About

Benjamin Spall

Benjamin Spall, 2010

BENJAMIN SPALL, author of benjaminspall.com and Riverdance Runner-up 2010, is a level-headed, attractive and all-round modest individual with a passion for living life to the full.

Having spent a large part of his teenage years somewhat subdued and in the background, Benjamin eventually decided it was time to take action, and start living life the way he saw fit.

In the past twelve months Benjamin, 22, has Riverdanced on stage to a 100-strong audience (afterwards being told, by an actual Irish Riverdancer that he had performed “A wonderful take on what we do…”), flown for the first, second, and third time, taking in the sights of Paris, Nantes, Prague, and Stockholm, met a ridiculous number of celebrities and highly regarded professionals through work, mentioned the war to a European Queen, pretended to be gunned down on stage, joined the organ donors register, taken a first aid course, and started on the road to learning conversational Spanish, amongst other things.

Benjamin has kept a blog at this domain since November 2009. Up until May 2010 the blog mainly focused on one-off articles written on a weekly basis. Although enjoyable to write, it was decided that this place needed a more personal touch.
In July 2010 benjaminspall.com relaunched as a blog with a more personal feel, a blog detailing the life of the author, with posts branching out into different subject areas to be discussed and looked upon, as well as videos Benjamin felt will be of interest to his readers.

I read several blogs on a regular basis, the most notable of which I have listed below…

  • Long Tall Ally’s Tales from the Scales: Very funny, very well written and very motivational. Soon to be Glamour super-star columnist.
  • Milk/Signe: Signe Siemsen is a Swedish model living in Stockholm. Need I go on? Updated several times a day, Signe posts photographs detailing her enviable life in beautiful Scandinavia.
  • Paulo Coelho’s Blog: Wise words, in three languages, from the highly acclaimed Portuguese author.
  • Richard Wiseman’s Blog: The blog of the bestselling author of 59 Seconds, and updated almost daily, Professor Richard Wiseman’s Blog is an interesting read throughout the week – the Friday Puzzle feature being particularity popular amongst his readers.
  • Sprinkle of Ginger: The blog of Ella Morton (who was covered in the January 2010 post As Elegant as they come), an Aussie living in New York – freelancing in media, and all-round living the American dream.
  • Tim Ferriss – Experiments in Lifestyle Design: The blog of the Internationally bestselling author Tim Ferriss. This blog is content rich. Take a look around, you’ll find something you’re interested in reading soon enough.
  • Web Ink Now: David Meerman Scott, keynote speaker and bestselling author of, amongst others, the hugely popular book The New Rules of Marketing and PR uses his space on the web to blog about new media and the ways in which we can incorporate it into our lives and businesses to greater effect. As well as being a great writer and speaker, David was also kind enough to help me out with research elements of my University Dissertation last year, and has been helpful and supportive ever since. Check him out.