First time I met Joonas was during my highschool years. It was at a seniors farce; I acted and he was the light technician. All in course with the tradition, all the involved would crash during a night at school. It so happened that Joonas, robin, and me were the only persons who were not drunk that night. But that is a whole different story and since Joonas now is working at that school, maybe I should not bring up what kind of things went on there while the teachers where away.

Joonas Tizihssane is nineteen years old. He lives in Haninge, south of Stockholm, not far from where I live myself. For the time being he is working as a computer technician at Fredrika Bremer. He graduated at Fredrika in 1997, majoring art (swedish note: estetiska programmet, konst).
    Joonas is doing an awful lot of things. He draws, he paints, he makes computer graphics, he photographs, and he has been a disk jockey as well as a light technician... just to mention some of his activities. I decided to go meet this guy and have a little chat.

First thing that hit my mind was the anime (manga) film he had been working on. Has there been any progress?
    "No there's no progress at all. I'm not working on it anymore."
    How come?
    He pauses and sighs before he answers. "Well, one gets lazy. Making an animated film is very arduous. We only finished the intro, which is five minutes."
    How long does it take for finishing one minute of animated film?
    "If you want it to be all perfect; no needs for extra polish. Well, that could take me between one hour and one and a half."
    Joonas did not have the film to show me, but he gave me a description of the scenen:

Scene opens with a flash. It is raining. We zoom in at a house and follow the "camera" straight through the window, into the apartment. It is dark.
    We scan trough a desolate apartment and stop. Somebody is sitting in front of a computer. We get closer. It is a girl (woman?); her eyes are closed. We keep getting closer. Alphanumeric text is scrolling down her face as a reflection from the monitor.
    Suddenly the scene swithes and we can see her floating in cyberspace.

As I mentioned before, Joonas is a guy who does many things. One may wonder what he really wants to do.
    "Well, I enjoy doing all the things that I do. And I want to be good at all does things, as well. But computers and drawing is my top priority."
    He started to draw seriously at the age of eight and he got his first computer at the age of ten. Maybe there is no wonder why this are the things he wants to be doing.
    "When I first got my computer I mostly used it for playing computer games. But then I started to notice the paint programs and I started to draw at the computer, as well."
    I asked him what what he feels is most difficult. Drawing by hand or at the computer. To my surprise he didn't feel any of the two mediums were more difficult to draw in.
    "It's just that drawing at the computer is more time-consuming," he says.

First time Joonas actually surfed the web was at his first year in high school.
    "Of course I had known of its existance before that, but it wasn't for the public at that time. Thanks to school I could use their Internet account. It was at that time when Telia (a swedish telephone company) had just started offering Internet for the public."
    But as many others Joonas had began his modem days with hanging out at different BBS:s. He mostly went to Anitdote or Warez Aquarium.
    "They both have a nice management," he says.

When the question "hacking" comes up, he shakes his head.
    "Nope I have never hacked, but I did some phreaking. Mostly PBX:s."
    PBX stands for Private-Branch Exchange and it is a computer that handles internal phone calls at large companies. It is simply a telephone exchange which handles all incoming and outgoing calls of the company. When calling a company's PBX number it will ask you for a code. The right code will give a tone by which you can call anywhere, billing the company.
    "I know of another method which was poplular at that time: You call the states and give a credit number. Coca Cola, for example, then you can call free on that company's expense. But I have never tried this method."

At the monent Joonas has not got any homepage of his own. He is working at his personal homepage as well as the group's, Wrath Designs, but neither of them are yet uploaded. He made his "special project" (swedish note: special arbete), during his last year at high school, about hackers. But he has no plans of putting it up on the net.
    "I find hackers being interesting people. And you met a lot of hackers at the time when I hanged out at BBS:s," he says. But he, himself does not seem to be very interested of hacking. When I asked him about programming, something a hacker must be skilled at, he answered:
    "Nope, I don't program. Graphics, that's what I do."

Wrath Designs is the name of a demo group. A demo could be compared to a music video. It is made by animated graphics and computer composed music. There are organized contests in this type of thing where the point is to show the group's skill by producing the "best" demo, in which different elements play an important role. The programming, the graphics, the music… in short it is the interplay of the group that counts.
    The activity of Wrath Designs has been various. They have released 12 to 20 productions at two different platforms. Mostly at Commodore 64 since that is what they started producing demos with.
    The members of the group have varied although none of the original founders have left the group.
    Two big contents that are arranged annually are The Party, which is held in Denmark and Assembly, which is held augusts in Finland.

As a kid Joonas was, at start, influensed by his older sister's music taste.
    "She listened mostly to pop music, like for example Rockset or George Michael and so did I. Later I decided that I must choose the music I want to listen to myself and I began listening to rock."
    First time Joonas was introduced to techno was at the age of twelve, when he listened to a music-tape at a friend's house.
    "It got me interested... I felt that that kind of music made me happy."
    Joonas went to his first rave in the year of 1990. The rave was called "Total Orgasm".
    "The experience of my first rave was so profound," Joonas tells me and it seems he can't find words to describe this feeling. "It was so immense with joy, nervousity and curiosity. I had such an adrenaline kick that two days after the rave I was out searching for more fliers," Joonas laughs.
    When it comes to music today Joonas says:
    "I listen to all sorts of music, but I only buy techno. And some synthesizer artists," he adds. "Like Vangelis or Jarre."