So now we are getting rolling with these eggterviews. I’m not sooo happy about the questions- but I am pleased with the answers!

I think what we’ll do is slot this little dandy to a special day- say Monday- and we’ll try to present a new interview each week.

Leave a comment and suggest a few questions. Be as far out as you like. We’ll add the best ones- and send good vibes your way;)

1. Describe yourself as an egg / egg dish
.. over easy

2. What’s your favourite thing about what you do?
Choosing what I want to work on and dropping stuff I don’t have too )

3. If you could do anything else as a way to make a living, without giving a thought to how it would realistically affect your life right now, what would you do?
Antique tin toy dealer

4. Where do you want travel to next?
Home (I’m in Tropical Queensland on vacation and it’s too humid for moi!)

5. What’s your favourite thing about you?
Sense of humour and my enormous… er,maybe just the sense of humour

6. If you could hang out with someone you don’t know, but would like to know- if only for a little while- who would that be? Where would you want to hang?
Oh, cool question! If he wasn’t so very dead, I’d like to hold the paintbrushes for Miroslav Sasek in any of the cities he illustrated for his books in the sixties

7. What are you drinking right now?
xxxx Queesland beer. It’s like normal beer only with more water added

8. What was the most enjoyable thing you ate today?
Rye Bread toast made by the guy I am staying with …he’s a baker

9. What are you listening to right now?
The whirrr of a Dell hard drive sitting on the desk next to me. The G4 Powerbook I am using is stony silent

10. First name to pop in your head when you hear “artist”.
Bosch

11. Name a site you haven’t gotten tired of yet – or, at least – check every day.
Alphadrome Vintage Tin Robot and Space Toys

12. When you whistle, hum, sing, or think of a song- which one is it most likely to be?
Helden (Bowie)
“Und wir sind dann helden… …für einen tag”

13. Are you worried about anything?
Deadlines, I can’t draw fast!

14. What’s the coolest thing right now?
Most of the world has broadband now

15. What do you live in?
A constant quandary as to what job will come in tomorrow?

16. What were you doing 20 years ago?
Magazine Designer (Smash Hits – Carnaby Street London)

This egg’s links:

Russell Tate
David Bowie’s “Hero” (‘Helden’-in german)
Alphadrome Vintage Tin Robot and Space Toys
Smash Hits
Hieronymous Bosch (I’m guessing here)
XXXX
Miroslav Sasek
MT Generator

Russell’s Bio (from mt-generator.co.au)
“As a UK art school graduate, Russell began working in freelance record sleeve design on projects for bands such as Kim Wilde, Culture Club and Bananarama while also gaining graphic design experience on magazines such as The Sunday Telegraph magazine, Daily Mail Ski magazine, Good Housekeeping, Smash Hits, and TV Hits (UK). In 1990, Russell moved to Sydney, Australia as Art Director on TV Hits magazine. Russell went to become a freelance graphic designer and illustrator on a wider range of projects including Mambo, NASA (USA) and Good Weekend (Sydney Morning Herald). In 1994 Russell co-founded MT Generator specialising in concept, illustration, typography, information graphics and graphic design.”

1. Describe yourself as an egg / egg dish

Solæg – a “sun-egg”. It’s a southern Jutland thing where you boil an egg to death for an hour, crack the shell slightly and submerge it into salt and vinegar to fester for weeks, while you go get drunk. Before serving: peel and cut in symmetric halves and, while remaining calm, lift the battlestar-grey half yokes carefully and fill their seats with vinegar and tabasco or mustard. Flip yoke-halves back upside-down or do a Sidney Operahouse as you please. Swallow whole don’t chew. Your stomach will love you. If you are feeling nausea it will instantaneously kill every urge to go get sick in a corner.

2. What’s your favourite thing about what you do?

Getting paid.

3. If you could do anything else as a way to make a living, without giving a thought to how it would realistically affect your life right now, what would you do?

Rule the world and distribute all wealth evenly amongst my fellow earthlings … after securing a sustainable enough portion for myself to stay in the chair. Then I would shut down western youth culture as a concept, and demand Respectful Advertising and ban the words “some people say” from journalism.

4. Where do you want travel to next?

Berlin. They recently erected Europe’s biggest indoor climbing place.

5. What’s your favourite thing about you?

I can make a loud popping noice with the webbing between my fingers and a bellybutton … Not too popular in the locker room but chicks dig it. Or they get used to it.

6. If you could hang out with someone you don’t know, but would like to know- if only for a little while- who would that be? Where would you want to hang?

I think hanging out at the pet shop with Irwin would be a lot of fun.

7. What are you drinking right now?

Coffee.

8. What was the best thing you ate today?

Cereal with nuts and youghurt sweetened with syrup, oh yeah baby, rocket fuel!

9. What are you listening to right now?

Mozart – Listen to the music. See the movie. Eat the cookie.

10. First name to pop in your head when you hear “artist”.

Bjørn Pierre Enevoldsen.

11. Name a site you haven’t gotten tired of yet – or, at least – check every day.

Google. Seriously. I get tired of anything in a matter of minutes. I don’t think there’s any place on the web worth staying, really. I would like to read Wired news but I can not stand their primetime TV-news language and “Some people say”-journalism.

12. When you whistle, hum, sing, or think of a song- which one is it most likely to be?

Aguilera’s “Ain’t no other man”. Can’t help it.

13. Are you worried about anything?

Will I ever marry Lt. Kara Starbuck?

14. What do you think is the coolest thing right now?

Battlestar Galactica!

This egg’s links:

Michael’s Blog (in danish)
Steve Irwin
Bjørn Pierre Enevoldsen
Lt. Kara Starbuck
Google
Battlestar Gallatica

(Bio coming soon)