Wee, this is a totally unrelated blog entry to my 3D work. But I wanted to post this as a personal keeper anyway.

Yesterday, my old friend Johan, a.k.a. Loxley told me our old Amiga demo, In A Dream, was online at Youtube. It was around 13 years ago we created this baby amongst tons of other productions on the Amiga computer platform. It was created in 1994 to be exact and was the last production I was involved with in the demo scene, ending my years there from 1987-1994.

It was a pure pleasure to me to see that our old productions since the demo scene days are still working their way around. And I am amazed that some people actually are taking their time to record and upload our old productions. I just wish the video quality on Youtube was a bit better. All lovely details gets lost and are quite blurred out. Which reminds me of one of my future projects where I hope to find some spare days to go through all our old Equinox Demo floppy disks and record them all to high quality video files. Oh well, one day I’ll find the time. :)

Anyway, that’s all for now. For those old-skool guys who still have access to an Amiga or are using an Amiga emulator, all Equinox productions can be downloaded to be seen in their original glory from our memorial website, Equinox Official Website. Also tons of music and graphics we did back in the early 90’s are available there.

Now I’ll get back to work and keep pushing those polygons around!

/Johan - The artist formerly known as rioter of equinox.

Just got back yesterday from my short vacation and things will start to return to normal again. Despite the awful weather on one of my days away, where things really got wet and muddy, a pair of rubber boots, quite some beers and lot’s of great concerts, it was no problem really. Just happy I’ve been around enough times to know what to look for in a good camping spot far away from places like these:

Anyway, I got some new energy, found some new inspiration and got a few new ideas going for coming projects. And of course, listened to tons of great music. Lot’s of great acts in a few days, so we had a hectic schedule to find the time to see all those band we wanted to see, a few had to be missed, but still, I got to see this lovely bunch of bands these few days.

• Wednesday (Warm-Up): DetektivbyrÃ¥n
• Thursday: Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, Speaker Bite Me, Björk (some), Jeans Team
• Friday: Camera Obscura, The Sounds, Trost, Roky Erickson & The Explosives (some), Beastie Boys, Masher Shalal Hash Baz, Queens of the Stone Age, CSS, Booka Shade, Peter Bjorn and John, Nephew, The Brian Jonestown Massacre
• Saturday: Taxi Taxi!, Holly Golightly, The Whitest Boy Alive, The Who (some), 120 Days, Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Sunday: The Lionheart Brothers, Beirut, The Ark, Tunng, Arctic Monkeys, Timbuktu & Damn!, Basement Jaxx

Anyway, a few great days, great music, great drinking and so on! I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.

And I got the opportunity to experiment and explore my latest camera a little bit better and I took about 3 gigabyte of photos, so time to start organizing and developing them in Adobe LightRoom. It’s pretty seldom I end up on photos myself, but I thought for once I’d post a photo of me from the Lounge Area when Taxi Taxi! was playing their beautiful music there. Just a tiiiny hint of a worn-out look, it’s from the fifth day living in a tent surrounded by rain and mud.

Oh well, time for me to get back in my real world again of 3D, animations, editing and everything else I do the rest of the year. But strengthened with new views, inspiration, ideas and energy since the last week.

I’ll drop a new on-topic post tomorrow!

Alright, there will be no updates in the blog for a week. I am having a short vacation.

Great music, great friends and several cases of beer is to be expected during the next couple of days. Despite that the weather seems to be awful, it will be outweighed by those factors.

Over and out, see you next week!

A new section at the Artstorm site will be launched within the next few days. It’s about my software development projects. I wanted to clearly separate it from the artistic part of the site, and have made a different design for the software projects.

It will contain web applications, Lightwave Plugins and Windows Utilities.
Storm|Stats will be the first software available there, which is one of the most advanced and sophisticated web analytics tools available. It’s currently in it’s last beta phase with me making sure it’s rock solid and sorting out the last things with some Flash presentations inside the app. It will be released the same day as the software development site opens.

My partner and the president of International Media Arts and Catamongus Studios which I’ve been working with for a long time, Brent W. Kingston, has left us all of a sudden.
He passed away this morning from an abdominal aneurysm rupture and massive heart attack in Los Angeles, where he was temporary working for our show.

Brent was the creative mind behind the complete concept, and other than that he had become a very dear and close friend of mine. I’ll miss him deeply.

And my deepest sympathies goes to Brad and Gloria.

I’ve been involved in the making of a 3D animated TV series for children for quite some time as the Art Director / Creative Director. The other week I did make the design for the website that will present the series. It’s mostly just the design at the moment. Actual content will be added with trailers, animated scenes from the series, character galleries and things like that as soon as all funding deals are in place and everything will be public.

Well, the site is there, and it will expand shortly, so it could be worth checking it out now and then, as some real cool and amazing 3D work will be available there.

Avery Smartcat - The Coolcats Animated TV Series for Children

You could almost think I’ve turned to the dark side of the force, becoming a web designer with all these sites popping up by me. But do not fear. My 3D projects are going forward as well, and the blog will get updated with them as well shortly. I DO keep myself busy. That I’ve realized.

Once upon a time back in the late 80’s and early 90’s where yours truly using the handle rioter and a member of a demo crew called Equinox.
Well I’ve spent a couple of days now creating a memorial site on the net to preserve everything we created back then.

If you have any interest in that kind of things with demos, music and graphics or the Amiga computer platform, take a few moments to check out the Equinox site. It contains lot’s of nostalgic goodies for the people into this kind of stuff. I know I shed a tear or two looking back into all those memories of past times.

Equinox Amiga Demo Scene Group