Estevan Carlos Benson is an artist and musician specializing in mixed media, graffiti, photography and new media. He currently resides in the Los Angeles area.
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Los Angeles Welcomes Tartist.LA
Friday, August 27th, 2010
A friend and master baker unveils her new project, TartistLA, to the Los Angeles area. If the images above don’t convince to order a homemade tart, I’m not sure what will. More at Tartist.LA news: baking, food, los-angeles, pie, tarts
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A brief note on racial politics
Saturday, August 7th, 2010
I’m in a flamewar with some of the most naive thinkers on race I could imagine. Interestingly enough, they’re all liberal. What a shame: http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/harder-tea-partiers-try-prove-theyre
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skullphone
Friday, June 11th, 2010
Visited a Skullphone exhibition titled, DIGITAL MEDIA at Subliminal Projects, with Eras and Aaron. Number 1: It was hot inside. Number 2: Fairey had a carefully placed sticker over his “Obama” image on his laptop. Political imagery on personal items you can’t throw away is never a good idea to me. Number 3: Skullphone had [...]
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Vote for “Earthly Delights” and contribute to a good cause
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
From artist and friend, Nova Jiang: “I’m in the process of starting a non-profit which invites contemporary artists to design and build playgrounds in the United States. I’m now trying to raise enough funds to get the first prototype playground built in Los Angeles. The amount of unsuccessful grant writing I’ve done recently is quite [...]
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Unearthed
(Nosferatu
Remixed)
Free Show
March 12th
Monday, March 1st, 2010
Nathaniel Eras: Unearthed | Special Midnight Performance Friday, March 12th | Free to All Ages 673 East Colorado Blvd. | Pasadena, CA 91101 A live performance of an original score to the film “Nosferatu”. Original music from Nathaniel Eras. Live band featuring Eras, Estevan Carlos Benson and John P. Hastings. news: ableton, california, electronic-music, estevan, [...]
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AUG4THDESIGN
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
I’ve started my own creative and web development business. I’m still uncertain on whether or not I need to frame myself as a freelancer or something more. I want to incorporate more of my professional design into this website. I’ll likely introduce that more in the future. In the mean time, follow me @AUG4THDESIGN twitter [...]
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Girl in a Coma : City in a Coma
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
I left my hometown of San Antonio Texas back in 2000 with the full intention making it a permanent departure and it has been, more or less. At that time the narrative of the young people in the city was one about internet, N-Sync and the usual cynicism. It’s a black t-shirt town — metal [...]
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Autechre's DJ Mix sounds exactly how you would expect
Monday, February 15th, 2010
It should be noted that I’m a fan of Autechre and consider them a huge inspiration creatively. Fact Magazine has a new feature on them as well as a DJ mix. I recommend it to anyone interested. http://www.factmag.com/2010/02/08/fact-mix-122-autechre/ news: autechre, idm, Music
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L.A. Artist, Xarene, Proposes to Google
Friday, February 12th, 2010
Los Angeles artist and friend, Xárene made a video marriage proposal for Google. http://cargocollective.com/xarene/253057/Google-Marriage-Proposal news: gay, google, los-angeles, marriage, proposal, xarene
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This is the New Year, 2010
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
I tend to be better at communicating when not in person. Don’t take it the wrong way. I’m a late bloomer. This is the new website. Further updates will arrive in the coming weeks and months including additional music and features. news: update
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