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travis gorman

some people are born with charisma - James Dean

About Me

Artist/ Illustrator/ Byronic Aristotelian/
Individualist Romantic/ Ideologue..
I'm interested in everything. I like to play instruments, make paintings, vague approximations and other stuff. I become enamored with beautiful new things, concepts and people everyday. My interests start out as brief infatuations, and then subside into minor passions after they have run their course, and stay that way forever. Some stick around longer than others. I used to have a very concrete sense of self until I realized that it was a rather stifling way to be. Now I find happiness in the idea that I am whoever and whatever I would like to be at any given moment. I view the world as my stage as well as my secret laboratory and consider everyone on earth a good friend of mine. Its all just a bunch of pretty pictures and poetry, really.Some things I find more fascinating than others are Fable, Allegory, Mythology, Group Theory, Doublespeak, Mentalism, Illusion, Psychology, Austrian Economics, Behavioral and Cognitive Science, Social Dynamics, Neuro Linguistic Programing, Hypnosis, Vector Illustration, Line Art, Screen Printing, Sacred Geometry, Name Dropping, Puzzles, Riddles, Bits & Pieces. Im old school and postmodern. I take it in stride, with a grain of salt. I like idioms, cliches, literary allusions, dry humor, black comedy, open ended questions, one liners, and long winded flowery rhetoric. I started a design company last year (TGAP/Dazzler Art LLC) and do a lot of this, that and the other thing.
Have a look around and check out some of my art.
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My Interests

Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Politics, Aesthetics.
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Music:

I listen to stuff like:

  • The Beatles
  • Elliott Smith
  • Muse
  • Placebo
  • Explosions in the Sky
  • Mogwai
  • Death Cab for Cutie
  • The Pixies
  • Radiohead Modest Mouse Spiritualized The Album Leaf Q and not U Peter Gabrial The Decemberists At The Drive In Belle and Sebastian Onelinedrawing Far
  • Cursive The Good Life Guided By Voices The Replacements Notorious B.I.G Azure Ray The Dismemberment Plan The Arctic Monkeys The Flaming Lips Joan of Arc Owls Denali Paul Simon Micheal Jackson Desaparecidos Suede Kind of Like Spitting Wilco The Magnetic Fields American Football Bjork Rainer Maria Minus the Bear Sunny Day Real Estate

    Movies:

    Hostel 1&2, the shawshank redemption, star wars, richard III, whos afraid of virginia woolfe, V, help!, yellow submarine, basquiat, superstar, leprechaun: back 2 tha hood

    Television:

    strangers with candy, six feet under .. www.tgpetportraits.com

    Books:

    The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, Anthem, The Psychology of Self Esteem, Hamlet, Crime and Punishment, Cats Cradle, The Iliad, Trial, Letters to a Young Poet (rilke) Wuthering Heights, The Mysterious Stranger, Crash, Choke (and everything else by Palahniuk), Picture of Dorian Gray, Anna Karenina, The Brothers Karamazov, The Selfish Gene The End of Faith,

    Heroes:

    my family, Aristotle, Ayn Rand, John Lennon, Leo Castelli, Jackson Pollack, Bobby Fischer, e.e. cummings, William Shakespeare, Bill Hicks, Doug Stanhope, George Carlin, Alexandra Nechita, Jasper Johns, Adam Smith, Kim Peek, Richard Dawkins, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzche, Jean-Paul Sartre,

    here are some concepts i like:

    My Blog

    evolutionary psychology like whaaaa

    This is an awesome panel discussion. Two of my favorite contemporary philosophers are on the panel. Stephen Pinker is an evolutionary psychologist and linguist who wrote "The Language Instinct" and ...
    Posted by travis gorman on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:34:00 PST

    Skinner's last speech

    B.F Skinner, the psychologist who came bearing the startling truth that our brains are programable machines, debunks Bjork, saying that there is in fact a map to human behavior...sort of. ...
    Posted by travis gorman on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 03:39:00 PST

    Richard Dawkins Videos Worth A Look

    Richard Dawkins in Lynchberg Virginia, Discussing his wonderful book "The God Delusion". Most of the students he's speaking to, if not all, are from Liberty University of Jerry Falwell fame. ...
    Posted by travis gorman on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:24:00 PST

    How Badly Does "Religion" Just Totally Rip Off Ancient Egyptian, Roman and Greek Mythology??

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    Posted by travis gorman on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:24:00 PST

    Removing the is. Language without Being

    The wonderful Robert Anton Wilson urges you to go ahead, get cynical and speak in metaphor.    If you're not familiar with this guy, he's a writer philosopher, contemporary of Kurt Vonnegut...
    Posted by travis gorman on Sun, 20 May 2007 06:05:00 PST

    Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault- Justice vs. Power

    1971 Chomsky and Foucault debate human nature and politics.     ...
    Posted by travis gorman on Sun, 20 May 2007 05:28:00 PST

    Really Really good debate between Sam Harris & Reza Aslan

    When I originally saw this my first thought was something like "Okay...here we go...time to watch Sam Harris school another punkass again".As it turns out, Reza Aslan matches wits with Harris exceptio...
    Posted by travis gorman on Thu, 10 May 2007 09:56:00 PST

    Totalitarian Islam and the West, panel discussion with Yaron Brook from the Ayn Rand Institute

    The religion of Islam is at odds with the fundamentals of individualism and freedom that this country stands for, and thinking that terrorism is only a fringe element of this "peaceful" religion is go...
    Posted by travis gorman on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:33:00 PST

    super savants Daniel Tammet and Kim Peek

    Two documentarys about autistic savants. "The Boy With the Incredible Brain" - "The Real Rain Man" - Kim Peek ...
    Posted by travis gorman on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:49:00 PST

    Alan Dershowitz and Noam Chomsky getting krunk over Israel - Palestine contiguity (video)

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    Posted by travis gorman on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:37:00 PST