Niels Provos

“I Am Tracking You” - our new EDM track is almost ready.

For my next music video, I thought it would be fun to a fine tune a stable-diffusion model with Cyberpunk 2077 images.

Ableton Here is quick behind the scenes view of me producing our next cybersecurity-themed EDM track: “I Am Tracking You.”

Experience Founder at ArtistOS (Jun 2025 - Present): Building BandAlert - direct SMS notifications that help bands fill venues without relying on social media algorithms.

Infinite Fluidity shows an almost seamless transition between different concepts.

Users of AfterEffects are used to a plethora of presets for text animation.

The second installment in the cybersecurity meets EDM series: Activ8te x AENDZI: Patch Your Network.

Under the umbrella of the Cyber-House Collective, Activ8te has teamed up with a group of security researchers and indie artists like AENDZI to release “Teardrop Falling,” a song about Distributed Denial of Service and censorship.

I made these for a woodworking friend and thought I would share the process of forging a holdfast with you.

Activ8te · What does it mean to be happy?

Here is a really fun Trip Hop track I recently finished.

Activ8 · Penelope’s Fancy [Techno] Continuing the exploration of electronic music, here is a techno track.

Get ready to transport yourself to a world of Teutonic precision and power with my new track, ‘Teutonic Fantasy Trance.’

I forge and make a new tool: a handled butcher.

Activ8 · Trance A I have started to play with making electronic music.

I have been using the Nektar Panorama T4 as midi controller for my DAW.

Blacksmithing - even for a beginner and definitely for more advanced practioners - is mostly about tool making.

To change it up a little for 2021, I made a Mandalorian Beskar ingot using pattern welding techniques.

An article from Consolidated Sterilizer Systems starts with: “With the global Covid-19 pandemic everywhere in the news, many healthcare professionals and concerned citizens are grappling with the shortage of respirator masks, vital tools for ensuring that…

This is a video completing about two years of work in creating a single-edged pattern-welded sword or seax that could plausibly have been created during Viking times.

Mudge and I had the opportunity to talk about Security at Stripe Sessions.

Pattern-Welding was used throughout the Viking-age to imbue swords with intricate patterns that were associated with mystical qualities.

The garden needed some trellises for roses.

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My journey in recreating famous Finnish spearhead from Rovaniemi, Marikkovaara continues.

Here is Part 2 of my new A Spear Born of Fire video series.

A Spear Born of Fire is a new video series in which I will show how to forge a Wolf Tooth Spear.

Blacksmithing usually happens in a dark shop with very hot metal.

Visualizing pattern-welded steel has always been intriguing to me.

If you speak another language besides English, you can help me translate my video subtitles into your language.

A Day at the Forge documents a single day at the shop.

In this episode, we take wrought iron wagon wheels and turn them into steel by carburizing the iron via the crucible process.

Here is the first successful experiment in recreating the famous Finnish lance.

Sometimes things break and sometimes they can be rescued.

It’s been a while since I have updated the blog on my quest to construct a wolf’s tooth spear.

What does creating a bookshelf have to do with blacksmithing?

We converted wrought iron from old wagon tires into steel for a knife.

While I am still experimenting with how to achieve different kinds of Wolf’s Tooth patterns, I thought a quick video update might be in order.

I mentioned the spearhead from Rovaniemi, Marikkovaara before.

The upper guard and pommel finally arrived.

We are forging the hardware for a second Mästermyr-like chest.

As a detour to my current spear projects, I recently finished an ear ring stand.

Here is a comparison of my heat-treated experimental dagger/spear to the famous pattern-welded spear in the Helsinki museum.

Not much progress at the forge today but I started refining more wrought iron for future experiments.

As of today, I have officially reached 5 million views on my Youtube channel.

Over the last year, I have been experimenting with different techniques for creating a Wolf’s Tooth pattern similar to the famous pattern-welded spear from Helsinki.

My latest experiments while still in the form of daggers are getting closer to how spears with this pattern look like.

The first image shows another Wolf’s Tooth experiment in the making - both sides have teeth in the high-carbon steel which have been filled with wrought iron.

Here is an experiment with forging the teeth; refining forged teeth with the bandsaw, and different cuts on the bandsaw.