Hello guys!!! Check out this video we did just moments ago and find out who will get the first custom T-shirt. Please don't do spoilers, let the lucky patron get the surprise. Once he comments here all is good :)
Next weekend we will give away more. Until then please stay tuned for tomorrow's premiere, and have great evening!
2021-04-19 00:43:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my dear patrons! I have a special treat for you this weekend :)
We're going to make two prototypes of a T-shirt and I want one of you to have one. Do you want in? You just have to comment here "I'm in" (or whatever you want, but let me know you're interested) and then send me your T-shirt size on a private message here on Patreon (if you could add your chest size it could come in handy because it will be totally custom). Oh, and the design is also a surprise, that's why I put a qu...
2021-04-17 15:53:39 +0000 UTC View Post
CHAPTER 59
Oscar walked into the Clinic’s cafeteria in a bad mood. He felt the situation was getting out of hand. Cristina, his secretary, had been waiting for him there for several minutes. He had called her first thing in the morning to resolve pending work issues and adjust his schedule for the rest of the week, since the night before, after his conversation with Eva, he ...
2021-04-15 15:30:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey my dear patrons, here's a treat just for you, a first look at my forthcoming music video "Do It Again" I'm working on this days.
I've edited one minute so far, and as you can see, the image is so crisp I'm jumping of joy. I don't know if I'll add much more color adjustments or FX, but so far I'm really happy with it, because I'm introducing for the first time some very cool features. For example, this is the first video that in the future I'll be able to easily adap...
2021-04-14 18:52:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello guys, as promised here's the "Just the shirt" series Red that accompany the previous two Gravity images.
Pics where taken Thursday March 25th by Martin, during the last photoshoot for the "Once In A Lifetime" listening companion book, and edited by me. They're a bit of a challenge but I think they will be an inspiration for future things :)
Have a great Sunday!!!!
2021-04-11 20:34:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey my dear patrons, hope you're having a great weekend!
Here's the second "gravity" pic I was telling you about yesterday. The second of the zero gravity ideas I had no time to include on the book, but that I find very cinematic and inspiring. Just imagine a music video floating like that... hehe Maybe when we are able to go out again we can make it happen, until then here's the idea + a close up. As you will see, like yesterday, this images are huge!
Now I'll start to edit a ser...
2021-04-11 16:38:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys, today I decide to spend three hours editing this for you, one of the zero gravity ideas I had no time to include on the book, but that I find very cinematic and inspiring. I think I would have loved to see something like this when I was younger on a movie hehe
The image is huge, 6k x something, so you can see the detail. I have another one of this series I want to edit, maybe later when the studio is free again. Jose is broadcasting now on Twitch, don't miss it :)
Tomorr...
2021-04-10 21:54:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my dear patrons! Since some of you already have the "Once In A Lifetime" Listening Companion book, I've decided to share a look behind the scenes at one of the more challenging photo sets, those on the Zero Gravity Lounge (not spoiling too much for those who haven't seen the full set yet).
As you will see on this example, each one of the images was a mix of various elements. Here I composed my image with three different pictures, each leg and rest of the body, plu...
2021-04-09 21:38:50 +0000 UTC View Post
CHAPTER 57
—What do I have to do? —Aminarti asked, holding the small oval pellet in his hand.
—Just activate it by pressing the top button when you are next to him.
—And this will fix him?
—No doubt, from that moment and to all intents and purposes he will be an ordinary human being.
Aminarti had received the call shortly after his conference ...
2021-04-08 16:58:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello guys, I had to block this and some other videos of mine in Spain because of family issues sometime ago, and I think that's unfair to my patrons from Spain, so here they will have the chance to watch the version that was on Youtube, only with a better quality this time.
As you well know, I had the pleasurable honor of having Jeremy Morse star with me on this video. Fun fact, although we had been chatting for a long time on Facebook before this (and he danced on "I'...
2021-04-07 19:25:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my dear patrons, now the cat is out of the bag, let's dive into the making process of "Once In A Lifetime", starting with the first demo I recorded of "Do It Again", the first single.
I started working on this song around the 27th of July 2020, and this demo was finished on August 2nd. I think I already shared with you by then that I was working on an album for Perfected. I needed new songs and this was one of the three I was work...
2021-04-06 23:03:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Easter my dear patrons! Here's the conclusion of the "just the purple shirt" series you requested :P hope you like it!
Pics where taken Thursday March 25th by Martin, during the last photoshoot for the "Once In A Lifetime" listening companion book, and edited by me. That day we also shot some extra video scenes, I'll start working on that video tomorrow, this afternoon it's free at last, so I'll be watching movies and eating ice cream :)
I'll post tomorrow the demo of "Do It...
2021-04-04 18:05:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! I just edited this "Dark Bunny" set of pics for tomorrows Easter posts on social media but wanted you to have them before anyone else, plus a full size edit not watermarked. Thank you so much for sticking around!
The "Once In A Lifetime" release is going well, we're very happy to the first reactions we're getting after all this last months hard work and for the book and cd sales. It really makes it worth it. First batch of CDs will be shipped next Tuesday, and...
2021-04-03 17:05:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my dear patrons, crazy day ahead but I just wanted to let you know that the new album is now out everywhere, along with the CD and the book. My website is now live too and I did a big rebuild of it, check it out https://benjaminkoll.com
There are some pages that will be live later there, but you now have all the links and the shop online. And there's a special treat for you, being a patron, if you order the CD you'll...
2021-04-02 16:32:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello guys, excitement is building up as we're now just 24 before the release of Once In A Lifetime. And I have good new, the Listening Companion is now available on Amazon. They were a bit scared because this one is more explicit but things were sorted out and it was finally approved yesterday by the end of the day :) Here are the main links to each country:
CHAPTER 55
A few floors up, at the top floor of the hotel, Victor Sertres sat patiently waiting. The city spread out in front of the large window in the living room of his suite. Confident, he watched the helicopter fly away and prepared for Professor Hebert's return. He had a thin screen next to him, from which he watched out of the corner of his eye the sinuous evolution of ...
2021-04-01 16:03:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my dear patrons, I had to interrupt my frantic work this week and post this for you. We just received moments ago the CD edition of Once In A Lifetime!!!!
I't looks great and it's really touching to have it in my hands at last. I don't know if I mentioned it before but this CD includes a new mix and mastering of Don't Let Go, not available on the digital edition or for streaming. OMG all the work is finally showing. I also delivered the Listening ...
2021-03-31 01:00:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my dear Patrons, I couldn't let the weekend go without indulging James with his request. Here they are some of the previously shared Tighty Whiteys pics (and I think some new) re edited in a much better and higher resolution and color, with a nice new background. Let the fantasy begin :D
Please let me know if you'd like me to re edit some of the past galleries with the new tools, the re...
2021-03-28 20:32:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my dear Patrons, you asked, you voted and here it is :D the first part of JUST the purple shirt. Hope you like them and thank you so much for participating on the poll!
Pics where taken last Thursday (March 25) by Martin, during the last photoshoot for the "Once In A Lifetime" listening companion book and some extra video scenes, and edited by me. I think you can really tell now how the new tools are helping me get better pictures. I'm like a child with a new toy hehe
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2021-03-28 16:54:18 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, I'm super busy this weekend finishing stuff for the new album release. So I need your opinion...
Today I'll be working on the listening companion book, which I'm expecting to send for proofing to Amazon on Monday (it's 90 pages long today and has more pictures than the previous two), supervising and tweaking a series of limited edition stickers (you'll be the first to have them as patrons), and before Monday I have to have purchased mail boxes, a printer (Murphy's law anyone?)...
2021-03-27 16:45:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my dear patrons, we are at it at last!!
We've started earlier today to shoot some extra footage for the new music video and final pictures for the "Once In A Lifetime" Listening Companion book. This exclusive pics are from the extra video takes, we did them at 13:00 today. In a few minutes we'll start with the last photoshoot. The plan is to try make real a cool idea we have for the book, and perhaps do three more variations of that idea. They are difficult ...
2021-03-25 21:17:42 +0000 UTC View Post
CHAPTER 53
Eva looked around nervously, rubbing her hands, trying to stop them from shaking. She tried to listen to her father, but couldn't control herself, she needed to know where her sister was. She checked out the traffic circle that led to the entrance of the park.
It was deserted. She walked forward cautiously and crossed the street.
Reaching the stone gate,...
2021-03-25 17:58:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello guys, here's today's artwork in full size and resolution exclusively for you. I'm still working on artwork for the forthcoming listening companion book and this idea came up while I was working on one of the page spreads. Who said bears can't fly?
News: today's the start of a regular series of live broadcasts on Twitch by Jose Spinnin. He will be transmitting from the studio every Wednesday at 19:00 (GMT-6) and on each 2nd and 4th Saturday of the ...
2021-03-24 18:17:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my dear Patrons!
Yesterday, just as we were coming back from our trip, Grosso Artbear contacted me to tell me he had finished his artwork inspired by the pics I took for him last year (from the tighty whiteys series you can find here on Patreon).
Here's the full set he sent me plus a new edit of the pic he chose to draw, first from the new edited series I'm ...
2021-03-23 18:52:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my dear patrons, here are some pics we took yesterday afternoon. It was our first day at a pool since last year and I had to share it with you.
Fun fact: this is the same place where we shot the music video for “On The Beach”, it’s on top of a tall hill before the mountains in Puerto Vallarta and safely isolated from the crowd. Second funny fact: I brought four new shirts to do a photo shoot while in Vallarta (at another place) but I’ve gotten so big none of them fits LOL ...
2021-03-20 16:50:10 +0000 UTC View Post
CHAPTER 51
—Did they get there in time? —a coldly voice queried on the other end of the receiver.
—We think so, they had just met.
—Perfect. Proceed to conditioning. You know what you have to do next.
—Yes, sir —the hooded man replied obediently. Over and out.
—Roger.
The communicator emitted an electronic buzz and the hooded man adv...
2021-03-18 18:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my dear patrons, we're leaving tomorrow morning to Puerto Vallarta until Monday and I didn't want to leave before posting the conclusion to this gallery :)
Don't worry, we're going to be totally safe and isolated, a close friend (tested last Friday) is going to take us there in his car and bring us back, and we're going to be on our usual hideaway, all for us this time. The plan is to talk of a possible Beefdip 2022 (fingers crossed hoping it'll be safe to gather all together agai...
2021-03-17 00:54:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey my dear patrons, I know I told you yesterday I wasn't going to post anything more today but after I edited this morning's social post (strip poker or skinny dipping?) I realized that one of the pics is from a photo shoot I haven't shared with you before, except from 6 of them I used on the two "threesome" pics (I shared a while ago here just for you).
So I decided to take a break from the book (I've already edited 65 pages!) and edit and share with you at least the first part of thi...
2021-03-15 01:02:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again guys! Here's my last post for today (have to resume work on the book ASAP), and since we have still to wait until next weekend for the new galleries (no worries, they will be worth the wait), I decided to reward your patience sharing some of what's coming.
These four pics are demos of some of the artwork we've been developing for "Once In A Lifetime". This color treatment was the first test, and it has been already improved for the book (I'm saving the final product for late...
2021-03-13 19:35:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey my dear patrons, as I keep re organizing my photo library, I found this series of pics I don't think I ever shared with you before. I shared this tbt months ago, that was taken just after this set, but not these. They were taken on 2014 by Woofioso.
And they're fitting because I've received the last piece of wardrobe I ordered and w're leaving next Wednesday for five days of rest + a day of photoshoots ju...
2021-03-13 19:16:03 +0000 UTC View Post