An Evening with Tomato in LA (Sep 30)

[TheBang]

http://aigalosangeles.org/events/2009/09/an-evening-with-tomato.php

Wish you could get the coolest event tickets in town? Ever wonder what graphic designers from the U.K. are doing to revolutionize the graphics and media world? What happens when you combine art, media and music? Join us for “An Evening with Tomato,” presented by Michael Horsham, Dylan Kendle, and John Warwicker.

Time
30 SEP 2009
7-8pm Cocktail reception
8-9:30pm Presentation

Tickets
Members $20
Non-members $30
Student members $10
Student non-members $15

http://www.tomato.co.uk/wp-content/2009/09/AIGA_poster.jpg

[dubman]

man, this hurts
cant afford an LA trip this month, if only it was AIGASF organizing it :c

[Dunwho]

How bout one in Dublin? or even London this weekend???? damn id love to go to something like that

[Mike]

me and yan once had an afternoon in the tomato building sitting on their sofa and playing with wisp and then went down the pub for a quiz and we met ant and janie and janie wrote pussy in the steamy window and then we almost got snowed in we ran back to paddington and i trapped yans foot in the train door as a slammed it whilst he was eating a burger king from the platform and it was cold

[BeautifulBurnout]

I remember snow. And booze. And the pub quiz.

But I'd forgotten all about this bit!

janie wrote pussy in the steamy window

Surely I wouldn't write something so rude....:eek:

:p

[negative1]

well,

it will be interesting to hear how this goes,
from anyone attending!

be seeing you
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[maus]

had every intention of going to this, only to find out it's sold out. very depressing.

c

[Chris M]

great stuff last night! i've got some verbal highlights and pics to share (i haphazardly got recruited at the event by AIGALA to photograph) once i compile them together. really quick though, it ended being only john warwicker and dylan kendle of tomato, michael horsham apparently had a scooter accident (busted his tibia bad) and couldn't make the trip. the event sold out more seats than the venue actually had, lots of good questions and lots of retarded ones too. john also mentioned to get your hands on this mag http://www.idea-mag.com/en/ "it is a graphic designers gold mine".

more to come, stay tuned:)

[negative1]

thanks for the comments,

sounds like it was pretty cool..

i wonder if john remembers doing this for duran duran?
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The band pre-recorded 'Planet Earth' and 'Is There Anyone Out There?'. Before the EMI deal happened, the band had intended to release a 7" single on their own Tritec label and printed 5,000 labels with a Duran Duran logo, designed by John Warwicker. Nick now owns the only copy of this record, which was pressed as an acetate.

http://www.ionpool.net/duran/debut/pe80.jpghttp://www.ionpool.net/duran/debut/any80.jpg

wow, i would really want to have that!!!
reminds me of what underworld did with mother earth..me./the hump


be seeing you
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[Chris M]

here it is...

http://chris-molina.blogspot.com/2009/10/you-say-tomato-i-say-tomato.html

[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.

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:D


thanks for finding those extra links!

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

[Saitegog73]

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/2009/09/an-evening-with-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 (http://www.tomato.co.uk/) replied to comment from Michael (http://aigalosangeles.org/events/2009/09/an-evening-with-tomato.php#comment-36761) | 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]

the comment below is followed up by a response by john:
john warwicker (http://www.tomato.co.uk/) replied to comment from Michael (http://aigalosangeles.org/events/2009/09/an-evening-with-tomato.php#comment-36761) | ... 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/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.editAlbumPhoto&albumID=2170494&imageID=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.”

http://gimmeawristband.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/PE-tritec-label.png

oh yeah, and here's a poster too..
http://gimmeawristband.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/tri-poster.png

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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