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.
I’ve been getting hella political on here, which is something I’ve been trying to avoid. Can’t be helped. My boy Nate just dropped another hilarious music video.
Posted: October 17th, 2008 under Comedy, Internet Video, Politics, music video.
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Posted: October 17th, 2008 under Comedy, Internet Video, Politics.
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• Sarah Palin can run faster than Usain Bolt, but in the political sense.
• Sarah Palin shot the last living wooly mammoth from a paleolithic flying machine called “magic.”
• Sarah Palin’s son Trig is something of a savant, named for his astonishing ability to do advanced trigonometric calculations even though he is a mentally handicapped baby.
• Sarah Palin receives royalties every time hollywood uses the phrase “aw shucks,” to which she owns copyright.
• George W. Bush’s nickname for Governor Palin is Athena, Goddess of Heroic Endeavor. Senator Biden’s nickname for her is Saint Jude.
• Sarah Palin can expertly field-dress a minority voter.
• Sarah Palin’s had to send an incompetent clone to be interviewed by Katie Couric because she was fighting Muslim Russians on the Alaskan coastline.
• Sarah Palin has actually read all of the newspapers.
• On cold nights when it’s time to go to sleep, John McCain lovingly tucks Sarah Palin into his jowls.
Posted: October 8th, 2008 under Comedy.
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I just discovered The Real, a very great blog of videos about hip hop and how preposterous it is in general. They clearly love their subject matter, but are not blind to how delightfully silly it is a lot of the time. Dope.
The Rosenthals’ Rosenberg Flipcam Diary, Vol. 1 from jeff on Vimeo.
Posted: September 10th, 2008 under Comedy, Internet Video.
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I cinematographed and assistant-edited this video! It’s promo for the book Damn it Feels Good to be a Banker now available at amazon.
Posted: August 28th, 2008 under Comedy, Internet Video, Projects, music video.
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Well it looks like I wasn’t the only, or even the first person to start spreading true Michael Phelps Facts. Ch-check it out:
Posted: August 13th, 2008 under Comedy.
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• Michael Phelps was disqualified from competing in the 1996 Olympics when the IOC determined that running on the surface of the water did not count as “swimming.”
• Michael Phelps won a gold medal incognito as beach volleyball player Kerri Walsh at the XXVIII Olympiad in Athens.
• Michael Jordan cannot hold his bowels in The Presence of Michael Phelps.
• Michael Phelps has been nominated for all of the Nobel Prizes except literature. He razed the city of Stockholm to teach the prize committee some manners.
• Half of Michael Phelps’s training regime remains shrouded in mystery as it takes place on a swamp planet in the Dagoba system. Just who is training him there, or what he is learning is the subject of much speculation.
• Bob Costas is a figment of Michael Phelp’s imagination.
• Barrack Obama pays Michael Phelps a royalty every time he uses the slogan “Yes We Can” or inspires a member of the younger generation.
• McDonald’s tried to low-ball Michael Phelps on an endorsement deal for their new chicken sandwich. In response, Phelps willed Ronald McDonald’s heart to stop.
• In early 2007, Michael Phelps breifly considered the concept of Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris spent a week in the hospital.
Posted: August 12th, 2008 under Comedy.
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The Beijing Olympics: Are They A Trap?
Posted: August 8th, 2008 under Comedy, Internet Video.
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Ze Frank on The Sound of Young America
The last of the TSOYA live videos! Hope you enjoy. Check out maximumfun.org for some of my favorite radio in the world.
Posted: July 17th, 2008 under Comedy, Film and Video, Internet Video.
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The Sound of Young America is one of my favorite radio shows, and they recently came to New York to tape a live show. Eddie and I filmed the proceedings, which took place at the UCB theater. Jesse Thorn, the host, just posted the first round of videos from the show.
I’ve not done much filming of live events before, so I definitely made plenty of mistakes with this one, but it seems to have come out reasonably well considering. Here’s a video of Pangea 3000 doing their hilarious spelling bee sketch. The rest of the videos can be found on maximumfun.org
Posted: July 12th, 2008 under Comedy, Film and Video, Internet Video.
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