Ben Spends

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Ben Spends is an animated short made by artists Mike Reynolds, Benjamin Hooper, and Lindsay Scoggins.

According to Creative Loafing, Ben Spends documents the, 'systematic and creative destruction of ...one-dollar bills as an ode to economic despair.'

Initially Ben Spends was a silent video installation on a street corner in Channelside for the Satellites section of the Lights on Tampa public art exhibition, January 2009.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• university
• of
• south
• florida
• art
• school
• animated
• animation
• short
• film
• money
• dollars
• george
• washington
• light
• on
• tampa
• ben
• depression
• resession
• cash
• broke

[astrel23]

Interesting concept, but more importantly, it is executed well. Was this rotoscoped?

[waambat]

Thanks, yeah we shot it with our digi SLR and rotoscoped the stills.

[eobo1]

u never washed ur hands before eating the dollar D:

[lbjoshbal]

makes me hate money more. nice video. looks like some creative textbook stuff are on this. kewl.

[stencilwashington]

luvin it!

:)

[cdaphne]

very creative!

[Djlavagirl]

Bravo!

[trishagroh]

What an awesome video!

[Crossbrave]

I can't wait to see more!

[nonsense913]

Wow, thats amazing.

[Max14934eva]

very nice very nice

[under00ground]

good work