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Shawn Levy writes:
>PBRamaeker writes [many ill-tempered things, including]:
 
>GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE! Over intellectualization of art tends to kill it.
>You want to discuss how much MTV has influenced present day socitey? fine,
>I'll discuss it all day, and even agree with you. But to start tearing apart
>a 3:00 chunk of tape, wondering if it's post-industrial etc. IMHO is
>right-out silly. If you think I'm an uneducated boor, fine, but whilst you
>proclaim your richeousness, I'm in some burned-out wharehouse in Brooklyn
>MAKING THE DAMN THINGS!....
 
>Ask the person who made it, THERE"S your analysis, and
>the ONLY one that counts. If someone came up to me and said "ohh..I see, you
>were influenced by the work of Sergi Eisenstein in that video you did" I
>would simply tell them to take a hike, because the influence I had when
>shooting that day was the miserable rate I was getting and how cold I was.....
 
>Do you see what I mean? The ONLY vision and analysis of what the
>artist/cinematographer "was trying to say" is what the artist/cinematographer
>SAYS it is..if you want to disagree with them, then have fun in your little
>world mumbling to yourself "he doesn't know what he means...he just doesn't
>know..."
 
I just thought I should say, I DIDN'T WRITE THAT.  The person who did,
Freelancer, was responding to my criticism of his position.  Just thought I
should clarify that.
-PBR