Archive for the ‘Interviews’ Category
Plan B from Outer Space
Actually, unlike Plan 9 from Outer Space, Plan B magazine is from Croatia. It might as well be from outer space though. Very cool to see interest in Jon’s work (and a shout-out to Doodlesplatter) from different parts of the world. Also: you are really famous when people add extra vowels to your name. I’m talking to you, Jona Burgermana.
Sunday-Singalong at Goodbye Blue Monday in Brooklyn
Ready for more of this? This just in from Jon:
Singalong with Anxieteam this coming Sunday night at Goodbye Blue Monday, 1087 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York, from 9pm.
This special event sees the last performance for sometime on the shores of America for the cute cartoon couple.
But wipe those tears away! Through-out the performance, the band will be giving away their first ever CD to ten lucky audience members - for FREE! The CD includes some of their classic pop tunes along with karaoke versions so you too can join in and singalong with Anxieteam! Each CD will be numbered and signed by the band and to further record this momentous giveaway Jim and Jon will draw your portrait on the cover. If you don’t live in NYC, then get a friend to come along instead (with your photograph!).
This is absolutely guaranteed to be a collectors item in the years to come, perfect for you to sell on eBay and retire on the profits. (non-guaranteed by the state of Anxieteam)
See you at Goodbye Blue Monday on Sunday to sing-along and say goodbye (for now) to Anxieteam!
Hopefully the Anxieteam CDs will make their way to Burgerplex for all of us who are currently geographically challenged.
List of Anxieties for Anxious Times
In August of 2009, I interviewed Jon for Heeb Magazine, and he mentioned how he was anxious about writing a guest piece for a UK publication called The Anxious Times. Well, the magazine came out, and boy is it glorious. I had no idea magazines like this existed. Sporting a celebrity cover, it includes stories with tantalizing titles like “COMPULSIVE HOARDING PODCAST” and “Anxiety UK Joins the British Toilet Association (BTA) Campaign for Better Public Toilets.” The fact that you folks across the pond have both this magazine AND a BTA just makes me want to sanitize my hands, walk in and out the door 3 times and board a plane ASAP.
Anyhow, enough about me. Jon got a two-page spread I’ve taken the liberty of scanning below. He talks about the role of anxiety in his art shows like Because I Can’t Sit Still and Anxiety Room. He lists 21 Anxieties, including #7: “My favourite pens being discontinued.” My favorite bit is this quote, which I, maybe some of you, and most likely Mr. Woody Allen, relate to:
I’ve started trying to harness [anxiety's] debilitating energy into something useful. If it’s going to make me act in a strange way, I might as well use it for the entertainment of others or even myself.
Click the image below to read the full article.
Great Interview on Subvert
I think Jon always gives a good interview, but then, I’m probably biased. That said, this interview by Angel Greenham of Subvert Magazine is especially excellent. You should go there and read the whole thing right away, but here are a few of my favorite bits:
On Exercise: “Your body, whilst hurting and hating you for making it sweat also releases tiny pellets of golden happiness orbs into your soda-blood-stream (this is a scientific fact).”
On Creative Block: “Just relax, try not to stress and come back to it after eating some salad.”
On Fear: “Exhibitions are probably the scariest things, which is why I like doing them the most.”
On Failure: “Failure isn’t to be feared. Everything is just practice for the next time you’ll attempt it.”
So many inspirational words. Read it all here.
A Midnight Message From Bangalore
Actually, it’s 1:30 PM on Wednesday where Jon is in India, but enough about him. It’s midnight in California. Jon uploaded this video of his 3-hour trip from Bangalore to Mysore by car condensed down to under 60 seconds “for your viewing pleasure.” It’s like being there minus the car sickness!
I got a message to him asking if he was doodling, and how he was doing, to which he responded: “yes yes/ all good/ more later/ v tired/ hi to the rest of the world.”
Breaks of 10 Interview
Catching up on a slew of recent interview. Breaks of 10 has a nice one that goes back in time to get to the formative experiences of young Jon Burgerman.
Here’s a quick clip:
My old evil art teacher Mr Lucas used to lambast me for having a terrible notion of colour, so I find it surprising that now a lot people think I’m good with colour. It is very important to me. I like to think my use of colour if as important as my use of lines and shape.
Read the rest here.
Breaks Of 10 was born amidst the sudden unraveling of the Worlds Economic fabric, the abandonment of certainty, and the rise of social unrest across the globe. From the chronicles of History times of mass dislocation, dissolution and neglect act as catalyst in Inspiring creative thinking, impassioned voices, and a quickening of Cultural Revolution. On the verge of this new wave spilling from the global melting pot Breaks Of 10 will ride the swell documenting and generating opinion on creative peoples. Let this be the voice of all those bucking the trend and standing against the spread of subliminal depression and upheaval. We find inspiration from all four corners of the globe. We will showcase this talent and this undeterred sense of resolve.
Boys Who Draw Blog Interview
Boys Who Draw appears to be a blog about, well, boys who draw. They recently ran an interview with Jon, and I’m due to catch up with a couple of his blogosphere appearances, so here you go:
A clip:
I don’t get recognised in the street but I have been recognised on a train once and at the airport recently. It was strange, flattering and bizarre. Often people I actually know don’t recognise me, or decide not to. hmm.
Read the rest here.
Doodle Beat: The 500th Post
Hard to believe it, but here we are at our 500th post. That’s 500 items by Jon Burgerman individually artkived mostly over the past year. What better piece for the 500th post than this oldie-but-greatie discovered deep in the Doodlesplatter vaults? This clipping used to live on our About page, but it’s time to be properly filed. Lots more new stuff coming up in 2010, but we’re going to also roll out some remainders from the Decade of Doodles, so stay tuned! [P.S. Click the image for a larger picture that's easier on your tired old eyes.]
Brooklyn Street Art and Juxtapoz Interviews
Jon is all over the Internets this week, as cyberspace rolls out a virtual red carpet of press for his upcoming gigs in meatspace. Aside from my interview in Heeb, there’s further summer reading in the form of excellent interviews at Brooklyn Street Art with photos by Jaime Rojo and Juxtapoz here and here.
The BSA story features a ton of in-progress photos of the street art piece in Williamsburg. The muradoodle is located on an exterior wall of The Front Room Gallery. Check it out if you’re local or click the links to see how it went down. (Both interviews discuss the subject of street art.) Here’s a fun snippet from the BSA blog describing the picture above. (Look at how great those Felt Mistress plushes turned out!)
After a hard afternoon of doodling, Jon relaxed with the only people who really understand him. As the sun began to set, we parted ways as he set off with his economist brother in search of a beer garden and cucumber sandwiches.
Art, Anxiety and Bagels: The HEEB Interview
Perfect opportunities like this don’t come around very often, so when they do, it’s just…bashert. In late June, I got to meet up with Jon in my birthplace of Brooklyn, eat (and of course, photograph) salads and talk about our neuroses for Heeb. The interview was posted today at Heeb’s blog. Coincidentally, there’s also a great interview with Jon by Cheree Franco on Juxtapoz as well. Read them both, but if you want to know about Jon’s childhood crimes of drawing in condensation, why bagels in the UK are kind of anti-Semitic and what David Lynch has to do with doodling, you should click here! Links to and comments on the Heeb post are much appreciated. A couple photo outtakes after the jump.
This Toy2R Qee has serious “Brooklyn Style!”
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