Archive for the ‘See It’ Category
I Think I Miss You Video by Anxieteam
Looks like Jon and co were up to something else besides muradoodling for AOL while recently in India. The latest video by Anxieteam was directed by Isaac Niemand & Premjit Ramachandran with photography by Saul Tiff. “I Think I Miss You” appears to be part of the story of the directors’ film, The Archaeology of Mind. I’m glad I saw that because I was going to try to make a clever joke like, “Man, The Knife has really let themselves go.” More please.
Kicks-n-Canvas Custom Sneakers
I’ve often said that sneaker collectors and toy collectors have a lot in common, chiefly: recognizing art and value in something most people regard as disposable. The sneakerheads at SoleHeaven got together with the art crew of Zero Cool Gallery to merge their passions into the Kicks ‘n’ Canvas exhibition. The show is set to open in central London on April 8th and will feature artists such as Goldie, INSA, Dan Baldwin, Meggs, Ben Frost, Mr. Jago and Dickchicken alongside Jon.
SoleHeaven presents Kicks n Canvas, a fresh concept on the art scene. The idea for the event is to bring together two of SoleHeaven’s most loved pursuits - Kicks & Art. We’ve locked down a scorching line-up of 21 artists primed and ready to paint. The concept of the show is to confront traditional graffiti writers and artists with a new canvas, and thats a pair of pristine all-white Nike kicks. We are throwing down the sneaker gauntlet to see them transfer their styles from the metal shutters, concrete bridges and underpasses on to a pair of trainers. Every artist will be hand painting and customizing a pair of kicks and teaming it up with a 50×50cm piece.
The Doodlesplatter posse knows that Jon is no stranger to footwear. These are especially cool-looking kicks, in my opinion. I’m digging the backs (or is that called “Heel Counter” in sneaker-speak…). Thanks to Anthony at Zero Cool for providing the photos. Unfortunately, I’m an ocean away from attending this event, but if you’re on the right continent, check out Kicks ‘n’ Canvas by RSVPing here.
Doodles Encoded as Music
This is a fun and creative distraction. Code Organ analyzes the body of a website and translates the code into music. It scans the content and removes all letters not in the musical scale. There’s all sorts of other stuff involved in the “complex algorithm,” but if you want to know about it, you can read the About page. In fact, I highly doubt you’re still reading this, because if I were you, I’d have already clicked over to Code Organ to be honest. HI MOM!
Click here to see what Doodlesplatter sounds like when it gets synthesized. Click here to see how Jon Burgerman.com sounds in the shower. Then, go do your own websites and tweet about it.
Let’s Go All the Wayback
We’ve been doing a bunch of wayback artkiving lately with various bits of Burger ephemera popping up on Doodlesplatter each day. The Twitter is really the best place to get notification of these 25 or so posts (unless you have the time to peruse the whole site daily). I thought I was actually (albeit momentarily) caught up, when Amir dropped me a link to the *actual* Internet Wayback Machine’s cache of Jon’s own site for almost exactly 9 years now. Nearly all of the images have moved on and the links are broken, but there’s some gem text still visible. In 2001, the site’s “disclaimer” read: “this site is still in its infancy and as yet hasn’t been toilet trained.” We snagged a few early character images. A couple even made their way to the early screensavers. If you have too much time on your hands, or maybe just a passing break between other matters of importance, kill some time and brain cells seeing how your favorite websites looked wayback here.
Doodlesplatter’s First Annual Shammy Awards
Some of you may be following a little niche of an event called the 2010 Olympics. Shaun White on the halfpipe was awesome, and personally, we’re all captivated by curling. But something else caught our eyes, namely, the US snowboard team’s Olympic uniforms by Burton. You look at the gear they’ve got on and think, “Wow, those ornery Americans are wearing denim on the slopes.” But on closer inspection, it’s not the real thing. It is merely a Gore-tex simulation of the classic look of jeans. That got us thinking.
There’s been a lot of dodgers in the doodlesphere lately. Since we’ve built a 500+ strong artkive of Jon Burgerman’s work, we figure we’re about as trained as it gets in spotting a designer impostor. It’s not necessary to beat you (already did) and we don’t want to join you, so the only reasonable solution is to publicly shame you for your [complete lack of] efforts.
With that, the Shammies were born. It’s just like the Grammys, except with 100% more Shame. Yes, that’s right: In our competition, all our Winners are Losers (not just Kanye West this time)! Let us take our hats off and briefly celebrate spurious imitations. CONGRATULATIONS: YOU ARE A SHAM! [The Shammies are brought to you by Doodlesplatter, The Neon Hive, The letter L and the number 0. We draw strength & inspiration from the chutzpah of Regretsy. Note: The images in this post have been updated for clarification and comparison. For each award, the top graphic is the Sham Artist. The bottom graphic is by Jon Burgerman.]
Jon Burgerman Sells Art Online!
This is kind of fun. The narrator makes a few good quips. I know this sort of thing probably makes many artists cringe, but the business of art is a reality! More on that process at http://sellmoreartonline.com.
We’re Turning on the Wayback Machine
Remember all that great old Burger ephemera we got in the mail? The process of scanning and artkiving has begun! If you want to stay current on the ancient texts, follow Doodlesplatter on Twitter. As these new/old items enter the artkive, they will default to the year of their origin. As such, you won’t see them at the top of Doodlesplatter where all good posts typically start their journey.
Globetrotting and Doodling For AOL
Wondering what the heck Jon was doing in Bangalore? Doodling all over the world for AOL, which, despite what anyone under 20 might think, actually still exists! Even my super-stalking, um, sleuthing skills couldn’t get me into India, so I had to wait for the downlow from this press release by Sam Summerskill of Jon’s agency, Debut Art.
Jon Burgerman has been flying all over the world for the past couple of weeks painting huge murals for the guys at Aol. He’s been to New York, Dulles, back to the UK and then…. Bangalore where he is today.
Been a nuts couple of weeks for Mr Burgerman, he has been drawing the murals then letting the guys at the different Aol. headquarters colour them in based. Super interactive, and super fun.
So, i guess, gadzoiks for Jon Burgerman day (apparently what today, the 10th February, is being called around the Aol. offices.)
Check the pics on our Flickr page, and check out this awesome time lapse video of Jon Burgermans NYC wall here.
Massive thanks to Malcolm and Alicianne again for their continued support and all of the guys in Aol headquarters in Bangalore and the US who have been looking after Jon and making his stay a good one.
To see more of Jon Burgerman’s portfolio click here, and do drop us an email or call if you have anything you are working on that requires his vibes.
Time lapse created by GHAVA.
The following photos were taken around the world for AOL, and I’ve borrowed them from Debut Art’s Flickr Set (where you can find several more). The final, coloring-in photos, were taken today, in Bangalore. Jon also took over the AOL website with some digital doodles. You can find Debut Art’s original press release here. Click through for more photos. [UPDATE: Wondering where Jon got his Burger sweatshirt? Look here.]
Burgermania in Bangalore
Jon sent us these snaps of the Bangalore Burgermania exclusively for Doodlesplatter. Wondering what we’re talking about? Please see this post. It will explain everything. (Including where babies come from.)
Humac Doodles from Oslo
Jon posted up some pictures from his recent trip to Oslo where he did digital doodling at Humac. Writes Jon:
This was my first ever trip to Norway. I noticed it was snowy but nice there.
More here.
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