Music, Book design, Photography, Visual arts, Languages, Anthropomorphic or personified objects, Architecture, Industrial design, Advertizing, Illustration, Calligraphy, Movies, Geopolitics, History, Movie Industry, Car design
I'd like to meet:
Creative multilingual citizens of the world; Max Forsythe, photographer ; Nitin Sawhney, musician & producer ; David Hockney, painter ; Jesse Garcia, actor ; photographer Jack Pierson ; art & design book publishers ... + potential models for my future artwork
Music:
Milton Nascimento, Jorge Ben, Seu Jorge, Vinicius Cantuaria, Mônica Passos, Mana', Nitin Sawhney, Massive Attack, The Chemical Brothers, Morcheeba, Fairuz, Clotaire K, Natacha Atlas, Roy Ayers, Souad Massi, Elissa, Dikla, Marvin Gaye, Fat Boy Slim, Boards of Canada, Ivri Lider, Calexico, Amr Diab, Zaman8...
Movies:
Cameron Mitchell's "Shortbus",
Miguel Albaladejo's "Cachorro",
Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland's "Echo Park L.A.",
J-M Vallée's "C.R.A.Z.Y",
Marwan Hamed's "L'Immeuble Yacoubian",
Jim Jarmusch's "Night On Earth",
Isaac Julien's "Young Soul Rebels",
J-L Godard's "Le Mépris",
Louis Malle's "Milou en Mai",
Denzel Washington's "Antwan Fisher",
Akira Kurosawa's "Dreams"
Epstein and Friedman's "The Celluloid Closet",
Paul Haggis' "Collision"
Gregg Araki's "The living end",
Téchiné's "Les Roseaux Sauvages",
Fernando Solanas' "El viaje",
Bernardo Bertolucci's "Last tango in Paris"
Gilles Pontecorvo's "La Bataille d'Alger",
Wong Kar Wai's "2046" + most of Pedro Almodovar's and Michael Moore's
Television:
Sex and the City, Six Feet Under, Will & Grace, Desperate housewives, Omar et Fred, French and Saunders...
Books:
Herrmann Hesse's "Siddharta",
Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World",
Jack Kerouac's "On the road",
Tom Wolfe's "From Bauhaus to our house",
Hanif Kureishi's "Buddha of Suburbia"
Roland Barthes'"Mythologies",
Jean Baudrillard's "La Société de Consommation",
Frantz Fanon's "Peau Noire Masques Blancs",
Paulo Coelho's "The Alchemist"
Amin Maalouf's "Les identités meurtrières"
Heroes:
Paul Klee, Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, David Hockney