Better World Inc. /// art + photography

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  • Jean-Marie Babonneau

  • 38 / Male
  • Paris + Copenhagen + International, Ile-de-France, FR
  • Last Login: 11/25/2009

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    Art & Politics & Sensual Pleasures Of Life
    I haven't become a robot yet, although our bureaucracy all pushes us towards becoming more mechanical, uniformized, easily controlable and trackable. Read Franz Kafka and Milan Kundera's essay "The Curtain / Le Rideau", 2005, and see what is happening around us with constant new laws forbidding more and more and choking individual freedom & responsability for the sake of democracy and people's paranoia nurished everyday by the mass-media. There is no more windows to open in the trains, there you are not allowed to have conversations on your mobile phone, and only move when necessary not to disturb the other paralyzed passengers, you cannot smoke anywhere in public (better if you hide underground), you can't eat in busses, you can't piss in the street even if it's an urgent need, although dogs might, not humans, etc... But you're allowed to not saying hello, not holding the door for your fellow, not washing your hands after going to the loo, not cleaning your trash after the barbecue in the park because many of you think paying enough taxes for foreigners to clean the shit. Many also think it is normal to invade and make war and kill thousand of civilians in a poorer country a few thousand kilometers away. You call it harmony, you call it security.

    As soon as you make a move, you take position and people will react. Others will like you or dislike you. It's always been like this, and it's better than remaining passive and therefore inexistant. Life is short, so put your cards on the table, there is no time to loose. Let's try to make these exchange and communication opportunities given on myspace enjoyable and fertile in new ideas and creations.

    It's easy to do glamour photographs, much easier than doing personal & original photographs...

  • Music

    3eme sexe, 10cc, A Guy Called Gerald, A Tribe Called Quest, a-Ha, ABBA, AC/DC, Ada, Adonis, Air, Alabaster, Alan Stivell, Albin De La Simone, Albin de la Simone & Feist, Ali Farka Toure, Ali Farka Toure & Ry Cooder, Amon Tobin, AmPop, An Triskell, Anjali, Anouar Brahem, Antoine Duhamel, Antony & The Johnsons, Aphex Twin, Aphex Twin & Mescalinum United, Apparat, Apparat Organ Quartet, Arab Strap, Architecture In Helsinki, Aretha Franklin, Arrested Development, Arsonists, Asian Dub Foundation, AudioSlave, Autechre, Avenue D, Awesome Two + Channel Five, Awesome Two + Jem, Axel Bauer, B. Fleischmann, B.Benitez, B52's, Baby, Badly Drawn Boy, Baltimora, Bangles, Barbara, Barry White, Basement Jaxx, Bashung, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Beach Boys, Beady Belle, Beans Mit Funkstorung, Beats by dope, Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Ben Harper, Bernard Herrmann, Bikini Kill, Billie Holiday, Billy Cobham, Billy Idol, Bjork, Bjorn Svin, Bleeder, Blind Melon, Bloc Party, Blonde Redhead, Blondie, Blue Foundation, Blur, Boards Of Canada, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Body Count, Boney M, Boomfunk MC, Boris Vian, Brian Eno, Brian Reitzell, Roger Joseph Jr. Manning, Broadcast, Brothomstates, Brudarbandid, Bubba Sparxxx, Bugge Wesseltoft, Buggles, Caetano Veloso, Cafe Del Mar, Calender, Cali, Captain Beefheart, Captain Sensible, Carl Craig, Carmen Campagne, Cat Stevens, Cerrone, Cerrone vs Bob Sinclair, Chantal Goya, Charles Aznavour, Charles Trenet, Chemical Brothers, Cher, Chet Baker, Chopin, Chris Isaak, Cindy Lauper, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Claude Francois, Clouddead, Coco Rosie, Coldcut, Colder, Coldplay, Coluche, Cora Vaucaire, Craig Armstrong, Culture Club, Curtis Mayfield, Cypress Hill, Da Posse, Daft Punk, Daft Punk vs. Jamiroquai, Dakota Suite, Dan The Automator, Daniel Balavoine, Daphreephunkateerz, Data 80, Da Train, David Allan Coe, David Bowie, David Bowie & Iggy Pop, David Gray, David Holmes, David Lee Roth, Dead or Alive, Death In Vegas, Dee Joy, Dee Lite, Def Squad, Demon, Depeche Mode, Deportivo, Devendra Banhart, Diana Ross, Dick Annegarn, Digable Planets, Dilated Peoples, Dinah Washington, Dire Straits, Dirtbombs, Disco Boys, Dizzee Rascal, DJ Cam, DJ Food, DJ Hell, DJ Krush, DJ Pascal au Viking, DJ Shadow, DJ Shadow & DJ Krush, DJ Vadim, DJ_Rupture, Django Reinhardt, Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli, DJ Moule, Doctor L, Dominique A, Donald Glaude, Donna Summer, Dopplereffekt, Dorothee, Dr. Dre, Dub Syndicate, Earth Wind & Fire, Easy E, Ed Rush & Optical, Edith Piaf, Edu Lobo, Eggstone, Einoma, Electrelane, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Ellen Allien, Elliot Smith, Elmore James, Elvis Presley, Emiliana Torrini, Emilie Simon, Eminem, Eminem & Dr. Dre, Emmet Ray, Ennio Morricone, Eric Sermon, Erik Satie, Erik Truffaz, Erlend Oye, Ernest Ranglin, Etienne de Crecy, Etta James, Fallout, Fantomas, Fat Truckers, Fatboy Slim, FC Kahuna, Felix Da HouseCat, Fennesz, Filur, Fischerspooner, The Flairs, Flashdance Soundtrack, Fleapit, Foo Fighters, Four Tet, Francois Perusse, Frank Sinatra, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Franz Ferdinand, Fred Frith, Frederic Chopin, Freestylers, Fresto, Fun Boy Three, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Funckarma, Funerals, Funkstorung With Jay-Jay Johanson, Future 3, Geeza, Gene Page, Georges Brassens, Goblin, Goldfrapp, Goldie, Goran Bregovic, Gorillaz, Gotan Project, Grace Jones, Grand, Grant Lee Buffalo, Grease Soundtrack, Green Concorde, Green Day, Groove Armada, Guns N' Roses, GusGus, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Happy End, Hare Shree Hare Jason, Harpo, Nissan Hayes, Heidi Mortenson, Henri Salvador, Henry Goes Dirty, Hexstatic, High Tone, Hittman & Dr. Dre, Hives, Hot Chip, I_Cube, IAM, Ice-T, Iggy Pop, Julio Iglesias, Ike and Tina Turner, Ike Yard, Impedance, Indian Vibes, Indochine, Interpol, INXS, J Mascis And The Fog, J&J, Jackson Five, Jacques Brel, Jacques Dutronc, Jacques Offenbach, James Horner, Jamiroquai, Jason Vorhees, Jay Z, Jean-Michel Jarre, Jeanne Moreau, Jeff Buckley, Jenny Wilson, Jeru & Afu-Ra, Jestofunk, Jesus and Mary Chain, Jevetta Steele, Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Tenor, John Butler Trio, John McLaughlin, Johnny Cash, Jollymusic, Jordy, Jose Gonzales, Joy Division, Julien Lourau, Juliette Greco, Junior Senior, Jurassic Five, Kansas, Kante, Kaolin, Kasabian, Kashmir, Katerine, KD, Keith Jarrett, Kelis, Kelli Alii, Kent, Keren Ann, Kermisklanten, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Shields, Keziah Jones, Kim Hiorthoy, Kim Wilde, King Frank Photographer, King Tubby & Soul Syndicate, Kings of Convenience, Kool G Rap ft. RZA, Kraftwerk, Krs One, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Kurupt & Hittman & Dr. Dre, Kylie Minogue, La Bande a Basile, Lady & Bird, Ladytron, Lalo Schifrin, Lamb, Lambchop, Laurent Garnier, LCD Soundsystem, Led Zeppelin, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Scratch Perry, Leftfield, Leila, Lemon Jelly, Lenny Kravitz, Leo Ferre, Leonard Cohen, Les Elles, Les Freres Jacques, Les Negresses Vertes, Les Rita Mitsouko, Les Rythmes Digitales, LFO, Lhasa De Sala, Lipstick, Lisa Ekdahl, Little Computer People, Loretta Lynn & Jack White, Lou Reed, Lovage, Lucky Peterson, Luke Slater, Luke Vibert, M, M83, Maceo Parker, Macy Gray, Madness, Madonna, Magga Stina, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Man Or Astroman, Mango Delight, Mano Solo, Manu Chao, Marc Collin, Marcy Playground, Marianne Faithfull, Marianne Oswald, Marilyn Manson, Mark Linn, Marlene Dietrich, Marvin Gaye, Marylin Monroe, Massive Attack, Massive attack vs Mad professor, Masta Killah & Superb, Master C & J, Mathieu Boogaerts, Max Richter, MC Solaar, Mellow, Melodie & 12 O'Clock, Mercury Rev, Mew, Michael Jackson, Michel Polnareff, Michel Simon, Midnight Oil, Mike Ink, Miles Davis Quartet, Milli Vanilli, Minus 8, Mireille Mathieu, Miro, Miss Kittin & The Hacker, Mob, Moby, Model 500, Mogwai, Mojave 3, Moloko, Money Mark, Monkey Radio, Monolog, Morcheeba, Motozuki, Mr Fingers, Mr. Scruff, Mum, Muppet Show, Muse, Musical Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Nancy Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Nathalie Simard, Neil Young, Neneh Cherry, New Order, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Nick Drake, Nightmares On Wax, Nils Petter Molvær, Nina Simone, Nino Ferrer, Nirvana, Nitin Sawhney, Nitro Deluxe, Nobody & Mystic Chords of Memory, Nobukazu Takemura, Noir Desir, Nomad Lib', Notwist, Nouvelle Vague, NTM, NWA, Oland, Orbital, Orishas, Otis Redding, Outkast, Outkast (Andre 3000), P.J. Harvey, Part 2, Patrick Hernandez, Patrick Juvet, Patti Labelle, Paul McCartney, Paul Oscar, Pavement, Peace Orchestra, Peaches, People under the stairs, Petshop Boys, Phillip Boa And The Voodooclub, Phillip Glass, Phoenix, Photek, Phuture, Pierre Henri, Pierre Perret, Pink Floyd, Pink Martini, Pipilotti Rist, Pixies, Placebo, Plaid, Plastic Bertrand, Plastikman, Pole, Porn Music, Portishead, Primal Scream, Prince, Prince And The Revolution, Prototypes, Public Enemy, Pucho And His Latin Soul Brothers, Puff Diddy, Pulp, Quarashi, Queen, R.E.M., Radio 4, Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, Ragga Twins, Rammstein, The Rapture, Rasco, Ravi Shankar, Readymade Records, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Red Snapper, Reese & Santonio, REM, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Ricchi E Poveri, Richard Gotainer, Richard H Kirk, Richard X, Rinocerose, RNS Presents, Roberta Flack, Rockwell (feat. Michael Jackson), Rod Stewart, Rodney P, Rosemary Clooney, Roudoudou, Roy Orbison, Royal Fam & La The Darkman, Royksopp, Rubin Steiner, Run DMC, Ryuichi Sakamoto, RZA, S-Express, Sabrina, Salt N Peppa, Samantha Fox, Scissor Sisters, Sebastien Tellier, Seefeel, Seelenluft, Senor Coconut y Su Conjunto, Serge Gainsbourg, Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin, Serge Reggiani, Sergent Garcia, Sexy Brown Sugar, Shakti, Shivaree, Sidney Bechet, Sidsel Endresen, Sigur Ros, Simone Signoret, Sinead O'Connor, Singapore Sling, Skee Lo, Skinny, Sleater-Kinney, Smith & Mighty, Smog, Sneaker Pimps, Snoop Dogg & Dr. Dre, Sofa Surfers, Soft Cell, Soko, Sole and Dose One, Sonic Youth, Sonny & Cher, Souad Massi, Soulsearcher, Soundgarden, Spacek, Spacelab, Speedy J, Spiritualized, Squarepusher, St. Etienne, St. Germain, Starship, Stephane Pompougnac, Stephen Malkmus, Steppenwolf, Stereo Total, Stereolab, Steve Pointdexter, Steve Reich, Suga Bang Bang, Supermen Lovers, Surefni, Swan Lee, Sweet Exorcist, T.Raumschmiere, Talk Talk, Tangerine Dream, Teddy Pendergrass, Teenage Fanclub, Tek 9, Tekitah ft. Ghostface Killah, Telepopmusik, Television, Terranova, Terry Callier, Tetes Raides, The Animals, The Arcade Fire, The Beastie Boys, The Beatles, The Bhaktas, The Butterfly Ball, The Buzzcocks, The Cardigans, The Christians, The Coup, The Cure, The Doors, The Eagles, The English Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Fiery Furnaces, The Flaming Lips, The Folk Implosion, The Fugees, The Glimmers, The Go! Team, The Headhunters, The Herbaliser, The Hollywood Edge, The Jackson 5, The Lost Boyz, The M's , The Mighty Bop, The Notwist, The O'Jays, The Presidents of the United States of America, The Prodigy, The Ramones, The Robocop Kraus, The Rolling Stones, The Sabres Of Paradise, The Stooges, The Streets, The Strokes, The Sunshine Underground, The Temptations, The The, The Velvet Underground, The Violent Femmes, The White Stripes, Thierry Robin, Thievery Corporation, Thomas Fersen, Tim Christensen, Tindersticks, Tipsy, Tocotronic, Tom Jones, Tom Vek, Tom Waits, Tommy Hools , Tomoyasu Hotei, Tortoise, Tosca, Trabant, Traktor, Trans Am, Travis, Tri Yann, Tribe Called Qwest, Tricky, Tricky Disco, Troublemakers, Trust, Tujiko Noriko, Two Lone Swordsmen, U2, UB40, Ugress, Under Byen, Underworld, UNKLE, Urban Species, VA, Van Halen, Van Morrisson, Vanessa Paradis, Various Warp artists, The Verve, Veto, Village People, Visage, Vista Le Vie, Vitalic, Vive la Fete, Wes Montgomery, Whomadewho , Wilco, Willie Nelson, Xploding Plastix, Yann Tiersen, Yo La Tengo, Youssou N'Dour & Neneh Cherry, Ys, Yves Montand, Yves Simon, Yvette Horner, Zenzile, Zero 7, Zombies, Zongamin.
  • 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" ...
    SOME/ALL VIDEOS & INSTALLATIONS BY: Bill Viola, Nam Jun Paik, the Fluxus artists, Bruce Naumann, Doug Aitken, Michel Gondry, Chris Cunningham, ...
  • Television

    No TV since 1999. Still, I liked the old series like "The Twilight Zone" or "The Prisoner"...
  • 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!
  • Heroes

    Digest your heroes, symbolically. Love them, meet them, work with them, forget about them, work & create, surpass them.

Details

  • Status: In a Relationship
  • Here for: Networking, Friends
  • Hometown: Loire-Atlantique, France
  • Orientation: Straight
  • Body type: Average
  • Ethnicity: Other
  • Religion: Agnostic
  • Zodiac Sign: Gemini
  • Children: Someday
  • Smoke / Drink: Yes / Yes
  • Education: Post grad
  • Occupation: Photographer, Artist, Art-Teacher, VJ

Schools

  • l' école nationale supérieure de la photographie

    • ARLES, France
    • Graduated: 1999
    • Student status: Alumni
    • Degree: Master's Degree
    • Major: Photography
    • Minor: Visual arts
    1996 to 1999
  • ECOLE DES BEAUX ARTS

    • NANTES, France
    • Graduated: 1996
    • Student status: Alumni
    • Degree: Bachelor's Degree
    • Major: Photography
    • Minor: Communication
    1991 to 1996
  • Lycée Clemenceau

    • NANTES, France
    • Graduated: 1990
    • Student status: Alumni
    • Degree: Bac
    • Major: Mathématiques + Biologie + Physique
    • Minor: Philosophie
    • Clubs: Club Journalistique du lycée - Initiation au journalisme
    1987 to 1990
  • Lycée Eugène Livet

    • NANTES, France
    • Graduated: N/A
    • Student status: Alumni
    • Major: Mathématiques + Technologies
    • Minor: Dessin Industriel + Programmation + Fonderie + Systèmes automatisés
    • Clubs: 1 fille pour 100 mecs, j'ai préféré retourner en section générale :-)
    1986 to 1987
  • COLLEGE JEAN MOUNES

    • PORNIC, France
    • Graduated: 1984
    • Student status: Alumni
    • Degree: Autre
    • Major: Mathématiques + Histoire + Langues ++
    • Minor: Dessin + Latin
    • Clubs: Photographie + Informatique
    1981 to 1985

Networking

Companies

  • BETTER_WORLD_INC.

    • Paris + Copenhagen, + international /// Based in FR
    • Photographer, Visual Director, Art teacher, VJ
    Since 1999

LivingSocial

Blurbs

About me:

//////////////BETTER_WORLD_INC. /// CONNECTING PEOPLE TOO
Better_World_Inc. started with a short-story once written by French photographer & artist JM Babonneau in Iceland. A humorous & ironic story about a delirious genetic research company finding a secret recipe for mass-producing top models.
Graduated from the Art Academy of Fine Arts of Nantes, France (BA), from the French National School of Photography in Arles (Master) and educated some time by Lucien Clergue, photographer of Picasso & Cocteau and co-founder of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles in 1969. Jean-Marie has since his childhood outside the borders of France, enjoyed finding inspiration and new perspectives in other cultures.
All-in-1, Photographer, Graphic & Web designer, Artist, Art-teacher (photography workshops), and VJ (with animated photographs), JMB aka. Better_World_Inc. works with images on:

Photographic series, Book prototypes, Art Exhibitions, Assigned photography (Fashion, Music, Architecture, Corporate, Editorial), Visual promotion, Animations, Websites, Installations, Projections.

Based in Copenhagen, Denmark since 2002, Iceland 1999, Italy 1997, Germany 1975, France 1971 + more to come.
My composite website featuring my photographic + graphic + web works: www.betterworldinc.org



Who I'd like to meet:

Artists, people who like what they do in life and took the decisions to bring them to realize their dreams, enthousiastic and open-minded people, a pretty girl with the above qualities, people who don't spend their life denigrating others to feel their own existence's worth, lifes based on generosity of soul, people who aren't afraid of having their own opinions and tastes, even if they aren't mainstream and fashionable in 2007. PEOPLE WITH VISIONS. WELCOME!
« Soyez indulgents quand vous nous comparez
A ceux qui furent la perfection de l'ordre.
Nous qui quêtons partout l'aventure,
Nous ne sommes pas vos ennemis.
Nous voulons vous donner de vastes et d'étranges domaines
Où le mystère en fleur s'offre à qui veut le cueillir ».. Guillaume Apollinaire..
MAGIC IN THE AIR by BADLY DRAWN BOY
We laughed so much then we cried all night And you left your shoes in the tree with me I'll wear them to your house tonight Magic in the air tonight
Yes, I might just try her How she made me feel Today, today, today, feels right
We slept on leaves on my drive all night And you gave me no restime Nothing in this life for me tonight But nothing ever seemed so bright
And if you should lose me You will track me down again Before the summer ends Cause love is contagious, when its alright Love is alright..
TOKYO MON AMOUR by STEREO TOTAL
(Non, je ne veux pas vous oublier) Vous etes un homme d'humeur changeante, n'est-ce pas? Mais j'ai cru que vous m'aimiez J'ai vraiment cru que vous n'aimiez que moi Ce jour -là en été Ce jour-là, on était sous le soleil Sous le soleil brûlant, j'allais vers vous Vous m'embrassiez jusqu'à mon réveil Et vous parliez d'amour jusqu'au jour N'est-ce qu'un jeu, mon amour? Aujourd'hui, seule, triste et fébrile Sous la pluie de notre ville Je marche dans Tokyo les larmes aux yeux Je ne vois rien à l'horizon Parce que je ne peux pas vous oublier Je me sens désemparée Et j'ai su que notre fin s'annoncait Cette nuit-là sous le ciel Cette nuit-là sous le ciel rempli d'étoiles Sous les étoiles filantes j'allais vers vous Vous murmuriez des mots à mon oreille Des mots que je ne peux oublier Je ne peux oublier mon amour Aujourd'hui, seule, triste et fébrile Sous la pluie de notre ville Je marche dans Tokyo les larmes aux yeux Je ne vois rien à l'horizon Vous etes un homme d'humeur changeante, n'est-ce pas? Mais j'ai cru que vous m'aimiez J'ai vraiment cru que vous n'aimiez que moi Je ne peux vous oublier Ce jour-là en été dans vos bras Dans vos bras je dormais et je tremblais Ce jour-là en été et dans vos bras Je faisais un doux rêve, si doux Sayonara, mon Amour Aujourd'hui, seule, triste et fébrile Sous la pluie de notre ville Je marche dans Tokyo les larmes aux yeux Je ne vois rien à l'horizon Mon Amour, mon Amour, Mon Amour, Tokyo!
LETTRE A FRANCE by MICHEL POLNAREFF
Il était une fois Toi et moi N'oublie jamais ça Toi et moi Depuis que je suis loin de toi Je suis comme loin de moi Et je pense à toi tout bas Tu es à six heures de moi Je suis à des années de toi C'est ça être là-bas La différence C'est ce silence Parfois au fond de moi Tu vis toujours au bord de l'eau Quelquefois dans les journaux Je te vois sur des photos Et moi loin de toi Je vis dans une boite à musique Electrique et fantastisque Je vis en Chimérique La différence C'est ce silence Parfois au fond de moi Tu n'es pas toujours la plus belle Et je te reste infidèle Mais qui peut dire l'avenir De nos souvenirs Oui, j'ai le mal de toi parfois Même si je ne le dis pas L'amour c'est fait de ça Il était une fois Toi et moi N'oublie jamais ça Toi et moi Depuis que je suis loin de toi Je suis comme loin de moi Et je pense à toi là-bas Oui j'ai le mal de toi parfois Même si je ne le dis pas Je pense à toi tout bas...
LETTER TO FRANCE by MICHEL POLNAREFF (approximative translation)
It was once You and me Never forget that You and me Since I am far from you It's like I am far from me And I think of you silently You are at six hours of me I am at years from you It is like that to be over there The difference It is this silence Sometimes at the bottom of me You still live by the waterline Sometimes in the newspapers I see you on photographs And me far from you I live in a music-box Electric and fantastic I live into Chimerical The difference It is this silence Sometimes at the bottom of me You are not always the most beautiful And I remain unfaithful to you But who can say the future Of our memories Yes, I have the melancholy of you sometimes Even if I do not say it Love it is made of that It was once You and me Never forget that You and me Since I am far from you It's like I am far from me And I think of you over there Yes, I have the melancholy of you sometimes Even if I do not say it I think of you silently...
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MY FIRST SHORT-MOVIE "THE NEIGHBOUR /// LA VOISINE /// NABOEN /// DIE NACHBARIN", shot in Copenhagen, in november 2008. Soon on internet after premiere public show-case in Copenhagen, Denmark in a few weeks. A film written, directed and produced by Jean-Marie Babonneau /// Better World Inc. © 2008-2009




LATEST LIVE PERFORMANCE + VJ PROJECTION : 6TH OF DECEMBER 2008 IN COPENHAGEN





Music video produced from my VJ visual material
performed live in Copenhagen with the electro act
Audiotrucs (Berlin) 23rd of august 2008
@ Trailer Park Festival with collective Artrebels.
All visuals © 2008
by Jean-Marie Babonneau /// Better World Inc.

Kate Mosh (2008)



My VJ performance in Copenhagen, june 2008 @ Vesterbro Festival
with live band The Artificial Limbs.



FASHION GIRL (AUSTRIA, 1997)



© 1997-2008 "Fashion Girl" by JM Babonneau aka. Better_World_Inc. ///
Model: Nicole Natter (Miss Austria 1989)



VJ GIG + LIGHT INSTALLATION IN COPENHAGEN 1st of march 2008





/// SAMPLES OF MY RECENT WORKS ///
(see more in my albums or on my website)

>> ALBUM VISUALS
(photography, graphic design, calligraphy & myspace page design)
for singer/composer Pernille Rübner-Petersen >> THE BOOK OF THE MERMAID





>> ALBUM VISUALS
(photography, graphic & web design for website & myspace page)
for band SPEKTAKEL






Making-of photographs by Rolf Hansen /// Photographer JM Babonneau at work with band Spektakel











Portraits by JM Babonneau /// Better_World_Inc. © 2008



ABOUT ME
Not skeleton-slim like a pop-star, not teen-young like a retouched model-face, not as clever as an E=mc2 jew, not as fanatic as a beatle-groupie in the sixties, not as blond as Blondie, I am a french man in Copenhagen, an artist & a photographer who is passionate for his art, sometimes an art that can explore different medias, still pictures and moving pictures, drawings, installations, projections. Have a look around and write me your impressions. I could have been a musician or an actor, but who knows, maybe I'll make you cry or laugh one day. One day maybe you'll love me too. Until then I'll carry on with what I do, my simple mission on earth as an entertaining clown in the fields of arts. I'll travel the world, learn new languages, talk to hundreds of people, take hundreds of pictures and build fantastic projects with other artists, and there in the crowd, one day, we'll recognize each other.

JM Babonneau, Copenhagen, 27th of september 2007










This is a road movie, by JM Babonneau aka. Better_World_Inc. ©2002-2007



there is a woman in this world,
she lives somewhere now, breathes every second far away,
she can sing or write or even photograph, she has her only way,
she can dress as a pin-up to surprise her lover one night.
she can climb trees and mountains, sail the oceans, cross the forests,
she knows the path to love, she knows the path to me,
although she sometimes forgets what good and evil mean.
One day we'll kiss, one day we'll make love, one day we'll marry.
One day she will want my seeds without protection, one day she'll fall pregnant,
and give us babies. We'll travel the world, but where ever we are together or apart,
we'll know there is a place in this world, we belong to. A place next to each other.
A place of love and a place where to feel at home.

JM Babonneau, Paris, 16th of september 2007





Photograph by Les Krims (1970)



Il pleut bergère, il pleut, je gère, il pleut, c'est plus gênant pour la bergère que pour la berbère. Dans quelle étagère, j'ère sur l'étage amer des culottes volatilisées de la mémère. Folies bergères, les moutons kacher dansent et gigottent à Asnières, c'est loin de la terre que mes pas foulent, c'est pas bien cool, la pluie indiffère les pompiers de la misère. Pin-pon, font les petits chatons dans les bras de l'ambulancière, z'en ont plus pour longtemps avec leur brassières dégonflées, dans les obliques sans manières. Genèvriers de Genêve, pins sur les ponts d'Avignon, gentiment tournent en rond. Il pleut des yeux en lignes de chimères pas droites. À droite, à gauche, les faufilades évitent les faux filets sanglants des chattes mères sur la route des chatons désoxygénés ou étherisés. Des alcools vaporisés s'enflamment dans l'amour utérin de la prisonnière. Bergère coutelière et bergère couturière font bon ménage de leurs métiers complémentaires. Les torsades laineuses feront des pulls pour l'hiver et le fil des points de suture, à la blessure de la tonsure hâtive. Il pleut bergère, il pleut et j'énumère les noms de tous les tonnerres. Vénérable pseudo-vénérien, tu n'es rien qu'une tâche dans la boue informe des informés. Berge du cratère, veau de ville et crachat temporaire. Enfile ton paratonnerre, chérie de bergère ruisselante, la queue se fait la malle dans les night-clubs du golfe de Dante. Il pleut, berbère, les herbes repousseront jusqu'à l'horizon ton désert. Alors, les bergères reviendront avec tous les moutons volants de la franche barrière.

JM Babonneau, Paris, 17 septembre 2007




Man At Night, ©2004-2007 by JM Babonneau aka. Better_World_Inc.






Une belle rencontre fortuite dans le metro à Paris avec Dominique Pinon, le fantastique acteur fétiche du réalisateur JP Jeunet (Delicatessen, Aliens Resurrection, La Cité des Enfants Perdus, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, etc...).


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The artist, Prof. Cochonnette ironising about some great metaphorical advertizing material, in Copenhagen, Denmark © 2007


Hereunder : A short animation about wearing masks in life and following trends. Because I see much fashion and wannabe attitudes around but not enough truth.



Masquarade (2006)
Short animation film draft
Director & Photographer & Editor & Actor: JM Babonneau
Music: Yeah (crass), by LCD Soundsystem





Lars von Trier's initiative to mock the Danish Minister of Culture's project to gather Danish artworks to constitute a national danish art-canon! The banner says "Turn the -danish- flag upside-down". Art by nationality and by closed national criterias is not a relevant classification for me, and is revealing a nation's weakness to stand for it's newcomers and alien inputs. It is a static and conservative vision of culture, which is related to the present danish government's politic, making compromises with the extreme right votes. It is dangerous, and it seems that many haven't learnt their history lessons properly about fascism and art-canons.





Body Paint (2008) ART VIDEO CENSORED ON YOUTUBE!
Short animation film (4'50)
Director & Photographer: JM Babonneau
Music mix (extract): DJ Gwendael
Model: Josa





Comet Night
Short animation film (4'30 - 2001)
Director & Photographer & Script: JM Babonneau
Editor & Sound mixer & Photography assistant: Omar Sverrisson
Poems: Sigurbjörg Thrastardóttir
Feat. Rakel Hermannsdóttir, shot in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Music: Peter-Thomas-Sound-Orchestra (reedit. Warp Records)



Copenhagen Beach Loop (2003)


Copenhagen Beach Loop (2003) by JM Babonneau aka. Better_World_Inc.



Projections by ETRANGES ETRANGERS /// STRANGE STRANGERS
aka. JM Babonneau & Chin-Chin Wu - Arles 2007





Etranges Etrangers /// Strange Strangers - selfportraits session ©2007



LINK TO WEBSITE OF ETRANGES ETRANGERS /// STRANGE STRANGERS
www.europeanphotographers.wordpress.com
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My dream island in the Caribbeans
(yes, there is a place wearing my name on this island!)





Chanson du geôlier

Où vas-tu beau geôlier
Avec cette clé tachée de sang
Je vais délivrer celle que j'aime
S'il en est encore temps
Et que j'ai enfermée
Tendrement cruellement
Au plus secret de mon désir
Au plus profond de mon tourment
Dans les mensonges de l'avenir
Dans les bêtises des serments
Je veux la délivrer
Je veux qu'elle soit libre
Et même de m'oublier
Et même de s'en aller
Et même de revenir
Et encore de m'aimer
Ou d'en aimer un autre
Si un autre lui plaît
Et si je reste seul
Et elle en allée
Je garderai seulement
Je garderai toujours
Dans mes deux mains en creux
Jusqu'à la fin des jours
La douceur de ses seins modelés par l'amour.

Poem by Jacques Prévert



Extract of Michelangelo Antonioni's cult film "Blow Up" (1966)







Better_World_Inc. /// Photography & more!



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Le Diable Noir (The black devil) by Georges Méliès (1905)




French for Starters (Benny Hill)




Film director Peter Greenaway
"Cinema is dead / New forms of interactive moving image"




Let Forever Be /// The Chemical Brothers
by film director Michel Gondry




Let Forever Be /// Making Of (interview)
by film director Michel Gondry




C'est du rock - Fan interview (french humour)




Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol (1986)







Vision of year 2000 seen from year 1957!




Fashion of year 2000 seen from the 1930's!




Det Perfekte Menneske (The perfect human being) by Jorgen Leth (1967)



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La Guerre du Feu /// Quest for Fire (1981, by Jean-Jacques Annaud




Can't find a proper video extract on the net to give you a taste: too much crappy editing with boring out of context music...

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Comments

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  • Nov 22 2009 4:48 PM

    Hej, ja tak for igår. Arkaos er et godt program, meget overskueligt sat op og det er nemt at skifte mellem klips, så ja det tror jeg bestemt du vil blive glad for. Ha en hyggelig aften derude i aften.
  • Nov 19 2009 8:00 PM

    coucou! le 28 ça peut le faire pour un café et des portraits :-) à Montmartre ?
    Bise!
  • Nov 16 2009 5:05 PM

    yo mate! how are you? coming to Berlin anytime soon?
  • Nov 16 2009 5:05 PM

    Hello JM, c chouette je vois que tu bosses sur de nouveaux sujets.
    Je serais sur Paris les 22 et 28 devant également entre les 2 faire escale pour la
    Normandie de mon côte pour les fêtes avec la famille. On s'organise cela avec plaisir.
    A très bientôt bises raphaL.
  • Nov 13 2009 3:47 AM

    "Thank you for your friendship & your work is fantastic! I hope you are having a wonderful, and productive week..."

    Sandra
  • Nov 12 2009 3:33 PM

    hello! quels nouveaux projets pour toi? Je serai peut-être à Paris le 28.12. A bientôt! bise.
  • Nov 12 2009 3:33 PM

    Hello JM,

    Ici tout roule avec juste le froid qui s'installe de plus en plus mais bon il faut
    faire avec. Le boulot tourne un peu au ralenti mais je crois que c un peu le cas
    pour tout le monde en ce moment. J'espère que tes projets avancent comme tu le
    souhaites. C'est une bonne nouvelle que tu projettes de refaire un pas sur Paris.
    Au plaisir de t'y voir. Très chouette la vidéo.
    RafaL
  • Oct 28 2009 3:03 PM


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  • Oct 28 2009 3:03 PM

    ça fait un bail! J'espère que tu vas bien. Bises.
  • Oct 12 2009 1:49 PM

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    Bonne soirée et bises ;)
  • Sep 19 2009 2:47 PM

    fedt foto!!!
  • Sep 19 2009 2:47 PM

    a oui !! bien joué!!
    j'aime ce que je vois ici :)

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  • Sep 10 2009 7:56 AM

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  • Sep 4 2009 3:46 PM

    Hey Jean-Marie! How are you?? Long time no see, its been ages.. Yeah that could be awesome.. what ideas do you have? Looking forward to hear from you. Kind regards back, Laura.
  • Aug 28 2009 4:01 PM

    confusion is sex
  • Jul 29 2009 1:54 PM

    "mon univers myspace" hehe
    je le decouvre en ce moment moi aussi. je ne sais pas encore comment le personnaliser très bien.
    j'ai trouvé intéressante l'idée d'avoir un space ou tout le monde pourrait avoir accès et ou on pourrai exposer nos activités professionnelles.
    par contre, mon unnivers personnel reste toujours gardé pour les plus intimes.
    mais...qu'on est artiste, c'est presque impossible de separer les deux choses ... bien sûr on laisse toujours des traces...
    bisous
  • Jul 26 2009 1:41 PM

    Cause you're my number one.. dudu duu du ;-)
  • Jul 23 2009 9:26 PM

    hello Jean-Marie

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    welcome to ideo-tv

  • Jul 23 2009 9:24 PM

    Plein de belles choses a toi aussi , et bienvenue ...
    Au plaisir.
    Bise.
    Shepa.
  • Jul 20 2009 8:49 PM

    Thanks for the add. Enjoy the day!
  • Jul 13 2009 11:25 PM

    Ikke andet for nu på onsdag?? Så kig forbi festskibet Stubnitz, hvor This Ain't Havana lokker med dansk psych/kraut/stoner-rock i absolut verdensklasse + masser af billige tyskerbajs!

     

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  • Jul 10 2009 4:22 PM

    Un petit coucou en passant! merci pur le comment! :)

    amicalement.





    Isabelle MAC (et oui encore moi qui l'est prise celle-là!)
  • Jul 9 2009 2:24 PM

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  • Jul 7 2009 1:40 PM

    heey! JM!
    you have myspace too? Your all over the place;)
    When are you coming to the Faroe Islands???
    Heiðrik