Back From The 90s

I'm home right now on vacation. Last week I was cleaning up my room and I found a lot of old stuff boxed up: letters, greeting cards from the 90s, old gifts, some two dozen key chains and clay sculptures. Also among them was this camera. This was the first camera my parents bought me. I was about eight years old and was pretty excited when I first held it in my hands. Evidently, it is in a mint condition and I would like to thank mother for preserving it so well. I love the manual controls, especially loading, winding and unwinding film on it.

Because My Darling, I Am A Free Spirit

"Jumped, humped, born to suffer 

made to undress in the wilderness." 

— Jim Morrison (1943 – 1971)

For The Man Of Steel

For those of you who don't know me that well, I  love tea and black coffee more than I love sleep. I collect coffee mugs too! I got this one right before leaving Delhi. It is made of stainless steel!

I had to buy this because my other clay mugs just couldn't handle the abuse any longer. 

Drink Coffee. Don't Drink. Die Anyway.

Cheers!

Ben

Dream #169

I whispered into her left ear
She smiled
I woke up
Now, she's lost in that dream.

Albatross

Here's another video that I made a couple of weeks ago.

I remember the day very well. It was one of those lazy summer afternoons. I was in a crazy auto ride in Delhi and out of nowhere a rush of magical wind started blowing everything out of their stillness. I had my camera with me and I just had to shoot something.

I guess the idea behind this one is enjoying every moment to its extreme. 

Albatross from Benjamin Karam on Vimeo.

No Direction, No Destination

I got a year older yesterday. Big deal!

I'm very much still a 90's kid at heart. That's one thing I love holding on to - the memories of the 90's .

All I want to do right now is jump in the car with a couple of anthologies and rip through the highway with no direction, no destination in mind.

(Happy Birthday, Anne!)

Love,

Ben

Dietrich, For You I Will...

I'm on vacation at the moment, and between my hectic timetable, which includes looking after the needs of the construction workers at home, driving my mother back and forth to office and taking my sister for her driving lessons I have managed to finish some new sketches.

This is my rendition of Alexey Kurbatov's 'Marlene Dietrich'.

(I've posted a series of pictures just to give you an insight into my working process.)

I sincerely invite your comments and criticism.

Cheers!

Benzy

Sleep, Dreams and Reveries

 And then there was silence
 The kiss had been plucked
 Her luminous lips quivered in the dark
 Only the smell of vapor remains

Figure Study

This is a remake of a sketch that Charles LaSalle did back in the 1940s. 

A couple of months ago I was in my room browsing through LaSalle's works and this particular incomplete 'figure study' caught my attention. There were a few sheets of paper and some pencil on the table that afternoon. I quickly grabbed them and started drawing vigorously.

This was my first attempt. It came out pretty good.

Suzanne, Are You Out There?

You better be out there.

Gypsy woman, I love you.