Hi, I’m Simon Madine and I make digital toys and write guides on web development.
I'm a senior web dev on Nokia Maps in Berlin.
All too often, I have ideas which might make a cool website or iPhone app or whatever and I know I just don't have the time to build them. I'm going to post them here in the hope that someone else might find a use for them. These ideas might already be in existence, of course. I'm not claiming they are unique in any way (although some might be).
You are free to take these ideas and do whatever you like with them. Of course, if they become amazingly successful, I could do with a bigger TV...
If you wake up every morning and think, "My t-shirts are so dull, I wish I had interesting clothes...", you need to have a look at my online shop.
Continuing the webcomic theme from yesterday, I finally uploaded the archive of strips from the webcomic I used to do in 2003.
It actually started off as a cartoon on flyers advertising Baby Tiger gigs before developing into music reviews for a while before ending up in the final version.
Start at the far end of the cartoon department, third floor.
I found some old sketches at the weekend and decided that I shouldn't just leave them in a drawer doing nothing.
I, therefore, present to you:
It's kind of a web comic but it only has 19 issues, no plot and won't be continuing.
I listen to a bunch of podcasts. I watch the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. I listen to a lot of They Might Be Giants. When you combine this with the audiobooks I listen to, the shows I go to and the paper books I read, you start to spot a pattern. A slightly sinister pattern...
This originally started as a connectivity diagram of American Literary Non-fictionists but after I'd finished I realised it's not entirely American, it's not entirely non-fictionists. It's not entirely comedy and not entirely literary. After showing it to a friend though, he immediately suggested 'The New Illuminati' or possibly the Literary Illuminati. Maybe just the Illiternati. Any way round you have it, John Hodgman appears to be as some kind of Literpope in the middle of a literspiracy.
From what I can figure, I need to write some world economics exposé with Planet Money, discuss the software I used to analyse the markets with This Week in Tech and appear onstage at The Moth to tell the audience how the experience changed my life then I can join the dots on the diagram and reveal the secret Iliternati symbol. I think it'll be somewhere between the CND logo and a hyperbagel.
I've been trying to make myself sketch a lot more recently. This was mostly prompted by my decision to start up The Angry Robot Zombie Factory as an actual company doing web development and illustration.
I've been keeping an almost daily sketch blog over on tumblr and promoting any good pieces over onto my actual illustration portfolio. At some point, I'll bring all these different sites and things together. Until then, here's a sketch of a few things from the last couple of weeks.
