Well my Elfwood presentation will have to do here as well: Born 1974, living in Sweden. I saw "King Kong" when I was six, and my life hasn't been the same since. I've made a bunch of films with friends, self-published some books and just finished my first "pro" job as a prop-maker for a children's TV-show. I'm hoping to expand my creativity and finding new friends through it. During the day I'm a news paper image editor (where most of my loot comes from). During the rest of my life I dabble in stop-motion animaton, work as a prop- and mask maker for other filmmakers and for theatre groups. I also make masks and props for LARPers, collect films and comics. If anyone would like to collaborate here on something (like authors looking for illustrations, or females looking for males) I'm up for almost anything.

I support Greenpeace, WWF, The Animal Rescue Site, WSPA and local groups working to better the life of animals and our world in general.

Things I can't get enough of: All things Tolkien; DVD extras; Jethro Tull; Wallace Wood comics; stop-motion animation; swords... aaand I'll think of some more in a while.

Favorite movies: King Kong(1933), Star Wars, LOTR trilogy, Excalibur, Conan the Barbarian, Ed Wood, Superman (Chris Reeve), The Princess Bride, Flash Gordon (1980), Three Musketeers (1973), Ray Harryhausen's adventure epics, Errol Flynn films and all new and old movies that provide a swell escape from the drab everyday world.

Favorite shows: X-files, LOST, The Incredible Hulk (old one on DVD), The Persuaders (even older one on DVD), Buck Rogers (another oldie), Jason of Star Command (you need to be quite old to remember), Actor's Studio, Rome.

Favourite music: Queen, Toto, ELO, BeeGees, Beatles, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep, film music by Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams and (pre-Titanic) James Horner.

Some swell authors: J R R Tolkien, H P Lovecraft, Robert E Howard, Clark Asthon Smith, Fritz Lieber, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Anne Rice, Tanith Lee, Clive Barker, Stephen King.

Creative heroes: Hans Arnold, Wallace Wood, Einar Norelius, Alan Lee, Brian Froud, Ray Harryhausen, Jim Henson, Peter Jackson, Gustave Doré, Ingmar Bergman, Eiji Tsuburaya, Richard Taylor, Bruce Bickford and fight director Bill Hobbs.