Hey, Hot Shot! Entries: Ben Thomas
from a wheel by Summer ‘07 contender Ben Thomas
Ben Thomas is trying to take over the world and he has revealed his insidious plans by entering the Summer Edition of Hey, Hot Shot! Future Emperor of the Earth, Ben, has figured out to shrink entire cities and its people. The effect of his havoc can be seen on his carefully-documented website: www.cityshrinker.com
He seems to take great joy in chaos and relishes in power:
My aim is to give that feeling newness with each shot I take.
My method is to take what was once large and shrink it down to model size. To take the familiar and get you thinking even if for a second “wait a minute, is that…”.
Luckily for us, we are safe in North America as only Australia and the people of Melbourne will have to feel his vengeance for the time being.
Our future overlord was born in 1981 in Adelaide, Australia. While there, President of the Universe, Ben, developed his creative itch playing jazz trumpet then moving onto filming the local bands he grew up admiring. He Who is Large and Powerful graduated from the International Design Effects and Animation School (Adelaide) before picking up a still camera and a new city, Melbourne.
Although we should be very afraid of Ben, there seems to be a shining fragment of his humanity which we might be able to persuade to stop shrinking us and instead, love us.
You see amazing things every day. It could be out the window of the train on your way to work, it could be in your back yard, even better it could be somewhere completely foreign, something you didn’t know existed.
Good luck, Ben. Please don’t shrink me. For everyone else who is not an aspiring ruler of the planet, you still have time to enter the competition.
