck

(Mar 03, 2010) Young, still in school, Rock‘n‘Roll and from Berlin. If you see the guys from Chuckamuck you won’t belive that they̵...
File Under: Music
City: Berlin

Peter Gabriel Returns, Is Amazing

(Feb 26, 2010) Peter Gabriel’s been pre-streaming a few tracks off Scratch My Back, his new cover album. So far, my favorite track’...
File Under: Music
City: Atlanta

A new star is born – Anna Fischer

(Feb 09, 2010) Television is – and this is a fact that can be easily proved – mostly terrible, boring and without any kind of qualit...
File Under: T.V.
City: Berlin

JULIAANDBEN

(Feb 02, 2010) JuliaandBen – one name, two minds, a label and the next generation of Berlin fashion designers. They don‘t pretend to be ...
File Under: Fashion
City: Berlin

Beat and Beat and Beat

(Feb 02, 2010) Beat Beat Beat are four German guys living close to the Dutch border and their favorite thing to do is actually to play Nintendo w...
File Under: Music
City: Berlin

von Bismarck

(Feb 01, 2010) Julius von Bismarck, the Berlin based artist/inventor, is probably one of the last of his kind. He uses analogue technology fro...
File Under: Places
City: Berlin

Soul Kitchen by Fatih Akin

(Jan 31, 2010) Fatih Akin loves Hamburg – the city he was born in and grew up in. He also loves making movies and these movies are generall...
File Under: Movies
City: Berlin

NERDCORE

(Jan 30, 2010) Talking about the essence of the web is akin to talking about the universe and our opinion about reality. For such topics you ask ...
File Under: Web
City: Berlin

TORPEDO

(Jan 21, 2010) Helene Hegemann What do you do when you were born in Bochum, you are young and you have big plans? You move to Berlin. Thats what ...
File Under: Movies
City: Berlin

Undertube, Underground

(Jan 20, 2010) Tina, Sebastian, Mila, Peer Jutta and Malte ride the subway everyday and share their journey with musicians they have seen on sta...
File Under: T.V.
City: Berlin

Thieves like us

(Jan 20, 2010) Thieves like us. Where do you meet as a young musician with holes in your pockets and a desperate need for secondhand stuff and ...
File Under: Music
City: Berlin

Girls on the road

(Jan 20, 2010) Usually you meet scene photographer Katja Hentschel at every hip party celebrated in Berlin or at the hip borough Berlin Mitte whe...
File Under: Web
City: Berlin

kid with talent

(Jan 19, 2010) Nils is a hyper busy 18 year old, living and working in Berlin. He paints and photographs, starts art-projects, designs T-shirts ...
File Under: Fashion
City: Berlin

Inspirational Photoblogs

(Jan 16, 2010) I’ve been reading two photography blogs lately. The first is titled “A Photo Student,” and it is, simply enough...
File Under: Web
City: Atlanta

Le Compte!

(Jan 14, 2010) As I write this, I’m watching the 1998 French miniseries version of The Count of Monte Cristo. I’m on the third of fo...
File Under: T.V.
City: Atlanta

WOAH GALLERY

(Jan 13, 2010) WOAH, Emserstraße 130, Berlin WOAH Gallery literary started out of nothing in the middle of nothing in the nothing of the Berlin ...
File Under: Places
City: Berlin

Holy Mountain, Still Rising

(Jan 11, 2010) Why have I watched Holy Mountain, a psychedelic cult classic first released in 1973, a total of five times this month? Because e...
File Under: Movies, Music
City: Atlanta

A Pub You Can Dance In

(Dec 26, 2009) A DJ buddy of mine had his last Atlanta gig at P’cheen Saturday. It’s the first time I’ve been to the place fo...
File Under: Places
City: Atlanta

Learn Something Smart

(Dec 19, 2009) I’ve been catching up on the archives at Crooked Timber, Kottke.org, and Acephalous for at least the last two weeks.  Each ...
File Under: Web
City: Atlanta

West End is the Best End

(Dec 17, 2009) Since I’m moving out of my current space in a few weeks, I figured this would be a good time to go over all the reasons I l...
File Under: Places
City: Atlanta

Old and Beautiful: Koyaanisqatsi+Baraka

(Dec 15, 2009) Have you ever seen a TV show called How It’s Made? The show’s a half hour long exploration down the production line o...
File Under: Movies
City: Atlanta

F*** Buttons F*** Buttons F*** Buttons

(Dec 11, 2009) That’s right, yet another electronic band from Britain imported to America expressly to destroy your brainwaves. They play t...
File Under: Music
City: Atlanta

Gaillard e Bounane

(Dec 01, 2009) French contemporary artist Cyprien Gaillard is currently taking part in the DAAD art program in Berlin (former residents include...
File Under: Web
City: Berlin

Fashion, do I really care?

(Nov 25, 2009) Now concentrating solely on menswear, Wibke from ADDeertz recently brought out her new spring/summer 2010 collection. It’s ...
File Under: Fashion
City: Berlin

EMA – BERLIN

(Nov 18, 2009) We had the EMAs over in Berlin last week, most likely because MTV wanted to coincide this TV spectacle with the 20 year anniversa...
File Under: T.V.
City: Berlin

Radio – My new love

(Nov 16, 2009) This month’s music post is dedicated to my new Philips Streamium Webradio. What a great gadget! How much do I love radio ag...
File Under: Music
City: Berlin

The White Ribbon

(Nov 16, 2009) I took me quite a long time to make it to the cinema to finally watch the latest movie of one of my most favorite film directors ...
File Under: Movies
City: Berlin

Battlestar Soho House has landed

(Nov 12, 2009) Gentrification is probably what we call in German an “Unwort” - a word that lost its meaning because of its unconside...
File Under: Places
City: Berlin

Movies Lost In Time and Space

(Nov 04, 2009) Mischa Barton and Reece Daniel Thompson. Guess who the underdog hero is? If you like Assassination of a High School President, you...
File Under: Movies
City: Atlanta

El Bar and Beep Beep Gallery: Hidden Music Treasures

(Nov 03, 2009) I’m not saying everyone at El Bar’s coked to the gills 24/7. But the bar/club’s patrons definitely give off tha...
File Under: Places
City: Atlanta

Old caper films and new movies about the End of the World

(Oct 28, 2009) There’s nothing better than spending a cold, rainy night watching old movies. So I’ve been watching a lot of the old ...
File Under: Movies
City: Atlanta

I Will Never Stop Watching Eastbound and Down

(Oct 27, 2009) I’ve watched the original 6 episodes of Eastbound and Down at least a half dozen times each, and I am fantastically excited ...
File Under: T.V.
City: Atlanta

I Only Visit Websites If They Give Me Money Or Let Me Gawk at Strangers

(Oct 24, 2009) Kickstarter is amazing.  It’s a way for people to fund their projects by asking the internet for micro-donations – ...
File Under: Web
City: Atlanta

Animation for Your Back-To-School Viewing Schedule

(Oct 23, 2009) Sterling Archer and Lana Kane explore some issues. If you liked Home Movies, you’ll love Sterling. In Sterling, H. Jon Benja...
File Under: T.V.
City: Atlanta

Community dives connect Art, Music, and Food

(Oct 20, 2009) Eyedrum is my favorite place to see music or art in Atlanta.  It’s a huge community artspace that hosts all sorts of event...
File Under: Places
City: Atlanta

Get Your Fashion From 1943

(Oct 17, 2009) As a biker, I look for clothes that can withstand Atlanta’s wet winters, plus look good when I reach my final destination. ...
File Under: Fashion
City: Atlanta

Cold Weather = More Dancing

(Oct 10, 2009) Sweden's Miike Snow In that vein, I’ve been listening to tons of Sweden’s Miike Snow and Italo-disco influenced el...
File Under: Music
City: Atlanta

Mood feed brought to you by Haw-lin

(Oct 02, 2009) The thing that annoys me about the inclusivity of blog culture is the amount of irritating self-inflated opinion that more often t...
File Under: Web
City: Berlin

‘My New Best Friend’ with Christian Ulmen

(Oct 02, 2009) 'Mein Neuer Bester Freund' The state of German broadcasting leaves a lot to be desired. Apart from the odd documentary on ...
File Under: T.V.
City: Berlin

Going the distance to find decent live food & music

(Oct 01, 2009) Trying to find decent live music in Berlin is difficult because of the monopoly DJs and electronic music have on the city. One pla...
File Under: Places
City: Berlin

‘Limits of Control’ is Jarmusch’s pinnacle

(Sep 30, 2009) I’m generally not much of Jim Jarmusch fan but Limits of Control really turned things around for me. The film kind of made f...
File Under: Movies
City: Berlin

Garage Bands getting their act back together

(Sep 30, 2009) The Almighty Defenders After the very disappointing “ressurgance” of psychadelic pop (mgmt, empire of the sun, animal ...
File Under: Music
City: Berlin

Sneaker fetishes taken to new heights

(Sep 30, 2009) Young German men, particular Berliners, seem to fall into two general groups: those who wear sneakers, and those who do not. The ...
File Under: Fashion
City: Berlin

Fashion functional for long bike rides

(Sep 24, 2009) I’m a bike kid, so I like any fashion that looks good but is functional enough to go on long bike rides in. Some of my fa...
File Under: Fashion
City: Atlanta

Feeling guilty about watching stupid TV

(Sep 24, 2009) Entourage is my guilty pleasure TV.  It’s strange, because it’s a TV show that basically chronicles the life of peopl...
File Under: T.V.
City: Atlanta

‘529′ is the best hybrid of Atlanta and NY: tiny space with great music

(Sep 23, 2009) To the Moon @ 529 529 is my favorite new Atlanta venue. Tiny space, great sound, cheap shows, and really creative booking. It...
File Under: Places
City: Atlanta

Have you seen Inglorious Basterds yet?

(Sep 23, 2009) I saw Inglorious Basterds and Moon on their respective opening weekends. They’re pretty much the only movies anyone I know t...
File Under: Movies
City: Atlanta

Every band is going through a hippie phase

(Sep 23, 2009) Not exactly new, but I am hearing lots of local bands cover Captain Beefheart songs.  It’s like every band in the southeas...
File Under: Music
City: Atlanta

Inspirational art websites and Baby Spinach

(Sep 23, 2009) www.booooooom.com has been a great source for inspiration lately.  They show work by a few different photographers and illustrato...
File Under: Web
City: Atlanta