cloud spotting , walking - preferably on land putting my best foot forwards ,Chinese ceramic tomb figures , shoes , Italy , Travel , food - of which I partake on a daily basis - vegetarian Italian and Southern Indian , the wonders of Photoshop , teaching my eyebrows a lesson so they will cease to impersonate those irritating sea anenomes .
Picasso , Giorgio de Chirico , Max Ernst , Bruegel , Hieronymus Bosch , Joel Peter Witkin , Blossfeldt ,Leonardo , Hans Bellmer , Carravagio , Dorothea Tanning , Irving Penn , Saudek , Jerry Uelsmann ,Maggie Taylor , Paul Outerbridge , Diane Arbus , Clovis Troille , Claude Cahoun , Joseph Cornell , Edward Weston ,Man Ray , Marcel Marien , Mimi Parent , Marchesa Luisa Casati , Paul Klee , Maurice Tabard , Raoul Ubac , Frieda Kahlo. The listgoes on but my memory doesn't.
I'd like to meet:
Creatives , artists , photographers , publishers , museum curators , Galleries , art agents US and Europe.
Frederick The Great , Rasputin's eyes floating in a cumulus cloud , Aqua Marina from Sting Ray ( no strings attached ) , Archimboldo and his vegetables , fantasists and dreamers , people on the edge of reality , Chin Shih-Huang-Ti , Max Ernst , The moustache of Dali , People who make me laugh , The pelican on a stick in Florida ( the scarey bird driven by clockwork )
Music:
John Lee Hooker , Robert Johnson , Flamenco Guitar , Cassandra Wilson ,John Martyn , Keb Mo , Muddy Waters , Nina Simone , Corey Harris , Stefan Grossman , Reggae ,Otis Redding , Tamla Motown and Stax , Aretha Franklyn , Ry Cooder , Ali Farka Toure , Baaba MaalMiles Davis , Sun Ra and his Arkestra ,Pharoah Sanders , Tango , Cuban , Dr John , Frank Zappa ,Erykah Badu , Joni Mitchell , Talking Heads , David Byrne , loads a classical too , counter tenors ,and not to forget Sparkeys Magic Piano.
Movies:
Hero ,Cinema Paradiso , Migration , Brazil , Bladerunner , Amacord , Girl with a Pearl Earring , MyFavourite Concubine , Jan Swankmajer , Peter Greenaway (some) , Kurasawa , Lord of the Rings ,Delicatessen , City of Lost Children , 12 monkies , Borat , Harold and Maud , Brewster Mc Cloud ,Arsenic and Old Lace , Hitchcock , Metropolis , The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari , A Movie by BruceConnors,
Books:
"Fred and Jemima the Goose"
"Snail Sex"
"Desdemoaning and the Ice monkey Island"
"Contarini Cauliflower Island"
To see further examples of my work
please visit http://www.paulbiddle.com/biddlehome.html (link opens in new window )
Heroes:
Dan Dare - Pilot of the Future - owner of the most interesting eyebrows I have ever seen.
Sparky and his Magic Piano,
The female Super Heroes I created from the Lost Property Office with a jolly good helping of sequins.
Yes I sewed them all one by one.
Zorcan the Mighty
