More about Max

The Max Story

Slovenia

Max is originally from Slovenia (till 1991 part of the Yugoslavia ) and is in '80 active as a Video Artist and Advertising Man, mainly producing TV commercials.

He was part of '80 student movement and one of the leaders of SKD Forum/ŠKUC . He was also running the Video section of the organisation.

At the same time, he was managing an advertising agency with mane Brut.

He won several Video Art Awards (second price on Montbéliard Video Festival) and several Advertising Festivals Awards (Grand Prix 1986 for Video Spot Laibach - at the 3rd Yu Ad festival)

Main work from this period:
Video Spots:
for Laibach (Raw, Schauspieler, Morte al Sciavi), Videosex (Zemlja Pleše), MiladojlaYouNeed (RaTaTaTa), Zoran Predin (Zdravica), ATV Project,

Video Art:
Loveless for Channel4 London, Love Letter for Alenka, Autop...

Some of his works are now part of permanent collection on Modern galley os Slovenia

The Netherland

After moving to the Nederlands in 1990, he has started a company Blue Brother. He has worked for small and big companies. It is believed that the company web page www.bluebrother.nl gives a small but good impression of his work.

History of Ideas

From my early years, he was “inventing” new idea and projects.

1982 in Slovenia, he was a founder of the first independent video studio Brut Film,

1986 a founder of first independent TV station…

2000 in the Netherlands he started  (at least that's what the computer says) crowdfunding and crowd wisdom Project Airwalk to produce a feature film AirWalk (see the blog from 2008) and today we have Kickstarter.

2001 he started a Yellow Pages related Internet project with the name of Yelp. In the summer of 2004 the name Yelp (wikipedia)* was sold to yellow Pages NL (Gouden Gids) and 3 months later the official start of the Yelp.com was announced (today's Yelp which he is no a part of).

2011 he started developing Zenduz an online Email Editor which.