As a graphic designer I am attracted to art in its many forms, but most of all, to its visual manifestations:
Design: urban, high-tech
Animation: Mostly Japanese anime.
Illustration: fantasy, sci-fi, mechs and power-armor, historical, comic, surrealism, political/urban and classical.
I don't like defining my tastes too much, for any high-quality piece of art, of any kind, will certainly attract my attention.
Frank Frazetta... for starters
air- basil poledouris- beastie boys- beatles- bjork- black uhuru- bloc party - brazilian girls- cafe tacuba- caifanes- chromeo- circo - coldplay- crissalida- cultura profetica- cut copy- daft punk- dead can dance- def con 2- depeche mode- duran duran- the doors- ed banger records (mr.oizo, justice, sebastiAn)- erasure- fabulosos cadillacs- franz ferdinand- fiona apple- garbage- gorillaz- guns & roses- gustavo cerati- high contrast- hole- incubus- information society- interpol- janice joplin- jimmy hendrix- john williams- kavinsky- kraftwerk- la fundacion- la ley- la pvc- led zeppelin- logistics- lucybell- manu chao- mano negra- makoto- mala rodriguez- massive attack- metallica- mima- moby- mogwai- nirvana- nightmares on wax - pet shop boys- pink floyd-the police- portishead- rage against the machine- red hot chilli peppers- royksopp- shout out out out out - ska-p- soda stereo- sonic- STP- talk talk- tears for fear- thievery corporation- the smiths- the human league- tricky- U2- unidos no-
king of kong: a fistful of quarters - master and commander- THX 1138- brick - mirror mask - hero - the departed - taxi driver - primer - Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - No country for old men - Zeitgeist - Grave of the fireflies - Before the Devil knows you are dead - There will be blood - 7 samurai- brotherhood of the wolf- sin city- george romero's zombies-salem's lot- shaun of the dead- akira- waking life - soylent green-the thing- memoirs of a geisha- the prestige - appleseed (nueva)- pi- city of lost children- downfall (german)- ciudad de dios- clerks- matrix 1- lock stock and 2 smoking barrels- princess bride-guns germs and steel - napoleon dynamite- batman begins- true romance- rabid- habit- irreversible- punch drunk love-the passenger- 40 year old virgin-curse of the golden flower- the good the bad and the ugly- el hijo de la novia- diarios de la motocicleta- school of rock- eternal sunshine of the spotless mind- syriana- the constant gardener- good night and good luck- good bye Lenin- almost famous- virgin suicides- requiem for a dream- kill bill 1 & 2- amelie- record of lodoss war 1 & 2- alien- the princess and the warrior (german)- apocalypse now- cube- office space- indiana jones, raiders of the lost ark- james bond- pulp fiction- iron monkey- starwars (of course)- madmax series- tora tora tora- yojimbo- greystoke- zoolander- one flew over the cuckoo's nest- american beauty- la confidential- a clockwork orange- team america: world police- lost in translation- glory- unbreakable-rosemary's baby- everything is illuminated- bowling for Columbine- fahrenheit 911- march of the penguins- manufacturing consent: noam chomsky and the media- loose change-cache-300- why we fight-thumbsucker - the future of food -an inconvenient truth - peace, propaganda and the promised land - Loose Change - Fallujah (Operation Phantom Fury 11.8.2004) - amantes del circulo polar - videodrome - dead ringers - hard candy - thank you for smoking - scratch - volver - blowup - hacking democracy - the killing fields - this wall must fall - the emperor's naked army marches on - the lives of others - the century of the self - planet Bboy - Zizek - sicko - no end in sight - blame it on Fidel
South Park ninja me, by Marine
HBO (Rome, Entourage, Curb your enthusiasm). ABC (Lost). Fox (24). Comedy Central (Daily Show, Colbert Report, Chapelle Show)- Discovery Channel-Cartoon Network (Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop). Animal Planet. History Channel - Flight of the Conchords
Lord of the Rings,
Sillmarillion (JRR Tolkien); Freakonomics (Steven D. Levitt); The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins); Dude, Where's my Country (Michael Moore); No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War (Hiroo Onoda); How to Survive a Robot Uprising (Daniel H. Wilson); Concierto barroco/El reino de este mundo (Alejo Carpentier); Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges); Greece and Rome at War (Peter Connolly); Contact (Carl Sagan); When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (George Carlin); Angels and Demons/The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown); America: The Book (Jon Stewart); Noticia de un secuestro (Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez); Cien años de soledad (Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez); Simulacra and Simulation (Jean Baudrillard); The Art of War (Sun Tzu); Comics by Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller, Simon Bisley, and others; La Tabla de Flandes (Arturo Pérez Reverte); Identity (Milan Kundera); Confessions of an Economic Hitman (John Perkins); Manual del perfecto ateo (Eduardo del RÃo a/k/a Rius); Ancient and Medieval Warfare (Oliver Lyman Spaulding & Hoffman Nickerson); Barbarians (Tim Newark); Patriotism (Yukio Mishima); Some art and illustration books by: Salvador Dali, Frank Frazetta, Yoshitaka Amano, Gustav Dore, Simon Bisley, Brom, etc;
hummm.. I think I should get more books about design; Many fantasy novels by numerous authors.
I hated this book: The Celestine Prophecy
Sir Richard Dawkins, King Leonidas, Ghandi