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Growing up in a wondrous land filled with dragons and butterflies, young benfRank found himself armed only with a camera. He began to defend himself from the dastardly critters with the blinding light of the flash. As it turned out, he got some pretty cool pictures and thus began a deep love for the art of photography. He soon began spending his allowance on silly things like film and photo developing, rather than the more useful things purchased by his peers (baseball cards, He-Man toys, BB guns, etc.). When the time came for him to ride his trusty steed (Ezmerelda, an '88 Toyota Camry) off to college, he took his cameras with him. While earning his degree in graphic design, our intrepid hero took numerous classes in photography, discovering a fascination for experimenting in the darkroom.

Since college, our fearless knight has been on many great quests, doing freelance print and web design for a great number of music industry nobles and spending time as an art director for a record label. He began to shoot many of the photos for his design projects himself, increasing his love for photography. His heroic history provides him with a unique vision and distinct understanding of the importance (and mystical power) of a fantastic image. Currently the senior web designer for CMT, benfRank plans to seek out as many photographic adventures as possible, hoping to devote most of his nights and weekends to this worthy crusade. benfRank currently lives in his castle in the land of Nashville, TN with his savage lady and two enchanting canine beasts.

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the saga continutes... 4 days ago

so, with as tough as this last week has been (see previous blog post) i really just wanted to lay on the couch and recover. but, no; enter: friday afternoon.at around 2:00 we are laying on the couch w...

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• Ryan Adams - Blue Hotel
• Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Stick With Me Baby
• The Innocence Mission - Over the Moon

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• Thievery Corporation - 488
• UNKLE - 425
• My Brightest Diamond - 412
• Télépopmusik - 307
• Telefon Tel Aviv - 300
• Anberlin - 297
• k-os - 247
• Cliff Martinez - 236
• Underworld - 218
• Ratatat - 197

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• benfrank: photography
• benfrank_design
• my flickr
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• my day job

Movies

children of Men, pan's labyrinth, Lone Wolf and Cub, mirror mask, Silent Hill, Thank You For Smoking, V For Vendetta, Amelie, Office Space, So I Married An Axe Murderer, Pi, Swingers, The Princess Bride, Garden State,

Music

mew, frou frou, massive attack, portishead, telefon tel aviv, m83, Cliff Martinez, Whiskeytown, Shout Out Louds, Tool, sam ashworth, Ryan Adams, The Bees (U.S.), Beck, Sufjan Stevens, The Sun, BT, Michael Armstrong, Doves, Snow Patrol, lylas, Portishead, Radiohead, Craig Armstrong, Coldplay, Phoenix, Hem, Gillian Welch, Common, Gnarls barkley, Lucero, Peter Gabriel, M. Ward, Prefuse 73, 13 & God, Tom Waits, Umbrella Tree, hunz, Björk, Spoon, Kent, Danger Doom, Foo Fighters, Ida, The Presets, Elliott Smith, Yann Tiersen, dredg, The Little Ones, The Raconteurs, jeff buckley

Television

24, Lost, Prison Break, House, Bones, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Veronica Mars, How I Met Your Mother, My Name Is Earl, Family Guy, Gilmore Girls, Iron Chef, Arrested Development, Six Feet Under, Seinfeld, Andy Richter Rules The Universe, The Cosby Show

Books

design books, david sedaris

Interests

my wife, our dogs, art, design, photography, movies, music