SIMON CONLIN

I began my career as an artist, musician and technician and today I still do that when I can. As a kid I remember Space invaders v.1 in the arcade cabinet and the Atari. My brother and I built computer games using BASIC on the Sinclair zx80 & zx81 (a.k.a. Timex Sinclair 1000). I loved games, graphics, sprites and audio, 8 bit & 32 bit. I progressed to Dragon 32, Commodore 64, Amiga 600, BBC Micro, Spectrum 48 & 128 and beyond. I also loved art and design at school and went on to study audio sequencing, synthesis and music technology at college using Apple II and early MIDI synths. During this time the web as we know it was boring, lame, feeble and atrocious to look at. I came across a demo of "FutureSplash 2" (by Futurewave) and then of course "Flash 3" (by Macromedia) and I was blown away, here was a creative animation tool that could (and would) change the web forever. I quickly transitioned from my Music Tech studies over to building and designing websites and GUI animations, by the..