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JohanW

A Swede stuck in Germany

About Me

It all started in 1984, a friend of me and my twin-brother let us listen to Alphavilles "Forever Young" LP and I was totally blown away by the soundscapes and the melodies. Soon afterwards, that became the first record I bought myself. From then on, synthetic music is the only kind music I care about. And yes, I still think Forever Young is a superb album.I am also a total car-nerd, since 35 years back. Below are some of the projects I made during my studies at Umeå Institute of Design, (Swedens number 1 design school!) and some stuff I made at home.I have been working as a Alias (computer-3D)modeller at GME design (Opel and Saab) in Rüsselsheim in Germany (as a contractor from Trondesign)during 2007. However, my goal is to work as a industrial or transportation designer...

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My Interests

Automotive design, driving, going to car shows (especially in Paris or Frankfurt!), science fiction, computers, nature, animals, modern architecture, robots, machinery, prehistory, the future, space, inventions, mountain biking, snorkling, watching discovery channel, movies, motorsports, cars and collecting electronic music on CD/LP/12"-singles/7"-singles and 1:18 scale models of cars. Below some cd-covers I designed! ..

I'd like to meet:

my friends!

Music:

Synthpop, electropop, electroclash, EBM, futurepop, electro, bitpop, chipmusic, minimal electro, electronica and other forms of electronic music, from the 70:ties to the present. As long as the synths outnumber ever other instrument and it is not mainstream, I probably like it. I DO NOT LISTEN TO HIPHOP, SOUL, ROCK, METAL, JAZZ, etc. Favorite artists: Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Covenant, Alphaville, Page, SMPJ, Welle:Erdball, Psyche, Client, Emmon, Compute, Marsheaux, Ashbury Heights, Nadia Sohaei, Fad Gadget, Erasure, Yazoo, Tangerine Dream, Jean Michel Jarre, John Foxx, The Knife, S.p.o.c.k, The Mobile Homes, Second Decay, Boytronic, Thermostatic, Bal Pare, Astrea Redux, Freezepop, Lassigue Bendthaus, Karl Bartos, Rational Youth, Static Icon, Mark Lane, KieTheVez, Children Within, And One, Plastic Planet, The Assembly, Vangelis,+ a big bunch of other electronic bands from all over the world. You get the picture by checkig my friends!

Movies:

I like most kinds of movies but sci-fi rules! Favorites: Star Wars (all of them), Lord Of the Rings, The Incredibles and other Pixar movies, Minority Report, Alien 1-4, Skycaptain and the world of Tomorrow, The Matrix, Akira, THX 1138, Ed Wood and other Tim Burton movies, Monty Python-movies, Bladerunner, Star Trek-movies, the fifth element and this one: The Scootacopter!
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Television:

I LIKE: Futurama, The Simpsons, Discovery Channels "Mythbusters" and documenteries (about science, architecture, nature, history, etc) Motorsports, Top Gear, Star Trek, the news, movies. I HATE: soap-operas, reality shows, talk shows and MTVs idiot TV (like Jackass etc)!

Books:

The art of Star Wars, Lord of the rings, Edgar Allan Poe. I..m also a great fan of the french sci-fi comic "Valerian" (known as "Linda & Valentin" in Sweden). I actually don..t read that much books anymore, instead I read a lot of car, design and science magazines and actually have a hobby writing a sci-fi novel (kind of a mix between Star Trek, Star Wars, The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and Lord of the rings... sort of. But with no humans! And no war-romanticism...). Some of my sci fi illustrations are made for that project.

Heroes:

Ralf und Florian, Karl Bartos, Bob Moog, Leon Theremin, George Lucas, Vince Clarke, Depeche Mode, Eddie Bengtsson of Page/SMPJ/This Fish Needs a Bike, Syd Mead (futurist and movie designer), the guys who design Star Wars movies (Ryan Church, Doug Chiang, Eric Teimens...), Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, people who refuse using drugs and alcohol and everyone who want to have a smarter, cleaner and more peaceful future, etc