People have been visiting me as well as me unlocking the chains from my workstation and got out traveling to a few different places to go to concerts, having cold drinks as the beach, enjoying hotels, attending art exhibitions and taking quite some photos (I got myself a new 24-70mm, f/2.8 lens for my DSLR) and ended it all with tons of great music at the Way Out West festival here in Gothenburg last week, held for it’s second year.

A few great, relaxing weeks to get some new energy and inspiration. Things got back to normal this week and I have had to catch up on some work, and have delivered four new projects already. I have started using a calendar now, hehe, so I have scheduled some catchup time for the website here as well.

The Cookie Monster attending a Barbecue at my place

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.

Graphics from In a Dream - Click the image to see the demo on YouTube.

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.

Ain't it cosy?

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): Detektivbyrån
• 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.

Yours truly at the Roskilde Festival

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!

Woohoo, going to the Roskilde Festival

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!

But now I’ve got things going a bit again anyway. I moved to a new better server the last week, and the move went smooth as a baby’s bottom, and I’m up and running on a much more stable place. But stability was not the only cause of my move, I was desperately urging for some more advanced server features that I’m going to need for some things I’ve planned for the artstorm site.

Keeping secrets is nice, and what new interesting things I intend to do with the artstorm site, will reveal itself during 2006. Lot’s of my personal projects have been going on even though I haven’t really dabbled with the site, so I’ll play a little catch up for some time to get back on track with portfolio updates and progress of my short movie projects.

I also started redesigning the site about a month ago, some changes which have already gone online, but the update is still somewhere in between, so that’s why the portfolio pages for instance look a little weird at the moment, and the text layout is not really perfect everywhere.
Well, I know I shouldn’t publish half made site updates, but, well, I did it anyway. But I’ll fix it at the end of the week.

Okay, I won’t ramble on too much now. Expect a new posting soon, and stay tuned for some nice updates shortly.

Oh, the the Gothenburg Filmfestival is going on now as well, http://www.giff.se, lot’s of nice things for me to do there. Okay, that might cause a week delay until I get into the updates of the site. Film festivals always have a high priority..

Live well! I’ll soon be back!

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.

Classic Equinox Logo

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.

The Equinox Website

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