James Roper - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Hypermass series:

Rapture series:

Reflex / Fallout / Saccade t-shirts available at Tank Theory (click images to consume):

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My Interests

Painting, philosophy, illusion, metaphysics, Hollywood, subliminal messages, baroque sculpture, anime, taxidermy, blackholes, silence, origami, psychology, zombies, neo-apathy, the death of affect, sunlight through trees, drawing, Japan, glossy magazines, a blank canvas, wrathful buddhist deities, fashion ads, movie trailers, manipulation, quantum physics, placebos, purity, porn, religious ecstasy, skepticism, car crashes, destruction, reconstruction, watching the clouds drift by, theology, superficiality, art, malls, desire, meditation

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Ambientacousticamericana
countrytechnohiphoppop
rockmetalbluespunkminimal
trancenewravenewwave
shoegazeatonaljazzoperatic
classicalelectronica

Movies:

Donnie Darko, Fight Club, Akira, The Shining, Punch Drunk Love, Elephant, Mullholland Drive, The Virgin Suicides, Brick, 2001, Blade Runner, Kung-fu Hustle, The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded

Television:

Arrested Development, Family Guy, Curb your enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Derren Brown, Ray Mears, Twin Peaks, Eerie Indiana, Cribs, The Fabulous Life of..., MTV, anything about art or science

Books:

The Virgin Suicides, The Dharma Bums, Crash, Less than Zero, The Way of Zen, Tricks of the Mind, Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control, Buddhism is not what you think, The God Delusion, Summon monsters? open the door? heal? or die?, On the way to work, Easy Riders Raging Bulls, The Holographic Universe

Heroes:

Superman

Influences: Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, Hans Bellmer, Paul McCarthy, Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Tom Friedman, Takashi Murakami, Matthew Barney, Inka Essenhigh, Matthew Ritchie, David Lynch, Katsuhiro Otomo

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My Blog

A Void

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Posted by James Roper on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:02:00 PST

Grafuck Show @ Nucleus

Posted by James Roper on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:34:00 PST

Dorian Gray Project: Happy Days

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Posted by James Roper on Mon, 07 May 2007 02:34:00 PST

"We buy a lot of clothes but we don’t really need them"

Posted by James Roper on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:38:00 PST

Magic kingdom

SIMULACRA AND SIMULATIONS: Hyperreal and imaginaryFrom "Jean Baudrillard: Selected writings":Disneyland is a perfect model of all the entangled orders of simulation. To begin with it is a play of illu...
Posted by James Roper on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 02:34:00 PST

Peak shift theory

From V.S. Ramachandran's Reith Lecture 2003 - The Artful Brain:I recently started reading about the history of ideas on art - especially Victorian reactions to Indian art - and it makes fascinating re...
Posted by James Roper on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:19:00 PST

"What is Nirodha Point?"

I set out writing 'Nirodha Point' in order to communicate certain ideas that I had amassed which I have been unable to fully explore through any other medium I work in, be it painting, sculpture or ev...
Posted by James Roper on Wed, 10 May 2006 01:33:00 PST

The Convulsionaires

MASS PSYCHOKINESIS IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRANCEFrom "The Holographic Universe" by Michael Talbot:One of the most remarkable displays of miraculous events ever recorded, took place in Paris in the fir...
Posted by James Roper on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 04:19:00 PST

The Plastic arts

'The Ecstasy of St.Teresa' by Gianlorenzo Bernini From "The Doors of Perception" by Aldous Huxley:Those folds in the trousers - what a labyrinth of endlessly significant complexity! And the texture of...
Posted by James Roper on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 01:22:00 PST

Pretty mushrooms

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Posted by James Roper on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 08:50:00 PST