Ben Saunders

My brother knows my weird taste in music better than anyone, and...

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:45:00 +0000

My brother knows my weird taste in music better than anyone, and occasionally he’ll send something my way so well suited to the mood I’m in and the experiences I’m going through that it makes me stop in my tracks. I never thought I’d publicly admit to a dubstep track bringing tears to my eyes, but Mt. Eden & Ruby Frost’s Oh That I Had has done just that. Thanks Steve - I love you bro.

SW London (Wimbledon Common) as you don’t often see it...

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:25:01 +0000

SW London (Wimbledon Common) as you don’t often see it (Taken with instagram)

Beats watching MTV Cribs on a treadmill (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:53:34 +0000

Beats watching MTV Cribs on a treadmill (Taken with instagram)

Thames from Battersea Park (Taken with instagram)

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:45:26 +0000

Thames from Battersea Park (Taken with instagram)

"How often do you hear the marketing person say, “that’s a neat idea, but we don’t..."

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:23:20 +0000

“How often do you hear the marketing person say, “that’s a neat idea, but we don’t have the budget this year”? Shouldn’t she say, “We have an unlimited budget for ads that work”…”

- Seth’s Blog: Do ads work?

BBC NEWS | Magazine | A prediction that's a safe bet

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:34:00 +0000

BBC NEWS | Magazine | A prediction that's a safe bet:

“We’ve reached a turning point. A madness has gone out of fashion: the madness of behaving as if only too much can be enough. There will always be another madness, but not that one. From now on a man will have to be as dumb as an petrodollar potentate to think that anyone will respect him for sitting on a gold toilet in a private jumbo jet.”

- Clive James

2009: The New Rules - Telegraph

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:16:42 +0000

2009: The New Rules - Telegraph:

“Because nothing is safe, one is freer to try and to fail.”

The Z-Glass house (via Tumbleweed Tiny House Company). I’d...

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:03:42 +0000

The Z-Glass house (via Tumbleweed Tiny House Company). I’d love one of these in the Scottish Highlands somewhere. Or on the edge of a Norwegian fjord…

Ascent, by Toby Lockerbie

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:14:00 +0000

Ascent, by Toby Lockerbie

"There is nothing inevitable about young people from deprived backgrounds ending up “doing nothing”…..."

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:41:00 +0000

“There is nothing inevitable about young people from deprived backgrounds ending up “doing nothing”… Much of the current problem results from an outlook on life that places little value on education, the work ethic, thrift, honesty or respect for others, and this is encouraged by popular culture that trashes such values while glorifying the trivial and the vacuous, the cult of celebrity and the “something for nothing” society. Harsh as it may seem, the responsibility for not making the best of their opportunities often lies with the youngsters themselves.”

- From a letter to the Times, December 2006.

El Gollum dels arrossars. Brilliant black and white portraiture...

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:32:00 +0000

El Gollum dels arrossars. Brilliant black and white portraiture from Sergi Bernal.

"The magazine’s relentless focus on high-end consumption as a literal way of life is, of course,..."

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:44:00 +0000

““The magazine’s relentless focus on high-end consumption as a literal way of life is, of course, itself a major ethical stumbling point, and clearly one whose implications are not engaged in any way other than the superficial acknowledgement of “sustainability” as something to be aspired to in urban design. Your mileage may of course vary, but this strikes me as not particularly cutting it.””

- Adam Greenfield on Monocle magazine.

Andy Kirkpatrick is a machine.

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:34:00 +0000

Andy Kirkpatrick is a machine.

"Anyone can be fit. It’s being hard that’s hard."

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:58:00 +0000

““Anyone can be fit. It’s being hard that’s hard.””

- Richard Askwith, Feet in the Clouds