estevan carlos benson

July 30th, 2008 | Obituary: God Bless Winnie, the cat

I’m revealing too much and revealing personal aspects that most will never care about. I was emotionally autistic as a youth. I like to suggest that I’m no longer that way… I was however up until my teens. It basically entailed a few things. I had a hard time with eye […]

March 28th, 2008 | In Production (screenshots because I don’t have a digital camera)

Finally, it’s coming together. This will good.

March 4th, 2008 | New home, new music, all is new

Some things change and then some things never do.

February 21st, 2008 | Drawing hearts on an empty chest

Estevan Carlos Benson will leave secret messages all over the Silverlake area along Sunset Av, Los Angeles CA. Saturday, February 23 and Sunday, February 24, 2008.
Newspaper dispensers; bathroom stalls; alleyway dishrags; lamp post, warning signs; sidewalk stamp collections; donut shop, shopping, lines; homeless, dog, water bowls; tourist, guilt, candle, songs; chess game, philosophy; creole, shot, […]

January 29th, 2008 | Solomn Update

Girl waste. Mixing downers. Hollywood star died the way I tried. Generic pill uppers. Mugging, thugs, runaway. Sort of wish I was shot that night. Breakfast alone. Writing poems on receipts. Waitress smiles for miles. And that’s how I defeat defeat.

December 15th, 2007 | New Orleans

Currently and too briefly, in New Orleans.

It’s been a stoic and all too short a trip. If only I didn’t already have so many things on my mind. And if only I had come here sooner. It’s crossed my mind though, before even visiting, that I should consider living here for a […]

December 12th, 2007 | Puppet Theatre: Currently Editing a new video

Interestingly, I’ve wanted to create, perform, write music for, and record a puppet performance for some time. I am still editing this video but wanted to share this screenshot. Enjoy.

October 25th, 2007 | Niggy Tardust

I’d like to help promote this upcoming album. The only time I would do something like this as I hope to also one day work with both Reznor and Saul Williams.

October 6th, 2007 | Contributed work to Gawker.com

You can now, although likely rarely, come across my contributed work as a part of Gawker’s artist collection of banner ads. Something like that.
Now, when you view one of our titles, you might see an artist’s imagery where usually you see the designs of advertisers. When you spot one of these images, you can […]

September 21st, 2007 | New Politically Oriented Essay Published

I’m not writing cogent, thorough works of any sort very often (if you visit my writings section, you’ll notice) but some months ago I contributed an essay regarding my support for presidential candidate Barack Obama. I should stress that I don’t like politicians and attempted to make that evident in my essay. I […]

September 4th, 2007 | Contributing to Create Digital Music Webzine and a recent write-up

I’ll be contributing to the Create Digital Music Webzine/Blog - my research and musical uncoverings. Should be good practice and motivation to keep up in this area of my work, so check it out.

September 1st, 2007 | Currently writing, recording an album

I should offer a dozen explanations and a possible caveat for this, but I won’t. A dirty, rough draft and an impulsively made video.

July 19th, 2007 | Added functionality: Image bank, view project by type

Hopefully viewing my projects will be easier now. Added a sub-menu with project categories. Also there is a new image repository. You’ll find an amassing source of images and photographs related to my current development, past projects, recent projects, and research.

July 1st, 2007 | New Documentation Online

New videos and photos are available in the projects section for recent work. More documentation to follow that will better clarify intentions, process, and development. Thanks.

June 20th, 2007 | Currently lead researcher and developer for “Katrina Project”

Currently the lead graduate researcher and developer at UCLA for an online portal focused on community organization. Our aim is to harness organizations dedicated to similar causes but who lack the means to communicate effectively amongst one another and the communities they serve.

April 2nd, 2007 | “Piano Declination” featured in Mini-Bio

Musical piece, Piano Declination (of which I’ve made available through creative commons), is featured in a mini-biography of San Fransisco artist, Amy Berk. The biography is available through the Magnes Museum website.

November 30th, 2006 | Music for Godard featured at 404 Festival, Argentina

Music video piece, Music for Godard, and design work, Piano Variations, selected for presentation at the 404 festival in Argentina. More images available here: http://www.404festival.com/fotos2006/index.html