An Evening with Tomato in LA (Sep 30)

[TheBang]

Chris, thanks for the report. Very interesting! Sounds like a great session.

I was lucky to be at the Oblivion Ball, and it was amazing to watch the art installation go up, even over just the few hours that I was there. BTW, in your post, it was the Orb playing, not Orbital.

If you want some more links for your post, I believe this is the Glam Bucket video they showed at the beginning:

http://www.tomato.co.uk/#tomato-graphics/

Also, here's the TV Asahi project:

http://www.tomato.co.uk/#tv-asahi/

Finally, that handwriting is atrocious. But at least now I know which signature in my Belly book in John's and which is Karl's. lol

[negative1]

yeah, thanks chris,

was a very interesting read..

wish i could have been there..


be seeing you
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[Chris M]

glad you enjoyed it gang! please feel free to drop any questions and i'll try to answer them the best i can. my original summary was rambling on, so this ended up being the trimmed version to spare the boredom factor.

Originally Posted by TheBang

BTW, in your post, it was the Orb playing, not Orbital.

believe it or not, john actually had a bit of a senile moment and said "orbital" at least twice during this segment


thanks for finding those extra links!

i've also been told the "Floating World" book will be available in the US in late November.

Hi,im a student currently in J2 and i would like to know if scholarships are applicable at this point of time. am i able to apply for scholarships with my promo grades last year? and what kind of scholarships are available for me now?

[khouri]

I am crushed that I only just now noticed this thread. I had no idea Tomato were going to be in town. Thanks for your report, Chris, that was very helpful!

[Chris M]

short update and some additional chunks of wisdom worth absorbing from the lecture courtesy of the AIGALA events comments section - http://aigalosangeles.org/events/200...ith-tomato.php

"Break it down, put it back to together, redefine it, challenge it, harmonize with it, let it transcend its traditional form and of course "get on with it"...
Here are a few of my favorite ideas and quotes from last night:
• It's all about turning "Thought into form"
• It's up to you to make your life interesting
• The material of the computer screen has changed the way we work
• All the answers are right in front of you, you just have to ask the right questions
• It was full of brown, so I just couldn't relate to it
• Jazz is Research & Development
• Build narrative structures that aren't linear, but experiential
• If you don't draw, you have to. It connects you to the world.
• It's not about prose, it's about poetry
• It's very hard to turn off your conditioning
and of course, my favorite was the response to the last question, "What software do you use?"
Answer: "We use a very early version of Microsoft Word."


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the comment below is followed up by a response by john:


Michael
It was indeed an inspiring evening. Though it's true that most of us workaday designers and communicators don't come across the chance to create a 10-story, jaw-dropping sculpture of water (plus 60 films, to boot), there are potent seeds of inspiration in the way Tomato approaches idea-making and visual wonder.
Thanks to John and Dylan (and the irrepressible Clive Piercy) for an evening of visual wonder.
And man, I wish I had that accent, bloke.




john warwicker replied to comment from Michael | dear michael,
thanks for attending the talk. my point is ... if you don't think and make 'outside' of the 'graphic design' box (whatever that is) you don't get given a '10 storey high sculpture' to make etc. obviously luck comes into it (being in the right place, talking to the right person with the right thing) but you make your own luck. not to sound too 60's but the box is in your head. or, according to your desire, there are other boxes but you have to reach for them. good luck and all the best, john

[Andrea]

Originally Posted by Chris M

the comment below is followed up by a response by john:
john warwicker replied to comment from Michael | ... not to sound too 60's but the box is in your head. or, according to your desire, there are other boxes but you have to reach for them...

What a coincidence! For a couple of years ago I made a picture with this theme called No. 1 Heads
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/inde...ageID=28652986

Today I just wonder whose box I reach from time to time... and it´s a wonder sometimes with delight sometimes with despair. But I´m just an amateur so I suppose that´s why.

[negative1]

bumping up an old thread...

just for the duran link ...
looks like it's been 30 years and they have a new single out..

anyways, they were going over their old history..
here's an excerpt:
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http://gimmeawristband.com/switch-it-on-part-1/5/

John Warwicker, who would also go on to be a performing member of Underworld, a band renowned for its attempts to collide the high-impact of rock performance with dance electronics, observes: “Planet Earth has got that real velocity with Andy’s guitar. But without wishing to downplay
what andy delivered a lot of the the reason why Planet Earth worked, and why it still sounds good today, is, to be fair, down to Nick. If he’d pushed the synths and turned them right up, they’d be too obvious, and after a few listens you’d have gotten bored of them. But he didn’t. He was quite tasteful in what he applied – and it still sounds good today.”



oh yeah, and here's a poster too..


later
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[negative1]

there is a much longer discussion about john
warwicker and his early graphical work here:
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http://gimmeawristband.com/switch-it-on-part-3/2/

later
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