Illustration (Gary Taxali, Jonathan Burton...)graphic design, typography, photograohy, music and music videos, animation, graphic novels, film making.
Dave Mc Kean. He gave a talk to my class once but I was too shy to talk to him. It won't happen next time around.
Vanessa Paradis: I have been a fan for a long time.
Favourite bands are Faith No More and Nine Inch Nails above all. Then Hot Chip, Guns n' Roses, Tenacious D, Queen of the Stone Age, Jeff Buckley. I love Nelly Furtado, Miss Kitten, Moloko and Camille, Madonna, Vanessa Paradis, alternative rock, Muse, French music such as Air, Daft punk, Mirwais, Dimitri from Paris, MC Solaar and also Ty, reggae and ragga. And some R& B like NeYo. Prince,Steely Dan, Chic, Gamble and Huff,Quincy Jones, Norman Harris,Earl Young, Ron Baker,Slave,Cameo,George Benson,Narada Michael Walden,Deodato, Jam and Lewis, Norman Connors,Lonnie liston Smith,Dexter Wansell,Rahni Harris,The System,Zapp,Kleeer,Bootsy Collins, Tania Maria, Vince Montana, Rick James, Earth wind and fire,Ohio Players, Al hudson and one way,,Fela,Roy Ayers,Lou Rawls,Stevie wonder,The Crudsaders,Allen A.Jones & the whole Bar_kays, Ebonee Webb, Chocolate Milk and Kwick thang,Marlon Mc Clain , Pleasure, Shock,Patrick Moten,Sam Dees,Weldon Irvine, Kool and the gang, Bob Marley, Johnnie Taylor, Tyrone Davis, Elton John, Eagles, Hall and Oates, James Brown,David Bowie, Aretha Franklin,The Ojays,Crown heights affair,Herbie Hancock,Brothers Johnson, The Jacksons (inc. Michael when he was Black..), Ramsey Lewis,Mandrill, War, Patrick Adams, Leroy Burgess,Ray Parker Jnr,Fatback,Con Funk Shun, Johnny Cougar, Bruce Springsteen,Donald Byrd, Bob James, Al Jarreau, Miles Davis, Norman Whitfield, Ashford and Simpson, Barry White, Bee Gees,Crusaders, Commodores, Manhattans,Talking heads, Tom Tom club, Arif Mardin,Grover Washington, Curtis Mayfield, Donny Hathaway,Gladys Knight, The Time,Grandmaster Flash, Afrika bambaata, ,Depeche Mode,Japan, The Jam, Madness, Isley Brothers,Marshall jefferson,Fingers inc, Paul Scott,Vaughn Mason, Teddy Pendergrass, Seawind, Rufus and Chaka Khan, Chicago,Maze, The T-k sound, Roxy music, Marvin Gaye, Leroy Hutson, Isaac Hayes...House,R & B , Rap, Disco, Indie, Jazz and everything in between. Maxwell. Rachid Taha.
Ooooooh, where to start! I think the all time best is Apocalypse now!. Sin city, Out of Africa,Ridicule,Duel,Gladiator,The Last Temptation of Christ, A Dry & White Season ,The Deer Hunter,The Piano,Jean de Florette & Manon des sources,In The Mood for Love,Happy Together, Heat, The City of Lost Children, Aliens, Saving Private Ryan. Favourite directors are: Euzhane Palcy, Oliver Stone, Jane Campion, Brian de Palma, Jeunet, Clint Eastwood, Michael Mann, Billy Wilder, Ridley Scott, Luc Besson, Almodovar, Spielberg. Actors I admire: Christopher Walken, Marlon Brando, Johnny Depp, Willem Defoe,John Malkovich,Ralph Fiennes,Catherine Deneuve,Matt Damon,Isabelle Adjani, Nicole Kidman, Vincent Cassell.
I love Film Four, MTV, music videos, political or cultural documentaries like This World on BBC2 and... more political or cultural documentaries!
Comics and graphic novels such as Palestine, Transmetropolitan, Marjane Satrapi novels, Mad magazine, Metal Hurlant, Maus by Art Spiegelman, Jimmy corrigan by C. Ware. Anne Rice novels, Just Like Tomorrow by Faiza Guene, factual books, Paulo Coelho. Chinese writers novels.
Mandela, Mary Seacole, Marie Currie,Simone Shwartzbart, Marguerite Yourcenar, Coco Chanel, Che Guevara, Karl Marx, Jean-Dominique (Haiti).