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:: FRANCAIS

Mondocourau alias Laurent Courau. Realisateur, graphiste, journaliste free-lance et instigateur de Brainsushi, une agence media mutante, je suis depuis une dizaine d'annees les mutations sociales et culturelles de notre temps au travers du web magazine La Spirale, et de mes collaborations avec la presse et les medias francais et etrangers. Mutations pop et crash culture, une anthologie de La Spirale, est sortie au printemps 2004 chez Actes Sud, suivi en avril 2006 par Vampyres, quand la realite depasse la fiction dans la collection Pop cultures des editions Flammarion.
Actuellement en post-production sur Vampyres, un film documentaire base sur une idee de Lukas Zpira et produit par Avalanche Productions, qui suivra le livre eponyme (voir plus haut). Rituels de sang, gangs du Queens, occultisme, societes secretes et clans de vampyres... Avec plus de cent cinquante heures de rushes tournes a Paris, en Suisse, a New York, a la Nouvelle Orleans, au Japon, au Bresil et a Venise a l'occasion du carnaval 2007, Vampyres promet une plongee inedite dans les strates les plus tenebreuses de l'underground actuel.
Egalement au programme des mois prochains, la remise en service de La Spirale, alias l'eZine des Mutants Digitaux, qui fetera une decennie d'agitation digitale avec une nouvelle formule et de nouveaux contenus audio, visuels et interactifs ! D'autres activites litteraires et audiovisuelles sont en cours. A suivre sur cette page et dans le grand ailleurs...

:: Plus d'informations :
. Brainsushi - The Mutant Media Agency
. Vampyres, quand la realite depasse la fiction - Site officiel
. Mutations pop et crash culture, une anthologie de la spirale.org
. La Spirale - An eZine for the Digital Mutants
. Mondocourau.com - Brainsushies and Eyeball Deee-lites

:: ENGLISH

Mondocourau aka Laurent Courau. Film director, graphic artist, independent reporter and instigator of Brainsushi, the Mutant Media Agency, I have been following the social and cultural mutations of our times over the past ten years, through my web magazine La Spirale and my collaborations with French and foreign media. An anthology of La Spirale, Mutations pop et crash culture, has been published by Actes Sud in spring 2004. I am currently working on Vampyres, a documentary film produced by Avalanche Productions that follows the book of the same name which was released by Flammarion on the 18th of April 2006 (check the update below about the release of Vampyres, the book). Also planned for next Spring, the reactivation of La Spirale, aka the Digital Mutants eZine, on time to celebrate ten years of digital activism with new audio, visual and interactive contents!

:: More Informations:
. Brainsushi - The Mutant Media Agency
. La Spirale - An eZine for the Digital Mutants
. Vampyres - The book and the movie - Official website
. Mondocourau.com - Brainsushies and Eyeball Deee-lites

:: News Update --- VAMPYRES, LE LIVRE [ English Version Below ]
Vampyres, quand la realite depasse la fiction, ecrit par Laurent Courau, photographie par Lukas Zpira et tire du documentaire eponyme, est sorti officiellement le 18 avril 2006 en France, en Suisse et en Belgique dans la collection Pop Cultures des Editions Flammarion.
Distribution : FNAC (rayon sciences humaines), Virgin et toutes les librairies independantes...
New York, Paris, Amsterdam, Lausanne, la Nouvelle-Orleans... Spanish Harlem, le Quartier Rouge, le Lower East Side et l'East Village, le Quartier Francais... Crocs de vampyres, mode de vie nocturne, clans et ordres initiatiques, occultisme, studios de tatouage, dojos d'arts martiaux et clubs fetichistes, rituels et ceremonies de magie noire...
Un voyage inedit et quatre annees d'enquete au plus profond de l'underground vampyrique avec des interviews et des apparitions exclusives de Michelle Belanger, Father Sebastiaan, Father Vincent, Lord Xanatos et Lord Zillah des Hidden Shadows, Miguel Valentin du Theatre des Vampyres, Le Vampire Don Henrie, Saint Anthony, Marcos Drake des editions INRI, Madame X, Jean-Paul Bourre, Nicolas C. Le Vampire de Paris, Sir Victor Magnus, Maven Lore, Madame Webb et Septymus, Sir Rexxx Black, Layil Umbralux, Gabrielle St Eve, Lord A:. of Theatro dos Vampyros et de nombreuses autres figures de la scene...
Plus d'informations, des images et des extraits exclusifs du livre suivront prochainement. Gardez l'oeil ouvert !
Vampyres de Laurent Courau, photographies de Lukas Zpira - 19, 90 Euros, 312 pages, dont un cahier photo couleurs de 16 pages - Sortie officielle le 18 avril 2006 ! Distribution : FNAC, Virgin et toutes les librairies independantes...
:: Plus d'informations sur le site officiel du projet Vampyres :
. http://www.vampyres-themovie.com

:: A propos des auteurs :
Realisateur et journaliste independant, Laurent Courau suit les mutations de notre temps au travers de ses collaborations avec les medias francais et etrangers. Il a publie Mutations et crash culture, une anthologie de son web magazine La Spirale, au printemps 2004 aux Editions du Rouergue.
Photographe nomade, specialiste des modifications corporelles et des subcultures contemporaines, Lukas Zpira parcourt le monde sur la piste des freaks de ce debut de XXIe siecle. Onanisme Manu Militari 2, un ouvrage consacre son travail, est sorti en juin 2005 chez Hors Editions.
:: News Update --- VAMPYRES, THE BOOK [ Version Francaise Au-Dessus ]
Vampyres, the book, was officially released in France, Switzerland and Belgium through Editions Flammarion on the 18th of April 2006.
New York, Paris, Amsterdam, New Orleans... Spanish Harlem, the Red Light District, the East Village and the Lower East Side, the French Quarter... A four years trip in the darkest realms! Vampyres includes exclusive interviews and appearances with Michelle Belanger, Father Sebastiaan, Father Vincent of House Omega, Lord Xanatos &amp;amp; Lord Zillah of House Hidden Shadows, Miguel Valentin of Theatre des Vampyres, The Vampire Don Henrie, Saint Anthony, Marcos Drake of Editions INRI, Madame X, Jean-Paul Bourre, Nicolas C. The Vampire of Paris, Sir Victor Magnus, Maven Lore, Madame Webb &amp;amp; Septymus, Sir Rexxx Black, Layil Umbralux, Gabrielle St Eve, Lord A:. of Theatro dos Vampyros and many many more...
More infos, exclusive images and excerpts will come up very soon. Keep your eyes opened!
Vampyres by Laurent Courau, photographies by Lukas Zpira - 19, 90 Euros, 312 pages, including a 16 pages color photo folder - Official release on the 18th of April 2006!
:: More informations of the official website of the Vampyres project :
. http://www.vampyres-themovie.com

:: About the authors:
Independent journalist, writer and film director, Laurent Courau has been following for the past ten years the mutations of our time, through his collaborations with French and foreign medias. He has published Mutations pop et crash culture, an anthology of his web magazine La Spirale, released in the spring of 2004 by the Rouergue Editions.
Nomad photographer, founder of the Body Art studio, specialist of body modifications and contemporary subcultures, Lukas Zpira tracks the freaks of the early 21st century around the world. Onanisme manu militari 2, a book dedicated to his work, has been published by Hors Editions in June 2005.

My Interests

General Interests

Pop culture, counter culture and subcultures of all kinds, digital and outsider art, urban tribes and lifestyles, mental and brain modifications, travelling around the world by all means necessary, new technologies and information society, expressions of decadence and alternative sexualities, extreme sports and martial arts, discovering new places and other ways of life... Enjoying walking the Middle Path!

Specific Interests

Artists : Joe Coleman, Dinos and Jake Chapman, Michael Lau, Damien Hirst, Matthew Barney, Todd Schorr, Mark Ryden, Eric So, Denis Grrr, HR Giger, 123Klan, Lukas Zpira, Futura 2000, Delta, Salvador Dali, Hieronymus Bosch, Ron English, Michael Hussar, Mear One, Boogie, Hans Neleman, Farrah Diod, Jean-Michel Basquiat, John John Jesse, Frances Turner, Mike Giant, Jeremy Fish, Jeff Soto, Robert Williams, Frank Kozik, Pushead, Katsuya Terada, Sas and Colin Christian, Os Gemeos, Freddy Corbin, le Facteur Cheval, all the folks creating Art Brut...

I'd like to meet:

Anyone with an interesting story to tell... Modern nomads, 21st century freaks, very very naughty grrrls, cyber gangsters, body hacktivists of all kinds, vampyres and children of the night, grand masters and practicioneers of the martial arts, explorers of our times, occultists, mad professors...

Music:

The Big Mix : Depth Charge, George Clinton, KLF, Black Flag, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Captain Beefheart, Public Enemy, White Noise, Plump Dj's, Sex Pistols, John Coltrane, Dead Kennedys, Green Velvet, Adam Freeland, Mix Master Mike, Scratch Perverts, Stanton Warriors, KMFDM, The Specials, Andy C, Mimetic, Soft Cell, Nino Rota, Stan Ridgway,The Revolting Cocks, Bomb the Bass, Gary Glitter, The Residents, Serge Gainsbourg, Lustmord, The Accused, Wall of Voodoo, Afrika Bambaata, Public Image Ltd, Amon Tobin, Angry Samoans, Ike and Tina Turner, The Avengers, B 52's, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Basement 5, Bad Brains, Lard, Basement Jaxx, Lil Flip, Rob Zombie, Big Black, Motorhead, Adolescents, Black Sabbath, Bak XIII, Bow Wow Wow, The Supremes, Butthole Surfers, Punish Yourself, Cockney Rejects, T-Rex, Cypress Hill, Dayglo Abortion, Dead Boys, Dead or Alive, Dee-lite, Devo, Dj Krust, Mo'Wax, Q-Bert, The Undertones, Electric Six, Ennio Morricone, Filth, Technotronic, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Fugazi, Front 242, Ganja Kru, GBH, Gorillaz, Gun Club, Stereo Mc's, Divine, The Horrorist, Invisibl Skratch Piklz, G.I. Love, Jacques Dutronc, Youth of Today, Kas Product, King Tubby, Lee Scratch Perry, Muckrackers, Kool Keith, Princess Superstar, L7, Leftfield, Cosmic Wurst, Lil Jon, Lords of Acid, Luz Casal, Mantronix, Dj Hype, Patrick Coutin, Petey Pablo, Pretty Things, The Fugz, Raz Mesinai, The Rezillos, S.O.D, Funkadelic, Saul Williams, Septic Death, Daddy Freddy and Asher D, The Shangri La's, Phil Spector, The Residents, Shirley Bassey, Slade, The Sonics, The Seeds, Electric Hellfire, Dj Assault, Supreme NTM, The Vandals, Youngbloods, Cuban Brothers, Laibach, Deltron 3030, Favela Chic...

Movies:

Claude Chabrol, Federico Fellini, George Melies, Pedro Almodovar, Luchino Visconti, Roman Polanski, David Cronenberg, Asia Argento, Jean-Pierre Mocky, La Dolce Vita, Sergio Leone, Lucia Bose, Hammer Film Productions Limited, William Friedkin, Johnny To, Don Camillo, Claudia Cardinale, Joe Dante, La Citta Delle Donne, Gina Lollobrigida, David Lynch, The Exorcist, La Guerre des Boutons, Bruce Lee, Sophia Loren, The Monster Club, Midnight Cowboy, Shinya Tsukamoto, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Tabassum Hashmi, David Fincher, Deliverance, Gianna Maria Canale, Manuela Arcuri, The Warriors, Lee Tamahori, Teruo Ishii, Ada &amp;amp; Arlene Tai, Dario Argento, Orgies of Edo, Anne Bancroft, Terry Gilliam, Ornella Muti, John Waters, Silvana Mangano, John Boorman, Lost Highway, Takao Nakano, Death Race 2000, Eva Grimaldi, Steve McQueen, Once Were Warriors, Class 1984, Rena Owen, Amarcord, Guy Ritchie, Nicoletta Braschi, eXistenZ, Tim Burton, Temuera Morrison, Yul Brynner, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Uma Thurman, Sam Raimi, Buffet Froid, Clive Barker, Mad Max, Ruggero Deodato, Anna Falchi, Snatch, Battle Royale, Mulholland Dr., Alien, Russ Meyer, Shohei Imamura, Donnie Darko, Gremlins I &amp;amp; II, Stanley Kubrick, Isabella Rossellini, Crash, Takeshi Kitano, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Tetsuo I &amp;amp; II, Ridley Scott, H.G. Lewis, Pulp Fiction, Bertrand Blier, Accion Mutante, George Miller, Tobe Hooper, Monty Python, Takashi Miike, Beautiful Boxer, Kim Ki-Duk, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin...

Books:

Authors : Anything by Hunter S. Thompson, J.G. Ballard, Lewis Carroll, Henry de Monfreid, Harry Crews, Joe R. Lansdale, Barry Gifford, Douglas Rushkoff, Stephen King, Boris Vian, Marc Behm, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, R.U. Sirius, Richard Metzger, Michael Marshall, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Ernest Hemingway, James Ellroy, Joe Fante, Edward Bunker, Bram Stoker, A.C. Weisbecker, Alan Watt, Laurell K. Hamilton, Ann Rice, Nick Tosches, Norman Spinrad, Walter Jon Williams, Joseph Kessel, Bruce Sterling, George Orwell, John Brunner, James Grady, Arthur Machen, William Gibson, Brest Easton Ellis, Philip K. Dick, Jules Verne, Neil Gaiman, John King, Chuck Palahniuk, Jean-Paul Bourre, Howard P. Lovecraft, Lester Bangs, Hubert Selby Jr, Will Self, Louis Pauwells, Jacques Bergier, Irvine Welsh, Richard Kadrey, Greil Marcus, Iain M. Banks, Clive Barker, H.G. Wells, Philip K. Dick, Aldous Huxley, Alan Moore, Robert Silverberg, J.R.R. Tolkien, William Burroughs, Paul Di Filippo, Dino Buzzati...

Media : Mondo 2000, Giant Robots, Boing Boing, Juxtapoz, Resmag, Lodown, IdN, Belio, Wired, Mad Movies, Actuel, Street Tech, Karate Bushido, The Body Modification Ezine, Maximum Rock 'n' Roll, Disinformation, Mixmag, Fightsport, Zataz, Le Wub, Answer Me, Cheap Truth, The Vampyre Almanac, Shift, ID, Black Belt, Decoder, Vice, Strange Magazine, Tech Tribes, Adbusters, Sherdog, Fortean Times, Science Frontiers, The Face, High Times, Skin Two, Vibrations, La Recherche, Bizarre, 2600 - The Hacker Quaterly, RE/Search, Travelmag, Salon, Raw Vision, Worst...

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