PaRaDoX
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"Starving artist seeks muse"
Male
33 years old
TACOMA, Washington
United States
Last Login:7/24/2008
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I have an insatiable apetite for knowledge, studying anything and everything, never content to accept things for what they appear to be. I take a highly philosophical approach to life, and my beliefs are based on a meticulously blended combination of science, spirituality, and mysticism. I prize knowledge and adaptability above all else, constantly seeking new answers and new questions... challenging aspects of existence and society that usually go undisputed. I enjoy heated debates over abstract, theoretical concepts.
I love writing electronic music. I began in the early 90s using the old Amiga 4-track mod format, and have since progressed through a dozen or so programs to finally end up doing everything in Fruityloops. There is a certain ambiance, a particular subtle nuance that I try to impart into my music... an aspect that attempts to appeal to the intellect rather than the emotions. I'm tired of the cookie-cutter electronic music out there, the unimaginative soulless dessication that has infiltrated the once rich and creative electronic music scene. Unfortunately, that has tainted the image, giving most people the impression that electronic music is all just "techno." It most definitely is not.
One of my favorite things to do is build things. I have countless ongoing projects that I work on when time and money permit. The big one is my Supra mod project. Having grown up watching movies like Mad Max, I came to like the look of the metal framework and tubing car. I got sick of the rounded, bubbly cars that kept getting churned out by manufacturers. No design really suited my taste, so I decided to make one myself. Currently it's just in the preliminary stages. The thing that holds back progress (other than money) is the fact that nothing I'm doing is standard. I have to build everything from scratch. Whatever the outcome, it has definitely been a fun learning experience...
I also like photography, and take a lot of pictures as a result. Drawing is also big on my list, though I don't draw as much as I'd like to. Even after having been an avid pen and pencil artist since I was a kid, I still can't draw people. Now most of my drawing takes place on the computer, mostly for games...
Games, games, games. I started programming back in 1986 I believe, on the good old Apple IIe. I've made many many games, none of which you have heard of. I find game programming to be the most challenging use of computers, and usually I just make games for the fun of it.
I'll be putting up my latest creation soon for people to mess around with...
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ALTAiR, Mario Taravella, Depeche Mode, Information Society, NIN, Billy Idol (especially CYBERPUNK), B52s, Def Leppard, Kraftwerk, Erasure, Rush, Peter Gabriel, Joe Satriani, Talvin Singh, Vangelis, Bjork, Enya, ZZTop, Pink Floyd, Queensryche, Deep Purple, Van Halen, Collective Soul, Bomb the Bass, Renegade Soundwave, Skinny Puppy, The Crystal Method, Yes, Thomas Dolby, Leftfield, Rob Zombie, Kenyatta Iniko, Prodigy, Megadeth, Manufacture... the list goes on...
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Tron, Aliens, Buckaroo Banzai, Robocop, THX-1138, Star Wars, Bladerunner, Goonies, Krull, Army of Darkness, Monty Python, The Black Hole, Stargate, Predator, The Terminator, Blade, Ghostbusters, Short Circuit, Explorers, Legend, Event Horizon, Starship Troopers, Labyrinth, The Fifth Element, The Dark Crystal, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Photographing Fairies, The Mists of Avalon, Spaceballs... hmm, am I a scifi/fantasy freak or what?
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I don't read fiction, with the exception of comic books. I'll read anything I can learn something from.
- Gödel, Escher, Bach - An Eternal Golden Braid
- Mathematics in Everyday Things
- Pocket Ref
- Newton's Telecom Dictionary
- The Five Cs of Cinematography
- Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla
- The Complete Handbook of Robotics
- High Score! The Illustrated History of Electronic Games
- Mondo 2000 - A User's Guide to the New Edge
- Metal Fabricator's Handbook
- Ray Tracing Creations
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Nikola Tesla
Mary Messall
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The Myspace Hub, Information Society, Bill Espresten Esquire AND Ted Theodore Logan TOGETHER WE ARE WILD STALLIONS!!!, Everything Post Apocalyptic, I Hate the Cha - Cha, PEOPLE WHO HATE COLDPLAY or other bands, KISW sucks and RICKER sucks, It's ALL about ME!!!!!!!!
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PaRaDoX's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Agnostic | | Zodiac Sign: | Cancer | | Smoke / Drink: | Yes / Yes | | Children: | Someday | | Occupation: | Technician |
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PaRaDoX's Schools
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Wilson
Tacoma,Washington
Graduated: 1994
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
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1990 to 1994 |
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About me:
I am a highly opinionated person, always looking for a good debate. If you're my friend, I will often irritate you with my love of
discussion. You can expect me to always have something new to say. I have a passion for science and art, which drives me to attempt
to combine the two. I strongly support individual freedom, and accept everyone for who they are. However I believe that any strong
opinions should be backed up with logic, and should be able to be discussed at length, as I will happily do with anything I believe.
I do not ascribe myself to any particular way of thought, and strive to avoid such connections to mass ideology, as I believe it can
stifle free thought. I am industrious when I am motivated and contemplative when not. From the outside I may appear negative,
however I am actually quite positive though slightly cynical, but more often simply playing devil's advocate with the hope of arousing
a debate. I do not hold a grudge.
Machines:
The engines of our modern civilization. To some, a necessity. To others, an ugly internal aspect of life to be hidden from view. To
me, beautiful sculpture.
I love machines, particularly those of the industrial persuasion. The bigger and faster, the better. I don't believe the innards of
machines should be disguised as something friendly. They should be prominently and proudly displayed. Wires, connectors, circuit
boards, tubing, strangely angled interior mechanics devised purely for funtional purposes. It should all be seen, as it is the highest
form of art, the pinnacle of our engineering capabilities.
These things pass most people by. They sit in the background, undetected.
But I seek them out. I search for the most complex and vast contrivances, the most machine-like appliances and the least comfortable
looking apparatus. To me it is a work of art, unhindered by the desires of popular opinion. Things created with the sole intent of
performing a task.
That is true beauty.
The beauty of impossible scale, gargantuan, hulking monstrosities. Instruments capable of moving incalculable masses with a surgeon's
precision. Machines posessing an unimaginable thirst for electricity, gulping more power in a single second than a whole city of tv
sitcom watchers uses in a month.
The things we don't take notice of, packed away in the outskirts of town, a safe distance from our protected and sheltered lives...
constantly, passionately churning out a near-infinite quantity of the useless and shockingly disposabletrinkets that fill our homes...
day and night.
This, I say, is true beauty.
I feel right at home among the robots.
The sounds of their activity is mesmerizing, as they perpetually repeat the same routines. It's a wondrous song they sing, a song of
progress and accomplishment. I've watched them for hours, grippers of all incarnations dancing amazingly with a meticulous mastery of
their duties. And in a way, they almost appear happy.
How can a piece of abstract art possibly compare to the results of innumerable man-hours of industrial creativity? The product built
upon its simpler predecessors... constantly evolving, adapting, improving itself. What better example of human ingenuity and fortitude
than the tools of our domestication of planet Earth?
Our incredible electronic children.
Wicked and twisted industrial wreckage
The remnants of previous manufacturing eras
Failed attempts at gloriously-scaled factories
Silent, imposing decayed structures
I am in love.
Machinery is more attractive when left unserviced. Deep gouges torn into the toughest materials, proof of our creation's hard work and
unrewarding life. Parts missing and replacements improvised, the mindless automaton continues our slave labor, undaunted and unafraid.
Throw a lever, and it moves, perhaps even a bit hesitatingly from years of constant abuse. But still it moves. Push a button, and it
responds without complaint.
And when a machine falters, staggering helplessly from an uncaring, unforgiving user, we kick it and pound it until it responds.
And it never cries.
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Who I'd like to meet:
A duplicate copy of myself from another dimension. Except this guy'd be inverted and talk backwards since he's from some crazy parallel universe. Then I'd be like "dude! this is so cool!" and go to shake his hand. But the second an atom from my universe contacted an anti-atom from his universe - BAM! We'd explode, spectacularly obliterating both our universes in the process.
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