Hmm, I've never been much into self-analysis, I always end up sounding a bit pompous when I do that, so I try not to. The best way to describe myself is by describing what I do, it's all here to see. Mainly, I'm an artist, not a programmer, or more accurately, an artist who programs, eh? Art has been the dominant theme in my life as far back as I can remember. I've always been a tinkerer, and I like doing things with my hands, they're very good hands indeed, capable of all sorts of things. (Kind of ugly, though, but who cares?) My brain is my most favorite toy, it seems to works in ways other folks don't, why is that? Mostly it's just stubborness, I won't let a problem go until it's fixed, and I don't seem to mind skipping whole bunches of steps in the logical process. Ah well, look at the rest of the site, you tell *me* who I am, cool? Have fun, explore, learn, and take care!

Your pal,   -doc-

Next, I seem to know Javascript and DHTML, how did this happen? Completely by accident, I assure you. The first thing I wanted to do was just a simple image rollover, and the examples available at NS were just *way* too complex, it shouldn't have been that hard, and it turns out it wasn't. (Most of you have found this out by now, but it was new when I first started playing with it!) I thought of more things I wanted my pages to do, and nobody knew how to make them do that, so I taught myself how again. Then I thought of new things, and learned those too. Now too many folks at work think I'm a programmer, but I'm really just an artist with no patience. <g>

I also know HTML inside out, for exactly the same reasons. Listen to this, I actually have *dreams* all in HTML, scary, that.

I'm an artist, and I'm a philosopher. I use tools, and I use them well. One of my biggest edges in this industry is my ability to learn new tools fast. One of the other is I never abandon a tool once it's proven useful; many of my coolest things come from using somewhat dated technology to create some pretty cool effects. I use my tools, and I like to bleed every drop of use out of them.

I've been a designer all my life, and have worked (on and off) at it for over twenty years now. In my life, I've been a warehouseman, a street peddler, an itinerant artist, a truck driver, an auctioneer, a comic book artist, a furniture designer, a screen printer, print designer, and, of course, a web designer. It's been a cool life so far, and I'm like it pretty well, I don't expect it to get boring anytime soon. Life is good.

Do you still want to learn more? My Resumé, or CV (Curriculum Vitæ as they refer to it here in Europe), comes in two distinct flavours, casual and official. Check it out if you're into this kind of thing.

Handson99 is in the works, as we speak. Send an email to the mailing list to be notified of progress as it happens!

NOTE! Hey, I'll be at Internet World '99 in New York from October 6th, 7th and 8th. Look for me there, eh? Ciao!

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I grew up on the east coast, right outside of New York City, and after 30 years of traveling around ended up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where I remained for 10 years. It's a very cool city, lots of culture, good clubs, and a nifty high-tech environment. I spent the last couple of years there with VISI.com, Minnesota's biggest and best ISP, working as Creative Director. Unfortunately, it can be *too* cool, especially in the winters, with temperatures dropping to 25°F below zero; I must have been insane to stay there so long! SO, I moved to Sweden.

Ah well, I didn't just move here because of the weather; mainly I fell in love with a smart, pretty and talented Swedish girl named Malinelise, visit her website why don't you? Things have worked out well, both personally and career-wise. In order to move here, I had to find work, and I would have taken just about anything. Fortunately for me, I hooked up with an old established consulting firm named "CMA Comedia" that needed a good shot of cool, and I was just what the doctor ordered! They really are a big and very high-tech firm, even if their reputation was a bit... stodgy, and I've gotten to be involved in some of the biggest jobs in my career so far, all good things.

Malin and I have bought a flat here in the Östermalm region of Stockholm, right in the heart of things, and I'm pretty happy. Did I mention life is good? Life is good.

Check me out on my live cam if you're really really interested.

  - Current works -

Simpleworld

Simpleworld aims to take over the booming B2C e-commerce market for first time parents. Starting from the question, "how can someone so small need so much?", they are trying to simplify the decisions and choices new parents have to make. The design concept is very clean and swedish in character, and the functionality of the store and the navigation is really quite slick. Phase 1.5 and Phase 2 will see the rapid development of the portal and personalization aspects of this site. This entire site was built using ATG's Dynamo server suite.

KameraOne - Streaming Media

Kamera has already made a name for themselves as a producer of live, streaming and scriptable video presentations for the net. Now they have the european distribution rights to AP news feeds and ESPN sports feeds. These video clips can be ordered as-is from the KameraOne site, or customized as you need them. The final video streams can be presented on the clients site, and Kamera uses it's own network of upstream providers to host the clips. A nice, clean B2B e-commerce site. The entire site was built using Java Server Pages (JSP).

  - 1999 and earlier -

Runaware

Actually, the graphic design on this one was done by Jeanette Rattfeldt at CMA. You'll be able to see my hand in the coding mainly, hanging that complicated table together, and animating the menu structure.

Telia; Datacom Division

Telia.net is *the* backbone provider here in Scandinavia, but they're major players worldwide also. I've just started in on this site, and major changes are on the way. (Note: Major changes happened. Telia changed their logo, and I no longer work for CMA, so I didn't get to do the update!)

Drugsmart

Swedens biggest and best anti-drug site. All sorts of cool bells and whistles here, with several dynamic functions, forum, database driven FAQ, chat and such, all in a bizarrely complicated frameset, with pop-up DHTML menus, the works. If you can handle swedish text, please don't miss the online soap opera,"Websåpa Olle!"

OK, lots of things in this web are not mine, but one very main thing is, can you guess which piece it is? :-) Whatta site, this web has literally THOUSANDS of pages, maintained by way too many people, it was a chore to get the new look implemented across the board, you can probably still find pieces of the old design somewhere in there. (We implemented as much as we could in the hours the client contracted for, honest! :-)

The CMA homepages. Kind of boring, but still cool. This is a *very* complex site, appealing mainly to our more traditional client base.

Yeesh, the 5 full-blown designs I had to do before getting the current one accepted!

My first Swedish design job for CMA. We actually won a few awards for this one not a bad way to start out!

The Dennis Kirk online store ate 8 months of my life, ouch! 35,000+ items of motorcycle accessories, which didn't *used* to exist in a database, now they do.

RecruitUSA! Maybe not the *biggest* recruitment center online, but certainly the best. You can post your resume onto a newsgroup anywhere, and it will be in their database 15 minutes later. Doug Rau created the brain for this site, and I created it's pretty face. The Mad Scientist? Visit the site, you'll meet him.

EJ's is one of the most successful sunglass online stores on the net nowadays. I did a full re-design of the look and feel, using a framed base design.

Another database site, built from scratch. This is a forum for buying and selling used vehicles. You can post a picture of your favorite car or bike, search, get email notifications when someone looks at your ad, etc. Nice work.

A competing ISP needed this logo design, they started around the same time as us, and we were all friends. Nice clean design, just what they needed.

VISI's *very* first design client. A 4 page site, he really couldn't afford me, but we did this one cheap, as a fvour to him, *love* that interface!

This was a fun one. The design is based on the carpetting in their main showroom and the colors are all based off of their stationary. 3D panoramas of the showrooms lots of nice stuff here, one of my favorites.

RJ Steichen & Company, stock brokers and inverstment bankers. When I first entered their lobby, I was overwhelmed by a TON of beautiful rich wood and brushed stainless steel. Seemed a 'natch to duplicate the effect here.

Ooh, I love this site! Logo design, interface, content, they didn't have *anything* at the start, we created it all.

Whatta site! We designed a killer ecommerce software for this one, it did *everything* you could dream of. The design has been stepped on quite a bit in the years following, but it's still worth a look-see.

Hardly worth mentioning, a free site for a local non-profit center. I liked it. (Note: since redesigned. I keep them here becuase hey! They're a non-profit, and I like them.)

VISI sponsored Adam Wolkoff in the "Ironbutt" motorcycle rally, a grueling 10,000 mile trip circling the USA in 10 days. He placed 15th, and we docmented his oddessey live at these pages.

Another live site for a non-profit group. Chopper Harrison, a local DJ, lived in a Van accross the street from us until he filled a semi with food for the homeless. It was so successful he filled another. We visited him every day with our digital camera, documenting the process.

My first VISI client, I love these folks! The president of PEI came into VISI before stopping down at my old offices, he had *everything* of mine printed out, could we do something like this? Yes we can.

R.J. Associates, a good solid tabloid shaped interface, re-used pieces on the interior interface, classic early ozone design.

Revolution Radio was *the* best alternative radio station, ever. Two weeks before this site went live, the station was bought by ABC, who promptly fired them and turned it into a country station. (They also owned the competing, 'soft-rock' alternative station. Hmm.)

I worked as Creative Director for VISI for a year and a half, but I was working with them long before that. The current design is still mine, simple but good.

"The Jurassic Period. The age when Javascript walked the Earth. Doc Ozone, a particularly avid fan of Javascript image rollovers, began working on the VISI.com home page interface in December 1996."

Another prototype, worth looking at for the animated drop-down menus, check it out.

My SysAdmin wanted a site for his domain "Geeks.org", a very cool email address, eh? He hates the web, considers it a waste of time, so I designed an overblown extravaganza for him. "Spin the Geek!"

Hewlett Packard! Hitting the big-time now. They paid well, but changed *everything* as soon as it was finished. They never seemed to put anything online, either.

A Hewlett Packard extranet design. This one was well paid for also, and also never went online. I stopped working with them after this, I need my work to be seen.

This was the last Apocalypse interface, but it was a cool one! Note the pre-loading function, and the re-use of almost all the images. This led to my next job...

HyperSolutions is actually a detective agency, based out of Alaska, but they're very active in the internet. They contacted me and gave me total freedom to design this site, no questions asked. (Did the whole thing in one marathon weekend.)

The next iteration, the "devidex" device. This was quite popular, it got some good press, and was featured in "Photoshop Web Techniques" by J. Scott Hamlin, a Photoshop design book that I was Technical Editor for.

My design studio, the first iteration. Kind of primitive, but I liked it.

This really was it, the first 3D interface 'thing'. I wanted to model something that you might have been able to hold in your hand. The concept rocked, I worked this way for years after, and it's pretty commmon now. This site never really went live, it was scary to them back in 1995.

I did a lot of work for the State of Minnesota back at the start, this (unfortunately) is the only piece that's still online.

Hee! This animation is worth looking at. It's a book, with the pages turning every so often. I had a guy from a multi-media firm write me, wanting to know *how* I'd modeled these realistic page-turns in 3D, was it Stratus, RayDream, what? (He'd had one of his best animators spend a month trying to duplicate it.) Er, I had this book, see? And also a digital camera, and a coat-hanger for turning pages. Took me about 3 hours.

DocsOnline is a Dental and Physician referral service. This was another of my very first designs, still going strong after all these years.

Wow! The first site, for real money! OK, maybe not real money by todays standards, made a whopping $700 on this design, with about 30 little buttons, custom icon design, etc. At least it was paid for. Still online after all these years.

  -with malin-

COASTLINK

The COASTLINK project is a plan by local tech companies to link the isolated island communities of the coast of Sweden into one big network. Do, check this site out, the DHTML sidebar navigation is my best yet.

Tomas Brolin was a legend in the European soccer community for many years. He's retired now, and is involved in all sorts of business ventures. The design on this one is mostly Malin with yours truly doing the production work so we could both get some sleep occasionally.

Yeesh, it's almost kind of depressing, finding out how many of my older links are no longer active, this is a tough place to do business we work in! Still, some of them like Frank Kasper CDRom and DocsOnline have been online since 1994, virtually unchanged. Of my current projects, only the Telia project currently reflects any of my work, the others will be showing some radical changes this summer, and Telia will also be undergoing some major work. Keep your eyes peeled, I'll add to this list as other older jobs occur to me, and as new jobs kick in, cool? Take care!

Your pal,   -doc-

All of the coolest things I ever did for a client, I did here on this site first. When *I* get bored, I sit around and play with my website, this is my hobby first, and my job second. All of my interfaces are toys, but here's some of my favorites from over the years, every page I ever created is still here in this confusing place I call OZONE. Here goes...

World Locator Map, November-December 1999

Oooh. This is pretty cool, even if I do say so myself. The frames come across kinda off in NS, it doesn't do precise measurements of frames properly, so I'll have to do this over with all one page, and the entire thing in DIV's, so use IE5 for the total experience, even though it will work in any 4.0 or better browser, even IE4.5 on Macintosh, and hardly *anything* works there! <g> For now it works, and it's pretty sharp, I love it! Check this out, you *will* thank me.

More silly DHTML fun. This one is way cool, check it out.

Oh, the Revolution Radio pages, I loved these! This is linked off of my work section, but it's more of toy, so it gets *two* links!

What it says, a countdown clock to the next millenium (well, the year 2000, OK?) It's all done with images and Javascript, there's also a regular clock as part of the deal. (Warning, uses like 99% of your CPU.)

This one gets linked twice, too, it's one of my very favorite toys. I hacked this together just to learn how to make a form button run a javascript, and it's been one of my most popular pages ever since.

Just a little toy for Malin, created with Shockwave Flash. It doesn't do anything really, just looks pretty.

This is a shared project I've started with Malin, a fantasy world where the landscape is based on the actual topography around the coastal towns of Kungshamn and Smögen, on the western coast of Sweden.

A pretty little present for my sweetheart. (I'll animate this later this weekend! :) Oh, Okay, you may have noticed, it turned into my front page. so it goes, she still loves me!

A bit of play with frames and server-push, cycling through maybe 50 or so little bitty pages. I liked it. :)

Hee! A programmer frind of mine created this in response to all the hysteria over the SATAN tool for analyzing UNIX servers for security flaws. All the little hackerz wanted a tool to do 'hack' into places, but all they had was Windows, and little or no UNIX knowledge. SFW was a real application, written in Visual Basic, but it didn't hack, it had one function, to look cool and then crash. It also needed about 50 bogus .DLL files that were nothing more than random strings of garbage with a checksum at the start. Periodically the application would 'corrupt' your .DLL filez, and you'd need to find another copy. OK, so I'm not always a nice guy. ;)

The Post Brothers: Two funloving but extremely twisted bad-boys hailing from the wrong side of Bugtown. They are very greedy, pathologically trigger-happy, completely corruptible, endlessly irritating, psychotically solipsistic, and - unfortunately for all - possessed of the ability to instantly shift between all possible reality levels. The Universe is their oyster, and they like it raw.
This was actually the very first series of web pages I ever made, they formed the core of all that followed. Cool!

This was just a whole bunch of my favorite toys, all on one page. I'm easily amused. ;)

I like Atom Bombs, who doesn't?

Do not eat CLICK.

A director movie, suitable for burning on a floppy disk. Also available as a 402k shockwave file, if you've got the time.

Some DHTML play based off of an old comic book of mine from 1990 or so. I was fascinated with the end-of-the-world hysteria even then!

Just a full screen flash movie, leading to a flash movie, leading to my front page. Silly, really.

OK, you've probably seen the flamin doughnut that shrinks and expands so smoothly? It's a simple 5 frame javascript animation, using the setTimeout() method. Here it is, all by it's lonesome, a good learning tool.

Another silly Director Shockwave toy, there's a few of them, follow the doughnuts.

More silly shockwave toys, these ones for my old web bureau Apocalypse Studios.

Another old javascript toy, with sliding panels. Too much bandwidth to ever get used.

This is my old grey javascript interface, four buttons and a display screen, on a page all by itself. A good learning toy.

WAY too much, happening all on the same page. A reaction to too much restrictive style guides, I just snapped, I'm sorry!

Whoah, I just *had* to add a link to my cammy here, it's my favorite toy, affording me hours of pleasure!

I keep these sketchbooks, little ones, and draw in them all the time, that's where most of my design happens. This was one result.

There's always more than I can list. Check out the basement, I store all sorts of links in there, the interfaces are the best toys, but there's so many of them! Go, look, explore.

The Backgrounds Archive

Back when I first started out, I started placing all of my backgrounds in one easy-to-find place, purely for my own benefit. Seemed a waste not to link them up, and later I made the whole archive available in an easy ZIP file for downloading. These are intended to be FREELY USED for PERSONAL or NON-PROFIT usage. Commercial use, drop me an email, I'll licence them cheaply, I just want to be asked.

This is the core work that the spinning orange jewels are based off of. These are not sized for WWW usage, but feel free to use them as Desktop images, they should be sized correctly for most folks.

There was a core image that defined the Apocalypse site, a monolith, rendered in Bryce 3D. Here's a javascript fly-by of that device.

These are simply artworks by me, mostly from back at the very start of my career, these were originally made available on AOL, *way* back when, probably still there.

These are pictures of big fires. Duh! :)

These are pictures of Albert Einstein, a role model of mine. I do NOT hold the copyright on any of these images, they are gleaned from a variety of sources, strictly for my own amusement.

Bryce is a great 3D engine, primarily for making landscapes, but you can squeeze more juice out of it if you try. I try, usually. :)

More bryce images, eh?

The very first image archive, Sky. When I first started searching the web, I went looking for something I needed, a good sky background for one of my images. I couldn't find anything, nada, zilch. So, I made this archive, eh? Feel free to use anything in this archive, no permissions necessary.

I have this book, a very rare edition of Alice in Wonderland, with 13 colour plates by Arthur Rackham, one of the most excellent fantasy illustrators of all time. This book is over 75 years old, and all of the images are long out of copyright, so please, copy this archive and distribute it far and wide!

The first series of Desktop images, created back when I still had only my old Quadra 630 with a 15" monitor running at 640x480, SO-ooo... (Cool to look at, even if you have one of those BIG monitors.

What, that must have 1988 or so? This was a short lived comic series that apeared in a weekly paper in Minnesota. The story quickly got out of hand, so there's only a few episodes available here for you.

I created one page, labelled "eggzone", where I created the primary image, an egg shaped rock in Bryce. Then I created a world for it to live in, and made this fly through slide show to display it. Pretty cool, I thought.

A collection of big, full screen textures. Use them as desktop patterns, or make your own tiled backgrounds from them.

These are not all the logos, just the ones small enough to be used as links back to me, if you should so desire.

This is from the old apocalypse site, a bunch of bars, free for anyone to use.

As above, a bunch of bullet images, free for anyone to use.

This is where everything of imprtance ends up, if it's worth saving, it's here. I created this archive originally for myself when I was taking a long trip, and needed access to my core images, the images I *make* images from. Visit this site, you won't be dissapointed.

OK, here's the entire contents of the FTP site...

Cellular/
Coffee/
Landscapes/
Lightning/
Waters/
bomb-old/
bryce.gifs/
bryce.jpegs/
bryce99/
buttons.incoming/
einstein/
fires/
for-fay/
images.gifs/
images.jpegs/
industrial/
skulls/
sky.gifs/
sky.jpegs/
stars/
texture.gifs/
texture.jpegs/

Your pal,   -doc-

Your pal,   -doc-

apocstudio.html
apocalypse/
arrowdex.html
blackydex.html
bladerdex2.html
bladerface.html
blueprint.html
Bookmarks.html
brookdex.html
bryceindex.html
bryce2/
bulkdex.html
/burning/
button33.html
buttonX/
cockeye.html
coffeedex.html
blueprint/contact33.html
corners.html
corners2.html
corners2.html
corners_ants.html
defcon6/
dex.html
doodex.html
doughnut1.html
doughnut2.html
doughnutdex.html
enter-risk.html
eggdex4.html
entry.html
everyman.html
eyedex.html
eyedropdex.html
eyedropdex2.html
eyedropdex33.html
farmer/
faves/
FireEye_dex.html
framed2.html
frameless.html
frontdoor.html
Gindex-old.html
Gindex-static.html
Gindex.html
Gindex14.html
Gindex15.html
Gindex16.html
Gindex2.html
Gindex3.html
Gindex7.html
Gindex8.html
gizdex.html
gizmoC.html
greendex.html
greydex.html
greydex2.html
greywheat.html
grimydex.html
gullwing/
handson/
hexydex.html
Hindex4a.html
Hindex4b.html
home-index.html
home.html
home2.html
imagesindex.html
imagesindex-old.html
intotrek.html
isolation/
jewel2a.html
jewel2.html
jewel33.html
jewel3b.html
jewel3c.html
jewel_entry.html
jewelindex.html
jewelperspective.html
jewels-alone.html
jiggle.html
kungshamn/
lensdex.html
lenseye.html
lenseye2.html
lightdex.html
lost.html
lot10.html
marchingants.html
morewood.html
new-wood.html
noframes.html
nothing.html
novadex.html
nullvoid/
Nyetdex.html
offline.html
offline33.html
The oldest links page
oolala.html
/ourWalls/
ozone+vector.html
perspective.html
persp-jewels.html
phoenix/
pig1.html
pulsingeye.html
redegg.html
redzone2.html
report.html
ripple.html
Random Rotation
rustdex2.html
rustymore.html
scumbags.html
sidesphere.html
sitefight.html
special.html
special-blend/
spheredex.html
spheroid44.html
spindex.html
splashguy.html
splashguy13.html
splashguy13b.html
splashguy33.html
splatter.html
spots34.html
spotsgame.html
stardex.html
swirl.html
swirls-howto.html
swirlydex.html
swirlyface.html
telcentral/
telcentral/index2.html
/trekker/ (this page)
/twirlers/
trangledex33.html
wheat.html
wheatdex2.html
wheatdex33.html
wheaties.html
windex.html
windyindex.html
woodex2.html
woodex3.html
woodex4.html
woodydex.html
worldfair.html