Overview

In 1979, a future member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Tom Waits, made his first music video. Directed by John Lamb two years before the debut of MTV, the pioneering short film, titled Tom Waits For No One, was entered into a Los Angeles film festival and took first prize. But when MTV powered up on October 1, 1981, Tom Waits For No One was nowhere to be seen. In the following years, Lamb and the team of young animators would independently be nominated for two Academy Awards, win one Academy Award, and go on to studios like Disney, Warner Bros, Universal, Fox Broadcasting Company and Electronic Arts. Tom Waits For No One: The Illustrated Scrapbook is a collection of the art and artifacts from the film's production, and includes stunning drawings of Tom Waits, storyboards and backgrounds. The book is an eclectic documentation of the era, and includes articles, artifacts and period-centric tales about Saturday Night Live, The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, Frank Zappa, Apocalypse Now, The Blues Brothers, Cadillac Ranch and other pop culture phenomena. The book features a full-color, hard-bound collection of rare interviews with Tom Waits and tells the story about the wet-behind-the-ears animators, and how they came together to create a milestone in music video history. 35 years since the film opened, John Lamb has now reopened the film's archive to publish a beautiful art book to tell this nearly forgotten story through Tom Waits For No One: The Illustrated Scrapbook.

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By Dorene LaLonde, Raindogs Listserv moderator Oh my, John Lamb's art book Tom Waits For No One: The Illustrated Scrapbook is wonderful. Not just a succinct historical capture of early music video animation history, it features hand drawings by incredibly talented young artists. Santa should bring you this book.

Author Information

In the 1970s, John Lamb's early animation debuted with surf and skateboarding cult films like Five Summer Stories and Spinnin' Wheels. Lamb's self-taught animation style was rough and colorful. In 1976, he co-invented the Lyon Lamb Video Animation System (VAS), which revolutionized animation production, being utilized by studios and schools alike, including Disney and California Institute of the Arts. In 1979, Lamb conceptualized and directed Tom Waits For No One, a pioneering American music video. In 1980, Lamb was honored with an Academy Award for co-invention of the Lyon Lamb Video Animation System. Today, Lamb's artwork is on permanent installation at the California Surf Museum in Oceanside, and his animated sequence Secret Spot was included in the Surf, Civilization and Barbarism installation as part of the 13th Annual SurFilm Festival in San Sebastian, Spain. Foreword by Gunnar Str m, Professor in animation, documentary and music video at Volda University College, Norway. Author of many international publications in these fields, Str m is a former General Secretary and Vice-president of ASIFA, founder of Oslo/Fredrikstad Animation Festival and AnimationVolda. Str m has received the major Norwegian film prize Aamot-statuetten and the Golden Gunnar Life Achievement Award at the Fredrikstad Animation Festival in recognition of his service to the world of animation. Editors: Jack R. Lamb and Jeremy Farrance. Lamb is an M.F.A. graduate of California Institute of the Arts and specialized in American folklore at U.C. San Diego. Lamb co-edited Cowboy Poetry: Verse From the Heart of the West, published by Angel CIty Press (1994). Farrance is a London-based photographer and published Heygate: Failed Utopia (2012), a collection of photographs of the Heygate housing estate in London.

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