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Books: LITTERATURE + THEORY BOOKS BY:Paulo Coelho (The alchimist, The Zahir, The pilgrim of Compostelle), Henry Miller (Sexus, Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer), Milan Kundera (The unbearable lightness of being, The identity, The waltz of farewells, Laughable loves, The book of laughter and forgetness, The curtain), Paul Auster (Leviathan, The book of illusions), Boris Vian (L'écume des jours, J'irai cracher sur vos tombes), Franz Kafka (The Metamorphosis), Jean-Paul Sartre (Les mots, Huis-Clos, Les mains sâles), Jack Kerouac (On the road, Big Sur), Charles Bukowski (Women), Voltaire (Micromegas), Montesquieu (Lettres Persanes), Roland Barthes (La chambre claire, Mythologies), Marshall Mc Luhan (Understanding the medias, From the eye to the ear), Walter Benjamin (The work of art in the times of its mechanical reproduction, Little history of photography), Edward T. Hall (The hidden dimension), Hans-Christian Andersen (Tales), the Grimm brothers (tales).ART + PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS BY/ABOUT:Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Larry Clark, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jim Dine, John Divola, Michel Séméniako, Evgen Bavcar (blind photographer), Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Terry Richardson, Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Tal R + Jonathan Meese, Pierre Alechinsky + the Cobra group (COBRA = CO-penhagen + BR-uxelles + A-msterdam), Jean Dubuffet, Primitive + Art-Brut artists and many more!

Movies: SOME/ALL FILMS BY: Charlie Chaplin, David Lynch, Lukas Moodysson, Lars von Trier, Bertrand Blier, Jim Jarmusch, Federico Fellini, Martin Scorcese, Bernardo Bertolucci, Fritz Lang, Wim Wenders, Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Alain Resnais, Philip Kaufman, the Coen brothers, Stanley Kubrick, Spike Lee, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Dziga Vertov, Jean Vigo, Jacques Tati, Steven Spielberg, the Dardenne brothers, Remy Belvaux, Jean Renoir, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jean Cocteau, Thomas Vinterberg, Joergen Leth, Avant-Garde Films from the 1920's and 30's, Vintage films by Georges Melies, Michelangelo Antonioni, David Cronenberg, Russ Meyer, Woody Allen, John Carpenter, Terry Gilliam, Chris Marker, Michael Moore, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Harmony Korine, Ingmar Bergman, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Wolfgang Becker, Erik Poppe, Henning Carlsen, Richard Fleischer, Ridley Scott, Quentin Tarantino, Luc Besson, Cedric Klapisch, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Peter Greenaway, Martin Vigne, Arthur Penn, some vintage science-fiction movies like Forbidden Planet (1953).SOME/ALL VIDEOS + INSTALLATIONS BY:Bill Viola, Nam Jun Paik, the Fluxus artists, Bruce Naumann, Doug Aitken, Michel Gondry, Chris Cunningham, ...

Music: Many! Newest favorite discovery: UNKLE, War stories (2007)

Hobbies: ART + POLITICS + SENSUAL PLEASURES OF LIFE.No TV since 1999. Still, I liked the old series like The Twilight Zone or The Prisoner...

/// FRANÇAISJM Babonneau alias Better_World_Inc., photographe et artiste français, né en 1971, a depuis son enfance aimé trouver son inspiration et de nouveaux horizons en dehors des frontières de l'hexagone français. JM Babonneau vit et travaille à Copenhague, au Danemark depuis 2002, après un séjour de 3 années à Reykjavik, en Islande (1999-2002). Son travail prend la forme de projets artistiques et de performances visuelles sous le pseudonyme de Better_World_Inc., ainsi que celle de travaux photographiques de commande. Il enseigne également au cours de workshops de photographie dans des écoles d'art.Better_World_Inc. vit le jour dans une nouvelle écrite en Islande par JM Babonneau en 1999. Une histoire humoristique et ironique relatant d'une compagnie délirante de recherche sur le génome découvrant la formule secrète pour produire des top-modèles à la chaine.Quelques repères biographiques:- une enfance allemande (1975-1980),- diplômé de l'École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes (Diplôme National d'Arts Plastiques) en 1995,- diplômé de l'École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie à Arles (Mastère de photographie) en 1999,- tireur pour Lucien Clergue (1997-1998), photographe de Pablo Picasso et de Jean Cocteau et co-fondateur des Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d'Arles en 1969.---------------------------------------------/// ENGLISHBetter_World_Inc. was the title of a short story written by JM Babonneau in Iceland in 2000. It was an irony piece about the delirious and humorous finding of a secret recipe for mass-producing top models by a genetic research company.Born in France in 1971, JM Babonneau works under the pseudonyme Better_World_Inc. when working on art projects & visual performances. He also works on photographic assignments. He is a graduate of the Academy of Beaux-Arts in Nantes, France (BA, 1995), and the French National School of Photography in Arles (Master's, 1999), a long-time apprentice of Lucien Clergue (photographer of Picasso & Cocteau, co-founder of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles in 1969). Jean-Marie has, since his childhood, enjoyed finding inspiration and new perspectives in other cultures (in Germany 1975-1980, Iceland 1999-2002, Denmark 2003-2007).JM Babonneau based in Copenhagen, Denmark, since year 2003, works internationally on his assignments, art projects, exhibitions, installations & visual performances. He teaches as well in art schools during 1 to 6-week workshops. Forthcoming projects might include video and animations for music bands promotional clips.