Ben Steele - Beyond the Ordinary Dot Net

~~~ Ben Steele ~~~
A young genius and a talented, dedicated, group of friends create a new genre of art.
Fragile Machine is a hauntingly beautiful film, that evokes contemplation and our own soul's answers.

Ben Steele, creator of Fragile Machine, with a wonderful group of talented friends who came together and created Aoineko. "Aoineko are all musically and artistically self-taught. Living apart, we spent the better part of a decade honing our skills and now have come together to produce. We do different kinds of work in different places. Some research and art are done in Taiwan, China, and Japan. Musical inspiration is found while travelling all over the world. The largest part of production is done in our base in the middle of the desert."

"The film’s title and its use of machinery is an attempt at visual expression of the idea that physicality is not “alive”, that all life truly resides in a parallel and unending reality. Leda is a fragile machine, yet she is also alive. An analogy could be that if I lost my limbs and they were replaced with prosthetics, would I still be myself? Yes. If I lost nearly my entire body and a large portion of my brain, and all were replaced with artificial versions would I still be myself? Yes. As long as Source was still present as awareness, and there was the capability to experience life, “I” would still exist." Enjoy the art, the music, glimpses into the world of Aoineko, and the beautiful Websites themselves are of Ben's creations ("because unlike the film, they are 'easy' and quickly done") Wow! "www.fragilemachine.com www.aoineko.com

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Listen Now	January 12th, 2006 "Fragile Machine" An amazing CG (Computer Generated) film creating its own unique genre. Telling its story through exquisite graphics and original mysterious music with the beautiful voice of "X" whose own life story by the way, though very different, inspired this film's story line. It is dedicated to her father and Dr. David Hawkins whose spiritual insights greatly impacted the filmmakers. Referred to as an "Underground" film using computers held together with duck tape... but don't be fooled, this is very high tech! One particular minute segment took three months to render the way Ben envisioned it. The story unfolds in non-linear fashion, it is about the attempt to create the first person to be made by man instead of God, it raises all the great questions, but does not answer them... that is up to you. Yo!