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Ben’s 365 Project – Update

Posted by Ben on 02/05/2012, 9:00 AM

“Now, I appreciate that this year there are 366 days.. but I’m still calling it the ’365 project’ because it’s a good title. Since I’m officially a third of the way through, 121 days out of 366, I thought I’d take a moment and share a few of my favourite photos from 2012 so far” – Ben

The 365 project is a simple idea, you take one photo each day, for 365 days. I mentioned it in an earlier post. You can check out my official 365 page here.

Day 3 - Whilst in Fiji we sit back and watch one of the islands catamarans sail itself out to sea on a windy afternoon.

Day 11 - I really really love our doormat.

Day 15 - Yum Cha is awesome... I'm always up for it.

Day 35 - Just an awesome view of Sydney that I get to see whenever I go for a run.

Day 39 - I joined Taekwando late last year and have been really enjoying it.

Day 67 - A very rainy day in Sydney causes water to come flooding up from the sewers in Chatswood. This photo was published on the ABC News website :)

Day 69 - That awkward moment when Kevin Rudd claims that he is 'a happy little vegemiter being the foreign minister' only to resign later that month.

Day 71 - Very cute Beagle puppies

Day 76 - Celebrating St Patricks day with Guinness

Day 85 - After not playing for a few months to study, I finally get back online and play some MW3 (21:5 is decent considering I was rusty - I had a 19:1 a few days ago).

Day 86 - Caught the Ferry home and took these awesome photos of Sydney Harbour.

Day 106 - I really loved this photo and actually had to re-do it to make it perfect.

Day 113 - My Blog now has an official Facebook Page! (Click on the photo to visit).

Day 121 - I finally reach 100kg.

Check out the rest of the project here, (Protip: if you view the Archive, you can see them all really quickly)

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I’m on a Diet

Posted by Ben on 28/04/2012, 3:00 PM

“So I’ve been on a personal mission to lose weight and get fit since July 2011 and part of that is watching what I’m eating. I don’t think I could handle having these portions though” – Ben

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Ben’s Taekwando Grading

Posted by Ben on 19/03/2012, 8:00 AM

“I have been be doing Taekwando since 21st September 2011 and have been loving it. We have numerous ‘gradings’ per year which is like an exam for the next level/belt. These are some videos from my grading test yesterday where I am hopefully going from Yellow belt > High Yellow belt.” – Ben

and I also made it my photo of the day for my 365 project;

Day 77: Taekwando Grading

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What’s on your bucket list?

Posted by Ben on 26/01/2012, 1:00 PM

“This post was inspired by Ev’s post. Problem is that I’m now starting from scratch and it’s going to be short list to start with. I told you I was posting more stuff today.” – Ben

I’m sure you are all aware of the concept of a Bucket List (aka ’100 things I want to do before I die’). Basically it’s a list of cool things that you really want to do with your life. It doesn’t have to be sensible things like “buy a house” or “pay off mortgage” or stuff like that (but I’m going to include some ‘grown-up’ ones like those). Basically it’s something you’ve always wanted to do.

I’m starting mine from scratch, so here’s:

Ben’s Bucket List

(ps. It’s a work in progress)

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Ben’s 365 Project

Posted by Ben on 26/01/2012, 10:00 AM

“One of my unannounced New Years Resolutions for 2012 was to partake in doing the 365 Project. Since it’s my Birthday today I’ve decided to post a few additional items to the blog, Happy Australia Day!” – Ben

CLICK on this image to visit my 365 Project page


The 365 project is a simple enough concept: you take one photo everyday, for a whole year. I decided that I should attempt this for two reasons:

  1. I like taking photos, and this is a good way to force me to do so daily
  2. Its an easy way of making my Instagram account interesting.

I have some ‘rules’ that I’ve been trying to adhere to:

  • Don’t just take photos of food.
  • Try and sum up the day, or the most interesting aspect of your day
  • Make it personal, not just obscure photos of nothing.
  • Actually take the photo each day, and not ‘upload’ a cool photo from somewhere else.

The “official site” of my 365 project is here

This is just a Tumblr blog that collects all the 365 posts. One thing I like about Tumblr blogs is that you can get a really cool overview page, ‘the Archive‘, though for some reason it displays my Jan 1st photo as Dec 31st (I blame being in Fiji). I am also posting the photos to my Twitter account (@Benjamin_Lewis).

So far I’ve taken a photo for everyday of the year, and have only screwed up once, but managed to fix it.

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Facebook – Happy Birthday Meme-Style

Posted by Ben on 25/01/2012, 11:59 PM

“It’s 1 minute until my birthday… lol” – Ben

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The Top 10 Posts of 2011.

Posted by Ben on 31/12/2011, 3:00 PM

“As a way of finishing up 2011. I’m going to list the top 10 posts for 2011.” – Ben

  1. Misty Cosplay: Win and Fail
  2. Facebook – Boil Water
  3. Doodle God Walkthrough/Guide
  4. Random Hot Asian Women, Part 2
  5. Jarah Mariano post
  6. Christina Hendricks has huge boobs
  7. Baxter, you’re so wise!
  8. Random selection of Hot Asian Women
  9. Jessica Biel’s Ass (Gif)
  10. Hot Women: Natalie Portman

“We are just going to ignore how many of those posts would be filed under Hot Women, hmm” – Ben

and on that note, farewell 2011.

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Merry Xmas! (From Fiji)

Posted by Ben on 25/12/2011, 9:00 AM

“Merry Christmas everyone. I shall be in Fiji whilst you are reading this. Here is a photo of what I’m planning on doing today (taken a previous visit). Ahhh, it’s nice having this kinda things pre-written and scheduled to post. Hope you all get some good loot” – Ben

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Benisawesome.net on Google+

Posted by Ben on 20/12/2011, 9:32 PM

“I have created an official Benisawesome.net page on Google+. You can visit it HERE, or by clicking anything in this post. Perhaps everyone would like a chance to tell me what they think of the blog… or posts… or not” – Ben

Now on Google+

CLICK HERE, OR THE PHOTO FOR GOOGLE+

“Personally I’m not to sold on the whole Google+ thing yet, but it’d be cool if people wanted to use it” – Ben

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This guy has level 50 defence (GIF)

Posted by Ben on 27/11/2011, 9:00 AM

“I have started doing Taekwando and have practised doing sparring so I know how cool it is that this guy can defend himself against multiple attackers. I don’t know what happened, but the guy in the White shirt thinks he is hot shit and gets pwn’d at least twice” – Ben

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500,000 Views!

Posted by Ben on 26/10/2011, 1:37 PM

“To celebrate my blog reaching 500,000 views I have made a small Q & A Video starring…. me. I shall keep this video up on the top of the blog for the rest of this week (new posts will continue to populate under it).” – Ben

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Share a coke with Ben

Posted by Ben on 24/10/2011, 6:01 PM

“Whilst I originally mocked this new campaign of Coke’s, I saw this at the grocery store today and lol’d” – Ben

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The Shocking Game

Posted by Ben on 07/10/2011, 12:13 PM

“I just spent some time and generated my first iMovie clip and uploaded it to YouTube. It was pretty easy except for all the times iMovie crashed on me. Enjoy” – Ben

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Ben’s reflection on 9/11 a decade later.

Posted by Ben on 11/09/2011, 12:00 PM

“9/11 was a horrible and shocking event. I can’t believe it has been a decade since it occurred. I thought it would be prudent to reflect on my impression and memory of what happened on 11th September 2001.” – Ben

A sad image of the smoke.

That morning.

I remember my mother waking me up in a bit of panic. She is American and all I can recall her saying was “you have to come see the news” – she couldn’t even explain what was happening at that point. I saw the video footage of the planes hitting the towers and I thought it was a trailer for some new movie. It took a few seconds to realise that this wasn’t some Hollywood special effect – but happening in real life. I think that’ll be a comment impression. It took me the rest of the day to come to grips with the horror that had happened. The sheer amount of death and destruction is something you can’t really process quickly. Sad stories would later come out about people jumping (like ‘the falling man‘) rather than burn, all the amazingly brave and heroic firefighters and police that died trying to save people. It’s all really sickening.

My most vivid impression.

I remember standing on the train platform in Sydney waiting to go into school and no one talking. If people were talking, it was a very hushed conversation about what had happened. Everyone was in shock. Everyone was wondering what was going to happen next.

The rest of that day.

I was at school talking about what had happened and I recall everyone believing that America would be going to war over this. I was really impressed with how the USA responded to the attacks – it unified in pride and support. On the other hand, I think the global backlash on Muslims has been unfair. It is never fair to condemn an entire group of people for the actions of a small percentage who are extremists. It’s sad that some people in this world are still racist. I also think it’s pathetic for anyone to say “They [Americans] deserved it”.  The people that were killed, the office workers, the airline passengers, were not guilty of anything.

Stuck in the USA.

My dad was actually in Chicago when it happaned. He was staying in a hotel that was directly opposite the Sears tower and remembers SWAT teams storming the area to check for terrorist activity. The entire US airspace was shut down – which is called SCATANA and has only ever happened once in history. Like a lot of people, he was stranded in continental USA and trying to get back home to Australia and couldn’t work out how. They had a rather clever idea – hire a bus and drive to Canada and try and get a flight out. He managed to reach Canada and when he got wind of a rumour that LAX would be opening to allow outbound international flights, he got there and flew home.

The post-9/11 world

I think everyone will agree that it is a different world post-911. The most obvious effect is how painful airline security is now – but everyone respects why that is the case. It’s sad that these attacks continue around the world. I was actually in England in 2005 during the London Bombings. It was sad that even Australia has been effected with the Bali Bombings. Thankfully there hasn’t been any terrorist attacks on Aussie soil (*knocks on wood*). It would be a pretty sad event considering how multicultural Australia is – that and Australia really isn’t the enemy of anyone.

“I hope my ranting hasn’t offended anyone. I just wanted to share my thoughts on this.” – Ben

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Facebook – Ben is a star wars nerd

Posted by Ben on 29/08/2011, 3:30 PM

“I just preordered the Star Wars Blu Ray set. I also posted a very nerdy fb status, enjoy” – Ben

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