About Maximonster
Maximonster Interactive Things is a new company founded by Michiel Klønhammer (former CEO ICATT interactive media) and Marc Worrell (former CTO at Mediamatic and developer of AnyMeta and Zotonic) who have joined forces with Joost Faber (former lead developer at Lostboys), Atilla Erdodi and a team of talented monsters. At Maximonster we work on projects for clients and we work on our flag ship project: a large scale social-media-like application called MaxClass. See more at www.maxclass.com.
We think that education is an important part of society and hope to contribute to it by developing useful technology but we're also interested in other on- and offline projects. We can either manage your project and can offer office space for a team or develop parts of your technology. Want to know if we fit your project? Give us a call!
We're using open source stuff like Erlang, Zotonic, Django, JQuery, Open Social and are developing a lot of new open source technology as we go. The application will have to deal with extreme performance issues and needs to offer an incredibly good user experience. And we want it to look good too!
We will be working together with both local educational organizations and educational publishers and other stakeholders.
About the name
Our name is lovingly stolen from the translation of the famous children’s book “Where Wild Things are’ (1963) by Maurice Sendak. In the Dutch and French translation the Wild Things were called Maximonsters and the title became Max and the Maximonsters.
The book is a great piece of art expressing the fantasy of a little boy who goes on an incredible adventure without leaving his home. In his fantasy he encounters the fierce maximonsters (who actually look kind of friendly). Luckily he returns safely when his mother calls him for dinner. As we think great internet projects are made by young minds we thought the name suited us well. Or we were just being silly.
Luckily all the books are still in print after all these years.Here are some places you can get them:
Dutch Version at Leminscaat
English version at Amazon
French version at BOL
There is more!
We are not the only fans of Sedak’s creation. Check these sites out!
Terrible Yellow Eyes is a beautiful collection of art based on the book.
www.terribleyelloweyes.com
Wild Things Forts is a funny competition on art blog Booooooom (that's 7 o’s) based on the fact that the little boy in the book makes a Fort to hide in.
Where wild Things are – the movie. Check IMBD out for details.
And the movie has come out on DVD
Still not enough?
Tatoos have been done too – and a lot of them!
Cakehead Loves blog for an amazing collection
My Ink blog for another amazing collection.
More?
If you know any other great Maximonster (Where The Wild Things Are) Art? Please let us know and we’ll post it here!
