Joshua Robbins

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Joshua Robbins is an American author, journalist, producer, and artist. Originally from Colorado, Robbins spent 12 years of his life in Southern California after being homeless in Los Angeles, Denver, Salt Lake City, and Baltimore for six years. He finally settled in Costa Mesa, CA. Robbins recalls what it was like to live in a box, shoot cocaine with water from the toilet at the Los Angeles Greyhound station, and sell drugs in some of the most notorious neighborhoods of Los Angeles and Baltimore.

Joshua decided to get clean and during this eight year hiatus from his drug addiction he attended Orange Coast College, UCLA, and Regis Jesuit University where he studied mathematics, philosophy, economics, and business . When Robbins turned 31 he returned back to Colorado and currently resides in Lakewood (a suburb of Denver), Colorado.

Robbins is best known as the founder of the controversial recovery/arts company The Addicted Project. Through this company Robbins has personally released "12: A memoir about the Anonymous", ".512: Because once you go infinite nothing else matters", and "Forgiving Jesus". Recently, as a side project, Robbins created a video production company called "PPP" Films. Since the inception of The Addicted Project, Robbins has been a noted recluse, although he does emerge to support and attend various 12 Step functions.

Writing Style

A primary purpose of Robbins writing for TAP and himself involves a desire to connect with the readers on a personal level; to encourage them to look within themselves for self-identity, understanding and reflection. Robbins does not include any pre-promotional information with any releases as Robbins believes most people "don't get it" and it is not a priority of the TAP or himself that people do. However, after each release Robbins has eventually published parts of his book online.

Publishing arrangements are often given special attention, such as the book "12: A memoir of the Anonymous" wherein the number of sentences and pages correspond to an arrangement of the Fibonacci Sequence. Most of Robbins' writing is focused on philosophy and spirituality with a larger appeal to the masses which he is convinced most will not notice the intrinsics of what he is producing. According to Robbins everything that is put on the sheet of paper has meaning. If there is a run-on sentence he knows. That has purpose.

Robbins is not notorious for photo shoots or doing any public engagements like you would see with most writers trying to sell their book. A close friend of Robbins explains "a lot of the writing and videos he produces are a personal journey for him and he has a hard time with the glare of the lights when he's trying to reproduce these emotions being in any sort of spotlight. He down right hates notoriety. He needs a bit of personal space, and he feels more comfortable in the shadows. He believes that the books, if read, will sell themselves. Yes Joshua has a reputation for being reclusive and controlling of his public image. He dislikes the manner in which any writer, musician, or actor is worshipped.

Writers that inspire Robbins such as Kurt Vonnegut, Chuck Palahnuik, and J.D. Salinger are very rare. Robbins states that he is more inspired by music. He feels as though the mathematic rhythms equate to something larger and can be viewed in a larger, more universal scale. Robbins states the band that inspires him the most is Tool. When asked if he feel he inspires people to write or create, he said " I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by art as a whole, and just use whatever we create as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do."

Joshua has been sober since June 26th, 2010. This journey has been the primary focus for his recent material.