Benjamin Ahr Harrison lives in Brooklyn. He directs music videos and comedies. He writes screenplays and prose, and occasionally blogs. He takes the occasional photograph and cooks the occasional meal. He never talks about himself in the third person. His production company is called Machine Man Inc.
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I directed this music video for the extremely talented A. Pinks, a Queens-based rapper that you should definitely keep an eye on.
Posted: April 30th, 2008 under Film and Video, Internet Video, Projects, music video.
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But busta still has more rhymes per square inch than anyone. Also more costume changes.
Posted: April 30th, 2008 under Internet Video, music video.
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Sweet mother of god…
Posted: April 26th, 2008 under Internet Video, Miscellaneous.
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Wu Chess is the Rza’s latest project. It brings hip-hop, chess and martial arts together to teach kids to think before they act. Also, it has the Rza in it, which makes it great.
Watch a local news story about it.
Posted: April 18th, 2008 under Internet Video, Miscellaneous.
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I’ve been on the proverbial grind to finish two music videos so I can direct my fourth at the beginning of next month. Putting in these crazy 16 hour days. While you wait, look at this incredibly apt graph that Mic Hoffman sent me. Then click on it to learn more about The Way The World Works.
Posted: April 11th, 2008 under Miscellaneous, music video.
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How fucking tempting is it to buy airplane tickets from Kanye West?
Do they fly to Atlanta, L.A., Miami, N.Y., summertime Chi?
Or maybe Houston, Philly, D.C., VA, or the Bay, or Yay?
Posted: April 3rd, 2008 under Miscellaneous.
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Back at the end of high school some friends and I made a 30 minute movie called Character. We made a pretty great website for it too, and snagged the domain name moviecharacter.com. I haven’t been paying for that domain for a long time now though, and some sleazy parking page is on it now. Bummer since we’re going to rewrite and reshoot that movie pretty soon.
Posted: April 2nd, 2008 under Miscellaneous.
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Here’s a screenshot from the Star Trek thing I shot today!
Happy April!
Posted: April 1st, 2008 under Miscellaneous.
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Wow! Things with Paramount got going fucking fast. I visited a set where one of their other directors was in the process of getting fired—awkward. Since I was the schmuck that happened to be there just then and they didn’t want to take a loss on the whole day they plunked me into the video village and asked me to finish the scheduled shots. Fuck. Well I had to cancel a couple, but I think I did an okay job considering. They said I could show some screens on here so check back for when the editor emails them over.
Posted: April 1st, 2008 under Miscellaneous.
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I just got out of a breakfast meeting with some production people from Paramount who are putting together a series of shorts for the web to be realeased over the six months leading up to the release of the new Star Trek film next May. They have me writing and directing one! I’ll be meeting with J.J. Abrams in a few days to get an idea of the feeling he’s going for with the main picture and where my short will work in the scheme of the story. Oh man am I excited!
Posted: April 1st, 2008 under Miscellaneous.
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