Off-topic, but interesting: This video, via The Guru Meditation, is a profile of Samia Halaby, an artist that creates her work using a Commodore Amiga 1000 (from 1985).Video Summary:
Samia Halaby is a world renowned painter who purchased a Commodore Amiga 1000 in 1985 at the tender age of 50 years old.
She taught herself the BASIC and C programming languages to create “kinetic paintings” with the Amiga and has been using the Amiga ever since. Samia has exhibited in prestigious venues such as The Guggenheim Museum, The British Museum, Lincoln Center, The Chicago Institute of Art, Arab World Institute, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Sakakini Art Center, and Ayyam Gallery just to name a few.
Video by Bill Winters, music by J.M.D.
What are those strange blue flat things?
lol I still use those “flat things” in my Karma and Tritons.
“He taught herself”? I’m wondering why this is on this site. I was interested in the this model and later Amiga models because it had a sound chip in it that could have lent itself to some groundbreaking (for the time) software synthesizers. At that time there was only the Alpha Syntauri for the Apple II.
Great video! Love this stuff!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS SYNTHTOPIA! ,, Please feel free to post more off topic subjects , this was AWESOME!!
I agree Nigel……….very interesting!
Yes!..thanks for sharing that! great to see people at that age being still so alive! . and superduperamigaart.
“the machine is the artwork” she says…interesting point of view.
I know it’s off topic but I thought it was damn cool. She also has a pretty gangsta laugh which I love.
awesome
I’m going to start calling LFOs YOYOs
yeah…nice one…the yoyos!
I remember when I had a C64 and the Amiga was THE next gen console of the time… but I never got one ??
This is a nice interview!
I did a lot of Amiga art on my A1000 and A3000, and wrote the animation program Vapor Paint, as well as music programs (Synthtopia, take note).
Only Amiga Makes It Possible!
http://www.echonyc.com/~jhhl/software.html