Skyhigh 13 ch10 About Duce

Latest revision as of 16:57, 25 June 2007

          about duce of extend







 ? skyhigh
 ! duce/extend





  yo duce!
  first of all thanx for helping me out
  with this interview.
  second i must thank you for da fucking
  cool cover you did for me. i presume
  you have seen my thank you in the mag
  itself. if not then here i go again!
  it simply ruled!! you have managed to
  catch my ideas and put 'em down to
  paper. (for those of you who haven't
  seen this cover 'skyhigh' better get
  your hands on a copy and wank!!)

  and to news press :

  you voted this cover numero uno in yer
  cover chapter!
  ofcoz this is fully deserved, but it
  seems that you don't know much about
  tattooing! what you said was some kind
  of a pen on the front is actually a
  'tattoo-gun' (the machine you use to
  put on tattoos!!!)


  -ok let's get started the boring way!

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? please tell us your handle and group.

! my handle is duce and group is extend
  ,of coz!

? and your real name ?

! ari tuomas seppa (last a with points)


? when were you delivered to the earth?
  (day,month,year)

! i can't remember but i think it was
   16th october 1975

? ok that was the most important things.
  but pleaz give us a small introduction
  of yourself.
  (personal facts : hight - hair colour
                    eye colour - glasses
  sparetime, other interests, job/school
  hobbies and so on!!)

! hight is about 175cm, eyes are brown,
  natural hair colour is brown but now
  it is black and longest hair is about
  30cm long and i wear glasses also.
  i'm a student, commercial college au-
  diovisual-course. sparetime:i draw all
  kinds of pictures, play darts, listen
  allmost all kinds of muzac and get
  drunk very often. booze=great, funny.


? for how long have you been into the 64
  scene. or in other words : please tell
  us when you entered the world of the
  commodore 64 - and it's scene?

! well, i've been into scene since '92
  when i lived with argon (now i live
  with thor). i also joined to extend
  '92 and now a little surprise:i bought
  c64 just a couple of weeks ago.
  surprised?


? 'duce' - i like that handle! as a mat-
  ter of fact i wanted to call me that
  ages ago!
  i don't know about you, but i had the
  idea while watching tennis on tv!
  i remember that i immidiately went to
  my computer and did a duce logo!
  but i didn't like it very much ( the
  logo!!!) so i changed it to juice!!
  it's pronounced the same way!!

  but why the hell am i telling all this
  well the reason is ofcoz that i want
  you to tell us the story about your
  handle! how and why did you choose
  that handle ?

! well, it was year '91 when i watched
  an amiga demo from acme, and there was
  a guy whos hanle was duke. so, i chan-
  ged k to c and then it was duce.
  but heard afterwards that mussolini
  used name il duce, and it means fas-
  cistic leader. but i'm not a fascist,
  racist and even nazi, coz i hate 'em
  all!


? what is your memberstatus and job in
  extend?

! i don't know!?! i just draw ...?
  beerdrinker who draws?? total alcohol
  addict with pencil??


? ok let's talk about your paper grafix!

  surprisingly lot of covers from your
  hand is comming my way these days!
  how long has you been drawing - both
  covers and other stuff?

! i was born with pencil in my hand!?
  i've been drawing covers only two
  years and other stuff many many years.


? as you might have seen then i brought
  an article written by micke/extend in
  the last issue of this magazine!
  he touches some very interesting sub-
  jects in there!
  he ask the scene how come no one ever
  votes for you!
  - i myself has been thinking this lots
  of times! i simply don't understand
  why all people are voting for cover-
  designers that haven't been active for
  ages (f.e.  cop - franco - dave -
  arrogance and so on!)
  sure these dudes were good, but in my
  opinion people has missed something
  here!
  your work is some of the coolest in da
  scene right now (no ass licking!!!)
  how come i never see you in the charts
  is your work not spread well enough!
  or what the hell is going on?

  why do you think it's like that?

! i don't now and i don't care! maybe
  the sceners just don't like my covers.


? well i'll do what i can to help you
  get the credit you deserve!!
  one way is ofcoz this interview! now
  people have no excuse! now they can't
  say that they didn't  know!

  well back to the covers!

  i have been into art for quite a while
  now, and i have been studying your
  covers for some time as well!
  one thing that really amazes me is yer
  technique! damn you have improved very
  much lately!
  take a look on 'faces for fear' and
  'skyhigh' !
  what do you have to say about that
  improvement yourself? how much time do
  you spend on drawing ?

! 'faces for fear'-cover sux, it is my
  worst cover. i made it in two nights.
  but anyway, i can't say anything about
  that. well, nowadays i spend time like
  hell while drawing covers. about 20
  hours for each cover.


? it seems that after you have started
  used what i call 'prik-tegning' or
  'point-drawing' you have made a new
  trend in the paper scene!! i'm ofcoz
  talking about fine-line points!
  what do you think about other trying
  to copy that style now

! well, i don't mind as long as they don
  't copy ideas from my pictures. every-
  one is free to use any drawing techni-
  ques what they want.


? well talking about styles & techniques
  quite a few of your latest covers are
  rather weird with associations to
  masochism - violence and so on!
  -what style(s) do you prefer to draw?

! i like to draw all kinds of stuff that
  comes to my mind. schizophrenic hallu-
  cinations!


? when you're doing these fine-line
  covers - how are you doing it ?
  i'm thinking about the size- is it
  1/1 or are you working on bigger size
  and then copying it down ?
  or does it depend!

! well, most of covers are drawn bigger
  size (20.5cm * 31.5cm = 144%) and then
  i copy them down to 70% from the ori-
  ginal. for fine-line points i use rot-
  ring rapidograph 0.13 and micronpigma
  005 and toothbrush. but rapido is so f
  ucking tiny that lot of points disap-
  peares while copying 'em down.


? besides the fine line points you are
  also using alot of other techniques!
  in 'skyhigh' & 'a streak of masochism'
  you're using -splashes-??
  in in 'gimme my clothes back, fucker!'
  you have used some kind of plazma as
  background.
  and in 'a streak of masochism' there's
  lots of partly shown fingerprints!
  (btw how did you do that ? arabicum or
  simply white paint and brush after-
  wards???)

  this is what makes your covers so cool
  always new ideas! ya never get stucked
  in one style.

  what would you like to say to all the
  other cover designers out there?

! don't copy from other artists!!! try
  new techniques and use your imaginati-
  on! use time!


? last! what do you use while drawing?
  pens - papers - ink - brushes  a.s.o?

! ballograf 0.5 pencil, staedler eraser,
  micronpigma 005, rotring rapidograf
  0.13, r. rapidograf 0.35, r. easyliner
  0.25, sakura correction pen, uniprokey
  , pelikan ink 17, toothbrush, rulers,
  xerox 80g/m2, beer, cigarettes, a.s.o.


? what about computer gfx! i haven't
  seen anything from you on the c64
  lately! how come ?

! if you are lucky, you'l see some c64-
  gfx in future.


? i also know that you are doing amiga
  grafix (or used to!)
  are you still active on the amiga as-
  well?

! yes i'm, but our coders are so fucking
  lazy that we haven't give any produc-
  tion out.


? so what about the c64! how do you see
  the future?
  will this wonderfull machine soon die
  or will it live a long time to come!

! c64 will live as long as scene lives,
  and it will live long.


? when it die, where will we find you!
  on amiga, pc or maybe in the galleries

! how the hell can i know it? i'm not a
  fucking clairvoyant!!!!


? well ari as always i ask my victims
  about their favourites, and you are no
  exception!


? what do you prefer to eat?

! food


? and what do you like to drink?

! beer from nowhere


? to what music do you listen?

! good music


? your favourite artists ?

! giger, vallejo, soroyama, bisley


? what movie was the coolest you ever
  saw?

! shockin extend - extreme experience


? and your c64 favourites


     demogroup :extend

     crackergr.:????

     coder     :scapegoat / topaz bl

     magazine  :skyhigh

     composer  :amj / side-b

     grafixer  :electric / extend

     cover des.:electric / extend

     sceneland :finland

     demo      :red storm

     game      :reaktio nopeus


? and last :
  your favourite friend(s) in the scene

! whole extend, d'arc, scapegoat, amj,
  junkie, barracuda, hilima-mies, 2ny,
  neotec, mav, zapotek, i can't remember
  them all.


? if you had the opportunity to build up
  a new group - which persons would you
  like to join ?


! coders       :mr.sex, scapegoat

  musicians    :whole side-b

  gfx'ers      :d'arc, electric

  swappers     :dr.acid

  modemtraders :dr.acid

  others       :whole extend



? yep also the brainstorm will hit you!

  what do you say when i say :

  group      : meetings

  coca cola  : cancer

  friendship : boozing

  c-64       : computer

  amiga      : another computer

  girls      : sex

  beers      : drunkness

  magazines  : reading

  groupwars  : stupid activity

  sex        : girls

  parties    : boozing

  interviews : typing text

  and last 'skyhigh' : cocaine


? yep i guess that's about it for now!

  is there anything you would like to
  say to the scene, contacts or others
  to wrap it up?

! commercial break: if you need gfx for
  demo, ep, lp, cd, t-shirt, banners
  etc. take a contact. no matter how
  many colours : black / white or full
  colour, everything is available!!!!
  and this is my new addy:

    duce of extend
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? allright then i guess that's really it

  all that's left is to say thanx to you
  for taking the time to fill in this
  interview!

          keep up your drawing!

  i would love to see much more duce gfx
  for the c64 scene. keep that funky
  style and stay cool!

  if ever you feel like it skyhigh is
  looking forward 4 more cool and weird
  quality covers and piccies!!!


  thanx homeboy!!

! you are welcome, homegirl!


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