+ WHERE ARE YOU BENNY? (THE "AH WHAT THE HELL, IT'S CHRISTMAS" EDITION)

As we near the festive season many of you may have noticed that things have been a little quiet around The Benjamins of late. Well I'm here to reassure you that everything is still OK and I'm still kicking on. My extremely busy schedule over the past couple of months has unfortunately prevented me from putting a great deal of time into the blog. However with some time off over the Christmas season, you readers should see a whole lot more content on the site as I endeavour to clear my way through a monstrous backlog of posts. I'm even hoping to bring back everyone's favourite weekly series, Throwback Thursday.

It's also with this little announcement that I thought I'd take the opportunity to wish all you readers a very merry festive season! May all your bellies be full of delicious food and may you all get some awesome presents from Santa. At this special time of the year also take some time to think about those less fortunate than us and remember that Christmas isn't all about the presents and material possessions, for you it may be about celebrating the birth of Christ or simply spending some quality time with your loved ones, appreciating the smaller things in life and being thankful for making it through another year. Most importantly enjoy yourself and be safe if you are travelling over the Christmas/New Year period. So it's onward and upward to better things and in the words of the great Dennis Franz "ah what the hell, it's Christmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasss!"

Love
Benjamin

+ WHERE ARE YOU BENNY? (THE "HOLD ONTO YOUR BUTTS" EDITION)

As many of you may have noticed, things have been pretty quiet around The Benjamins over the past two weeks. This was due to a number of reasons, mainly me being very busy working on other stuff and not having too much spare time to post stuff. All the avid readers of the blog would have also noticed that there wasn't even a Throwback Thursday issue posted last week (cue the shock, horror and outrage). I really should have posted a warning sooner to let each and every one of you know that things would be a little quiet and that Throwback Thursday was going on a one week hiatus, but as they say "it's better late than never". So it's with this announcement that I bring the news that things will be returning to normal from...... now. There will be a lot more posts over the next few days as I endeavour to clear the backlog and you'll all be happy to know this will include the 11th installment of Throwback Thursday which will appear sometime today. So in the words of the great Samuel L. Jackson "hold onto your butts" because things are about to get wild around here.

Love
Benjamin

+ WEBSITE: THE BURNING HOUSE

Right off the bat I'll say, this is a stupidly cool concept for a website! The site I speak of is called The Burning House and the basic concept behind the site is to pose the question to various people "If your house was burning, what would you bring with you?" The participants take photos of their chosen objects, list each item in the collection and give a brief explanation of why they would bring this particular item with them. The objects are really well shot and it gives a real insight into the mindset of the owners, what they hold dear and their history. The website has only recently been launched so at the moment it features mainly friends of the creator, but if you want to get involved you can submit your own collection of burning house objects. This is definitely one site to keep an eye on as the collections grows. Check out some of the burning house images after the jump or head over to the website to check out more with full explanations.