"As always I am impressed with what you are doing. These movies are fabulous! This is some of the most socially impacting work I have seen to date. Baby Boomers are predominately infused with type-A personalities. Maybe not themselves, but their role models and leaders have been very impatient. And the computer has made them even more so. The viewer is not interested how time-intensive the effort has been putting this together. Nor does the viewer care about the aesthetic dynamics and its inherent poetic subtleties you are presenting. That's the gravy they get without being aware. This is fantastic stuff ("Mr. President"). The visuals and the echoing are right-on. Can't wait till you do more. Slave away, Tom. This is going to really be a BIG winner." (Harvey Bott, Sculptor/Conceptualist/Speech Writer for Hubert Humphrey in the early 60's, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.) (hj4bott@gmail.com)

"Your Flashes of personalized history reminds me of the notion that our television and radio telecasts continue to spread out on concentric circles of time further and further into space. And, that one could just now be seeing the events of some decades ago. I think of these events floating out there, poignant, heartfelt moments, echoes of images and sounds, of our lives and our deaths, all out there happening as if they just now occurred. This is the power of mediated history and your Flashes are just such personal tiny gems as these.

You have struck another rich vein of digital possibilities. I look forward to the days when all the technical glitches are ironed out and everyone can see anything an artist makes unrestricted by software incompatibilities and processor memory or speed anomalies.

I had forgotten about the Vic Morrow accident. And, the death of John Lennon was genuine tragedy. The black and white images lend much to the feeling of these pieces, which are taking on a consistently macabre tone, which oddly enough makes me feel a bit of pride actually in having lived with and through all this accumulated strangeness. Dark comedy and the personal history of 'the boomers' come across as being pretty much one in the same. One laughs even as the shivers run up your spine. Like watching 'Dr.Strangelove'." (JD Jarvis, Artist/Art Critic, New Mexico, U.S.A.) ( jjarvis@nmsu.edu)

"Your new work offers interesting moments and technique. Your editing gives the still images a quality of 'moving image in a dream'. The soundtracks add to this quality of experiencing a film (as opposed to a still image) and I encourage you to do more in this vein. Nice work!" (John Vega, New Media Artist) (v3ga@dancingimage.com)

"When I think about Tom Chambers work historically - I see an artist who has been fortunate to produce some 'very good' work (and we can assume statistically only 10% of all art being made has any important social value) - so count your blessings that you can stand tall and say without reservation that you have made a contribution - how the art world recognizes you is only one degree of separation between those who are lucky and those who are well ... can say they have done their best.

So in this sense re: TOMovies, you have educated my daily digestion to expect different work from you (and that's OK too - you've turned my head on this series with a raised eyebrow) - that's not to say the movies aren't good - and I hope you're not asking me if I think the work is good - we're both beyond grading school work.

Personally, I think TOMovies sits as an interim series, as an intellection towards other work, as a release, as a self expression as you point out about getting older/baby boomer, etc. ... Does it make a serious statement? I don't believe the work is asking that question. I think what you have done as a process is more interesting and I look forward to seeing what transpires from this research." (Steve Danzig, Artist/Director of IDAA, Melbourne, Australia) (sdanzig@idaprojects.org)